Portal:Current events

Politics and elections

• 2023 Maldivian presidential election
  • Maldivians vote in a run-off election between candidates Mohamed Muizzu and Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. (Reuters)
• 2023 Slovak parliamentary election
  • Slovaks go to the polls to elect 150 members of the National Council. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2023 AFL season
  • Collingwood defeats the Brisbane Lions by four points to win the 2023 AFL Grand Final. (The Guardian Australia)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • 2023 Mastung bombing
    • At least 50 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured in a
      religious gathering in Mastung, Balochistan, Pakistan. (BBC News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Hangu mosque bombing
    • Five people are killed and ten others are injured by two suicide bombers at a mosque in Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
• Mogadishu tea shop bombing
  • At least five people are killed and 18 others are injured when an Al-Shabaab suicide bomber detonates his bomb in a tea shop in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Toys "R" Us announces plans to open 24 new flagship stores across the United States, along with new shops in airports and on cruise ships, after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy six years ago. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Nagorno-Karabakh fuel depot explosion
  • The death toll from an explosion at a fuel warehouse in Berkadzor, Artsakh, on Monday increases to 170 people. (Reuters)
• September 2023 New York floods
  • New York City declares a state of emergency due to widespread flooding caused by heavy rain. (CNN)
• Six people are killed and fifteen others are trapped after a mine collapses in
  Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. (Reuters)

• Murder of Tupac Shakur
  • rapper Tupac Shakur. (CNN)
• 2021 Oxford High School shooting
  • Ethan Crumbley is sentenced to life in prison without parole for a school shooting that killed four and injured seven in Oxford, Michigan, United States. (NBC News)

Politics and elections

• Incumbent senator Dianne Feinstein, the longest serving female U.S. Senator, dies at the age of 90. (NBC News) (AP) (PBS)
• The Supreme Court of Belarus bans the activities of the Belarusian Left Party after a complaint filed by the Ministry of Justice. Only four political parties remain permitted to operate. (Nasha Niva)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Samvel Shahramanyan, president of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, signs a decree to dissolve all state institutions of Artsakh in 2024. (CNN)
• 2023 Burkina Faso coup d'état attempt
  • The
    coup. Two additional officers are on the run. (CNN)
• 2023 Manipur violence
  • More than 80 people are injured during riots that occurred during protests over the murder of two Meitei students in Manipur, India. (Al Jazeera)
• Jihadist insurgency in Niger
  • insurgents kill at least ten Nigerien soldiers in Kandadji, Tillabéri Region, Niger. Seven soldiers are later killed and five others are injured in a vehicle accident while travelling to reinforce the army unit under attack. (Reuters)
• Mexican drug war
  • Six teenagers who were
    kidnapped by a group of armed men a few days ago are found dead near Villanueva, Zacatecas, Mexico. (El País)

• Tashkent Airport explosion
  • One person is killed and 162 others are injured in an explosion at a warehouse near the airport in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• 2023 dengue outbreak in Bangladesh
  • Nearly 1,000 people have died of dengue fever in Bangladesh in recent weeks, in the country's most severe outbreak of the disease so far. (BBC News)
• A bluetongue disease outbreak in the Netherlands has spread to 319 sheep and cattle farming companies. (NOS)

Law and crime

• 2023 Rotterdam shootings
  • Three people are killed during two shootings and an arson attack at a teaching hospital and a nearby private home in Rotterdam, Netherlands. (Reuters)
• Crime in Sweden
  • A woman is killed in her house in Uppsala, Sweden, during a bombing attack intended to target the neighbor next door, while two men were killed and another was injured during two shootings the day before in Stockholm and Jordbro, as deadly violence linked to a feud between criminal gangs escalates. (Euronews)
  • Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson summons the heads of the armed forces and police in response to the gang violence. (Reuters)
• The historic Sycamore Gap Tree in Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, also known as the "Robin Hood"-tree, is illegally cut down. A 16-year-old boy is arrested. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• Gravitational interaction of antimatter
  • The ALPHA experiment shows that antimatter falls down in gravity, just like normal matter. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Exodus of Armenians
    • The number of refugees fleeing from Artsakh to Armenia increases to 50,243, more than a third of the region's population. (France 24)
    • Former State Minister of Artsakh Ruben Vardanyan is arrested by Azerbaijan after attempting to cross the border into Armenia. (BBC News)
  • Azerbaijan reports that 192 of its troops were killed and more than 500 others were injured during last week's offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh. (ABC News)
• Mexican drug war
  • Authorities in the
    Mexican state of Nuevo León find at least twelve bodies dumped on roads near Monterrey, likely related to a drug cartel operating in Tamaulipas. (CBS News)

• 2023 Hollywood labor disputes
  • 2023 Writers Guild of America strike
    • The Writers Guild of America strike ends after nearly 22 weeks, following a agreement reached between union negotiators and Hollywood's studios and streaming services. (CNN)
• Waheeda Rehman is awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for her work in Hindi cinema. (Hindustan Times)

Business and economy

• Documents posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicate that South Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia have recalled over 3.4 million vehicles in the United States over concerns of fire risks, and urge owners to park these vehicles outdoors. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• List of earthquakes in 2023
  • A magnitude 4.2 earthquake strikes the Phlegraean Fields supervolcano near Naples, Italy, the strongest earthquake to strike Campi Flegrei in 40 years. Experts say that an eruption of the supervolcano is not imminent, but called for an inspection of buildings in the immediate area. (Reuters)

International relations

• North Korea–United States relations
  • deports U.S. soldier Travis King, who crossed the DMZ into North Korea in July, back into U.S. custody. (The New York Times)

• Five people, all members of the same
  Arab family, are shot dead in Basmat Tab'un, Israel. (Reuters)
• Germany bans the neo-Nazi movement Artgemeinschaft for reportedly targeting children and young people with racial propaganda. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Eastern Syria insurgency
    • Deir ez-Zor clashes
      • Twenty-one gunmen, four SDF members, and a civilian are killed following the resumption of clashes in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. (SOHR)

Disasters and accidents

• Qaraqosh wedding fire
  • More than 100 people are killed and more than 150 others are injured in a fire at a wedding in Qaraqosh, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. (Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• 2020–2021 Thai protests
  • Thai pro-democracy activist Arnon Nampa, who led protests in 2020 and 2021, is sentenced to four years in prison on a charge of royal insult. (Time)
• Criticism of Amazon
  • The Federal Trade Commission and 17 U.S. states file a lawsuit against Amazon over accusations of monopoly. (NP)

Politics and elections

• 2023 United Auto Workers strike
  • President of the United States Joe Biden visits striking UAW workers near Detroit, Michigan, becoming the first sitting American president to join a union picket line. (USA Today)
• 2023 Burkina Faso coup d'état attempt
  • Civilians protest in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, in support of junta leader Ibrahim Traoré amid rumors of a coup plot. (Atlas News)
• Victoria, Australia, after nine years in office. (The Guardian)
• Anthony Rota resigns as speaker of the House of Commons of Canada amid controversy over his decision to invite Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian–Canadian veteran of the Waffen-SS, to attend a speech by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and to introduce Hunka as a "hero" to the House of Commons. (CBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2022–present North Kosovo crisis
  • Banjska attack
    • armored vehicles, a day after the village was attacked by gunmen. (Reuters)
• Aftermath of the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Exodus of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh
    • The number of refugees that have fled to Armenia from Artsakh increases to 6,500, while a further 700 are sheltering with Russian peacekeepers.(AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • Ukraine receives its first shipment of M1 Abrams tanks from the United States. (RFE/RL)
• Yemeni civil war
  • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
    • An
      Bahraini soldiers, including an officer, and injures several others. (AP)

• Nagorno-Karabakh fuel depot explosion
  • Sixty-eight people are killed and 290 others are injured by an explosion at a fuel warehouse near Stepanakert, Artsakh. (Al Jazeera)
• Six people are killed and 13 others are missing following heavy rains and a landslide in Guatemala City, Guatemala. (AFP via GMA News)
• Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico, kills seven people and leaves nine others missing. (AP)
• Five people are killed when two private planes collide in La Galancita, Durango, Mexico. (AP)

International relations

• Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • The Philippine Coast Guard removes a series of buoys installed by China in the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea under orders of President Bongbong Marcos. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Aftermath of the Derna dam collapses
  • The mayor of Derna, Libya, Abdelmounem al-Ghaithi, and several other officials are detained over mismanagement and negligence accusations following the Derna dam collapse which killed over 5,000 people. (Reuters)
• Burkinabe Armed Forces. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2022–present North Kosovo crisis
  • Banjska attack
    • One Kosovo Police officer is killed and another is injured during an ambush on their patrol in North Kosovo, near the border with Serbia, after around 30 gunmen storm a village. Three of the attackers are later killed in a shootout. (Al Jazeera)
• 2023 Nigerien crisis
  • French President Emmanuel Macron announces that France will end its military presence in Niger and will remove its ambassador from the country following a deterioration in relations. (AP)
• Aftermath of the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh
  • The government of Artsakh says that most of its population will leave following Azerbaijan's takeover of the territory with Armenia confirming that 1,050 refugees from Artsakh have arrived in the country. (Reuters)
• Assassination and terrorism in Iran, War against the Islamic State
  • Authorities in
    detonate simultaneously in Tehran and arrest 28 people linked to the Islamic State. (Al Arabiya)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Two
    Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera)

• 2023 Hollywood labor disputes
  • 2023 Writers Guild of America strike
    • The Writers Guild of America and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reach a tentative agreement to end the strike that began on May 2. (CNN)

Business and economy

• Economy of Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia announces that its gross domestic product has surpassed $1 trillion. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• Sixteen people are killed by a fire at a
  coal mine in Panzhou, Guizhou, China. (AFP via CNA)
• Six people are killed when a
  train collides with a car in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. (NBC News)
• One person is killed and ten others are injured after a tourist van fell into a gorge in Balik Pulau, Penang, Malaysia. (CNA)

International relations

• President of France Emmanuel Macron announces a $150 million commitment to the International Fund for Agricultural Development during the Global Citizen Festival in New York City's Central Park. (The Local)
• Galicia Division under Nazi command. (BBC)

• The Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. is attacked with a Molotov cocktail. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• New Frontiers program
  • NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully lands back on Earth. (NYTimes)

Sports

• 2023 Berlin Marathon
  • Tigist Assefa breaks the women's marathon world record. (The Guardian)
• 2023 Formula One World Championship
  • In auto racing, Red Bull wins their sixth World Constructors' Championship after Max Verstappen wins the Japanese Grand Prix. (Reuters)