Portal:Current events/2019 September 27
Armed conflicts and attacks
- American intervention in Libya (2015–2019)
- The ISIL in southwest Libya, killing at least 17 militants. (The Straits Times)
- The
Business and economy
- Collapse of Thomas Cook
- Portugal announces it has set aside 150 million euros to lend to the companies that have been hurt by the collapse of tour guide company Thomas Cook. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- Individual and political action on climate change
- An estimated two million people across the world participate in
International relations
- Foreign relations of China, Foreign relations of Taiwan, Foreign relations of Kiribati, Cross-Strait relations
- Turkey–United States relations
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says that it is "impossible" for his country to stop buying oil from Iran, despite United States sanctions against Iran. (Reuters)
- U.N. General Assembly 74th session, Foreign relations of North Macedonia
- 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
- Diplomats of several Western-aligned countries walk out of the
Law and crime
- Honour killing in Pakistan
- The brother of women's rights in the country. (BBC News)
- The brother of
- Crisis in Venezuela
- A resolution is adopted by the forced disappearances, and torture, after being proposed by the Lima Group and backed by many European countries. The UN resolves to send an investigative mission to the country. Maduro says the motion was "produced by the United States to run a hate campaign". Another Venezuelan representative calls the UN a "small group" that they "will not cooperate with". (BBC News)
- A resolution is adopted by the
- Police in Kaduna, Nigeria, raid an Islamic learning centre, and free around 500 men and male children held captive there. The freed detainees allege torture, slavery, and sexual abuse, and some display evidence of injury and malnutrition. Two children self-identify as being from Burkina Faso, with the remaining captives thought by police to be mostly Nigerian. Eight suspects are arrested. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is formally referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) amid allegations of corruption during his tenure as Mayor of London. Johnson is alleged to have awarded a close friend, American technology entrepreneur Jennifer Arcuri, "thousands of pounds" in public business funding, according to the The Sunday Times. (The Guardian)
- Trump–Ukraine scandal, Impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump
- 2020 United States federal budget
- President of the United States Donald Trump signs a short-term spending bill that temporarily extends government funding through November 21, thereby avoiding a federal government shutdown when the 2019 budget funding ends on September 30. (The Hill) (CNN)
- Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa as Prime Minister of Tonga succeeding the interim premiership of Semisi Sika. (RNZ)