Template:In the news
- A mass shooting at Kerch Polytechnic College in Kerch, Crimea kills at least 19 people and injures at least 47 others.
- Both crew members survive an emergency landing when Soyuz MS-10 suffers a booster failure shortly after launch (pictured) from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
- Hurricane Michael makes landfall in Florida, United States, as a Category 4 storm, causing 18 deaths after killing at least 15 people in Central America.
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases a report on actions urgently needed to confine global warming to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F).
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