Portal:Current events/2022 October 19

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
      • Russian forces begin evacuating thousands of civilians from occupied areas of Kherson Oblast, according to Russian-installed governor Volodymyr Saldo. Ukraine calls on residents to ignore the Russian orders to leave their towns and villages. (BBC News)
    • 2022 Russian martial law
      • Russian President Vladimir Putin introduces martial law, beginning Thursday at midnight, in the recently annexed territories of Ukraine. Additionally, an "intermediate level of preparedness" is introduced in Crimea and the federal subjects bordering Ukraine. (AP) (The Insider)
• 2022 Haitian crisis, Bahamas–Haiti relations
  • Prime Minister of the Bahamas Philip Davis says that he is ready to send troops to Haiti as part of a peacekeeping force if asked to do so by the Caribbean Community. (Reuters)
• Internal conflict in Myanmar
  • Three staff members and five visitors are killed by two bomb explosions inside Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar. Ten others are injured. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• The European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize to "the people of Ukraine". (Politico)

Business and economy

• Belarusian involvement in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Belarus says that it is unable to pay off its debt because of international sanctions imposed due to its role in the Russo-Ukrainian War. (Reuters)
• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • Inflation in the United Kingdom rises to 10.1%, the highest recorded level since 1982, amid a cost of living crisis and sharp increases in food prices, according to the Office for National Statistics. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• Central American migrant caravans
  • Three Venezuelan migrants are killed and five others are injured in a van accident on a highway in Chiapas, Mexico. (ABC News)

Health and environment

• The Indonesian Health Ministry announces that 99 children have died this year due to acute kidney injury with the deaths being linked to paracetamol syrups used to treat fevers. (Reuters)
• An outbreak of cholera has killed five people in Lebanon, with a total of 169 cases. It is the first outbreak in the country since 1995. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• A court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia sentences opposition figure Sam Rainsy to life in prison for "attempting to concede territory to a foreign entity". The sentence was delivered in absentia because Rainsy has been living in exile in France since 2015. (AFP via The Bangkok Post)

Politics and elections

• Premiership of Liz Truss
  • October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
    • Suella Braverman resigns as Home Secretary of the United Kingdom and is replaced by Grant Shapps. (The Guardian)
• Same-sex marriage in Mexico
  • Same-sex marriage in Tabasco
    • The Congress of Tabasco votes to legalize same-sex marriage. (as)