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Seoul has invited Pyongyang to talks on confirming the exact Military Demarcation Line and reviving military hotlines, a month after a mine blast in the DMZ wounded three South Korean soldiers.
A Datafolha poll published on October 22 shows Flávio Bolsonaro and President Lula separated by one point before Sunday's runoff, after Bolsonaro's surprise first-round lead on October 4.
Morocco's lower house approved the 2026–2031 programme of Head of Government Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri by 204 votes to 127, formally investing a cabinet sworn in by King Mohammed VI on October 16.
A National Academies committee released a NASA-sponsored report on 21 October 2026 recommending four non-polar lunar sites where astronauts could deliver the greatest scientific return.
ONS data published on 21 October show annual CPI inflation climbed to 3.5% in September, driven by the steepest fuel price rises since 2022, as core and services inflation also edged higher.
India's air quality commission put the first stage of its emergency anti-pollution plan into force across the National Capital Region on 21 October, after Delhi's AQI entered the 'poor' band following Dussehra.
JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft lifted off from Tanegashima on 19 October 2026, beginning a mission to sample Phobos and return the material to Earth in 2031.
Official data released on 19 October show China's growth picked up to 4.5% in July–September, with strong exports and factory output masking soft consumer spending and a deep slump in property investment.
Zimbabwe will set aside US$500 million in cash and grain to cushion an expected El Niño drought, with officials projecting a near-30% fall in the 2027 maize harvest.
Copernicus says September 2026 was the second-warmest September ever measured, with record sea surface temperatures and record-low flows on parts of the Rhine and Danube, as WMO warns El Niño could be the strongest on record.
Poet and human rights lawyer Ogaga Ifowodo took Nigeria's richest literary award on 9 October 2026 for a collection that confronts religious violence and school abductions.
The Swedish Academy named Canadian poet, essayist and classicist Anne Carson as the 2026 literature laureate, rewarding a career spent reinventing ancient texts for modern readers.
