Portal:Current events
Topics in the news
- A Mil Mi-8 helicopter (pictured) crashes in Kamchatka, Russia, leaving twenty-two people dead.
- The Summer Paralympics open in Paris, France.
- More than four hundred people are killed in an Islamist militant attack in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso.
- The Islamic State claims responsibility for a mass stabbing that killed three people at a festival in Solingen, Germany.
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russian artillery targets Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, killing three civilians and wounding three others. (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Manipur violence
- Ethnic violence between the Meitei and Kuki tribes kills five people in Manipur, India. The Government of Manipur orders all schools in the state to remain shut in response. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- Argentina–Venezuela relations
- 2024 Venezuelan political crisis
- Venezuelan security forces surround the Argentine embassy in Caracas after several opposition members take refuge inside. Electricity is reportedly cut to the embassy, with Vente Venezuela describing the situation as a siege. (CNN)
- 2024 Venezuelan political crisis
Science and technology
- The Boeing Crew Flight Test capsule returns uncrewed to Earth, after three months docked at the International Space Station. (CNN)
Sports
- Luis Suárez makes his final appearance for Uruguay, playing Paraguay in a Conmebol World Cup qualifier. (ESPN)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- At least 27 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes in cities across the Gaza Strip, including in the Nuseirat refugee camp. (Reuters)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Killing of Aysenur Eygi
- Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish American woman, is shot dead by Israeli troops during an anti-Israeli settlement protest in the West Bank. (AP)
- Israeli occupation of the West Bank
- Israeli settlers and soldiers storm the Palestinian village of Qaryut, beating and opening fire against the residents, killing a 13-year-old girl and wounding two men. (Palestine News Network)
- Israel–Hamas war
Arts and culture
- The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces the end of its international adoption program after suspending the program during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Al Jazeera)
- China opens the world's largest indoor skiing resort in Pudong, Shanghai, with a 90,000 square metres (970,000 sq ft) skiing area and a total campus area of 350,000 square metres (3,800,000 sq ft). (DW)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Nyeri boarding school fire
- Eighteen students are killed and 27 others are injured in a fire at a boarding school in Nyeri, Kenya. (Al Jazeera)
- A Piper PA-46 aircraft crashes into a cornfield after going into a nosedive in Anderson, Indiana, United States, killing all four occupants on board. (FOX59)
Law and crime
- 2024 United Kingdom riots
- Sheffield Crown Court in South Yorkshire, UK, sentences Thomas Birley, a British man who set fire to a hotel that housed asylum seekers in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, to nine years in prison for arson with the intent to endanger life, the longest sentence related to the riots so far. (Al Jazeera)
- Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York
- New York Supreme Court justice Juan Merchan postpones former U.S. President Donald Trump's sentencing in his criminal case until after Election Day on November 5. (The New York Times) (Reuters)
- Polish prosecutors charge three Belarusian citizens for diverting Ryanair Flight 4978 under a fabricated bomb threat to arrest political activist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega. (DW)
- Brazilian human rights minister Silvio Almeida is fired from his cabinet position following several accusations of sexual harassment towards women, including another cabinet minister. (Reuters)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
- Six Palestinian gunmen are killed and another is injured in an Israeli airstrike in Tubas in the West Bank. Separately, a teenager is killed by Israeli soldiers in Tubas. (Reuters)
- 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict, Iraq–Turkey relations
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- A Turkish drone strike kills three people, including a child, in Kurdistan Region, Iraq, one day after a similar attack on a car in the region killed three people from the same family. (Barron's)
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
Arts and culture
- American rock band Linkin Park emerges from a seven-year hiatus with the announcement of an upcoming studio album, a worldwide concert tour, and introduces Emily Armstrong as the band's new co-vocalist. The band went on hiatus in 2017 following the death of then-lead vocalist Chester Bennington. (Rolling Stone)
Business and economy
- The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority announces an investigation into Ticketmaster over the dynamic pricing of Oasis Live '25 Tour tickets. (AP)
Health and environment
- 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo receives its first batch of Bavarian Nordic mpox vaccines donated by the European Union and is expected to receive the second batch of vaccines on September 7. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- Nicaragua–United States relations, Protests against Daniel Ortega
- The United States announces that it has secured the release of 135 political prisoners in Nicaragua, who were jailed by the government of President Daniel Ortega. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- 2024 Apalachee High School shooting
- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrests the father of Colt Gray, the perpetrator of yesterday's mass school shooting in Barrow County, Georgia, United States, on charges of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for allowing his son to possess a gun. (AP)
- Domestic violence in Kenya
- Ugandan marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei dies at a hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, after sustaining burns from a gasoline attack by her former partner almost a month after participating in the women's marathon at the 2024 Summer Olympics. (BBC News)
- Weiss special counsel investigation
- Hunter Biden pleads guilty to federal tax evasion shortly before his trial was expected to begin in California, United States. (NBC News)
- 2024 Munich shooting
- An Austrian man is killed in a shootout with police in Munich, Germany, near the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism and the Israeli Consulate. A terrorist motive is suspected. (TIME)
- A 15-year-old Hindu boy is killed by a Muslim mob inside a police station in Khulna, Bangladesh, after allegedly insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad on Facebook. (The Hindustan Times)
- The European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and seven other countries sign the first international treaty on the use of artificial intelligence systems. (DW) (Council of Europe)
Politics and elections
- Reform of the House of Lords
- In the United Kingdom, the ruling Labour Party drafts a bill that would remove the right of all hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords. (BBC News)
- Michel Barnier is appointed Prime Minister of France, succeeding caretaker Gabriel Attal, who announced his resignation in the aftermath of the legislative elections in July. (The Washington Post)
Sports
- 2024–25 UEFA Nations League
- San Marino, the lowest-ranked FIFA-affiliated national team, defeats Liechtenstein 1–0 in Serravalle, San Marino, to win the team's first competitive victory in their 36-year history. (ESPN)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- A civilian is killed and seven others are injured in Israeli airstrikes and shelling in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera) (MSN)
Arts and culture
- Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro announces that Venezuela will celebrate an early Christmas on 1 October. (NBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
- Seven people are rescued and at least 21 others remain missing after a boat carrying Syrian migrants from Libya capsizes off the coast of Lampedusa in the Pelagie Islands of Italy. (Al Jazeera)
Health and environment
- 2024 Brazil wildfires
- Twenty percent of the Brasília National Forest in Brazil is destroyed by a wildfire that investigators suspect was started deliberately. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2024 Apalachee High School shooting
- Four people are killed and nine people are wounded in a mass school shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, United States. (CNN)
- Brazilian investigation into Elon Musk
- SpaceX removes its employees from Brazil amid ongoing legal issues between CEO Elon Musk and the Brazilian Supreme Court over Musk's social media company X. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Grenfell Tower fire
- The second phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry concludes, with the report noting "systematic dishonesty" of manufacturers and the failures of the government leading up to the fire. (BBC News)
- Hachette v. Internet Archive
- The Internet Archive loses its court appeal in a copyright lawsuit over its digital library of ebooks and documents that major publication companies have worked to shut down over claims of lost revenue. (Jurist) (The New York Times)
- Dismissed mayor of Bamban, Philippines, Alice Guo is arrested by the Directorate General of Immigration in Tangerang, Indonesia, after fleeing from the Philippines amid an ongoing Senate inquiry. (The Guardian) (Rappler)
- Jonathan Meijer files a lawsuit against Netflix for allegedly portraying him negatively for his serial sperm donation in its documentary series The Man with 1,000 Kids. (DW)
Politics and elections
- Election of the VIII Māori monarch
- The New Zealand Māori Council selects Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō as the new Queen following the death of her father King Tūheitia in August. (DW)
- Ukrainian foreign affairs minister Dmytro Kuleba resigns from office amid a cabinet reshuffle. (Left Bank) (The Washington Post)
- In Canada, New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh announces that he has terminated the confidence and supply agreement his party made with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government in 2022. (CBC News)
Science and technology
- A small 1.5-metre (4.9 ft) asteroid, 2024 RW1, is predicted to fall harmlessly as a fireball over the island of Luzon in the Philippines at approximately 16:40 UTC (00:40 local time), the ninth asteroid to be successfully discovered before impacting Earth. (New Scientist)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Islamic State–Taliban conflict
- 2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing
- The Islamic State claims responsibility for yesterday's suicide bombing outside a Taliban building in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed six people. (Al Arabiya)
- 2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Tarmuwa massacre
- At least 102 people are killed during a mass shooting at a market and against homes in Tarmuwa, Yobe State, Nigeria, by over 50 Boko Haram militants. (AP)
- Tarmuwa massacre
- A clash between the isolated indigenous Mashco-Piro community and Peruvian loggers attempting to clear a forest path near their territory results in the deaths of two loggers, with two more missing. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- English Channel migrant crossings
- During a people smuggling operation, at least 12 migrants drown when their boat breaks apart and capsizes in the English Channel. (Sky News)
Health and environment
- 2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic
- The World Health Organization announces that its polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip has surpassed its intended target of 156,500 projected vaccinations within two days. (BBC News)
International relations
- Iraq–Switzerland relations
- Switzerland reopens its embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, after closing it during the Gulf War in 1991. (BNO News)
Law and crime
- 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
- United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is subpoenaed by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs after refusing to testify on the government's actions regarding the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 and the concurrent deaths of thirteen service members. (Reuters)
- Israel–Hamas war
- The United States Department of Justice charges Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and five other militants with conspiracy to provide material support for terrorism, conspiracy to murder Americans, and five other counts each. (DW)
- Lebanese liquidity crisis
- Former head of the Central bank of Lebanon Riad Salameh is arrested for financial crimes such as accruing more than $110m via financial crimes involving Optimum Invest, a Lebanese firm that offers income brokerage services. Al Jazeera
- Spanish General Council of the Judiciary blockade
- Isabel Perelló is elected as President of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary in Spain, becoming the first woman to hold the position. (El Periódico) (El País) (El Diario)
- Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine is "seriously injured" after being shot in the leg in a shootout with the Uganda People's Defence Force near Kampala. (AP)
Politics and elections
- Five Ukrainian ministers resign from their positions, including Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna, resulting in vacancy of over one-third of the cabinet. (Reuters)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamic State–Taliban conflict
- 2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing
- A suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 6 people and injures 13. (AP)
- 2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Two people, including an independent contractor working for UNIFIL, are killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Tyre-Naqoura road in Lebanon with other airstrikes on Bint Jabal, Yaroun, Ayta al-Shab, Hanine, Tayr Harfa and Blida and shelling of Kfarchouba and Shebaa. (Al Jazeera)
- Hezbollah launches Katyusha rockets on Ein Ya'akov, Ga'aton and Yehiam, northern Israel. (Al Jazeera)
- Red Sea crisis
- Houthi militants strike two crude oil tankers in the Red Sea with multiple missiles and drones. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- Wreck of the Titanic
- An expedition to the shipwreck of the RMS Titanic reveals considerable deterioration of the bow, as well as the rediscovery of a bronze Diana of Versailles replica last seen during the initial survey of the wreck in 1986. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- At least fourteen people are killed in landslides and floods caused by Tropical Storm Yagi in the Philippines. (AP)
- Eleven children are killed and 13 more are injured when a bus crashes into a group of middle school students and their parents in Tai'an City, Shandong, China. (ABC)
International relations
- Foreign relations of Ukraine, Mongolia–Russia relations
- President of Russia Vladimir Putin arrives in Mongolia to discuss a China–Russia gas pipeline meant to recoup Russian losses from Western sanctions, despite Ukraine and the European Union urging Mongolia to arrest Putin under his International Criminal Court warrant. (Reuters) (Euronews)
- Ukraine's Foreign Ministry states that Mongolia's refusal to arrest Vladimir Putin while on a state visit means that it shares "responsibility for the war crimes" committed by Russia, and vows to work with allies to enforce punitive measures on Mongolia. (Reuters)
- Foreign relations of Turkey
- Turkey formally applies to join the BRICS geopolitical bloc, citing the lack of progress in its accession to the European Union. (Bloomberg) (Daily Sabah)
- United States–Venezuela relations
- The United States seizes a Dassault Falcon 900 jet used by Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on accusations that the purchase of the jet violated U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, and flies the jet from the Dominican Republic to Florida. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2024 Makala prison jailbreak attempt
- At least 129 inmates are killed and 59 more injured in an attempted prison break at Makala Prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
- Brazilian investigation into Elon Musk
- The Brazilian Supreme Court unanimously upholds justice Alexandre de Moraes' decision to block social media platform X, in the country. De Moraes also set a daily fine of R$50,000 (US$8,900) for people or companies using VPNs to access the site. (AP)
- Nth Room case, Gender inequality in South Korea
- The South Korean National Police Agency announces an investigation into the messaging app Telegram for abetting and hosting chat rooms that distribute deepfake pornography, including of children. (DW)
- 2024 CTA shooting
- Four people are killed in a mass shooting targeting homeless people on a Chicago Transit Authority train in Forest Park, Illinois, United States. (WBBM-TV)
- One person is fatally shot and at least four other people are injured including one person who was critically injured in a mass shooting at the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, New York, United States. (AP)
Politics and elections
- Israel–Hamas war protests
- Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
- Thousands of people gather in Manhattan, New York City, United States, to protest against the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, rally for support of Palestinians, and call for New York institutions to divest from Israeli businesses. (CBS News)
- September 2024 Israel ceasefire protests
- Histadrut, Israel's national trade union center, begins a one-day general strike to protest against the Netanyahu government's failure to negotiate a ceasefire and hostage deal. The strike is later ordered to end prematurely by a Tel Aviv labor court, claiming the strike was illegally political in nature rather than economic. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
- Over ten thousand hotel workers strike in cities across the U.S. to demand higher pay, as part of the Hotel Workers Rising campaign organized by the UNITE HERE labor union. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Japan at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Japan defeats the United States in the wheelchair rugby final, winning its first ever gold medal in the sport. (Olympics)
- Japan at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- At least five Palestinians, including a child, are killed and several others are injured in Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp and the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City. (Anadolu Agency) (Middle East Monitor)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 2024 Tarqumiyah shooting
- Three Israeli police officers are killed in a drive-by shooting on a road near Tarqumiyah in the West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Seven civilians injured in IDF strikes on Hezbollah targets in Aita al-Shaab and Beit Yahoun, southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- Hezbollah launches 20 rockets on Upper Galilee. (Al Jazeera)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine launches more than a hundred drones against targets in Russia, including the Konakovo Power Station in Konakovo, Tver Oblast, and the Moscow Refinery in Moscow. (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russia reports that its forces have taken control of the settlements of Ptyche and Vyimka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Kharkiv strikes
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announces that it will deploy a fact-finding team to investigate human rights abuses and violations committed by government forces during the quota reform movement, after being requested to do so by the interim government of Muhammad Yunus. (The New York Times)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Kamchatka Mil Mi-8 crash
- The wreckage of the Russian Air Force Mil Mi-8T helicopter that crashed on August 31 over the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula is located. (Kommersant) (BBC News)
Health and environment
- 2024 Brazil wildfires
- The number of wildfires in the Amazon rainforest reaches its highest number in fourteen years at 38,266 fire hotspots as a result of an ongoing drought in South America. (Reuters)
- A weather station near Qeshm International Airport in Dayrestan, Iran, records the highest unverified heat index on Earth of 82.2 °C (180.0 °F) and the highest dew point of 36.1 °C (97.0 °F). Climatologists will investigate to confirm the readings' accuracy. (The Economic Times) (Times of India)
Law and crime
- Eleven people are killed and more than 40 others are injured when a truck crashes into a bar in Azua, Dominican Republic. The driver subsequently flees the scene. (AP)
- Two people are killed and four more injured during a vehicle-ramming attack outside a restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The perpetrator's motive is unknown. (AP)
Politics and elections
- Israel–Hamas war
- September 2024 Israel ceasefire protests
- Hundreds of thousands of Israelis, including approximately 300,000 in Tel Aviv, protest in cities across the country following the recovery of the bodies of six hostages from Gaza, with the national trade union center calling for a general strike on Monday and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign after failing to negotiate a ceasefire. (The New York Times) (CNN)
- At least 29 people are arrested in Tel Aviv on accusations of vandalism, disorderly conduct, and attacking police officers. (CNN)
- September 2024 Israel ceasefire protests
- 2024 Saxony state election, 2024 Thuringian state election
- Parliamentary elections in the German states of Saxony and Thuringia show large gains for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party and the left-wing populist Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party as well as losses for the left-wing and liberal parties of the governing coalition and for the socialist The Left party. In Thuringia, a far-right party comes in first place in a state election for the first time since World War II. (DW)