October 9, 2019 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Halle synagogue shooting
- Two people are killed and two others are injured in attacks by a man wearing military camouflage near a synagogue and at a kebab shop in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Shots are also reported in nearby Landsberg. A suspect, 27-year-old Stephan Billiet, is arrested. The attack had been livestreamed on Twitch for 35 minutes citing anti-Semitic and racist motivations. (BBC News) (DW) (The Guardian)
- 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria, Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War, Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says his country has launched a military invasion of northern and eastern Syria. The Kurdish YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces say that Turkish fighter aircraft strike targets and "civilian areas". Syrian state television says the Turkish artillery shelling of Ras al-Ayn, al-Hasakah Governorate, is "random", and Ayn Issa, Raqqa Governorate, is also being shelled. (Deutsche Welle) (Al Jazeera) (Xinhuanet)
- The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces requests urgent air support from the United States, and a no-fly zone over northern Syria to protect it from Turkish air raids. U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. forces to not intervene in the conflict. (Reuters) (BBC News)
- Women at the SDF-controlled Al-Hawl refugee camp, which holds around 74,000 refugees, mostly the wives and children of ISIL fighters, riot and burn their tents according to a Kurdish security official. (Kurdistan24)
- The U.S. military takes two militants of the Beatles ISIL cell previously held by Kurdish forces to face trial in the United States. (Reuters) (ABC News)
- Multiple reports that ISIL has committed multiple suicide bombings in the Syrian city of Raqqa. (Time)
- Military activity of ISIL
- President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou claims that American hostage Jeffery Ray Woodke is still alive and being held by a jihadist group affiliated with ISIL. Woodke was kidnapped in October 2016. (ABC News)
Business and economy
- The OECD releases a set of proposals, for the 134 countries which accepted the principle, to discuss and negotiate a change in international taxation of the big digital and consumer goods companies' global profits. (Reuters)
- International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis
- Adobe cuts access to its software and cancels all Creative Cloud memberships in Venezuela, to comply with U.S. President Donald Trump's trade restrictions. (BBC News)
- European debt crisis
- Greece issues new three-month debt at a negative interest rate. (Financial Times)
Law and crime
- 2019 Tunisian presidential election
- An appeals court in Tunisia releases candidate Nabil Karoui from prison, days before the second round of the presidential election. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Ecuadorian protests
- Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno says that he will not resign "under any circumstance" and continues with his government in Guayaquil. (Infobae)
Science and technology
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium ion batteries. (CNN)