Portal:Current events/2022 October 24

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
  • Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
    • Siege of Djibo
      • At least 28 people are killed, including ten soldiers, and at least 50 others are injured, after gunmen attack a military base in Djibo, Burkina Faso. Eighteen attackers are killed in the ensuing gunfight. (Panapress) (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
• Internal conflict in Myanmar
  • Kachin conflict
    • Hpakant massacre
      • At least 50 people are killed and at least 100 others are injured when the military launches airstrikes at a concert in Kachin State celebrating the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the separatist Kachin Independence Army. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 south eastern Australia floods
  • The body of a woman is found on the bank of a river amid ongoing flooding in New South Wales, bringing the death toll to three. (7 News)
• Thirteen people are killed, several others are injured, and an unknown number of people are reported missing after a passenger ship catches fire off the coast of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. 263 passengers have been rescued. (Xinhua)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2022 Central Visual and Performing Arts High School shooting
    • Two people are killed and eight others are injured during a mass shooting at the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis, Missouri. The perpetrator is killed by police. (The Guardian)
  • Aftermath of the 2021 Oxford High School shooting
    • Ethan Crumbley pleads guilty to four counts of murder, seven counts of attempted murder, 12 counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and one count of terrorism. (WJBK-TV)
• It is reported that the email server of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran's Nuclear Power Production and Development company was hacked, with a number of emails being leaked. (Tasnim)

Politics and elections

• October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis
  • Rishi Sunak is selected as the Leader of the Conservative Party and will become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after Penny Mordaunt withdrew her bid. (STV News)
• October 2022 votes of no confidence in the government of Élisabeth Borne
  • The French government survives three motions of no confidence tabled by the left-wing and right-wing opposition. (TF1)

Science and technology

• In a landmark finding affecting contact sports, the United States National Institutes of Health formally acknowledge a causal link between repeated blows to the head and the neurodegenerative disease CTE. (The Guardian)
• The Swedish Museum of Wrecks announces that maritime archaeologists have discovered the wreck of the 17th-century warship Äpplet, believed to be the sister ship of Vasa, which sank off the island of Vaxholm near Stockholm in 1629. (The Guardian)