Portal:Current events
Topics in the news
- The Summer Paralympics open (ceremony pictured) in Paris, France.
- More than four hundred people are killed in an Islamist militant attack in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso.
- The Islamic State claims responsibility for a mass stabbing that killed three people at a festival in Solingen, Germany.
- In cycling, Katarzyna Niewiadoma wins the Tour de France Femmes.
Armed conflicts and attacks
Law and crime
- Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations
- Dismissed Bamban mayor Alice Guo is arrested by the Directorate General of Immigration in Tangerang City, Indonesia, after fleeing to the country from the Philippines amidst an ongoing Senate inquiry. (The Guardian) (Rappler)
- 2024 Apalachee High School shooting
- Multiple people are shot in a mass school shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, United States. CNN
Politics and elections
- Government of Ukraine, Shmyhal Government
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba resigns from office amidst a cabinet shuffle. (LB.ua)
Science and technology
- Asteroid impact prediction
- A small 1.5-metre (4.9 ft) asteroid is predicted to fall harmlessly as a fireball over Luzon in the Philippines at approximately 16:40 UTC (00:40 local time), the ninth asteroid to be successfully discovered before impacting Earth. (Newscientist)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Islamic State–Taliban conflict
- 2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing
- The Islamic State claims responsibility for yesterday's suicide bombing outside a Taliban building in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed six people. (Al Arabiya)
- 2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing
- A clash between the isolated indigenous Mashco-Piro community and Peruvian loggers attempting to clear a forest path near their territory results in the deaths of two loggers, with two more missing. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- English Channel migrant crossings
- During a people smuggling operation, at least 12 migrants drown when their boat breaks apart and capsizes in the English Channel. (Sky News)
Health and environment
- 2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic
- The World Health Organization announces that its polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip has surpassed its intended target of 156,500 projected vaccinations within two days. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
- United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is subpoenaed by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs after refusing to testify on the government's actions regarding the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 and the concurrent deaths of thirteen service members. (Reuters)
- 2024 Makala prison jailbreak attempt
- The death toll from yesterday's attempted jailbreak at the Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, increases to 129. (BBC News)
- Israel–Hamas war
- The United States Department of Justice charges Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and five other militants with conspiracy to provide material support for terrorism, conspiracy to murder Americans, and five other counts each. (DW)
- Spanish General Council of the Judiciary blockade
- Isabel Perelló is elected as President of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary in Spain, becoming the first woman to hold the position. (El Periódico) (El País) (El Diario)
- Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine is "seriously injured" after being shot in the leg in a shootout with the Uganda People's Defence Force near Kampala. (AP)
Politics and elections
- Government of Ukraine, Shmyhal Government
- Five Ukrainian ministers resign from their positions, including Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna, resulting in vacancy of over one-third of the cabinet. (Reuters)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamic State–Taliban conflict
- 2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing
- A suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 6 people and injures 13. (AP)
- 2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Two people, including an independent contractor working for UNIFIL, are killed in an Israeli airstrikes on the Tyre-Naqoura road in Lebanon with other airstrikes on Bint Jabal, Yaroun, Ayta al-Shab, Hanine, Tayr Harfa and Blida and shelling of Kfarchouba and Shebaa. (Al Jazeera)
- Hezbollah launches Katyusha rockets on Ein Ya'akov, Ga'aton and Yehiam, northern Israel. (Al Jazeera)
- Red Sea crisis
- Houthi militants strike two crude oil tankers in the Red Sea with multiple missiles and drones. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- Wreck of the Titanic
- An expedition to the shipwreck of the RMS Titanic reveals considerable deterioration of the bow, as well as the rediscovery of a bronze Diana of Versailles replica last seen during the initial survey of the wreck in 1986. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- At least fourteen people are killed in landslides and floods caused by Tropical Storm Yagi in the Philippines. (AP)
- Eleven children are killed and 13 more are injured when a bus crashes into a group of middle school students and their parents in Tai'an City, Shandong, China. (ABC)
International relations
- Foreign relations of Ukraine, Mongolia–Russia relations
- President of Russia Vladimir Putin arrives in Mongolia to discuss a China–Russia gas pipeline meant to recoup Russian losses from Western sanctions, despite Ukraine and the European Union urging Mongolia to arrest Putin under his International Criminal Court warrant. (Reuters) (Euronews)
- Ukraine's Foreign Ministry states that Mongolia's refusal to arrest Vladimir Putin while on a state visit means that it shares "responsibility for the war crimes" committed by Russia, and vows to work with allies to enforce punitive measures on Mongolia. (Reuters)
- Foreign relations of Turkey
- Turkey formally applies to join the BRICS geopolitical bloc, citing the lack of progress in its accession to the European Union. (Bloomberg) (Daily Sabah)
- United States–Venezuela relations
- The United States seizes a Dassault Falcon 900 jet used by Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on accusations that the purchase of the jet violated U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, and flies the jet from the Dominican Republic to Florida. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2024 Makala prison jailbreak attempt
- At least two inmates are killed in an attempted prison break at Makala Prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)
- Brazilian investigation into Elon Musk
- The Brazilian Supreme Court unanimously upholds justice Alexandre de Moraes' decision to block social media platform X, in the country. De Moraes also set a daily fine of R$50,000 (US$8,900) for people or companies using VPNs to access the site. (AP)
- Nth Room case, Gender inequality in South Korea
- The South Korean National Police Agency announces an investigation into the messaging app Telegram for abetting and hosting chat rooms that distribute deepfake pornography, including of children. (DW)
- Four people are killed in a mass shooting targeting homeless people on a Chicago Transit Authority train in Forest Park, Illinois, United States. (WBBM-TV)
- At least five people are shot, with two critically injured, at the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, New York, United States. (AP)
Politics and elections
- Israel–Hamas war protests
- Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
- Thousands of people gather in Manhattan, New York City, United States, to protest against the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, rally for support of Palestinians, and call for New York institutions to divest from Israeli businesses. (CBS News)
- September 2024 Israel ceasefire protests
- Histadrut, Israel's national trade union center, begins a one-day general strike to protest against the Netanyahu government's failure to negotiate a ceasefire and hostage deal. The strike is later ordered to end prematurely by a Tel Aviv labor court, claiming the strike was illegally political in nature rather than economic. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
- Over ten thousand hotel workers strike in cities across the U.S. to demand higher pay, as part of the Hotel Workers Rising campaign organized by the UNITE HERE labor union. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Japan at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Japan defeats the United States in the wheelchair rugby final, winning its first ever gold medal in the sport. (Olympics)
- Japan at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Boko Haram insurgency
- At least 102 people are killed during a mass shooting at a market and against homes in Tarmuwa, Yobe State, Nigeria, by over 50 Boko Haram militants. (AP)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- At least five Palestinians, including a child, are killed and several others are injured in Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp and the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City. (Anadolu Agency) (Middle East Monitor)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 2024 Tarqumiyah shooting
- Three Israeli police officers are killed in a drive-by shooting on a road near Tarqumiyah in the West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Seven civilians injured in IDF strikes on Hezbollah targets in Aita al-Shaab and Beit Yahoun, southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- Hezbollah launches 20 rockets on Upper Galilee. (Al Jazeera)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine launches more than a hundred drones against targets in Russia, including the Konakovo Power Station in Konakovo, Tver Oblast, and the Moscow Refinery in Moscow. (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russia reports that its forces have taken control of the settlements of Ptyche and Vyimka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Kharkiv strikes
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announces that it will deploy a fact-finding team to investigate human rights abuses and violations committed by government forces during the quota reform movement, after being requested to do so by the interim government of Muhammad Yunus. (The New York Times)
- Boko Haram insurgency
- At least 37 people are killed after suspected Boko Haram militants open fire on a market and set fire to homes and businesses in Mafa village in Yobe State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Kamchatka Mil Mi-8 crash
- The Mil Mi-8T helicopter which went missing yesterday over the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia is found crashed, with all 22 people on board dead. (Kommersant) (BBC News)
Health and environment
- 2024 Brazil wildfires
- The number of wildfires in the Amazon rainforest reaches its highest number in fourteen years at 38,266 fire hotspots as a result of an ongoing drought in South America. (Reuters)
- A weather station near Qeshm International Airport in Dayrestan, Iran, records the highest unverified heat index on Earth of 82.2 °C (180.0 °F) and the highest dew point of 36.1 °C (97.0 °F). Climatologists will investigate to confirm the readings' accuracy. (The Economic Times) (Times of India)
Law and crime
- Eleven people are killed and more than 40 others are injured when a truck crashes into a bar in Azua, Dominican Republic. The driver subsequently flees the scene. (AP)
- Two people are killed and four more injured during a vehicle-ramming attack outside a restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The perpetrator's motive is unknown. (AP)
Politics and elections
- Israel–Hamas war
- September 2024 Israel ceasefire protests
- Hundreds of thousands of Israelis, including approximately 300,000 in Tel Aviv, protest in cities across the country following the recovery of the bodies of six hostages from Gaza, with the national trade union center calling for a general strike on Monday and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign after failing to negotiate a ceasefire. (The New York Times) (CNN)
- At least 29 people are arrested in Tel Aviv on accusations of vandalism, disorderly conduct, and attacking police officers. (CNN)
- September 2024 Israel ceasefire protests
- 2024 Saxony state election, 2024 Thuringian state election
- Parliamentary elections in the German states of Saxony and Thuringia show large gains for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party and the left-wing populist Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party as well as losses for the left-wing and liberal parties of the governing coalition and for the socialist The Left party. In Thuringia, a far-right party comes in first place in a state election for the first time since World War II. (DW)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
- The Israeli military recovers the bodies of six hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel, including American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, from an underground tunnel near Rafah, Gaza. (NBC News)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli strikes kill at least 48 people across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
- Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Red Sea crisis
- The Houthis claim they have attacked the Liberia-flagged container ship MV Groton for the second time in the Gulf of Aden. (Reuters)
- Somali Civil War
- Al-Shabaab bombs several businesses in the Tabelaha Sheikh Ibrahim neighborhood of Mogadishu, Somalia, targeting shops that had complied with the government's directive to install CCTV cameras. (Idilnews)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Kamchatka Mil Mi-8 crash
- A Mil Mi-8T helicopter with 22 people onboard goes missing over the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. (AP)
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll from the effects of Typhoon Shanshan in Japan increases to six, with over 100 people injured. (Reuters)
- 2024 Yemen floods
- The death toll from flooding in Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, increases to at least 97 people. (DW)
- Seven people are killed and dozens of others are injured in a bus crash near Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. (CBS News)
- Three people are killed and two more injured after a Cessna 421C crashes in a row of townhouses near Troutdale Airport in Troutdale, Oregon, United States. (AP)
International relations
- Foreign relations of Algeria
- The BRICS New Development Bank authorizes Algeria as a new bank member. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Ford Motor Company announces it is recalling over 90,000 vehicles due to issues with the engine intake valves. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Poland at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Polish F32 Paralympian Róża Kozakowska is disqualified one day after winning gold in the Women's club throw F32 event due to an irregularity with her equipment. (Polsatnews)
- Poland at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
- Three Palestinian militants, including Hamas' leader in Jenin, Wissam Hazem, are killed in a drone strike at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- An Israeli soldier is killed and several others are injured in an IED attack in Jenin, West Bank. (Palestine Chronicle)
- 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
- Seven people are killed when a Russian guided bomb strikes a residential building and playground in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force Mykola Oleshchuk following the crash of an F-16 fighter jet and the death of its pilot while defending against Russian strikes. (Reuters)
- Kharkiv strikes
- Sudanese civil war
- Battle of Khartoum
- Seven people are killed and 25 others are injured in shelling near Khartoum, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
- Battle of Khartoum
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Twelve Pakistani Taliban members are killed during a raid by the Pakistani Army in the Tirah Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, bringing the number of insurgents killed there to 37 since August 20. (AP)
- Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
- At least 15 Islamic State militants are killed and seven U.S. troops are injured in a joint United States–Iraq raid on Islamic State camps in Anbar Desert, Iraq. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Venezuelan blackouts
- A widespread power outage affects most of Venezuela with President Nicolás Maduro's government blaming it on sabotage by the opposition. (DW)
- Four people are killed and one other is missing when a National Republican Guard helicopter crashes into the Douro river in Lamego, Portugal. (DW)
- At least two people are killed and 20 others are injured when a roof of a church that was used for food distribution collapses in Recife, Brazil. (Reuters) (Yahoo! News)
International relations
- Afghanistan–Germany relations
- Germany deports 28 convicted Afghan criminals, marking the first such action since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021. (AP)
- Mongolia–Russia relations, Foreign relations of Ukraine
- President of Ukraine Volodomyr Zelenskyy urges Mongolia to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin as he travels to Ulaanbaatar to make his first meeting to an International Criminal Court member state since the issue of his ICC arrest warrant. (France 24)
- Russia–NATO relations, Ukraine–NATO relations, August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
- Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg declares that Ukraine's incursion into Russian territory in Kursk Oblast is legitimate under international law, as part of Ukraine's right to self-defense. (Reuters)
- East Timor joins the World Trade Organization. (WTO)
Law and crime
- Censorship of Twitter, Censorship in Brazil,
- Brazilian investigation into Elon Musk
- A Brazilian judge orders the social media platform X to be blocked after the platform failed to comply with court orders. (The New York Times)
- Brazilian investigation into Elon Musk
- Six people are wounded in a stabbing attack on a bus in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (DW)
Politics and elections
- Death of Tūheitia Paki
- Incumbent Māori King Tūheitia dies at the age of 69 while recovering from heart surgery. (New Zealand Herald)
Sports
- 2024 ATP Tour
- 2024 US Open – Men's singles
- Defending men's champion Novak Djokovic is defeated in the third round by Alexei Popyrin, 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, making 2024 the first tennis season since 2002 in which no Grand Slam tournaments were won by one of Djokovic, Roger Federer, or Rafael Nadal, collectively known as the "big three." (AP News)
- 2024 US Open – Men's singles
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic
- Israel and Hamas agree to three separate three-day humanitarian pauses to allow the World Health Organization to vaccinate more than 600,000 children against polio in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
- The Israel Defence Forces carry out an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza that kills five workers. (The Guardian)
- 2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
- Mohammed "Abu Shujaa" Jaber, leader of the Tulkarm Brigade, and four other fighters are killed in an Israeli attack on the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- The number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the operation in the West Bank two days ago increases to 18, including eight in Jenin, six in Tulkarm, and four in Tubas. Dozens of others are wounded and at least 20 others have been arrested. (Al Jazeera)
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- IDF launches air strikes on Hezbollah targets in Kafr Kila and Yarine in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- Hezbollah launches four rocket and drone strikes on the outpost of the IDF 210th Golan Division in Nafah, Golan Heights. (Al Jazeera)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- The Russian defence ministry claims that its forces have captured the settlements of Mykolaivka in Donetsk Oblast and Stelmakhivka in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- Bangladeshi interim health minister Nurjahan Begum says that more than 1,000 people were killed during last month's anti-government protests, making it the bloodiest period in the country's history since the 1971 independence movement. (Al Arabiya)
- 2024 Red Sea oil spill
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- Iraq shoots down a Turkish TAI Aksungur drone over Kirkuk Governorate. (Middle East Eye)
Business and economy
- Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
- It is announced that the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans amusement park, which has been closed since Hurricane Katrina struck the park and New Orleans, will be demolished beginning next month. Bayou Phoenix is expected to rebuild the area as a $500 million complex with youth sports fields, hotels, shops, a movie studio and a waterpark. (Axios)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- More than 250,000 households are affected by power outages and dozens of people are reportedly injured as Typhoon Shanshan makes landfall over Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. (Reuters)
- Three people are killed, seven are injured, and one person is reported missing in Kyushu due to Typhoon Shanshan. (Reuters)
- 2024 Yemen floods
- The death toll from the floods in Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, increases to 33. (ABC News)
- Migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea
- Pope Francis strongly condemns European mistreatment of migrants crossing from the Mediterranean Sea and refusal to offer aid as means to reject them from entering European nations as "a grave sin", and requests the expansion of migrant access routes to the continent. (The Hill) (Reuters)
- Two people are killed and ten others are injured in a gas leak at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps training center in Isfahan province, Iran. (AP)
- Three people are killed and 17 are injured when a car crashes into a group of migrants in Oaxaca, Mexico. (AP)
Health and environment
- One hundred tons of dead freshwater fish wash up in and around the port of Volos in Greece as a result of severe flooding followed by a prolonged drought in Lake Karla caused by "extreme climate fluctuations". (AP)
International relations
- France–Serbia relations
- Serbia and French aerospace manufacturer Dassault Aviation sign an agreement for the purchase of twelve Dassault Rafale warplanes. (Le Monde)
Law and crime
- Germany–Iran relations
- The interior ministry of Hamburg, Germany, expels the Iranian leader of the Islamic Centre Hamburg Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh, giving Mofatteh a September 11 deadline to either leave the country or face deportation. (Reuters)
Sports
- The Taliban government bans mixed martial arts, saying that the sport is too violent and has a risk of death and that it is incompatible with Islamic law. (BBC News)
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