Military helicopters bomb the headquarters of Union of Forces for Change, according to opposition leader Jean Ping, killing at least two people. Internet is also cut in the capital, Libreville. (BBC)
Samsung Electronics recalls all Galaxy Note 7 smartphones that have fire-prone batteries, and halts sales in 10 markets. A Samsung official says phones with the problematic battery account for less than 0.1 percent of those sold. (Reuters)(The Verge)
Residents of the American state of Florida prepare for the impact of Hurricane Hermine which is expected to make landfall today. A state of emergency has been declared in 51 of the 67 counties in the state. (Reuters/AFP via ABC News Australia)
Hermine, as a
Category 1 storm, kills one person and leaves a quarter-million others without electricity during its trek through Florida. Now a tropical storm over North Carolina, Hermine should re-strengthen when it moves into the Atlantic Ocean tomorrow. Tropical storm warnings and watches are issued from Georgia to Rhode Island. (UPI)(NHC)
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Pawnee, Oklahoma, tying the record for the strongest in state history. At least one person was injured. (CNN)(KOKI-TV)
Around 180 million people are claimed to be striking in India against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic privatization plans. The strike is allegedly the largest in human history. (Al Jazeera)
In light of the attacks, the governments of Australia, Canada, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States issue travel warnings against going to Mindanao, Philippines. (Rappler)
Syrian Civil War
advance around and encircle Aleppo in order to try and impose a siege. (AP)
bombers on foot kill at least 24 people and injure 91 others, including senior security and police officials, after striking close to the Afghan Ministry of Defence in Kabul. The Taliban claims responsibility by disclosing the death of 58 officers and commanders. Another bombing took place not long after. (Reuters)(BBC)Today (Singapore)(Sina Corp)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant bans burqas in northern Iraq after a series of fatal attacks on its members by veiled women. (International Business Times)
The death toll rises to at least 114 as 60 more people are killed in floods after the typhoon hits North Korea, displacing over 44,000 people. Fifteen people are also missing. (The Indian Express)
A chlorine attack in Aleppo on Tuesday injures more than 100 people. The blast from barrel bombs dropped kills one person. (CNN)
Mexican Drug War
A gang shoots down a
police helicopter near Apatzingán, Michoacán, killing four people. The police had been conducting an operation against criminal groups and drug cartels. (The Daily Telegraph)
Arts and culture
The
Madonna agrees on a settlement with her former husband Guy Ritchie over their son. (BBC)
Urozgan Province, with fighting reported on multiple fronts throughout the city. Local officials flee to the nearby Tarinkot Airport for shelter. (The Los Angeles Times)
luxury cars for himself and instead donates it to the city's police. (BBC)
Business and economics
International banking companyWells Fargo agrees to pay $190 million, including $100 million to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (largest ever for the agency), to settle a case involving deceptive sales that pushed customers into fee-generating accounts they never requested. The bank fired 5,300 employees over "inappropriate sales conduct." The firings took place over a five-year period. (Reuters)
Budi Waseso, head of Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency (BNN, Badan Narkotika Nasional [id]), says he plans on copying Rodrigo Duterte's hardline tactics against drug traffickers, which have killed almost 3,000 people in the Philippines. (AFP via ABC)
Newly-revealed secret information, decoded from documents from the Mitrokhin Archive, a collection of handwritten notes by KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, who smuggled his notes out of Russia in the 1990s when he defected to Britain, show that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was once a "spy" under the Russian agency the KGB using the codename "Mole". (The Washington Post)
return a sample to Earth for detailed analysis. If successful, OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. spacecraft to return samples from an asteroid. (CNN)(The Guardian)
One or more unnamed authors at the European Commission, in their internal discussion, regards the United Kingdom as having lost direction in its Brexit policy and planning and thinks the UK will eventually 'plead' for a deal. (The Telegraph)
Pacific island's 2013 constitution. A police spokesperson told the Fiji Times that several people were being questioned about comments made at the forum that, "Could affect the safety and security of all Fijians." (Reuters)(Radio New Zealand)
A 5.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in South Korea, 9km south of Gyeongju, injuring at least two people and causing nationwide panic. It is the strongest earthquake ever recorded in South Korea. (Xinhua)
In a protest in Barcelona, an estimated 800,000 people (370,000 in the government claim) demand secession from the Madrid-based Spanish government. (Time)
Red Cross warns that North Korea faces a "major, complex disaster" after recent floods kill scores of people and leave more than 100,000 homeless. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
accounting fraud. The 2005 indictment accuses Greenberg and AIG's former CFO of setting up bogus reinsurance transactions to conceal the insurer's financial difficulties in 2000 and 2001. (Reuters)(The New York Times)
Imprisoned former American Army intelligence analyst and transgender person
Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly three-quarters of a million classified or unclassified but sensitive military and diplomatic documents. (CNN)
The Cuban-born American arsonist who torched 87 people in March 1990 at
Typhoon Meranti hits southern Taiwan with record breaking winds and heavy rains, disrupting transport and knocking out power to tens of thousands of people. (Bloomberg)
The South American trading bloc Mercosur threatens to suspend Venezuela if it does not protect human rights and enact a law guaranteeing the free movement of Mercosur citizens. The bloc sets a deadline of December 1, 2016, for Venezuela to comply with their requirements. (BBC)
papal nuncios and other papal diplomatic representatives meet in Rome for three days of meetings. On the final day, Pope Francis presides at a Mass with the nuncios. (Holy See Press Office)
Texas authorities agree to pay $1.9 million to the family of Sandra Bland, the woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, in July 2015. A grand jury did not issue an indictment. (CBS News)
The
whistleblower while acknowledging "tremendous damage to national security" as a result of the classified documents he stole. (NPR)
A local doctor in Belgium grants euthanasia to a terminally-ill minor, marking the first case of such procedure performed since the 2014 removal of age restrictions. (BBC)
Australia's Department of Defence acknowledges its participation "among a number of international aircraft" in the Deir ez-Zor air raid. It says it would "never intentionally target a known Syrian military unit or actively support Daesh (ISIS)" and offers its condolences. (SANA)(ABC)
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story winning the Emmy for Outstanding Limited Series. (Variety)
Game of Thrones wins three Emmy Awards to become the most successful narrative series of all time beating the record previously held by Frasier. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)
A bomb squad robot detonates an explosive device at a transit station in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There has been a previous explosion in Seaside Park. No one is hurt. (NBC News)
Linden, New Jersey police shoot and arrest Ahmad Khan Rahami, the suspected perpetrator. Two police officers are reportedly injured. (The New York Times)
The cost, so far, of battling the wildfire on California's scenic Big Sur coast is $206.7 million — the costliest in U.S. history, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. The blaze, which was first reported on July 22, is currently 67 percent contained. (AP)
Mexican authorities find the bodies of two priests who were kidnapped yesterday in Poza Rica, Veracruz. Authorities find the third abducted person, the driver, alive. (AP)
Citing irreconcilable differences, Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt and seeks full custody of their six children. The couple married in 2014 and had been in a relationship since 2005. (CNN)(The New York Times)
Russia was responsible for the bombing of a United Nations aid convoy near Aleppo on September 19. Russia denies its involvement. In the aftermath of the attack, the United Nations suspends all aid convoys in Syria. (BBC)(The New York Times)
An airstrike yesterday on a medical facility near Aleppo kills five French medical charity workers. (BBC)
Litigants file a new wave of lawsuits against Volkswagen regarding its emissions scandal. (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
Heavy rainfall, flooding, and landslides in the Indonesian province of West Java kill at least ten people and leave three others missing. (AFP via AsiaOne)
basketball star Kevin Johnson beats protester Sean Thompson's face to a "bloody pulp" after being hit in the face with a whipped cream pie at a charity dinner. Authorities arrest Thompson for felony assault of a public official. (ABC 15)
August 2016 becomes the world's hottest on record (since records began 136 years ago) and 16th 'hottest on record' month in a row. (Australian Geographic)
A suicide bombing at the opening of a local police station in the rebel-held town of Inkhil, Daraa Governorate, in southern Syria, kills at least 12 people, including an opposition minister. (Reuters)
Law and crime
The
Obama administration through federal prosecutors announces corruption charges against nine defendants, including a former close aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, over their roles in alleged bribery and fraud schemes tied to the awarding of large state contracts and other activities. (Reuters)
In a standoff which has continued for two days, an exchange of gunfire with a barricaded suspect in Anchorage, Alaska, injures two police officers. The standoff is one of two occurring in the Alaskan city. (Alaska Public Radio Network)
A gunman shoots dead two people and then himself at the Tennessee factory Thomas & Betts Corp. (ABC News)
Marriott International and Starwood Hotels and Resorts merge into one company with Marriott International purchasing Starwood for $13 billion and making Marriott the largest hotel company in the world. (USA Today)
A Muslim preacher from a local mosque shoots and kills Jordanian writer and cartoonist Nahed Hattar in front of a courthouse in the capital Amman. Authorities take the gunman into custody.(CNN)
A gunman kills one person and injures three others in Malmö, Sweden. An explosion occurs later. (Express)
Interplanetary Transport System in facilitation of the colonization of Mars and beyond. (BBC)(Ars Technica)
A study published in Nature finds the Earth's surface is warmer than it has been in about 120,000 years, and is locked into eventually hitting its hottest mark in more than 2 million years. (Phys.org)(Nature)(Nature)
The WHO announces that measles has been eliminated throughout the Americas, the first time this virus has been eradicated in an entire region. The hemisphere’s last endemic case of measles — one which did not spring from an imported strain — was in 2002. (UN Dispatch), (The New York Times)
Amnesty International say dozens of children in Darfur are among more than 200 people estimated to have been killed by Sudan government chemical weapons since January. (BBC)
Typhoon Megi makes landfall in eastern China a day after killing four people and injuring 260 on Taiwan. (AP)
Rescuers save 15 people from a landslide in Sucun village in Zhejiang Province; another 26 remain missing. Six people are also missing from nearby Baofeng village. (Reuters)
The Royal Bank of Scotland announces that it will pay US$1.1 billion to resolve some of its mortgage claims in the United States. (Reuters)
A shooting at an elementary school in Townville, South Carolina, leaves two students and a teacher wounded. Police take the teenage suspect into custody. Authorities find the shooter's father dead. One of the students dies two days later. (The Washington Post), (NBC News), (Greenville Online)
The Indian Army claims it conducted surgical strikes on militant camps in Pakistan across the Line of Control, allegedly-killing several suspected militants. However, Pakistan rejects this claim and terms it cross-border firing that killed two of its soldiers. (India Today), (Reuters), (Dawn)
The UN's children's charity UNICEF has called the effect of the war in Aleppo on children as the worst seen since the conflict began, and says at least 96 children have been killed and 223 have been injured in Eastern Aleppo September 23. (International Business Times)
Ten thousand pro-government troops, mostly Iranian-led Shiite militants, amass near Aleppo in preparation of a final assault on rebel-held parts of the city. (CNN)
Obama administration through the United States Department of Justice lowers the fine against Germany's Deutsche Bank to a settlement of US$5.4 billion after being handed a demand for up to $14 billion earlier this month over the sale of toxic mortgage bonds. (Reuters)
President Rodrigo Duterte likens himself to Adolf Hitler saying he would "be happy" to kill 3 million drug users and dealers in the country. United Nations adviser Adama Dieng cautions Duterte that his use of language could lead to "crimes against humanity". (GMA News Online)
