Portal:Current events/2022 September 23

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan conflict
  • September 2022 Kabul mosque bombing
    • Seven people are killed and 41 others are injured when a
      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
    Tarimoro, Guanajuato, Mexico. (CBS News)

• 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
  • 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)

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine
      • 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)