• Expansion of Heathrow Airport
  • The Cabinet of the United Kingdom approves a controversial third runway at London's Heathrow Airport. (Sky News)

• 2018 lower Puna eruption
  • A lava flow destroys at least 130 homes in the Vacationland Hawaii and Kapoho Beach Lots neighborhoods. Officials reported Vacationland Hawaii to be completely destroyed, while nearby Kapoho Bay has been filled with lava. (West Hawaii Today) (West Hawaii Today₂)
• Mining accidents
  • An explosion at an iron ore mine in Benxi, Liaoning, kills 11 people, 23 others were rescued from the site, while 2 more remain trapped. (Reuters)
• 2018 Volcán de Fuego eruption
  • The death toll for the Volcán de Fuego eruption in Guatemala rises to 75 people. (HuffPost)

• Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict
  • Ethiopia agrees to "fully accept" the outcome of the Algiers Agreement of 2000, which ruled that disputed areas, including the border town of Badme which Ethiopia currently occupies, are Eritrean territory. (BBC)

• LGBT rights in the European Union
  • The European Court of Justice rules that EU countries that have not legalised same-sex marriage must still offer same-sex spouses the same residency rights as heterosexual couples under freedom of movement laws. (The Telegraph)
• Prostitution in Belgium
  • Prostitutes in Brussels' Rue d'Aerschot red-light district go on strike today after one of their colleagues is found murdered this morning. (Het Laatste Nieuws)
• Hurricane Maria death toll controversy
  • The Government of Puerto Rico says that it will comply with a Superior Court order to release all death certificates issued after Hurricane Maria hit the U.S. territory. The court order came after CNN and Puerto Rico's Center for Investigative Journalism sued the territory's government amid allegations of undercounted fatalities. (AP via WDTN)

• Politics of Spain, 2018 vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy
  • Former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy resigns as the leader of People's Party, four days after losing the no-confidence vote that ended his premiership. (El País English)
• Politics of Jordan
  • In an effort to quell unrest caused by IMF-driven reforms, King Abdullah II of Jordan appoints Omar Razzaz as Prime Minister. (Reuters)
• Politics of Ethiopia
  • Fana Broadcasting reports that the Parliament of Ethiopia approves a bill and lifts the state of emergency, two months earlier than planned. (Al Jazeera)
• Me Too movement, Judicial independence
  • Voters in Santa Clara County, California vote to recall Judge Aaron Persky after he sentenced a swimmer convicted of sexual assault to six months in jail in 2016. (AP via WHSV)