Portal:Current events/2022 September 18
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian forces shell a psychiatric hospital in Strelechya, Kharkiv Oblast, killing four medics and injuring two patients. (The Guardian)
- 2022 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes
- The death toll from the fighting between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which began four days ago, increases to 94. Fifty-nine of the people were killed in Kyrgyzstan, and the 35 others were killed in Tajikistan. Another 139 people are injured. (BBC News)
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
- Ukraine withdraws its 250 troops from the United Nations peacekeeping force MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A Ukrainian Air Force aviation unit also withdraws its eight helicopters from the mission, which made up a third of the UN's fleet. (BBC News)
- Mexican drug war
- Five gunmen storm a rehab center in the early morning in Cortazar, Guanajuato, Mexico, and open fire, killing three people and injuring two others. (MegaNoticias)
- Five gunmen storm a
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Taitung earthquakes
- A second tsunami warnings are issued. (Reuters)
- A second
- 2022 Guizhou bus crash
- Twenty-seven people are killed and 20 others are injured when a bus carrying people to a
- 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Fiona makes landfall in Puerto Rico causing the entire island to lose power. The U.S. National Hurricane Center warns of "life-threatening flash flooding" on the island amid "historic" rainfall. (AP) (The Independent)
Politics and elections
- LGBT rights in Turkey
- Thousands of people march in LGBT organizations and their activities. (AP)
- Thousands of people march in
Sports
- EuroBasket 2022
- EuroBasket 2022 Final
- Spain defeats France 88–76 in the final to win their fourth EuroBasket title. (Manila Bulletin)
- 2022 WNBA Finals
- The WNBA Championship in a series against the Connecticut Sun. (ESPN)
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