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The World Food Forum is an annual event organized by FAO that addresses issues related to food security, sustainable agriculture and innovation in global agri-food systems.
The interim president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, will participate in the World Food Forum organized by the FAO on 12 October in Rome. This was reported by Efe, citing the event programme. Rodríguez will speak at the opening ceremony together with, among others, Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, Lesotho King Letsie III and Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço.
The Forum, scheduled until 16 October at the FAO headquarters, will have the theme "Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow" and will be divided into three main areas: global action for young people, science and innovation and investments in agri-food systems.
The inaugural day will also include speeches by the President of the Dominican Republic Luis Abinader and the Vice President of Ecuador María José Pinto. Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel will instead participate remotely.
In Israel we are commemorating three years since the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023. Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed 'nostalgia for our loved ones' and reiterated that 'we will deal with all the murderers'. One Palestinian was killed and 14 injured in an attack by extremist Israeli settlers east of Tulkarm. The families of the victims observed a minute's silence at the sites of the attack in southern Israel.

Argentina will ask the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for provisional measures against the United Kingdom to block hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation activities in the Sea Lion project in the disputed waters of the Falkland-Malvinas Islands, as reported by Clarín, upon expiration of the two-week ultimatum given by President Javier Milei in London.

A massive Russian attack on Ukraine left 25 dead and 100 injured, with Kh-101 missiles and Shahed drones hitting Pryluky in the Chernihiv region, killing five children. Zelensky updated the death toll. In Germany, police arrested former foreign intelligence chief August Hanning on espionage charges. In the Black Sea, two cargo ships were hit off the coast of Bulgaria: one crew rescued, the other missing.

Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old Spaniard who became a symbol of protests for the right to housing, died at the Gregorio Maranon hospital in Madrid after being hospitalized since September 23, the day of the forced eviction on live TV from her home in the Retiro neighborhood, where she had lived for 71 years. The Sindicato de Inquilinas announced his death, underlining that the historic agreement for his return home came too late.

Giacomo Passeri, detained in Egypt since 2023 for drug trafficking and sentenced to 25 years, met his lawyer Mario Antinucci for the first time in over three years in Badr prison. The lawyer says that they will bring him back to Italy thanks to diplomatic collaboration.

Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old Spanish activist who became a symbol of protests for the right to housing, died at the Gregorio Maranon hospital in Madrid after being hospitalized since September 23, following the forced eviction broadcast live on TV from her home in the Retiro neighborhood, where she had lived for 70 years.