Portal:Current events/2023 October 30

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Heavy clashes are reported as IDF tanks reach the outskirts of Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
    • Israeli troops block the Salah al-Din Road, the main highway in the Gaza Strip. (The Guardian)
    • Israel announces that its forces rescued an IDF private who was taken hostage by Hamas during an overnight operation involving its intelligence agency Shin Bet. (The Times of Israel)
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismisses calls for a ceasefire in the war with Hamas, stating that Israel will continue its military operations. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)
• Yemeni civil war
  • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
    • Saudi Arabia declares a "state of high alert" after four Saudi troops are killed in an attack by Houthi militants in Jazan Province near the border with Yemen. Saudi air defences also shoot down a ballistic missile over its territory that was travelling towards Israel. (Bloomberg)
• Three people are killed and five others injured during two shootouts between supporters of rival candidates in Mindanao, Philippines, amid elections for village leaders. (AFP via Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• 2023 United Auto Workers strike
  • The United Auto Workers of the United States reaches a tentative deal with General Motors, bringing an official end to the six-week strike. (Reuters)

International relations

• U.S. President Joe Biden announces that he will remove Gabon, Niger, Uganda and the Central African Republic from the African Growth and Opportunity Act trade program, because of "gross violations" of human rights and rampant political corruption, effective January 1, 2024. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2023 Ybor City shooting
  • Two people are killed and 16 others are injured in a mass shooting in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, United States. A 22-year-old man is arrested. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election
  • The Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo dismisses a case aiming to disqualify former Katanga governor Moïse Katumbi from the presidential election, asserting that Katumbi solely possesses Congolese nationality despite claims of dual citizenship, which the country does not recognize. (AFP via EWN)
• 2023 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections
  • Filipinos elect members of the village and youth councils after a three-year delay. (AFP via Al Jazeera)
• David Adeang is elected as President of Nauru following a no-confidence vote in Russ Kun. (RNZ)
• German AfD politician Daniel Halemba is arrested for using the Nazi salute and possessing banned totalitarian symbols. (BBC News) (The Guardian)

Science and technology

• In a study published in Nature Geoscience, researchers suggest that solid particulates (predominantly silicate) from the Chicxulub asteroid impact played a dominant role in the radiative forcing leading to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (impact winter), contrary to the widely accepted theory that sulfur aerosols led to the mass extinction. (AFP via RFI) (Nature)
• Japan suspends the pilot experiment of its first fully autonomous self-driving car following a minor collision. (AFP via Daily Tribune)

Sports

• 2023–24 EIHL season
  • The South Yorkshire Police opens an investigation into the death of Adam Johnson after his neck was cut by a skate blade during a game between the Nottingham Panthers and Sheffield Steelers. (The Guardian) (CBS News)
  • The English Ice Hockey Association announces that it will mandate neck guards and protectors beginning in 2024 following Adam Johnson’s death. (ESPN)
• Rubiales affair
  • FIFA bars former Royal Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities for three years due to Rubiales' inappropriate conduct during the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup final in August. (AP)