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October 2, 2023 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Turkey launches airstrikes against around 20 PKK targets in northern Iraq, in response to the PKK's bombing of Ankara, killing an unknown number of militants. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

Thirty-eight people are injured in a fire at a police facility in Ismailia, Ismailia Governorate, Egypt. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

Haitian crisis
- The United Nations Security Council approves UNSC Resolution 2699, establishing a Kenya-led security force with a mandate of one year in order to combat gang violence in Haiti. (The New York Times)

Politics and elections

Science and technology

The European Space Agency reports that the James Webb Space Telescope has detected "Jupiter-sized objects", unconnected to any stars, which appear to be moving in pairs in the Orion constellation. Around 40 of the objects, known as Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, have been detected so far. (BBC News)
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing technology that resulted in mRNA vaccines for COVID-19. (BBC News)

Sports

2023–24 AFC Champions League
- Al-Ittihad refuses to play a match with Sepahan due to the placement of busts of Qasem Soleimani at the side of the football pitch. (Arabnews)

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 *[[Indigenous peoples in Brazil]]
-**The [[Second presidency of Lula da Silva|government]] of [[Brazil]] begins expelling non-[[Indigenous peoples in Brazil|indigenous]] residents off of the [[Terra Indígena Apyterewa|Apyterewa]] and [[Terra Indígena Trincheira/Bacajá|Trincheira Bacajá]] [[Indigenous territory (Brazil)|indigenous territories]] in [[Pará]] state. [https://apnews.com/article/brazil-indigenous-territories-expulsion-lands-amazon-removal-8f4ee1bd8c1b87a90303182c6547500a (AP)]
+**The [[Second presidency of Lula da Silva|government]] of [[Brazil]] begins expelling non-[[Indigenous peoples in Brazil|indigenous]] residents off of the [[Apyterewa Indigenous Territory|Apyterewa]] and [[Trincheira/Bacajá Indigenous Territory|Trincheira Bacajá]] [[Indigenous territory (Brazil)|indigenous territories]] in [[Pará]] state. [https://apnews.com/article/brazil-indigenous-territories-expulsion-lands-amazon-removal-8f4ee1bd8c1b87a90303182c6547500a (AP)]
 '''Science and technology'''