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October 3, 2018 (Wednesday)

Business and economy

Toys "R" Us lenders cancel the bankruptcy auction of its brand name and other intellectual property assets and instead plan to revive the Toys "R" Us and Babies "R" Us brand names. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami
- The confirmed death toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia has risen to 1,407. (Reuters)
- The Soputan volcano on Sulawesi erupts, sending ash columns 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) into the air. (South China Morning Post)
Six rescue divers drown after they are caught in a whirlpool during a mission to locate and rescue a teenager from a disused mining pool in Malaysia. (BBC)

International relations

United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
- The International Court of Justice orders the U.S. to lift sanctions against Iran related to the import of humanitarian goods and civil aviation safety. (The Guardian)
- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that the United States is terminating the 1955 Treaty of Amity with Iran. (Fox News)
The United States announces its withdrawal from the optional protocol concerning compulsory settlement of disputes of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Florence, South Carolina shooting
- Seven police officers are shot, one fatally, by a gunman in Florence, South Carolina, United States. Five civilians were also injured. (CNN)
Immigration policy of Donald Trump, Immigration to the United States
- A federal court in California blocks the Trump administration from terminating the Temporary Protected Status program that allows immigrants from four countries to live and work in the United States. (NPR)
Former Member of Parliament and Member of the National Assembly for Wales, Simon Thomas, pleads guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children. (BBC)
Pardon of Alberto Fujimori
- A Peruvian court reverses the pardon granted to former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and orders that Fujimori must be returned to prison. (BBC)

Politics and elections

Science and technology

Discoveries of exoplanets
- Kepler-1625b, an exoplanet proposed in 2017 to be orbited by an exomoon, the first possible example of a moon orbiting a planet in another stellar system, is confirmed with observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. (Space.com)
The Federal Emergency Management Agency sends its first ever "Presidential Alert", a Wireless Emergency Alerts test message, at 2:18 p.m. EDT (18:18 UTC) to most cell phones in the United States. (Time)
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to George P. Smith, Frances Arnold, and Greg Winter for the design of molecules with a range of uses by means that mimic natural selection. (The New York Times).

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