Portal:Current events/2022 October 28

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces that the United States will provide another $275 million in additional military aid to Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • 2022 Russian mobilization
    • Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu announces the end of the mobilization campaign as 300,000 reservists are reached. (ABC News Australia)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Two Palestinian Civil Defence members are killed, and another is injured when Israeli soldiers open fire on a vehicle at a checkpoint in Nablus, West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
• 2022 Haitian crisis
  • Rally of Progressive National Democrats leader and former presidential candidate Eric Jean Baptiste is assassinated outside his residence in Port-au-Prince. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least 42 people are killed by floods and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Nalgae (Paeng) in Mindanao, Philippines. (Reuters)

International relations

• Russia–South Korea relations
  • South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol denies that his country is sending weapons to Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin made a reference to South Korea during a conference yesterday. (Al Jazeera)
• China–Germany relations
  • Authorities in the German state of Hesse announce that they will investigate claims by the NGO Safeguard Defenders that China operates an illegal police station in Frankfurt. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Attack on Paul Pelosi
  • A man searching for United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi breaks into her residence in San Francisco and attacks her husband Paul Pelosi, resulting in his hospitalization. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Aftermath of the 2022 Lesotho general election
  • Sam Matekane is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Lesotho. (AP)

Sports

• 2022–23 Premiership Rugby
  • The Rugby Football Union confirms that Wasps have been suspended for the remainder of the season and are relegated to the RFU Championship, the second tier of the English rugby union system, next season after the team had entered administration earlier in the month for reaching more than £100 million in debt. (The Guardian)