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2025 October 01

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • An “emergency situation” is declared at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant by the Ukrainian Energy Ministry after the plant experiences a power outage following a Russian drone strike on an energy facility in the town of Slavutych, Kyiv Oblast. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Terrorism in Germany
  • Three men are arrested in Berlin, Germany for targeting Jewish institutions and preparing a terrorist attack on behalf of Hamas. The arrests were made a week before the anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7 attacks. (Reuters)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 61 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip and Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
• Haitian conflict
  • The United Nations Security Council approves a larger combined international military and police task force to dislodge gangs from Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Cebu earthquake
  • Cebu governor Pam Baricuatro declares a state of calamity and suspends classes throughout the province due to the Mw 6.9 earthquake yesterday. (BBC News)
  • The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines reports that power has been restored shortly after midnight in five islands in the central Philippines, including Cebu. (AFP via Bangkok Post)
• Two workers are killed when the ceiling of an under-renovation serail in Damascus, Syria, collapses. (AP)
• Twenty-six people are killed in a boat accident on the Niger River in Ibaji, Kogi State, Nigeria. The cause of the accident is unknown. (AP)
• At least 36 people are killed and over two hundred others are injured when an under construction church collapses in Areti, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. (AP) (TRT World)

Health and environment

• Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, announces it will start to phase out synthetic food coloring from its private label food products in the United States by January 2027. (Reuters) (NBC News)

Law and crime

• The annual Oktoberfest is temporarily shut down in Munich, Germany, until 17:30 local time due to an explosion at a house earlier in the morning which killed two people, including the perpetrator. The police ultimately finds no link between the Oktoberfest and the explosion, which is caused by a domestic dispute. (DW) (AP)
• The Italian Carabinieri Art Squad seizes 21 paintings by Salvador Dalí suspected of being forged pieces at an exhibition at the Palazzo Tarasconi in Parma. (AP) (The Irish Independent)

Politics and elections

• 2025 United States federal government shutdown
  • A federal government shutdown occurs in the United States after a funding bill fails to be passed, the first government shutdown since January 2019. (CTV News)
• The 2025 Right Livelihood Award is awarded to a student organization in the Pacific Islands fighting climate change, activist organization Justice for Myanmar, Taiwanese activist Audrey Tang, and the Sudanese Emergency Response Rooms for their work in combating injustice in their respective regions. (AP)
• Thousands of people march in Athens as part of a general strike across Greece to protest against proposed changes in labor laws that could change the 8-hour work day to 13 hours, or a 48-hour workweek. (AP) (The Guardian)

Science and technology

• A research team at the Free University of Berlin announce the detection of new organic substances within water vapour plumes erupting from the surface of Enceladus by Cassini’s Cosmic Dust Analyzer, a potential biosignature of extraterrestrial life under the Saturnian moon’s icy surface. (The Guardian)