October 5, 2022 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
- Ukrainian troops recapture the strategic village of Dudchany on the west bank of the Dnieper following the withdrawal of Russian forces. (Al Jazeera)
- Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a law formally annexing the Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia into Russia. (Reuters)
- 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Tigray War
- Adi Daero school airstrike
- More than 50 people are killed in an Ethiopian Air Force airstrike on a school being used as an IDP camp in La'ilay Adiyabo, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. (Reuters)
- Adi Daero school airstrike
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli soldiers surround a house in the village of Deir al-Hatab, killing a man and wounding four residents and two Palestinian Satellite Channel journalists who were covering the operation. (Al Jazeera)
- Mexican drug war
- Eighteen people are killed, including the town's mayor, and three others injured, when a Los Tequileros drug gang open fire in a mass shooting at the town hall in San Miguel Totolapan, Guerrero, Mexico. (BBC)
- Afghanistan conflict
- Four people are killed and 25 others are injured by a suicide bomber at a government ministry's mosque in Kabul. (Al Jazeera)
- Abuja–Kaduna train attack
- The Nigerian military says it has secured the release of the last 23 passengers taken hostage in late March. (Reuters)
- Central African Republic Civil War
- Three United Nations peacekeepers from Bangladesh are killed in a bombing while on patrol in the Central African Republic on Monday. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Unemployment reaches a record low in Slovenia, the lowest since the country's independence in 1991, despite a slowed economic growth. (Xinhua)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
- The bridge connecting Pine Island in Lee County, Florida, reopens to the public after undergoing repairs from damage caused by Hurricane Ian. (Wink News)
- 2022 West Azerbaijan earthquake
- A magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Khowy, West Azerbaijan, Iran, wounding more than 1,000 people. (Reuters)
- One person is killed and two others are injured by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Piura, Peru. (Reuters)
- Twenty-five people are killed and over a dozen others are injured when a bus falls from a mountainous road into a gorge in Uttarakhand, India. (CNA)
Law and crime
- Lawyers for Maasai herders, who say that the Tanzanian government is trying to violently evict them from their ancestral land in order to make way for a luxury game reserve, have filed an appeal against a court ruling that dismissed their case. (The Guardian)
- The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ukraine fires his deputy Bohdan Lvov for having dual Russian and Ukrainian citizenship. (Dzerkalo Tyzhnia)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Danish general election
- Prime minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen calls a general election for 1 November, thereby avoiding a vote of no confidence. (The Guardian)
- Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni fires his son Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba as commander of the national infantry forces after Kainerugaba made a series of tweets threatening to capture Nairobi, the capital of neighbouring Kenya. (AP)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Karl Barry Sharpless, and Dane Morten P. Meldal are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". (Reuters)
Sports
- Carlsen–Niemann controversy
- A Chess.com investigation finds that Hans Niemann probably cheated in more than 100 chess games. (The Guardian)
- 2029 Asian Winter Games
- The IOC states that they were not consulted over Saudi Arabian plans for the $500 billion desert Asian Winter Games and that this was in clear conflict with their policy of using existing arenas. (The Guardian)