Portal:Current events/2019 October 28

• Afghanistan–Pakistan barrier
  • Three women are killed after Afghan and Pakistani forces clash in Kunar Province. (CityNews Vancouver)
• Kashmir conflict
  • Twenty people are injured in a grenade attack in Sopore. (Reuters)
• Maghreb insurgency
  • Pobé Mengao shooting
    • Gunmen kill 16 people after they refused to help buy them ammunition. The attack happened in the village of Pobé Mengao in Burkina Faso. (Jeune Afrique)
• Bayonne mosque shooting
  • A gunman opens fire on a mosque in Bayonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, wounding two before being detained. The perpetrator is an 84-year-old man who ran for the National Front in the 2015 regional elections. (The Daily Telegraph)
• War in Afghanistan
  • An improvised explosive device detonates in a partially constructed building in Bati Kot, Afghanistan. The bomb kills two labourers and injures five more, three seriously. (Xinhua News Agency)

• Pope Francis officially renames the Vatican Secret Archive to the Vatican Apostolic Archive. (Detroit News)

• An explosion kills five people at a petroleum plant in Shaanxi, China. A further three are missing. (South China Morning Post)

• Impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump
  • Charles Kupperman, U.S. President Donald Trump's former deputy national security adviser, defies a congressional subpoena to testify before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence regarding the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. (CNN)

• Brexit negotiations
  • The European Union agrees to delay the deadline again for a Brexit deal until January 31, 2020. (BBC News)
• October 2019 Iraqi protests
  • The Iraqi government enacts a curfew in Baghdad as renewed protests enters its fourth day. (Al Jazeera)
• 2019 Chilean protests
  • President Sebastián Piñera changes eight ministries of his cabinet, notably with Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick and Financial Minister Felipe Larraín Bascuñán being replaced with Gonzalo Blumel and Ignacio Briones respectively. New rounds of protests and riots erupt in Santiago and other cities after the announcement. (BBC News) (The Guardian)
• 2019–20 Lebanese protests
  • Central Bank Governor Riad Salame says the economy of Lebanon is "days" away from collapsing. (CNN)
• Impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump
  • The U.S. House of Representatives announces it will vote this week to formalize the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. (CNN)

• A study by Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, and headed by geneticist Vanessa Hayes, pinpoints the Okavango region in northern Botswana as the origin of modern humans. Other scientists express skepticism at this, particularly at the study's primary evidence coming from mitochondrial DNA. (BBC News) (The Guardian) (Nature)