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)
  • 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)
• 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 Bayraktar drone 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. (SOHR) (The Independent)
  • October 2023 Northern Syria clashes
    • Turkey launches a series of airstrikes targeting the Syrian Democratic Forces in 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)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Four Palestinians are killed in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, three by Israeli soldiers, and one by an Israeli settler. (Al Jazeera)

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 Biden administration announces that it will waive 26 federal laws in Starr County, Texas, in order to allow construction of the border wall in an attempt to help prevent illegal entry into the country. (AP)
• The EU Parliament votes 279–173, with 33 abstentions, in favor of the appointment of Wopke Hoekstra as the new EU Commissioner. (Zeit) (Tagesschau)
• Kenyan 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)