Portal:Current events/2018 October 10

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)

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