Wikinews:2017/October

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October 1

• Suspects in slaying of pregnant North Dakota woman enter not guilty pleas

October 5

• US rock artist Tom Petty dies at 66

October 7

• Canadian government settles lawsuit over children 'scooped' out of indigenous communities
• Football: FC Bayern, Jupp Heynckes reach agreement; club's head coach until season end
• In Malaysia's high court, pathologist testifies Kim Jong Nam was killed by weapon of mass destruction

October 8

• Football: Lewandowski's hat-trick against Armenia makes him Poland's top-scorer, close to World Cup qualification
• Pakistan: At least 18 killed, others wounded in suicide attack at Balochistan Sufi shrine
• Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all

October 9

• Hurricane Nate weakens as it reaches United States

October 11

• Australia bars North Korea's U-19 football team from entering country citing 'illegal nuclear programmes'

October 12

• As shipping exemption expires, hurricane-torn Puerto Rico may face changes in relief from mainland United States

October 13

• Greek parliament votes to legalise sex-change without operation
• Football: Robben retires from international football after Netherlands fails to qualify for World Cup

October 15

• Abducted Canadian-US couple recovered from Pakistan's tribal areas

October 16

• Austrian People's Party wins majority national election, Sebastian Kurz to become world's youngest national leader at 31

October 19

• Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol
• Iraqi army regains control over Peshmerga fighters' occupied Kirkuk
• Israeli athletes barred from representing country in Abu Dhabi's grand slam

October 20

• Pakistan: car rams into police truck killing at least seven, injuring 22 in Quetta
• Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, scientists say

October 21

• United States judges block third version of President Trump's travel ban
• Poland: 27-year-old arrested in Stalowa Wola for stabbing eight people

October 24

• Five United States ex-presidents raise relief funds at hurricane event

October 27

• United States Senator Jeff Flake announces retirement, citing 'profoundly misguided' party politics

October 29

• CMHC: housing market in Canada 'highly vulnerable'

October 30

• Kazakhstan: President Nazarbayev signs decree to change Kazakh characters from Cyrillic to Latin-based script
• Puerto Rico power company cancels US$300 million Whitefish contract