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;Business and economy
*After nine years of construction, [[China]] is expected to open the world's longest sea bridge, [[Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge]], at a ceremony in [[Hong Kong]]. [https://www.businessinsider.com/china-world-longest-sea-bridge-hong-kong2018-10 (Business Insider)]
;Disasters and accidents
*Two passenger buses collide in the city of [[Dera Ghazi Khan]], in the Punjab Province of [[Pakistan]], resulting in 19 deaths and 40 injuries. [https://tribune.com.pk/story/1830940/1-least-15-passengers-killed-dg-khan-road-accident/ (''The Express Tribune'')] [http://www.arabnews.com/node/1392036/press-review (Arab News)]
;Politics and elections
*[[British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2018]]
**The [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[British Columbia]] begins a [[Postal voting|postal ballot]] to determine whether to maintain the current [[first-past-the-post voting]] system or switch to a form of [[proportional representation]] for their provincial elections. [https://elections.bc.ca/referendum/ (Elections BC)]
*[[Transgender rights]]
**The [[Presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] through the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services]] plans to include a legal definition of gender in the federal civil rights [[Title IX]] law. The proposed alteration to the law would define gender as an unchangeable anatomical and genetic condition determined at birth. [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html (''The New York Times'')] [https://www.npr.org/2018/10/22/659553583/trans-people-say-they-wontbeerased-as-trump-administration-mulls-defining-sex (NPR)]
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;Business and economy
*After nine years of construction, [[China]] is expected to open the world's longest sea bridge, [[Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge]], at a ceremony in [[Hong Kong]]. [https://www.businessinsider.com/china-world-longest-sea-bridge-hong-kong2018-10 (Business Insider)]
;Disasters and accidents
*Two passenger buses collide in the city of [[Dera Ghazi Khan]], in the Punjab Province of [[Pakistan]], resulting in 19 deaths and 40 injuries. [https://tribune.com.pk/story/1830940/1-least-15-passengers-killed-dg-khan-road-accident/ (''The Express Tribune'')] [http://www.arabnews.com/node/1392036/press-review (Arab News)]
;Politics and elections
*[[British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2018]]
**The [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[British Columbia]] begins a [[Postal voting|postal ballot]] to determine whether to maintain the current [[first-past-the-post voting]] system or switch to a form of [[proportional representation]] for their provincial elections. [https://elections.bc.ca/referendum/ (Elections BC)]
*[[Transgender rights]]
**The [[Presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] through the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services]] plans to include a legal definition of gender in the federal civil rights [[Title IX]] law. The proposed alteration to the law would define gender as an unchangeable anatomical and genetic condition determined at birth. [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html (''The New York Times'')] [https://www.npr.org/2018/10/22/659553583/trans-people-say-they-wontbeerased-as-trump-administration-mulls-defining-sex (NPR)]
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