Portal:Current events/2020 September 22
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan
Business and economy
- Abu Dhabi Department of Culture & Tourism. (The National)
Disasters and accidents
- An
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands
- The Netherlands posts a record weekly number of new confirmed cases. In the week ending today, cases hit 13,471, an increase of 60% on the 8,265 cases reported the week prior. (Reuters)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- The death toll from COVID-19 in the United States exceeds 200,000. (BBC News)
- The death toll from
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands
International relations
- Israel–United Arab Emirates agreement, Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement
- The Palestinian National Authority resigns the chairmanship of the Council of the Arab League in protest of the bloc's failure to condemn Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates's normalization of ties with Israel. (DW)
Law and crime
- Religion in Russia
- emotional abuse. (The Guardian)
- American journalist and filmmaker Andre Vltchek is found dead inside his car in Istanbul, Turkey. Turkish police are treating the death as "suspicious", and have launched an investigation. (Daily Sabah)
Science and technology
- Astronomers find glowing auroras around 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. This is the first comet discovered to have them. (CBS News)