Portal:Current events/2018 October 10
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October 10, 2018 (Wednesday)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 51 people are killed when a bus traveling from the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Kisumu veers off the road and overturns. (BBC)
- Three people were killed and houses were damaged after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck off East Java, Indonesia. (The Straits Times)
- At least five people died and 30 were injured when a passenger train derailed in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. (Cyprus Mail)
- Four people are killed and 20 others are injured when an apartment building collapses in Manama, Bahrain. (Gulf Business)
- 2018 Haiti earthquake
- The death toll of a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck Haiti rises to 17. (Otago Daily Times)
- 2018 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Michael strengthens to a "potentially catastrophic" Category 4 hurricane and makes landfall on the Florida Panhandle. (NPR) (Fortune)
- A man in Greensboro, Florida is killed by a tree that crashed through his home, becoming the first reported death from the storm in the United States. Later, a child is killed by a falling tree in Seminole County, Georgia. (BBC)
- The storm causes power outages to 550,000 customers in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, and 375,000 people in 22 counties have been ordered to evacuate. (The Weather Channel)
- Heavy rain and strong winds from Michael are expected in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia on Thursday. (The Washington Post)
International relations
- The Turkish newspaper Sabah names the 15-member Saudi Arabian intelligence team allegedly involved in the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Reuters)
- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announces in a public broadcast that the United States President Donald Trump has sent an order to assassinate him. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in Bangladesh, Terrorism in Bangladesh
- A Dhaka court sentences 19 people to death, including two former ministers, and sentences Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman to life imprisonment over a 2004 attack on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)