Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war, Gaza genocide
  • Five civil police officers are killed in an Israeli airstrike in al-Mawasi, Rafah, Gaza Strip. Separately, three more Palestinians, including a four-year-old child, are killed in an airstrike against a building in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2026–2027 El Niño event
  • Bolivian president Rodrigo Paz declares a national state of emergency to mobilize resources before the super El Niño event peaks in November or December. (DW)
• At least nine people are killed after a Learjet 60 aircraft bound for the Bahamas crashes in Greenacres, Florida. (BocaNewsNow)
• Four people are killed after entering a food waste tank at a hotel in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. (Xinhua)

Law and crime

• 2026 European unrest
  • 2026 Portuguese housing protests
    • Portuguese riot police dismantle protest camps in Lisbon's Rossio Square and Porto, arresting 13 people for refusing orders to disperse. Thirteen officers are injured, while activists say more than 30 protesters are also injured. (AFP) (Lianhe Zaobao)
• 2026 Binance hack
  • The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation accuses North Korea of orchestrating the hack and theft of over $6 billion of cryptocurrency from exchange Binance, facilitated through the Lazarus Group, which also hacked Dubai-based exchange Bybit last year. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2026 anti-CEC protests
  • Thousands of people protest in New Delhi, India, to call for chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign due to changes to voter lists that allegedly disproportionately affect opposition parties. (AFP via France 24) (Al Jazeera)
• 2026 Bulgarian presidential election
  • Bulgarians vote in the second round of presidential elections between incumbent Iliana Iotova and former acting prime minister Andrey Gyurov. (DW)
• Garment workers clash with police in Dhaka, Bangladesh, over low pay and the rising cost of living. (Al Jazeera)

November 1: Samhain and Beltane in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively; Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956)

• 1921 – Frances Kyle and Averil Deverell were called to the Bar of Ireland, becoming the first female barristers in Ireland or Great Britain.
• 1959 – After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask (pictured), now mandatory equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey.
• 1963 – Lê Quang Tung, loyalist head of the South Vietnam Special Forces, was executed in a U.S.-backed coup against president Ngô Đình Diệm following a period of religious unrest.
• 1981 – The Associated State of Antigua gained independence from the United Kingdom as Antigua and Barbuda.