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The United States Africa Command sends a team to Niger to investigate an October 4 ambush which killed four U.S. soldiers.
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**Politics and elections**
*2017 Spanish constitutional crisis*
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warns Catalonian President Carles Puigdemont that the region's autonomy will be suspended if he fails to drop the Catalonian government's bid for secession by 10:00 AM CEST (08:00 AM GMT).
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Rajoy announces that he will begin the process of stripping Catalonia of its autonomy starting on October 21. This follows a letter Puigdemont wrote before the deadline again asking for dialogue, and blaming Rajoy for escalating the crisis. Rajoy had wanted dialogue after reassurances that the independence bid was dropped.
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*Aftermath of the New Zealand general election, 2017*
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New Zealand First leader Winston Peters chooses to create a minority coalition with the Labour Party and form the sixth Labour government.
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*Jacinda Ardern, the leader of the Labour Party, will be the next prime minister.*
**Science and technology**
*Scientists studying flying insects in nature reserves and protected areas of western Germany report a decline of more than 75% of the population in about three decades.*
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That would be the end of today's wikipedia's news of yesterday! đ
(this isn't the same soldier that got ambushed in Niger) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/10/19/listen-soldiers-widow-shares-her-call-with-trump/
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^ Natural Selection at work
**Man Arrested for Trying to Take Down HWNDU Flag**
<https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/culture-loisirs/le-lieu-unique-a-son-tour-victime-des-supremcistes-1508319662>
**Translation**:
âHe Will Not Divide Usâ finally âfound refugeâ in the Lieu Unique in Nantes at the beginning of the week. The small white flag floats above the LU tower, filmed continuously, and there again the site has been targeted: intimidations and calls to take action on internet forums and social networks. A young man has already been arrested because he tried to climb on to the roof of the LU to lift the flag. Other calls to do the same thing are also circulating on the social networks.
Patrick Gyger, director of the Lieu Unique was expecting this kind of thing. IT security has also been reinforced, even for the building. âWe have also secured access points to the roof as much as possible and the dome with barrier tape and panels that say âDanger of Fatalityâ.â Because the LU directorâs greatest fear is that someone falls several dozen metres and kills themselves falling through the glass roof. âThere was a reason why we installed the flag with a crane. You canât climb that high, itâs too dangerous,â continues Patrick Gyger.