October 14, 2022 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Two people are killed and five others are injured in an exchange of fire between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants in Jenin, West Bank, following a raid conducted by the former. The Israeli soldiers aimed to capture a Hamas operative suspected of involvement in recent shootings; he was subsequently detained and taken into custody. (Al Jazeera) (Ynetnews)
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- Three people are killed and six others are injured by a roadside bomb near a convoy carrying the relatives of a man who was killed yesterday in Mastung, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Bartın mine explosion
- Forty-one people are killed and eleven more are injured by an explosion at a coal mine in Amasra, Bartın Province, Turkey. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Aydin Coban, a 44-year old Dutch man convicted of sexually extorting British Columbian teenager Amanda Todd, is sentenced to 13 years in prison. (CBC)
Politics and elections
- Premiership of Liz Truss
- Kwasi Kwarteng is dismissed by Liz Truss as Chancellor of the Exchequer following the market turbulence after the announcement of his September 2022 United Kingdom mini-budget. (Financial Times)