October 30, 2014 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2014 Burkinabé uprising
- Protestors demanding the resignation of President Blaise Compaoré set fire to parliament and other official buildings. The Chief of the Army dismisses the government and national assembly and announces a curfew and a transition time of one year. Compaoré fled to Dakar, Senegal. (Euro News)
- Piracy in Somalia
- 2014 War in Donbas:
- Russian action film star Mikhail Porechenkov is caught on film wearing press gear while firing a machine gun toward Ukrainian lines with pro-Russian rebels at Donetsk International Airport. (Mashable)
Disasters and accidents
- A Beechcraft King Air B200 crashes into a FlightSafety International building in Wichita, Kansas - there are four dead. (Wichita Eagle)
International relations
- Sweden officially recognises Palestine as a sovereign state. Israel recalls its ambassador to Sweden. (The Independent)
Law and crime
- Eric Frein, wanted in the American state of Pennsylvania for the 2014 Pennsylvania State Police barracks attack that killed one officer and injured another, is taken into custody. (CNN)
Politics
- Thomas Menino, former mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, and the longest-serving mayor in the city's history, dies of cancer at the age of 71. (Boston Globe)
- The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was closed to all visitors for the first time since 2000, following the attempted assassination of Israeli activist Yehuda Glick. (The Jerusalem Post)
Sports
- In Nippon Professional Baseball, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks win the 2014 Japan Series defeating the Hanshin Tigers by 4 games to 1. Hawks outfielder Seiichi Uchikawa is named as series MVP. (CBS Sports), (The Japan News)