In all the hubbub of election season, the world tends to forget what else is going on. In the midst of political drama and Twitter fights, news outlets often overlook headlines outside of the United States. Here are nine news stories from around the globe:

1. Since he took took office this year in late June, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the mass killing of over 3,000 alleged criminals. Another 700,000 citizens have turned themselves over to the police. Duterte has taken a strict no-drugs stance in a country where cartels run rampant. “If you know of any addicts,” Duterte said, “go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful.” Despite such a horrific policy, Duterte has a 91% approval rating; most locals agree that something in the drug-infested country needs to change.
2. Fifty years after its first recording, The Beatles’ Live at the Hollywood Bowl has been released on CD. Why did Capitol Studios wait so long? Fifty years ago, there was no technology that could separate The Beatles’ live music from the screams of adoring fans. However, now one can enjoy almost 43 non-stop minutes of Beatlemania, including four new tracks that were salvaged from another Hollywood Bowl appearance a year later.
3. Venezuela is a country that depends largely on its oil exports. They are largely in debt to international debt markets, including China, and are running out of resources to pay it all back. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has prioritized paying debts over helping support citizens and as a consequence, citizens are starving in the streets. “We are practically working for free,” said an oil industry worker in Venezuela who was quoted in The New York Times. Inflation has knocked oil workers’ wages down to less than a dollar per day.
4. Archaeologists working in Poland have discovered a Nazi time capsule dating back to the year 1934. They had known of its’ existence for years but couldn’t reach it due to barriers of concrete, groundwater, and German mines. The capsule was hidden under a Nazi training center in a part of Poland that Germany had occupied. It contained newspapers, photographs, coins, and two copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, all entirely undamaged.
5. “The King” of golf, Arnold Palmer, died September 25 at age 87. He began playing at three years old and grew up to win 62 professional golf titles. He was often credited for rousing American interest in the sport.
6. Two years after it occured, Yahoo has announced that 500 million accounts were hacked. Back in 2014, 500 million users’ data was compromised by a “state-sponsored breach”, said Yahoo. This includes names, emails, addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, passwords, and any other information linked to a user’s Yahoo account. Yahoo is one of the Internet’s oldest email providers, and this is one of the farthest-reaching breaches in its history. Security experts say the breach could spur class-action lawsuits with a hefty price.
7. After two national elections in six months, Spain has gone almost nine months without a government. In either election, no party has won enough votes or created the coalition needed to form a government. Local governments still have the ability to maintain order, but national legislation, foreign affairs, and government projects have been halted for the time being. Despite a lack of political oversight, only 2.3% of respondents in a July poll considered the lack of government the country’s major problem.
8. Authorities in Ticino, Switzerland have issued a ban on niqabs in public places, such as shops and restaurants. Anyone wearing a full face veil will be subject to $100, although the highest fines go up to $10,095. The law began as a people’s initiative and had 65% of the vote to pass. A large majority of Ticino identifies as Roman Catholic. The Swiss Parliament approved the law after they ruled that it did not contradict Swiss federal law. Georgio Ghiringhelli, who is credited with drawing up the proposal, said, “Those who want to integrate are welcome, but those who rebuff our values and aim to build a parallel society based on religious laws, and want to place it over our society, are not welcome.”
9. On October 11th, Australia’s Labor Party rejected a national referendum supporting same-sex marriage and blocked a public vote on the matter. The party claims a public vote would be “too costly and traumatizing” for LGBT Australians. Instead, they want Parliament to legalize same-sex marriage immediately. However, the process will take at least three years, if not longer.