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The minimum price of a unit of alcohol in Wales rises from 50p to 65p, matching Scotland, after the Senedd voted to keep minimum pricing beyond its March 2026 sunset.

FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meets virtually, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET, to recommend influenza strains for the 2027 Southern Hemisphere vaccines, with a public FDA webcast.

Uganda's Ministry of Health runs a nationwide measles-rubella booster campaign from 1 to 5 October 2026 for children under five regardless of past vaccination, aiming for about 7.47 million children after measles outbreaks in 18 districts this year.

Google and the Justice Department must file one jointly proposed Final Judgment in the ad tech antitrust case by 2 October 2026, writing Judge Brinkema's behavioral remedies into an order that takes effect 60 days after she enters it.

Trump announced on October 4 that Jay Clayton would serve as AI czar and lead the Super Intelligence Force. The appointment supersedes the October 2 forecast; the task force was given 120 days to report on AI risks and opportunities.

WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization holds its autumn meeting on 5-8 October 2026 at WHO headquarters in hybrid format, by invitation only; the agenda is to be published nearer the time.

OFAC issued General License 135 on October 9, authorizing Russian-origin diesel transactions, including US imports, until April 7, 2027, with specified state-account restrictions.

Voters across the Czech Republic elect their municipal councils and a third of the Senate on 9-10 October 2026, with Prague's mayoral race between Tomáš Portlík, Petr Hlaváček and Jan Husbauer among the contests. A Senate runoff, where needed, follows on 16-17 October.

After talks in Beijing on 8-9 October 2026, the EU and China reached an understanding that Sefcovic said will halve Chinese hybrid and plug-in hybrid exports to the bloc, leaving the EV tariff dispute open.

The October 15–16 European Council meets in Brussels on energy costs, the next EU budget and support for Ukraine. Published previews describe negotiating positions; summit conclusions remain ahead.

Alaska's Bering Sea snow crab and Bristol Bay red king crab fisheries are due to open at noon on 15 October 2026, with catch limits set in early October after the summer trawl survey.

White House officials said on October 16 that Katie Zacharia was leaving after starting the job that Monday. A successor had not been named in the reports.

China’s October16 notice proposes controls on40 AI, biomedical and solar technologies while requiring covered exports to register immediately. Consultation runs through November15; the final catalogue is not yet enacted.

The FAA certified the Boeing 737 MAX 10, the largest and last member of the 737 MAX family, on October 20, 2026, issuing an amended type certificate and clearing Boeing to begin deliveries with WestJet first.

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is scheduled to meet on 21-23 October 2026 after its March and June 2026 meetings were cancelled amid litigation; meetings are open to the public by live webcast.

The WTO committee that polices the 2025 ban on subsidies for illegal fishing and for fishing overfished stocks holds its second regular meeting in Geneva, as talks on the unfinished 'Fish 2' rules run in parallel.

The 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party meets in Beijing from 26 to 29 October 2026 for its fifth plenary session, centred on 'full and rigorous Party self-governance'.

The 24th Taiwan LGBT+ Pride Parade, themed 'Our Voices, Our Journey', starts and ends at Taipei City Hall Plaza on 31 October 2026, seven years after same-sex marriage became legal.

Voters nationwide decide control of the U.S. House and Senate in the first midterm election of Donald Trump's second term. Prediction markets on Polymarket and Kalshi, along with the generic congressional ballot, have swung toward Democrats over the course of 2026, a reversal from the start of the cycle, as Trump's approval rating slid and voters cited cost-of-living pressures as a top concern.

Los Angeles voters decide six charter amendments from the city's charter reform process, including a two-year budget and a parks funding guarantee, plus a half-cent sales tax for the Fire Department and a transfer-tax break for January 2025 fire victims.

Voters decide whether to add an independent ethics commission, budget analyst and program auditor to the county charter, and let supervisors serve three terms instead of two.

Five proposals from Mayor Mamdani's Commission on Government Efficiency would speed up sidewalk cafe and street-safety approvals, simplify city contracting and construction permits, and set a target for the rainy-day fund. Voters decide each one on Election Day.

An October 30 Polymarket snapshot gives California Proposition 40 a 22.5% passage chance on USD 4.48 million reported volume. Voters decide November 3; competing measures could affect implementation.

California's State Water Resources Control Board is due to consider the final water right permit for the $6.2-6.8 billion Sites Reservoir on 4 November 2026. The Sites Project Authority moved the 1.5 million acre-foot project into its investment period after the revised draft permit, the last big step before construction.

Ontario Liberals vote online November 9–20, 2026, with results on November 21. On November 7, Polymarket priced Lee Fairclough around 65% and Navdeep Bains around 34% from US$19,830 traded.

The one-year suspension of Section 301 fees on China-linked vessels expires at 11:59 p.m. ET on 9 November 2026 unless USTR publishes a new Federal Register notice, whatever the wider US-China truce says.

Kalshi traders favour a recorded House vote concerning Pete Hegseth impeachment before November 14, 2026. The forecast includes procedural votes and does not establish that the House will impeach him.

Consumers Energy's 1960s-built J.H. Campbell coal plant in West Olive, Michigan, was due to retire on 31 May 2025 but the Department of Energy has forced it to keep running under six emergency orders, the latest through 14 November 2026; a federal appeals court vacated the first order on 11 September.

The Atlantic tuna commission holds its 25th Special Meeting at Vilamoura in Portugal's Algarve from 16 to 23 November 2026, hosted by the European Union, to set catch rules for Atlantic tunas and related species.

Taiwan holds its nine-in-one local elections on 28 November 2026, with about 19.65 million eligible voters choosing 11,051 officials across 22 cities and counties.

The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission holds its 23rd annual session in Port Vila, Vanuatu, from 30 November to 5 December 2026, with a bigeye tuna management procedure and the 2027 IUU vessel list on the agenda.

On October 17, Polymarket priced a replacement announcement by November 30 at 62.5%, versus 18.5% by October 31 and 82.5% by December 31, with US$229,217 traded. November 30 is an estimated timeline marker, not an official appointment date.

Oregon's ocean commercial Dungeness crab season is targeted to open on 1 December 2026, subject to pre-season meat-fill and biotoxin tests and to opening in step with Washington and California.

The Reagan National Defense Forum, the yearly gathering of members of Congress, administration officials, senior military leaders and defence industry executives at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, meets on 4 and 5 December 2026.

The board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, holds its December 2026 meeting on 9-10 December, the governing body that oversees vaccine programmes for measles, malaria, cholera and other diseases in lower-income countries.

The stopgap signed in September expires on 11 December 2026, the deadline for Congress to enact the twelve fiscal 2027 appropriations bills or pass another continuing resolution before agencies shut down.

The new federal hemp definition, capping finished products at 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container, starts on 11 December 2026 after Congress pushed it back a month from 12 November.

The December Agriculture and Fisheries Council, chaired by Ireland's EU presidency, meets on 14-15 December 2026 in Brussels to fix the EU's 2027 catch limits and quotas for the Atlantic, North Sea, Mediterranean and Black Sea.

The EU's Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles is expected to vote on extending the Dutch approval of Tesla's FSD (Supervised) to all 27 member states; it needs 15 states with 65% of the EU's population.

Japan's government is due to settle its fiscal 2027 defence budget in late December, with the final figure expected to top 10 trillion yen for the first time, alongside a revision of its National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy and Defense Buildup Program.

The Prudential Regulation Authority's Basel 3.1 final rules take effect in the UK on 1 January 2027, a year later than first planned, with the market-risk internal model approach following on 1 January 2028.

China's mandatory standard GB 48001-2026 requires a mechanical release on every side door from 1 January 2027, effectively ending flush electronic-only door handles on cars sold there.

President Trump has said US tariffs on cars, trucks, auto parts and steel from Canada will rise to 50% on 1 January 2027, doubling the 25% now charged on Canadian autos, after trade talks collapsed in August.

From 1 January 2027 plug-in hybrids, range extenders and electric commercial vehicles in China lose the annual vehicle and vessel tax exemption they have had since 2012; battery-electric passenger cars stay untaxed.

China's first mandatory national standard for L2 combined driver-assistance systems, GB 47955-2026, takes effect on 1 January 2027, defining three tiers up to NOA and curbing exaggerated "L2.5" marketing.

The Congress elected in the 2026 midterms first meets on January 3, 2027, and the House can do no other business until it has a Speaker. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi's market on the next new Speaker had Hakeem Jeffries at 86% — the table's chance, against “88% chance” on the order ticket beside it — with Jim Jordan at 10% and Steve Scalise at 2.6%.

The first COP of the BBNJ Agreement meets at UN Headquarters to agree the treaty's institutions and rules, the step before any high-seas marine protected area can be declared.