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October 2025

31 days, the opening story of each.

  1. 31FridayMoldova's parliament appoints Alexandru Munteanu as prime minister following the victory of President Maia Sandu's Party of Action and Solidarity in the September…
  2. 30ThursdayIn the United Kingdom, King Charles III begins the formal process of revoking Prince Andrew's royal title due to his dealings with deceased convicted sex offender and…
  3. 29WednesdayIn the Netherlands, a snap election is held following the collapse of the Schoof cabinet in June.
  4. 28TuesdayHurricane Melissa makes landfall in Westmoreland parish, southwest Jamaica, as a Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph sustained winds.
  5. 27MondayHurricane Melissa reaches Category 5 intensity on its approach to Jamaica.
  6. 26SundayAt least 13 people are killed and 29 others are injured when a bus collides with a car and plunges off of a bridge into a stream in Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina.
  7. 25SaturdayIndependent candidate Catherine Connolly is declared winner of yesterday's election of the President of Ireland, after Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys concedes the…
  8. 24FridayAt least four people are killed in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Tropical Storm Melissa.
  9. 23ThursdayMore than 30 people are arrested by United States law enforcement as part of an investigation into illegal gambling linked to the American mafia, including former…
  10. 22WednesdayFour people are killed when a Robinson R66 helicopter crashes near Ekalaka, Montana, United States.
  11. 21TuesdaySanae Takaichi is elected as Japan's first female prime minister by the House of Representatives after her party, the Liberal Democratic Party, agreed to form a…
  12. 20MondayAt least one person is killed and four others are critically injured when a tornado hits the Ermont commune in Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France.
  13. 19SundayCentrist candidate Rodrigo Paz Pereira of the Christian Democratic Party defeats independent right-wing candidate and former president Jorge Quiroga to win the…
  14. 18SaturdayThe bodies of two deceased hostages were returned to Israel via the custody of the Red Cross from Hamas, the two hostages' names were Sgt. Maj. Muhammad Al-Atrash and…
  15. 17FridayIsraelis fire at a vehicle carrying a displaced family in Gaza City, killing eleven Palestinians, including seven children. The IDF claims it crossed the ceasefire…
  16. 16ThursdayAt least three Palestinians are killed in Gaza by Israeli troops, bringing the total to at least 23 people killed by Israel since the start of the ceasefire.
  17. 15WednesdayTen people are killed and 21 others are injured, including four critically, in an explosion on a crude palm oil tanker docked at a shipyard on Batam Island, Indonesia.
  18. 14TuesdayIn association football, the South Africa soccer team qualifies for the upcoming FIFA World Cup following a 3-0 win against Rwanda. This will be their first appearance…
  19. 13MondayHeads of government of 30 countries and leaders of several major international organisations gather in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to discuss the next steps in the…
  20. 12SundayIn tennis, Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot, who was ranked 204th on the ATP rankings, defeats his cousin Arthur Rinderknech in the Shanghai Masters final 4–6, 6–3…
  21. 11SaturdayBritish musician Ian Watkins of the band Lostprophets is killed in HM Prison Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, where he was imprisoned for sexual crimes against…
  22. 10FridayVenezuelan activist María Corina Machado is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her promotion of democratic rights in Venezuela.
  23. 9ThursdayHungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai wins this year's Nobel Prize in Literature "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of…
  24. 8WednesdaySusumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on metal–organic frameworks.
  25. 7TuesdayIris Stalzer, the mayor-elect of Herdecke, Germany, is left in a critical condition. She has told investigators it was her 17-year-old adoptive African daughter who…
  26. 6MondayA teachers' strike in Alberta begins, making 51,000 teachers off-work and affects more than 700,000 students. Thousands rally across Alberta to support educators
  27. 5SundayA court in Mexico formally indicts footballer Omar Bravo with the aggravated child sexual abuse of a teenage girl following his arrest in Zapopan, Jalisco, yesterday…
  28. 4SaturdaySanae Takaichi defeats Shinjiro Koizumi in a runoff election to become the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and prime minister-designate. She is the…
  29. 3FridayBishop of London Sarah Mullally is announced as the new archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England and the Anglican Communion.
  30. 2ThursdayIsrael intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters and detains hundreds of activists from 44 countries carrying humanitarian aid bound for Gaza…
  31. 1WednesdayA federal government shutdown occurs in the United States after a funding bill fails to be passed, the first government shutdown since January 2019.