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North Korea ballistic missiles launched from Wonsan around midday on 29 October 2026 numbered around ten, Seoul said, a week after South Korea's offer of military talks went unanswered.
Malaysia AI chips seized at Kuala Lumpur International Airport were worth about $12.1 million, customs said on 28 October, as investigators linked 30 server units to a wider smuggling syndicate.
The Nassib border crossing closed on Tuesday, suspending passenger and commercial traffic between Syria and Jordan after Jordanian strikes in southern Syria and a dispute over whether Damascus was told in advance.
Serbia student list election win 2026 ended 14 years of Vucic rule on 25 October, as the movement born from Novi Sad protests took a projected 135-140 seats and Belgrade celebrated in the streets.
Europe protests spread October 2026 beyond France on Saturday, as students in Tirana, demonstrators in Brussels and crowds across six Italian cities clashed with police, boarded-up shops and forced alerts for Americans abroad.
The Ebola vaccine trial in DR Congo has begun in Bunia, testing whether Ervebo protects against the Bundibugyo strain, as Kenya confirms a second death among nine cases.
Indonesia forest fires October 2026 eased this week as hotspots fell by more than half, but officials kept the country on high alert, warning that sporadic rain cannot yet put out peat fires still driving haze and illness.
Three days before Serbia votes on 25 October, Reuters reports beatings, spyware claims and a press-freedom ranking at its lowest ever, while a student list of 250 candidates runs neck and neck with Aleksandar Vucic's SNS.
A day after meeting Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Oslo, US envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in St Petersburg on 21 October to put Ukraine's ideas to Vladimir Putin — with a bitter row over Starlink and intelligence sharing hanging over the shuttle.
A smouldering grass fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright turned, in under a minute, into one of Canada's worst peacetime military tragedies - four soldiers dead, 39 in hospital, 19 of them critical. What investigators still cannot say is how it started.
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