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The European Union threatens sanctions and a suspension of relations with Georgia if Georgia becomes a

"one-party state" with no political opposition following the next parliamentary elections on October 26.

The head of military administration of Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, Serhiy Dobriak reports that Russian

forces are now about from the city, and have destroyed or damaged 80% of the city's critical infrastructure.

At least two people are killed and three others are injured, including one critically, in a suspected arson

at a 100-year-old three-story building in the Old Montreal neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The Sandiganbayan court in the Philippines acquits Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and former Senate

president Juan Ponce Enrile, his former aide Gigi Reyes, and Janet Napoles of plunder in connection with the alleged misuse of Ponce Enrile's Priority Development Assistance Fund during his senatorial term.

Extreme drought in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil causes the river banks of the city of Manaus to fall to

their lowest levels since 1902, severely impacting trade in the region.

The European Court of Justice rules that all Afghan women are eligible for asylum in the European Union.

A woman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is arrested and charged with murder following a stabbing spree that

killed three people in Toronto, Niagara Falls and Hamilton between Tuesday and Thursday.

One thousand U.S. soldiers are deployed to western North Carolina to aid the North Carolina National Guard in

humanitarian operations and to help find hundreds of missing people.

The Georgian Parliament Speaker signs into law a wide-ranging bill that bans gender transitioning and

gender-affirming care, same-sex marriage and adoption, and depictions of LGBTQ+ people in media after the President refused to sign it, which chief European Union diplomat Josep Borrell states could prevent the nation's accession to the EU.

Former Singapore Transport Minister S.

Iswaran, who pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining valuable items as a public servant and one charge of obstruction of justice last week, is sentenced to one year in jail.

Save the Children reports that 17% of all children in Haiti are currently suffering from emergency food

insecurity primarily caused by national gang wars.

Officials in Rwanda report that the death toll from the Marburg virus outbreak in the country has increased

Nine people are killed in a fire at a hospital in Pingtung County, Taiwan.

The United Kingdom and Mauritius jointly announce that a deal has been made to resolve the dispute over the

Chagos Archipelago, with sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory being handed over to Mauritius in exchange for the United Kingdom and the United States retaining control of the military base on Diego Garcia for the next 99 years.

An Israeli Air Force jet launches an airstrike on a refugee camp in Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank,

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas reports that the Federal Emergency Management

Agency lacks the funding to provide necessary support for the remainder of the 2024 hurricane season.

Fawzia Amin Sido, a Yazidi woman who had been kidnapped at age 11 by the Islamic State in 2014 in Iraq and

sold and trafficked to Gaza, is freed from captivity in Gaza following a secret operation involving the United States and Israel. The woman's captor is believed to have previously been killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine

An unexploded ordnance from World War II detonates under a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, Japan,

causing more than 80 flights to be cancelled.

Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz bans UN Secretary-General António Guterres from entering

Israel and declares him persona non grata for not "unequivocally" condemning yesterday's Iranian missile attack.

Two men and a pregnant woman are shot and killed by unidentified assailants in a barbershop in Lisbon,

Portugal. The three suspects fled the scene on foot.