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Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó
- Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman (both pictured) are awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that led to the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
- In Australian rules football, Collingwood defeat the Brisbane Lions to win the AFL Grand Final.
- A suicide bombing kills more than 50 people in Mastung, Pakistan.
- Waheeda Rehman receives the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for her work in Hindi cinema.
October 4, 2023 (Wednesday)
October 3, 2023 (Tuesday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Venice bus crash
- At least 21 people are killed and 18 others are injured when a bus crashes and falls from an overpass in Mestre, Italy. (La Repubblica)
- One person is killed and 17 others are injured in a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Dipayal Silgadhi, Nepal. (Shilapatra) (Reuters via Geo News)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
- The U.S. FDA authorizes Novavax’s updated version of their vaccine for approval of emergency use in individuals aged 12 years and older. (Reuters)
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Law and crime
- Rwandan genocide
- Former Rwandan army major Pierre-Claver Karangwa is arrested in the Netherlands for his role in the genocide in Mugina, Rwanda, where, in April 1994, thousands of people were killed. (Reuters)
- Siam Paragon shooting
- Two people are killed and six others are injured in a mass shooting at the Siam Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand. The 14-year-old suspect is arrested. (Al Jazeera)
- A teenage girl is put into a coma after being forcefully pushed out of a subway car on the Tehran Metro by morality police. (Al Arabiya) (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- Removal of Kevin McCarthy
- The United States House of Representatives votes 216–210 to vacate the role of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, thereby making Kevin McCarthy the first Speaker in history to be removed from the role during a legislative term. (The New York Times)
Science and technology
- Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter". (The Guardian)
October 2, 2023 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in the Sahel
- Jihadist insurgency in Niger
- At least 29 soldiers are killed during an ambush by Islamic extremists in the Tahoua Region, Niger, involving suicide car bombs and bombings. Several attackers are killed in a counter-offensive. (BBC News)
- Jihadist insurgency in Niger
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Turkey launches airstrikes against around 20 PKK targets in northern Iraq, in response to the PKK's bombing of Ankara, killing an unknown number of militants. (AP)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- For the first time in the history of the European Union, representatives of all EU states, most of them foreign ministers, meet informally outside the EU. They meet with the Ukrainian government in Kyiv and assure it of their further support. (Euronews)
Disasters and accidents
- Thirty-eight people are injured in a fire at a police facility in Ismailia, Egypt. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- Haitian crisis
- The United Nations Security Council approves a resolution establishing a Kenyan-led security force with a mandate of one year to combat gang violence in Haiti. (The New York Times)
Politics and elections
- Indigenous peoples in Brazil
- The government of Brazil begins expelling non-indigenous residents off of the Apyterewa and Trincheira/Bacajá indigenous territories in Pará state. (AP)
Science and technology
- The European Space Agency reports that the James Webb Space Telescope has detected "Jupiter-sized objects", unconnected to any stars, which appear to be moving in pairs in the Orion constellation. Around 40 of the objects, known as Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, have been detected so far. (BBC News)
- Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing technology that resulted in mRNA vaccines for COVID-19. (BBC News)
Sports
- 2023–24 AFC Champions League
- Al-Ittihad refuses to play a match with Sepahan due to the placement of busts of Qasem Soleimani at the side of the football pitch. (Arab News)
October 1, 2023 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- 2023 Ankara bombing
- A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Interior Ministry in Ankara, Turkey, injuring two police officers. A second attacker is shot dead by police. (Al Jazeera)
- 2023 Ankara bombing
- Mali War
- Tuareg rebels take control of the town of Bamba, Gao Region, Mali, claiming over 80 soldiers have been killed. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Fonda Milagros nightclub fire
- At least 13 people are killed and four others are injured in a fire at a nightclub in Murcia, Spain. (BBC News)
- Ten people are killed and 60 more are injured after the Santa Cruz Church's roof collapses during a baptism ceremony in Ciudad Madero, Mexico. (Al Jazeera)
- Ten people are killed and 25 more are injured after a truck carrying mostly Cuban migrants overturned between Pijijiapan and Tonalá in Chiapas, Mexico. (AFP via CNA)
- North Dakota state senator Doug Larsen and his family are killed in a plane crash in Grand County, Utah, United States. (AP)
- A grizzly bear attacks and kills two people and their pet dog in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The bear is later euthanised. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- Charles Brown succeeds Mark Milley as chairman of the United States Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staff. (NBC News)
- California Governor Gavin Newsom appoints Laphonza Butler to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by the death of Dianne Feinstein. She will be California's first openly LGBT senator. (Politico)
Sports
- The 44th Ryder Cup comes to an end with a victory of the European team. (BBC)
- 2023 NRL season
- In rugby league, the Penrith Panthers defeat the Brisbane Broncos 26–24 in the 2023 NRL Grand Final, their third consecutive win. (The Guardian Australia)
- 2023 Speedway Grand Prix
- Bartosz Zmarzlik defends his motorcycle speedway world championship title, it was his fourth world Speedway World Championship won overall. (Eurosport)
- 2023 World Rally Championship
- In rallying, Toyota Gazoo win their third consecutive World Rally Championship for Manufacturers title after Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen win the Power Stage of 2023 Rally Chile. (JCN via AsiaOne)
September 30, 2023 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Papua conflict
- Five Free Papua Movement militants are killed during a shootout with Indonesian soldiers and police officers in the Papua province. (AP)
- Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
- Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of using a sniper to kill one of its soldiers in the city of Kalbajar. Armenia denies involvement in the incident. (The Star)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Maldivian presidential election
- Maldivians vote in a run-off election between candidates Mohamed Muizzu and Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. (Reuters)
- 2023 Slovak parliamentary election
- Slovaks elect the 150 members of the National Council. (Reuters)
- 2024 United States federal budget
- The U.S. House of Representatives passes a 45-day stopgap measure bill backed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in an effort to avoid a government shutdown. (ABC News)
- Aftermath of the 2023 Guatemalan general election
- The office of the Attorney General of Guatemala seizes the tally sheets of votes from the general election and the runoff. The judges of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal opposed the seizure but were attacked by police and prosecutors. Electoral tribunal officials were also intimidated. (AP) (Prensa Libre)
Sports
- 2023 AFL season
- Collingwood defeats the Brisbane Lions by four points to win the 2023 AFL Grand Final. (The Guardian)
September 29, 2023 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Hangu mosque bombing
- Five people are killed and ten others are injured by two suicide bombers at a mosque in Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
- Four soldiers and three Pakistani Taliban militants are killed during a shootout in Zhob, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Aaj English Tv)
- Hangu mosque bombing
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- 2023 Mastung bombing
- At least 50 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured in a suicide bombing at a religious gathering in Mastung, Balochistan, Pakistan. (BBC News)
- 2023 Mastung bombing
- Somali Civil War
- Mogadishu tea shop bombing
- At least five people are killed and 18 others are injured when an al-Shabaab suicide bomber detonates his explosive belt in a tea shop in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Reuters)
- Mogadishu tea shop bombing
Business and economy
- Toys "R" Us announces plans to open 24 new flagship stores across the United States, along with new shops in airports and on cruise ships, after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy six years ago. (The New York Times)
Disasters and accidents
- September 2023 New York floods
- New York City declares a state of emergency due to widespread flooding caused by heavy rain. (CNN)
- Nagorno-Karabakh fuel depot explosion
- M53 motorway coach crash
- Two people are killed and 17 injured after a school bus crashes into a central reservation and overturns in The Wirral, England. (BBC News)
- Nine people are killed, four others are trapped, and 21 are rescued after a mine collapses in Chegutu, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. (New Zimbabwe)
- Five people are killed and five more are hospitalized as a semi truck carrying a toxic substance turns over near Teutopolis, Illinois, United States, causing evacuations. (The Guardian)
Law and crime
- Murder of Tupac Shakur
- Duane "Keefe D" Davis is arrested by police for the 1996 murder of American rapper Tupac Shakur. (CNN)
- A second suspect, a man in his sixties, is arrested in connection with the felling of the Sycamore Gap Tree in Northumberland, United Kingdom. (Sky News)
Politics and elections
- Aftermath of 2023 Guatemalan general election
- Rafael Curruchiche, a prosecutor in the Guatemalan attorney general's office, accuses the Organization of American States and the European Union of interference in the election and says that around a thousand people denounced irregularities in electoral process. (Prensa Libre)(Prensa Libre)
- The Supreme Court of Belarus bans the activities of the Belarusian Left Party after a complaint filed by the Ministry of Justice. Only four political parties remain permitted to operate. (Nasha Niva)
September 28, 2023 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh
- Samvel Shahramanyan, president of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, signs a decree to dissolve all state institutions of Artsakh in 2024. (CNN)
- 2023 Burkina Faso coup d'état attempt
- The ruling military government of Burkina Faso arrests four officers suspected of attempting to stage a coup. Two additional officers are on the run. (CNN)
- 2023 Manipur violence
- Jihadist insurgency in Niger
- Jihadist insurgents kill at least ten Nigerien soldiers in Kandadji, Tillabéri Region, Niger. Seven soldiers are later killed and five others are injured in a vehicle accident while travelling to reinforce the army unit under attack. (Reuters)
- Mexican drug war
- Six teenagers who were kidnapped by a group of armed men a few days ago are found dead near Villanueva, Zacatecas, Mexico. (El País)
Disasters and accidents
- Tashkent explosion
- One person is killed and 162 others are injured in an explosion at a warehouse near the airport in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. (Al Jazeera)
Health and environment
- 2023 dengue outbreak in Bangladesh
- Nearly 1,000 people have died of dengue fever in Bangladesh in recent weeks, in the country's most severe outbreak of the disease so far. (BBC News)
- A bluetongue disease outbreak in the Netherlands has spread to 319 sheep and cattle farming companies. (NOS)
Law and crime
- 2023 Rotterdam shootings
- Three people are killed during two shootings and an arson attack at a teaching hospital and a nearby private home in Rotterdam, Netherlands. (Reuters)
- Crime in Sweden
- A woman is killed in her house in Uppsala, Sweden, during a bombing attack intended to target the neighbor next door, while two men were killed and another was injured during two shootings the day before in Stockholm and Jordbro, as deadly violence linked to a feud between criminal gangs escalates. (Euronews)
- Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson summons the heads of the armed forces and police in response to the gang violence. (Reuters)
- The historic Sycamore Gap Tree in Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, also known as the "Robin Hood"-tree, is illegally cut down. A 16-year-old boy is arrested. (BBC News)
Science and technology
- Gravitational interaction of antimatter
- The ALPHA experiment shows that antimatter falls down in gravity, just like normal matter. (BBC News)
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