Bosnia and Herzegovina's Central Election Commission adopted its decision establishing results for the 4 October general election on 24 October, three weeks after voting. The established Presidency results return Denis Bećirović and Željka Cvijanović and award the Croat seat to Darijana Filipović. In the 42-seat state House, no two parties can reach the 22 seats needed for a majority. The commission said final confirmation would follow legal procedures; its 28 October manual-recount orders concerned specified cantonal-assembly ballots. ElectioMap's 25 October update reported no coalition agreement at that time.
Jamaican singer and record producer Derrick Harriott's death was reported on 24 October. He was 87. Known for The Loser and his work with other reggae performers, he received Jamaica's Order of Distinction in 2009.
José Vitor Leme recorded his 95th career ride worth at least90 points on 24 October at PBR Outlaw Days in Kansas City, surpassing Chris Shivers's PBR record. The same ride clinched Leme's third PBR Teams regular-season MVP award.
Gabon’s navy said underwater inspections found three bodies inside the sunken Prospector 5 rig on 28 October, with two people still missing. The bodies had not been identified in the checked accounts. The rig sank off Mayumba on 24 October with 115 people aboard.
Writer Christine Wunnicke received the 2026 Georg Büchner Prize at Darmstadt’s Staatstheater on 24 October. The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung had announced her selection in July.
Ireland’s president signed the Employment Equality and Institutional Burials (Amendment) Act 2026 on 24 October. It enables mandatory gender-pay-gap submissions to a central government portal; commencement and regulations are still required.
Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church said at least 60 Christians were killed in attacks in Oromia on 20 and 24 October. Regional authorities acknowledged the violence, but responsibility and the final toll remain disputed.
Taiwan’s emergency authorities reported one death and 616 injuries by 17:00 local time on 24 October after Typhoon Champi swept past the island. The figures are a dated storm-impact account, rather than a live toll.
Lorne Doerkson is set to succeed David Eby as British Columbia’s premier after the Conservatives won the 24 October provincial election. Eby conceded and announced he would resign as NDP leader.
Sarah Howe, Nur Turkmani, Tara Bergin and Biff Smith won the 2026 Forward Prizes for Poetry, the Forward Arts Foundation announced in a post dated 24 October.
NASA ended Swift operations on 23 October after orbit decay. Aerospace Corporation’s current CORDS record predicts re-entry at 10:19 UTC on 4 November, with a ±2-hour uncertainty; NASA’s earlier post cited a separate Space Force estimate around 08:30 UTC ±11 hours. Neither is confirmed. NASA says most of the observatory should burn up but some pieces may survive, and estimates harm risk at about 1 in 2,100. No precise impact point is known.
DR Congo’s Ministry of Health and National Public Health Institute report 10,467 confirmed Bundibugyo Ebola cases and 5,103 deaths through 31 October. A prior bulletin listed 5,372 deaths through 30 October; the discrepancy remains unexplained as data harmonization continues. In Kenya, nine cases and two deaths have been reported, with no new cases since 19 October. The health ministry says 52 contacts remain under monitoring; broadcasters report five patients have recovered and two remain in care.
The Israeli military told The Times of Israel on 2 November that its 11-day Hebron operation ended and troops left the neighborhood where the attackers lived. Hebron Governor Khaled Dudin separately said forces left the entire city and Palestinian security personnel were in control; that wider claim is not independently confirmed. He said displaced families could return, while Civil Defense warned residents not to touch suspicious objects or enter damaged buildings before checks. Al Jazeera reported the mayor said schools and universities reopened. Displacement estimates use differing definitions and remain unreconciled.
The Trump administration has promised more than $15 billion in farm payments and initiatives in the weeks before the 3 November US midterms, AP reported, citing higher diesel and fertilizer costs. The total combines separate measures: USDA announced $8 billion in one-time payments on 19 October and at least $5 billion in guaranteed loans on 23 October. The loans are guarantees to lenders, not direct payments. USDA says payment rates for the $8 billion program would be released in November; exact payment timing and the effect on farmers or voters remain unknown.
On the tenth day after the Eastleigh collapse, authorities said 11 people were still believed trapped, down from an earlier estimate of 16. The Kenya Red Cross said four people previously reported missing had been reunited with their families; they were not described as rescue recoveries. Citizen Digital reported about 10% of debris remained to be cleared. The final toll and outcome of the search remain unknown.
French authorities brought murder and attempted-murder charges linked to a terrorist enterprise on 29 October over the 23 October shooting in Trappes and La Verrière. One man was killed and seven people were injured, including a child. The suspect has not been convicted.
Beth Lew-Williams won the 2026 Cundill History Prize on 23 October for John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law. The McGill University-administered prize carries US$75,000.
An oil spill triggered beach and coastal closures in the northern United Arab Emirates on 23–24 October. Reporting published on 28 October showed oil along Ras Al Khaimah’s Al Hamra coast as the effects continued.
Dale Brown, who coached Louisiana State University’s men’s basketball team for 25 years, died on 23 October at 90. LSU announced his death and published a statement from his family.
Irish musician and producer Dónal Lunny died on 23 October at 79. ITV reported that a statement on his official page confirmed he died at St James’s Hospital in Dublin; Ireland’s Arts Council also confirmed his death.
Germany’s Manuel Lettenbichler secured the 2026 FIM Hard Enduro World Championship at Hixpania in Spain on 23 October, earning his fifth consecutive championship.
Nigeria’s emergency agency says gunmen’s 23 October attack on Binnari killed 62 people and injured 52. The figures are provisional; thousands of residents were displaced.
A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order requires people arriving on international flights to submit an attestation about travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the previous 21 days. The order takes effect at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on 3 November and is scheduled to run through 18 December. The amended order includes crew and requires operators to verify forms and retain them for 42 days. It applies to inbound international air travel generally, with limited exceptions; it does not mean passengers were exposed to Ebola or are infected.
Fawzi Abu Khazam took over the duties of Libya's central bank governor on 22 October, the bank confirmed in a board statement dated 25 October. The House presidency described the appointment as interim, pending a final House decision on Naji Issa's resignation.
The Reversionary Interest Conveyance Act became US law on 22 October. It directs Interior to offer specified federal reversionary interests over roughly 8.43 acres in Sacramento to the relevant parcel owners, subject to a request, appraisal, payment and existing rights.
The Mystic Alerts Act became US law on 22 October. It directs the Federal Communications Commission to develop requirements for satellite emergency alerts. Providers covered by the law must later state whether they will participate; the law does not immediately switch on a nationwide satellite-alert service.
Comcast reported 144,000 domestic residential broadband net losses in its third-quarter results released on 22 October, more than analysts expected and more than a year earlier.
Arista disclosed an actively exploited SQL-injection vulnerability in VeloCloud Orchestrator on 22 October. CVE-2026-114625 can let an authenticated tenant user become a local superuser operator; it is not an unauthenticated attack.
IUCN’s first global coral-reef ecosystem assessment, released on 22 October, classified 122 of 127 assessed ecosystems as Critically Endangered. That risk rating incorporates projected warming over the next 50 years.
A 22 October earthquake in Tibet’s Baqen County killed 16 people and injured 76, officials reported on 23 October. Authorities said 12,489 people had been relocated. These are dated official figures, not a live final toll.
Former Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda died on 22 October at age 90. His Liberal Democratic Party announced his death on 26 October; Jiji Press reported that he died in a Tokyo hospital.
Merck and Moderna released detailed INTerpath-001 results on 22 October: adding the personalised mRNA therapy intismeran to pembrolizumab after melanoma surgery reduced the relative hazard of recurrence or death by 42%.
Country singer John Anderson died on 21 October, aged 71, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. His family confirmed his death in a statement reported by Guitar World.
LiteLLM says attackers distributed malicious 1.107.0 packages and container images on 21 October. The affected artifacts included credential-stealing malware; the vendor removed or replaced them and advises affected users to rebuild from trusted artifacts and rotate exposed credentials.
Tom Skerritt, known for Alien, Top Gun and Picket Fences, died on 21 October at age 93. Variety confirmed his death with his publicist; his family attributed it to natural causes, according to ABC News Australia and wires.
Meta’s 21 October results show US$32.79 billion in operating cash flow and US$34.91 billion in capital spending, including finance-lease principal payments, for the quarter ended 30 September. Its company-defined non-GAAP free cash flow was negative US$2.12 billion.
CISA added CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 26 October. PHP released fixes for both unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaws on 21 October.