Tuesday 20 October 2026

Blue Nile campaign

The Sudanese Army says that they have repelled an attack by the Rapid Support Forces and Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North (SPLM–N) on the Blue Nile state.

War crimes in the Sudanese civil war

The Rapid Support Forces launches a drone strike on a power plant in Tendelti in Sudan's White Nile State, knocking out the main transition line connecting North Kordofan.

Amiet market massacre

The death toll in the market drone attack in Abyei on the border of South Sudan and Sudan yesterday rises to 220.

Libya (GNA)–Turkey maritime deal

Libya's eastern-based House of Representatives approves a 2019 maritime boundary agreement with Turkey and repeals two 2020 decisions that rejected the accord.

2026 Ebola epidemic

Nigeria announces its first case of Ebola virus in the epidemic. The victim is a woman who had recently visited Uganda.

2026 World Series

In Major League Baseball, the Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers advance to the World Series, marking the first time in 46 years that neither playoff team has won a championship before.

Crime & Justice

Pakistan arrests a man for selling fake postage stamps in the United States that resulted in a $126 million loss to the U.S. Postal Service.

2022 San Antonio migrant deaths

A United States federal judge sentences a Guatemalan national to 30 years in prison for helping organize a 2022 migrant-smuggling operation in San Antonio, Texas, that left 53 migrants dead and 11 injured.

South Korea–Ukraine relations

South Korea withdraws additional embassy staff from Ukraine following a dispute over two captured North Korean soldiers who were transferred to South Korea.

Politics

Malaysia's Registrar of Societies deregisters the opposition coalition Perikatan Nasional, citing internal disputes and breaches of the constitution, preventing its component parties from contesting forthcoming elections under a common coalition banner.

Disasters

At least 14 people are killed and 20 others are injured when a bus and a truck collide head-on in Natore District, Bangladesh.

Japanese space program

JAXA launches the Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft from the Tanegashima Space Center toward Phobos aboard an H3 rocket, aiming to collect at least 10 grams of surface material from the Martian moon and return the samples to Earth in 2031.

Black October

Indian certificate authority eMudhra has its private keys compromised, revealing that some of them were extremely insecure single digit numerals. Major web browser developers Mozilla, Google, and Apple subsequently block the certificates.

17 October riots

Police arrest a 34-year-old man for the arson attack on the Hôtel de Ville in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France.

Disasters

Twelve people are killed and 30 others are injured after a bus crashes into a truck near Cairo, Egypt.

PHP2Shell

A critical vulnerability in PHP allowing for remote code execution is discovered, causing many websites to temporarily go offline while a security update is pushed the following day.