Thirteen Allied Democratic Forces terrorists are arrested in Rwanda after planning multiple bombing attacks in Kigali. The planned attacks camed as Rwanda is helping Mozambique fighting ISIL-linked groups in the Insurgency in Cabo Delgado.
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October 1, 2021 (Friday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Arts and culture
It is announced that the Afghanistan pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai will remain closed to visitors due to the Taliban takeover of the country.
Business and economy
Venezuela launches its second monetary overhaul in the past three years by cutting six zeros from its currency in order to simplify accounting. This move was in response to hyperinflation, which reached an annual record of 1,743%, amid a serious ongoing economic crisis.
Russian gas supplies via the Yamal–Europe pipeline fall almost 77% in a single day, raising European gas prices to an all-time high. European Parliament lawmakers request investigations of market manipulation, although Gazprom's exports outside the former Soviet Union rose 15.3% year on year in the first nine months of 2021 and German utility Uniper confirms that Russia was fulfilling its contractual obligations.
Health and environment
The Philippines adds the British territory of Bermuda to its red list due to COVID-19. Bermuda became the first British territory to be added to the Asian country's red list.
Greece imposes a curfew and bans music at bars, cafés and restaurants in Thessaloniki, Larissa, Chalkidiki and Kilkis due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the region.
California Governor Gavin Newsom announces that California will become the first U.S. state to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for all students in schools.
Argentina authorizes the approval of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 3 and 11 years. Health minister Carla Vizzotti announces that Argentina will end the year with all of its population over the age of 3 years vaccinated against COVID-19.
Australia expands eligibility for the Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to include seniors over the age of 60 who had previously only been eligible for the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine.
The United States surpasses 700,000 deaths from COVID-19.
It is announced that more than 50 countries have missed the World Health Organization's (WHO) target for 10% of their populations to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of September. Most of these countries are in Africa, where the WHO's overall figure for fully vaccinated populations is currently 4.4%.
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejects an order to block the vaccine mandate for New York City schoolteachers and employees.
International relations
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that the contentious arrangements regarding the Northern Irish Protocol could work in principle if they were "fixed" but warns the European Union that they could be "ditched" if they do not work. Johnson adds that this is a problem that "the United Kingdom did not want".
Law and crime
The suicide note left by François Vérove, a 59-year-old French former military police officer who committed suicide two days ago in Le Grau-du-Roi, Occitanie, reveals that he murdered four people, including 11-year-old Cécile Bloch. The serial killer, nicknamed Le Grêlé, was also involved in a series of rapes.
Politics and elections
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian announces her resignation after the Independent Commission Against Corruption revealed that they are investigating her over a series of suspicious historical community grants.
Exiled Georgian politician Mikheil Saakashvili announces that he is back in Georgia despite threats by prime minister Irakli Garibashvili, who said that Saakashvili would be "immediately arrested and brought to prison" if he returned. Saakashvili, in his support for the United National Movement, concluded by saying that "I risked my life and freedom to be back". Saakashvili is arrested later in the day.
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