Portal:Current events
Topics in the news
- In Hanoi, Vietnam, a fire at an apartment building kills at least 56 people.
- The FIBA Basketball World Cup concludes with Germany defeating Serbia in the final (MVP Dennis Schröder pictured).
- Storm Daniel causes flooding around the central Mediterranean and the collapse of two dams in Libya, leaving more than 11,300 people dead.
- An earthquake strikes Morocco, killing more than 2,900 people.
September 16, 2023
(Saturday)
Law and crime
- Mahsa Amini protests
- Human rights organizations say that Iranian police arrested the father of Mahsa Amini on the first anniversary of her death. (Reuters)
- Storm Daniel
- Libya's top prosecutor announces a probe into the dam collapses which led to the floods that killed more than 11,000 people. (AP)
- Mexican Drug War
- Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, is extradited to the United States from Mexico for drug trafficking and money laundering. (Reuters)
September 15, 2023
(Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine reports that it recaptured the village of Andriivka, near Bakhmut, in Donetsk Oblast. (AP)
Business and economy
- 2023 United Auto Workers strike
- The United Auto Workers announce that they have gone on strike following failed negotiations. (AP)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
International relations
- Foreign relations of Burkina Faso, Foreign relations of France
- The military government of Burkina Faso orders the French embassy's defense attaché to leave the country due to subversive behavior. (Al Arabiya)
- France–Niger relations
- President of France Emmanuel Macron says that French ambassador to Niger Sylvain Itté and other diplomats are being held hostage at the French embassy in Niamey, Niger. (CNN)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko proposes a three-way alliance between Belarus, Russia, and North Korea during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia. (AP)
Law and crime
- Afghan conflict
- United States invasion of Afghanistan
- The U. S. government warns a Virginia judge that allowing a United States Marine to keep an Afghan war orphan risks violating international law and could be viewed as endorsing international child abduction. (AP)
- United States invasion of Afghanistan
- Human rights in Kuwait
- Kuwait University agrees to impose gender segregation in classrooms in line with a recent agreement between Kuwaiti MP Mohammed Haif al-Mutairi, who chairs the Committee for the Promotion of Values, and the Kuwaiti Minister of Education. (The New Arab)
- The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs dismisses its legal chief and cancels all contracts to outsource visa applications after seven people are charged in a visas-for-cash scandal. (Reuters)
September 14, 2023
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Crimea attacks
- Russia's defence ministry says that it destroyed a Ukrainian boat in the Black Sea. (Al Jazeera)
- Crimea attacks
Business and economy
- Economy of Argentina
- The National Institute of Statistics and Census announces that consumer prices in Argentina increased 12.4% in August, the highest increase since February 1991, while the annual inflation rate increased to 124.4%. (AP)
- Economy of the European Union
- The European Central Bank raises interest rates for the 10th time to mitigate high inflation amid concerns that higher borrowing costs could push the economy into a recession. (AP)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine's foreign ministry says that any European Union plans to extend import restrictions on Ukrainian food would be "illegal" and would harm common economic interests. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Two people are killed and 25 more are injured in a collision between a bus and a truck on a highway in Rome, Italy. (Il Messaggero)
- An explosion at the Union Pacific Railroad Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, United States, the world’s largest railyard, causes evacuations in the area due to toxic smoke. (AP)
International relations
- Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Afghanistan–China relations
- China names Zhao Seng as ambassador to Afghanistan, the first country to deliver an ambassador to Afghanistan since the 2021 Taliban offensive. However, China continues to not recognise the Taliban government. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- 2023 Brazilian Congress attack
- The Brazilian Supreme Court announces the first conviction of a participant in the January 8 riots at the Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasília. The member, identified as Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, is given a 17-year prison sentence. (Financial Times)
- International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine
- The International Criminal Court opens a field office in Kyiv, Ukraine, as part of its war crimes investigations, becoming the largest ICC office outside of its headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. (Al Jazeera)
- Mexican drug war
- Emma Coronel, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, is released from U.S. federal custody after completing a three-year sentence for her involvement in drug trafficking. (AP)
- Weiss special counsel investigation
- Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, is indicted on gun charges as part of an investigation by attorney David C. Weiss. (NBC News)
- Argentina's Federal Police shuts down a publisher that sold books supporting Nazi ideology, seizing hundreds of texts and arresting one person as part of what authorities characterized as a historic seizure of propaganda. (AP)
September 13, 2023
(Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2023 Nigerien coup d'état
- The U.S. military announces that they have resumed drone operations and other counterterrorism missions in Niger. (AP)
- 2023 Sudan conflict
- Battle of Geneina
- Thirteen new mass graves are found in Geneina by the United Nations, with an unspecified number of bodies. (Al Arabiya)
- Battle of Nyala
- At least 40 people are killed in an airstrike on the El Malja market and several other neighborhoods in Nyala by the Sudanese Armed Forces. (France 24)
- Battle of Geneina
- Kashmir conflict
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Four Indian troops and two rebels are killed in gunbattles in Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (Al Jazeera)
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
- Crimea attacks
- Russia says that at least 24 people were injured in Ukrainian missile strikes in Sevastopol and two boats were damaged in the attack. Ukraine claims to have destroyed the Russian landing ship Minsk, submarine B-237 and a KC-701-class patrol boat of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. (AP) (Reuters) (MSN)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Five people are killed and 25 more injured during an explosion at a rally in the Gaza Strip marking the anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005. (Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki called on the European Union to extend an embargo on the import of Ukrainian corn, wheat, sunflower and rapeseed. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Hanoi building fire
- At least 56 people are killed and 37 others are injured in a fire at a nine-story apartment building in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Al Jazeera)
- Three people are killed and several others are injured in an explosion at a factory in Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy. A similar explosion at the factory in 2020 killed three workers. (La Repubblica)
International relations
- 2023 North Korea–Russia summit
- The North Korea–Russia summit is held at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia, lasting for four hours. Russian President Vladimir Putin accepts an invitation from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to a reciprocal summit in North Korea. (AP) (CNA)
Law and crime
- 2023 Brazilian Congress attack
- The Brazilian Supreme Court holds the first trials of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who took part in the January 8 attacks on government buildings at the Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasília. (La Prensa Latina) (AP)
- Death of Sara Sharif
- Escaped U.S. fugitive Danilo Cavalcante is captured in Pennsylvania by a team of tactical officers after a two week manhunt. (AP)
September 12, 2023
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Mali War
- Tuareg fighters from the Platform coalition of rebels capture the town of Bourem from Malian forces, bringing an end to the 2015 peace treaty between the rebels and the Malian government. (Africanews)
Disasters and accidents
- Storm Daniel
- The death toll from the floods caused by Storm Daniel in northeastern Libya increases to 6,000 people, with thousands more reported missing. Government of National Stability minister Hisham Chkiouat confirms that entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed in Derna. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News) (CNN)
- At Salzburg Zoo in Austria, a zookeeper is killed and another is injured by a rhinoceros in its enclosure. The zoo remains closed. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)
Health and environment
- The New South Wales government in Australia bans logging in a 8,400-hectare forest area, identified as home to 106 "koala hubs", as part of a conservation effort to establish a 315,000-hectare Great Koala National Park. (AFP via RFI)
International relations
- 2023 North Korea–Russia summit
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in Russia for a summit with President Vladimir Putin. (NBC News)
Law and crime
- 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal
- The Malaysian Court of Appeal upholds the acquittal of former prime minister Najib Razak and former 1MDB chief Arul Kanda Kandasamy on charges of audit tampering related to the sovereign wealth fund's corruption investigation. (AFP via The Jakarta Post)
- Impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden
- Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, announces an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. This inquiry led by Representative James Comer will be conducted by the House's Judiciary Committee, Oversight Committee and Ways and Means Committee. (Associated Press)
- A Regional Trial Court in Pasig, Philippines, acquits Rappler Holdings Corporation and its CEO, Nobel Peace Prize awardee Maria Ressa, in the fifth and final tax evasion case against the corporation. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- Aftermath of the 2023 Guatemalan general election
- The office of the Attorney General carries out raids in the offices of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and opens electoral boxes containing the electoral ballots. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal condemns the raids. (Prensa Libre)
September 11, 2023
(Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2023 Ain al-Hilweh clashes
- Clashes between rival factions in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon District, Lebanon, continue for the fifth day, despite a ceasefire, with five more people being killed, bringing the death toll to ten. (Reuters)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine says that it has recaptured from Russia four Black Sea oil platforms known as the Boyko Towers in Crimea. (Politico) (The New York Times)
Disasters and accidents
- Storm Daniel
- At least 2,500 people have been killed and 7,000 others are reported missing across northeastern Libya during floods triggered by Storm Daniel. (Albawaba)
International relations
- Dominican Republic–Haiti relations, Haitian crisis
- The Dominican Republic suspends the issuance of visas for Haitians and announces plans to close its border with Haiti by Thursday. (AP)
Law and crime
- Six people are killed in a mass shooting against a vehicle in Artemida, East Attica, Greece. (Kathimerini)
September 10, 2023
(Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2023 Ain al-Hilweh clashes
- A ceasefire is signed between Fatah and Islamist groups after three days of clashes in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon District, Lebanon, which killed five people and injured 52 others. (AP)
- 2023 Sudan conflict
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Crimea attacks
- Two foreign aid workers are killed and two others are injured by Russian shelling near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 28 people are killed during a boat accident in Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Malagasy presidential election
- Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina resigns in order to run for re-election, in accordance with the country's constitution. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Censorship by Facebook
- Meta deletes Al Jazeera Arabic presenter Tamer Almisshal's Facebook profile a day after a programme aired an investigation into Meta’s censorship of Palestinian content. (Al Jazeera)
Sports
- 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup
- Germany wins its first FIBA Basketball World Cup, beating Serbia 83–77 in the final. Dennis Schröder is named the tournament's Most Valuable Player. (AP)
- Canada earns its first medal at the FIBA Basketball World Cup and its first medal at a global men's basketball tournament since 1936, after defeating the United States 127–118 after overtime in the bronze medal game. (AP)
- Rubiales affair
- Royal Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales announces his resignation after having acted inappropriately during the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup final. (AFP via France 24)
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