France will deploy 70,000 police officers on Saturday, October 31, ahead of nationwide Halloween protests, with more than 40 Paris metro stations closed and shops boarded up after riots two weeks ago.
A Qatari delegation arrived in Tehran on Friday for talks with senior Iranian officials, state media reported, as mediators press efforts to revive peace talks with the United States amid rising fears the Middle East war could flare up again.
All six people on board a private helicopter flying from Badrinath to Dehradun were killed on October 30, 2026, after the aircraft crashed near Joshimath in Uttarakhand amid snowfall and poor weather.
Nearly 200 nations adopted hard-fought agreements at the COP17 biodiversity summit in Yerevan, aiming to get the world’s faltering 2030 nature goals back on track after two weeks of tense talks.
The US State Department has approved a possible $2.1 billion sale of up to 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine, funded entirely by allies through the JUMPSTART programme and the EU Ukraine Support Loan.
A record 47.9 million Americans have already voted in next week’s US midterm elections, passing the 2022 record of 45.9 million, with battleground Senate races driving the surge ahead of Election Day on November 3, 2026.
More than 160,000 people are expected at Gen Z-led rallies in 34 German cities on October 31, demanding better education and lower living costs.
Russia vetoed a US-drafted Western Sahara resolution on October 30, 2026, and a rival Russian draft also failed, leaving the UN mission MINURSO’s mandate due to expire on October 31, 2026.
World Cities Day 2026 meets in Fuzhou under the theme ‘Regenerating the City: Adequate Housing for All’ as UN-Habitat warns up to 3.4 billion people lack adequate housing.
More than 300,000 people displaced since early March remain internally displaced in Lebanon, the UN said on October 30, as continued military activity in the south makes return difficult and $91 million in humanitarian funding supports displaced people and returnees.