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3 Oktober 2023 (Selasa)
Business and economy
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov announces the construction of Ukraine's first underground school to protect students from missile strikes. (Tagesschau)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Venice bus crash
- At least 21 people are killed and 15 others are injured when a bus crashes and falls from an overpass in Mestre, Veneto, Italy. (La Repubblica)
- At least 18 people are killed and 25 more injured by an oil refinery explosion in Emohua, Rivers State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
- One person is killed and 17 others are injured in a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Dipayal Silgadhi, Nepal. (Shilapatra) (Reuters via Geo News)
Law and crime
- Rwandan genocide
- Former Rwandan army major Pierre-Claver Karangwa is arrested in the Netherlands for his role in the 1994 genocide in Mugina, Rwanda, where 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)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Manitoba general election
- The New Democratic Party of Manitoba wins a majority of the seats in the Legislative Assembly; the party's leader Wab Kinew is set to become Canada's first provincial premier of First Nations descent. (The Globe and Mail)
- Removal of Kevin McCarthy
- Following a budget dispute within the Republican Party, Kevin McCarthy becomes the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives to be ousted. (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)