2026 WXV Global Series In women's rugby union, Canada defeats England 24–21 in a WXV Global Series match in Toronto, ending the Red Roses' four-year unbeaten run at 41 matches (the longest in rugby union history) after Shoshanah Seumanutafa scores a late try.
2026 Czech Senate election Czechs begin voting in the second round to elect 22 senators who were not elected in the first round.
2026 Moroccan general election Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, who was named Prime Minister by King Mohammed VI on 29 September, takes office as her four-party coalition Government is formally appointed.
Ensenada A judge in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, sentences three Mexican men to over 158 years in prison each for the murder of two Australians and an American in 2024.
South Africa South African police rescue about 200 people from an unregistered rehabilitation centre in Mpumalanga and arrest two people while investigating alleged kidnapping and health and safety violations. Fourteen people receive medical treatment following the rescue.
2026 anti-CEC protests Cockroach Janta Party leader Abhijeet Dipke is detained in Delhi, India, ahead of the party's planned march.
Hungary–Ukraine relations Hungarian prime minister Péter Magyar and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy agree to improve bilateral relations during a meeting in Brussels, Belgium, with Hungary lifting objections to further European Union accession talks for Ukraine following progress on ethnic Hungarian minority rights in Ukraine.
Australia–Fiji relations Australia agrees to provide Fiji with solar-, wind-, and wave-powered Bluebottle maritime drones and training for surveillance and efforts against drug trafficking and other transnational crime, with deployment expected in 2027.
Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest Brazilian environment minister João Paulo Capobianco reports that deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell to 5796 km2 in the year through July 2026, the lowest level since 1988 except for 2012.
Israeli settler violence Israeli settlers attack and beat a group of Palestinians and an American journalist from "The Washington Post".
Sudanese civil war Thirty people are killed and 47 people are injured in a drone strike on a cattle market in Nyala, South Darfur, Sudan.