Portal:Current events/2023 October 5
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Hroza missile attack
- Ukraine says that Russia has attacked a store and cafe in Hroza, Kharkiv Oblast, with a ballistic missile, killing at least 51 civilians. (AP)
- Russia says that a child has been killed and three others are injured while trying to dismantle cluster munitions fired from Ukrainian forces, in the occupied city of Horlivka. (Al Jazeera)
- Hroza missile attack
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- The United States transfers 1.1 million rounds of Iranian ammunition to Ukraine after the U.S. Navy seized them from a shipment enroute to Yemen in December. (BBC News)
- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledges a second Patriot air defense system to Ukraine. (Spiegel)
- Russia announces the successful test of the Burevestnik, a nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable cruise missile with a potential range of thousands of miles. (Reuters)
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Syrian civil war
- 2023 Homs drone strike
- At least 112 troops and civilians are killed and 120 others are injured in a drone attack on a Syrian military graduation ceremony in Homs, Syria. (Al Jazeera) (SOHR)
- 2023 Turkish drone shootdown
- A Turkish Air Force Anka-S is shot down by an international coalition F-16 Fighting Falcon in Al Hasakah, Syria, after reportedly operating too close to U.S. forces in the vicinity. (Israel 24 News) (The Independent)
- October 2023 Northern Syria clashes
- northeastern Syria, killing at least two people and injuring three others. (i24 News)
- At least six people are killed and 38 others are injured during a series of airstrikes by the Syrian Air Force on Idlib. (Al Jazeera)
- 2023 Homs drone strike
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Four Israeli settler. (Al Jazeera)
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Arts and culture
- Jon Fosse is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his innovative plays, prose and style, which has come to be known as Fosse minimalism. (CNN)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Pacific typhoon season
- Typhoon Koinu makes landfall in Hengchun, Pingtung County, Taiwan as a category 4 typhoon, with winds of over 342 kilometers in Orchid Island, becoming the strongest on record. (DW) (The Guardian)
International relations
- Abkhazia–Russia relations
- Russia and Abkhazia sign an agreement to establish a permanent naval base for the Russian Navy on the Black Sea coast of Ochamchira District, Abkhazia. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Italian authorities impound the Open Arms vessel used by Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. (Reuters)
- The Dutch platform supply vessel VOS Pace rescues 79 migrants in the Atlantic Ocean, nine of whom mutiny. The mutineers are later arrested in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. (NOS)
- An investigation into electronic surveillance by European Investigative Collaborations reveals inefficiencies in European Union regulations governing the sale of enabling software. (Spiegel)
Politics and elections
- Immigration policy of the Joe Biden administration
- The Starr County, Texas, in order to allow construction of the border wall in an attempt to help prevent illegal entry into the country. (AP)
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- The EU Parliament votes 279–173, with 33 abstentions, in favor of the appointment of Wopke Hoekstra as the new EU Commissioner. (Zeit) (Tagesschau)
- foreign minister Alfred Mutua is replaced by Musalia Mudavadi following controversy over the country's involvement in the crisis in Haiti. (BBC News)
- The Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) of Belgium is the first parliament in the world to adopt a resolution in support of Agent Orange victims. (Official website of the Belgian Parliament lachambre.be)