Monday

October 19, 2026

Armed conflicts and attacks

Yemeni civil war

2026 Yemen offensives

2026 Shabwah missile attack

A missile attack by the Houthis kills 53 soldiers and injure over 200 at a training center in Shabwah Governorate, Yemen. (The Guardian)

Sudanese civil war

Disasters and accidents

Six miners are killed and at least 12 others are missing when an open pit gold mine collapses in Nariño Department, Colombia. (AP)

Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling

Twelve migrants, including an infant, are killed when two separate speedboats capsize off the coast of the Lesbos and Samos islands in Greece. (AP)

International relations

Andorra–European Union relations, San Marino–European Union relations, Potential enlargement of the European Union

Gaza Strip famine, Palestine and the United Nations

The World Food Programme cuts monthly food aid for about 500,000 people in the Gaza Strip because of funding shortages, reducing the number of recipients from 1.6 million to 1.1 million. (AFP via France 24)

Germany–Iran relations, Antisemitism in 21st-century Germany

Germany summons its Iranian ambassador after a German court sentences two men involved in a plot to kill a Jewish community leader, saying one of them had been directed by Iran's intelligence service. (Reuters)

Law and crime

A car strikes independent Australian MP Helen Haines outside her office in Wangaratta, Victoria, in a deliberate attack, leaving her in critical condition. Police arrest the driver, while Haines is airlifted to a hospital. (Reuters)

Cuba–United States relations

1996 shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue aircraft, United States embargo against Cuba

Florida attorney general James Uthmeier brings forward additional chargest against former Cuban president Raúl Castro, including conspiracy to commit first-degree murder by directing spies to infiltrate Brothers to the Rescue and ordering the attack on their planes in 1996. (AP)

Israeli settler violence

Israel Police arrest 10 people in the occupied West Bank over attacks on American photojournalist Heidi Levine and the mayor of Aulnoye-Aymeries, France, who were travelling with European diplomats, and seize vehicles and other evidence during raids. (AFP via France 24) (Reuters)

Shakahola Forest incident

A Kenyan court convicts Good News International Ministries leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie of murdering 190 children and an adult whose deaths were linked to starvation in Shakahola Forest. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

2026 Alberta referendums, 2026 Alberta independence referendum

Albertans vote on ten referendums, including one to decide if Alberta should seek separation from Canada. (Reuters)

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