Portal:Current events

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Russian mobilization
      • Finland announces it would deny entry to Russian tourists starting from Thursday night, thus cutting off the last direct link between Russia and the European Union. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Nord Stream gas leaks
  • Swedish authorities report a fourth gas leak on the Nord Stream pipelines. (Sky News)

Law and crime

• Aung San Suu Kyi, ousted leader of Myanmar, is sentenced to further three years' imprisonment for "violating the state's secrets act". Suu Kyi is already serving 20 years on other charges. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine
  • Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin is scheduled to sign agreements on the annexation of the occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia on 30 September. (Forbes)
  • President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy is convening an urgent meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine for 30 September. (Ukrainska Pravda)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Russian mobilization
      • North Ossetia–Alania which contains the only border crossing between Russia and Georgia-controlled territory, bans all Russian cars that do not have the licence plate of the republic, with the exception of tourists travelling to the region. This comes as those fleeing the draft overwhelm the border. (Reuters)
      • A mobile draft centre is built at the Torfyanovka checkpoint, the busiest checkpoint on the Finland–Russia border, in order to prevent people who are fit to serve from fleeing the country. However, as of midday, the centre is not yet open. (The Insider)
• Kurdish separatism in Iran
  • Thirteen people are killed and 58 others are injured as Iran launches missiles and drones against the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan's offices in Koye, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. Iran accused the group of being involved in the ongoing protests in the country. (Al Jazeera)
  • An Iranian drone is claimed as shot down by US forces in Erbil, Iraq. (CENTCOM)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Four Palestinians are killed and 44 others are injured when Israeli soldiers storm a refugee camp in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. The brother of the 2022 Tel Aviv shooting's perpetrator is among those killed. (YNetNews) (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • One person is killed and two others are injured when a gunman opens fire against Chinese-Pakistani nationals at a dental clinic in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. All of the victims were in their 70s and had worked for the clinic for more than 40 years. (BBC News)
• Anglophone crisis
  • Authorities in Cameroon ban "undeclared meetings and manifestations" in Bamenda, the capital of the Northwest Region, after separatists announced a manifestation to commemorate the declaration of independence of Ambazonia, a breakaway state consisting of the English-speaking regions of Cameroon. (Xinhua)

Business and economy

• The Bank of England buys 65 billion pounds of bonds in a bid to stabilise the UK economy. (NBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Ian
    • Hurricane Ian makes landfall near Englewood, Florida, United States, as a high-end Category 4 hurricane. (CNBC) (WXII-TV)
    • Over 200,000 customers are left without power throughout Florida, U.S, due to Hurricane Ian. (Sun Sentinel)
• A restaurant fire kills 17 people and injures three others in Changchun, Jilin, China. (AP)
• Three people are killed and 15 others are reported missing after a bridge collapses in Careiro, Amazonas, Brazil. (Reuters)
• Two people are killed and 10 others are injured after a three way car crash in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas, United States. (AP)

Law and crime

• Former Guinean military leader Moussa Dadis Camara and ten others go on trial for their alleged involvement in a massacre of anti-government demonstrators in 2009. (Al Jazeera)
• Irish Jonathan Dowdall and his father Patrick plead guilty to facilitating the murder of David Byrne in 2016. (The Journal)
• Six people are shot and injured near several high schools and alternative schools in Oakland, California, United States. (KGO-TV)

Politics and elections

• 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine
  • The Russian-installed heads of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Oblasts' occupation administrations, as well as Leonid Pasechnik, leader of the breakaway Luhansk People's Republic, officially request that they be annexed to Russia, following a referendum, widely seen as fraudulent, conducted in those regions of Ukraine. Donetsk People's Republic's leader Denis Pushilin has not yet submitted such a request but has gone with Pasechnik to Moscow for talks about the annexation, and is expected to send a request shortly. (The Guardian) (The Washington Post)
• Russ Kun becomes the President of Nauru, succeeding Lionel Aingimea. (RNZ)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Russian mobilization
      • Kazakhstan says that around 98,000 Russian civilians have entered the country by land and air since Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a military mobilization. (HuffPost)
      • Latvia announces a state of emergency over the influx of Russian citizens fleeing mobilization. Special measures are taken in the border regions of the country and at all ports of entry. (ERR)
• 2022 Nord Stream gas leaks
  • Three separate spills are detected in the Baltic Sea following explosions in the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines in what appear to be acts of sabotage. (Euronews)
• Terrorism in Norway
  • Norway raises its "emergency preparedness" in response to sightings of "unidentified drones" near its offshore oil and gas facilities in the North Sea, and is coordinating with its armed forces, police, and oil and gas industry operators, according to energy minister Terje Aasland. (S&P Global)

Business and economy

• Baltic Pipe
  • Leaders from Poland, Norway and Denmark hold a ceremony to open the Baltic Pipe natural gas pipeline that will transport natural gas from the Norwegian shelf via Denmark to Poland. (Euronews)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Western Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane. Residents of the Tampa Bay area of Florida, United States, are ordered to evacuate. (Washington Post) (Reuters)
• Two people are killed in a fire at a PKN Orlen plant in Płock, Poland. (Euronews)

Health and environment

• The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo formally declares an end to the country's latest outbreak of Ebola. (Reuters)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Russia relations
  • Russia and the Taliban sign a provisional deal for Russia to supply Afghanistan with gasoline, diesel, gas and wheat. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine
  • According to the results released by Russian occupation authorities in Ukraine, the Donetsk People's Republic, the Luhansk People's Republic, as well as occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Oblasts overwhelmingly vote in favor of annexation, with 99.23%, 98.42%, 93.11% and 87.05% of support, respectively. Turnout exceeded 75% in each region and exceeded 97% in Donetsk Oblast. However, the voting has been widely dismissed as a sham referendum. (RIA Novosti) (AP)
  • Valentina Matviyenko, Speaker of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, expects the annexation to be formalised by October 4. (Reuters)
• The state funeral of assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is held at the Budokan in Tokyo. (NPR)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Russian mobilization
      • 2022 anti-war protests in Russia, 2022 North Caucasian protests
        • Spontaneous protests against the mobilization continue in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria. (Radio Liberty)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • A police officer is killed and another is injured during a shooting and bomb attack near a police station in Mersin, Turkey. Both the attackers are killed. (Reuters)
• Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • Eleven soldiers are killed as a 150-vehicle convoy carrying supplies to Djibo is ambushed by Islamist militants in Gaskindé (Pobé-Mengao), Soum Province. (Reuters)
• Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, publicly admits for the first time that he founded the Wagner Group, a private military company accused of war crimes in places where they had been deployed. Prigozhin had previously denied any involvement with the organization. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

• September 2022 United Kingdom mini-budget
  • The pound sterling falls to its record lowest level against the U.S. dollar. (BBC News)
• Inter-American Development Bank chief Mauricio Claver-Carone is fired by the bank's board of governors after an external investigation, started because of a whistleblower complaint, found that Claver-Carone had an undisclosed intimate relationship with his subordinate and committed several ethics violations in connection with her. (Reuters) (Financial Times)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Pacific typhoon season
  • Six people are killed as Typhoon Noru makes landfall on the island of Luzon, Philippines. (NPR)
• Six Pakistani military personnel are killed in a helicopter crash in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Barron's)
• Seven people are killed in a fire in a shopping mall in Daejeon, South Korea. (AP)
• Three people are killed in a building collapse in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP)
• Four people are killed after a boat sinks in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
    • Chancellor Olaf Scholz tests positive for COVID-19. (Reuters)
• 2022 Uganda Ebola outbreak
  • The death toll from an Ebola virus outbreak in Mubende District, Uganda, increases to 23, with a total of 36 confirmed and suspected cases. (CNN)
• The death toll from the cholera outbreak in Syria increases to 29, with a total of 338 cases reported, the majority of whom are in Aleppo Governorate. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Colombia–Venezuela relations
  • The Colombia–Venezuela border reopens for commerce and trade after a seven-year closure. (Bloomberg)
• Kazakhstan–Russia relations
  • Kazakhstan says that it will not recognize the results of the ongoing annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Izhevsk school shooting
  • A man kills 17 people and injures 24 others in a mass shooting at a school in Izhevsk, Russia, before killing himself. (BBC News)
• 2022 California wildfires
  • The United States Forest Service seizes equipment owned by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, as part of a criminal investigation into the company's role in the Mosquito Fire. (Reuters)
• Russia–United States relations
  • President Vladimir Putin signs a decree granting Russian citizenship to American whistleblower Edward Snowden. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Cuban Family Code referendum
  • A referendum is approved in Cuba, granting, among other things, broader rights for the LGBT community, including marriage. (Time)

Science and technology

• Double Asteroid Redirection Test
  • NASA's DART spacecraft successfully impacts Dimorphos at 23:16 UTC, becoming the first spacecraft to impact an asteroid. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Russian mobilization
      • 2022 anti-war protests in Russia, 2022 North Caucasian protests
        • Mass protests against mobilization take place in Dagestan with protesters clashing with police. (Reuters), (Radio Liberty)
        • The number of people detained in anti-war protests across Russia increases to more than 2,000. (BBC News)
    • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirms that Ukraine has received NASAMS air defence systems from the United States. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • One soldier is killed and six others are injured in a suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Uzbekistan suspends the use of Russia's card payment system Mir. The move was supposedly warranted by the need "to carry out the necessary technical procedures" and was not related to sanctions. (Euronews)

Disasters and accidents

• A ferry carrying Hindu pilgrims capsizes and sinks in Panchagarh District, Bangladesh, killing 66 people and leaving dozens of others missing. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
    • Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez tests positive for COVID-19. (ABC News)

Law and crime

• Mahsa Amini protests
  • The Iranian government announces that security forces have regained control of Oshnavieh, a day after protestors allegedly "took control" of the city. (BBC News)
• Eleven people are killed during an ambush by cattle rustlers in Turkana County, Kenya. (BBC)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Italian general election
  • Italians head to the polls to elect members of the Parliament. (AP)
  • Exit polls show that the centre-right coalition led by Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni has won the election with a majority of seats in the Italian Parliament. (BBC News)
• 2022 Cuban Family Code referendum
  • Cubans vote on legalizing same-sex marriage and same-sex adoption. The government urges people to vote in favour of legalization while the Catholic Church urges people to vote against legalization. (DW)
• 2022 Swiss referendums
  • The Swiss go to the polls to decide four ballot questions. The voters agree to raise the retirement age for women to 65 and to increase the value added tax rates from 7.7% to 8.1%. However, voters rejected the proposal to exempt domestic bonds from taxation and to ban intensive animal farming. (Bloomberg) (Swissinfo)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Russian mobilization
      • Thousands of fighting-age men continue to leave Russia due to the mobilization. Massive lines are reported at the country's borders with Georgia and Finland. (iNews)
    • 2022 anti-war protests in Russia
      • At least 700 people are detained during anti-war protests across Russia. (ITV News)
• Kurdish separatism in Iran
  • The Iranian Revolutionary Guards shell the "[h]eadquarters of anti-Iranian terrorists" in Iraqi Kurdistan. (Reuters)
• Fifteen people are killed and many others are injured after armed bandits attacked a mosque in Zamfara, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Fiona leaves more than 500,000 people without power in Atlantic Canada. (CBC)
• 2022 Pacific typhoon season
  • Two people are killed and 120,000 people experience a power outage after Tropical Storm Talas hits central Japan. (NBC News)

International relations

• Iran–Ukraine relations
  • Ukraine announces a reduction of Iranian diplomatic mission staff in response to the delivery of drones to Russia as part of the Russo-Ukrainian War. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Mahsa Amini protests
  • The death toll from the protests in Iran increases to 50. (Hindustan Times)
  • The Iranian Army announces that it will "confront the enemies" in response to the ongoing protests. (Dawn)
  • Reports emerge that protestors have allegedly "taken control" of the city of Oshnavieh after security forces withdraw. (Atalayar)
• Three people are injured after a shooting occurred at an amusement park in West Mifflin, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Nauruan parliamentary election
  • Voters in Nauru head to the polls to elect members of parliament. (RNZ)
• 2022 Angolan general election
  • Thousands of people protest in Luanda, Angola, accusing incumbent president João Lourenço of electoral fraud in the latest election. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Mahsa Amini protests
  • Elon Musk says that Starlink will be enabled inside Iranian cities after the United States State and Treasury Departments announce measures to increase internet freedom and access to information in the country. (Reuters)
• The planned launch of Artemis 1 is newly delayed due to a storm. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2022 AFL Grand Final
  • In Australian rules football, the AFL season concludes with Geelong defeating the Sydney Swans in the Grand Final by 81 points. (The Australian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan conflict
  • September 2022 Kabul mosque bombing
    • Seven people are killed and 41 others are injured when a car bomb explodes at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
• Tigray War
  • A 60-year-old man is killed by an Ethiopian airstrike on Mekelle, in the rebel-controlled Tigray Region. (Reuters)
• Mexican drug war
  • Gunmen kill ten people in a mass shooting at a pool hall in Tarimoro, Guanajuato, Mexico. (CBS News)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism, Tourism in Bhutan
  • Bhutan reopens its borders for international tourists following a two-year closure due to the pandemic. (ANINews)

Law and crime

• Mahsa Amini protests, Iran–United States relations
  • Sanctions are imposed on seven Iranian government officials and one group by the United States Department of the Treasury, which blames the Guidance Patrol for the death of Mahsa Amini. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine
      • Referendums begin in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian oblasts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia and the separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk on whether to join Russia, in what Ukraine and other countries consider to be "sham" referendums. (AFP via Barron's)