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Typhoon Yagi over the South China Sea
- Typhoon Yagi (satellite image shown) leaves more than 150 people dead in China, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
- Michel Barnier is appointed prime minister of France by President Emmanuel Macron, leading to nationwide anti-government protests.
- An attempted jailbreak at Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, leaves 129 people dead.
- A Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashes in Kamchatka, Russia, killing all 22 people on board.
September 11, 2024 (Wednesday)
September 10, 2024 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine launches drone attacks on multiple regions of Russia, including Moscow, prompting all flights to be suspended at Vnukovo International Airport and Moscow Domodedovo Airport. Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz says that at least 59 Ukrainian drones have been shot down over the region. Russia also reports that two people were killed in the Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
- Iran and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Iran–United Kingdom relations, France–Iran relations, Germany–Iran relations
- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken claims that Russia has received a shipment of Fath 360 tactical ballistic missiles from Iran, and expects their deployment "within weeks". Iran denies the claim, calling it "psychological warfare". In response, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany announce new sanctions on Iran for supplying Russia with ballistic missiles. (BBC News) (The Telegraph)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- At least 40 people are killed and more than 60 others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Mawasi refugee camp in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Twenty tents housing displaced people are destroyed during the attack. (Al Jazeera)
- The Israeli military claims that it struck senior Hamas commanders operating in a command center embedded inside a designated humanitarian area who the Israel Defense Forces claims were all involved in the October 7 attack. (Al Arabiya) (Times of Israel)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
Disasters and accidents
- The death toll from the capsizing of a migrant boat off the coast of Senegal over the weekend increases to 26 after the discovery of 17 more bodies. (Reuters)
International relations
- Belarus–European Union border crisis, Germany–Poland relations
- Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk condemns Germany's new land border restrictions due to Germany's previous lack of support for other European Union nations impacted by irregular migration. (Reuters) (TVN24)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine, Netherlands–Ukraine relations
- The Netherlands lifts all of its weapons restrictions on military equipment that it provided to Ukraine, allowing the Ukrainian army to target Russia with deep strikes while also urging other nations to lift their weapons restrictions. (Kyiv Post)
Law and crime
- The Court of Justice of the European Union rules that Apple Inc. must pay €13 billion (US$14.3 billion) to the government of the Republic of Ireland as compensation for extraordinarily low taxes levied by Ireland against Apple. (Euronews)
- Google is fined €2.4 billion (US$2.7 billion) by the Court of Justice of the European Union for favoring its own shopping search results over those of its competitors. (Politico)
- His Majesty's Prison Service begins releasing thousands of prisoners in England and Wales on early release amid a record high prison population and a shortage of prison cells for new inmates. (BBC News)
- A Swiss appeals court convicts Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of rape and sexual coercion, sentencing Ramadan to three years in prison, with two years suspension. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2021–present United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
- The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes 348–228 to end the Winter Fuel Payment for 10 million pensioners in England and Wales after Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned that the scheme was no longer affordable. (Sky News)
- 2024 United States presidential election
- A presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump takes place at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which is hosted by ABC News. (CNN)
September 9, 2024 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russian troops capture the village of Memryk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
- Russia–NATO relations
- The Latvian Defence Ministry confirms that a Russian military Shahed drone that crashed near the village of Gaigalava, Latvia, last week was carrying explosives and was likely intended to strike Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Use of incendiary weapons in the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Ukraine begins the implementation of "dragon drones" that spray molten thermite on forest cover to reveal and help destroy Russian units and military equipment. (Al Jazeera)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- At least eight people are killed and dozens are wounded in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip, bringing the confirmed Palestinian death toll to over 41,000. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Syrian civil war
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- At least 25 people are killed and more than 40 others are injured in overnight Israeli airstrikes targeting Iranian research centers in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (The Guardian) (Syriahr)
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Thirteen people are injured when a roadside bomb targets a police vehicle escorting a polio vaccination team in Wana, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Arab News)
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- The Turkish Ministry of Defense announces that a Turkish soldier was killed in clashes with the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Duhok Governorate, Iraq. (Daily Sabah)
- Sudanese civil war
- The Rapid Support Forces renew an assault on the city of Sennar, Sennar State, Sudan, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 100 others. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Brazil wildfires, 2023–2024 South American drought
- Fifty-nine percent of Brazil's area suffers from significant drought conditions, the worst national drought recorded. These conditions cause historically low Amazon basin levels and are contributing to at least 160,000 wildfires in 2024 that are causing widespread air pollution. (AP)
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam increases to more than 64 people, with 24 others still missing. (Al Jazeera) (AP News)
- Eighteen people are killed and four are missing during floods caused by torrential rains in southern Morocco. Fifty-six homes are destroyed and 110 roads damaged. (Arab News)
- At least 16 people are killed and 22 others are injured when a bus and a truck collide in Bambey Department, Senegal. (TRT Afrika)
- At least six people are killed when a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Senegal over the weekend. (Reuters)
International relations
- Slovakia–Ukraine relations, Far-right politics in Ukraine
- The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expresses "disappointment" regarding assertions made by Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico that Kyiv should remove "fascist elements" from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, using rhetoric similar to Russian allegations of current neo-Nazism in Ukraine's Azov Brigade. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Censorship in Nigeria
- The Nigerian State Security department arrests Joe Ajaero, the leader of the Nigeria Labour Congress, at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, days after Ajaero criticised the Nigerian government for increasing gas prices. (DW)
- Ali Kiba, a Tanzanian official from the opposition party Chadema, who went missing last week, is found dead with signs of beatings and acid poured on his face. (ABC News)
- Germany's traffic light coalition government announces border restrictions on all its national land borders, including those with other EU nations, for at least six months in order to combat irregular migration from asylum seekers. (Reuters)
- The exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran claim that its offices in Stockholm, Sweden, were firebombed overnight with Molotov cocktails. The Swedish Police Authority announces that they have opened an investigation into the arson. (Al Arabiya)
- Forty-seven inmates escape from a maximum security prison in Margibi County, Liberia. (Reuters)
- Finnish-Canadian sportswear mogul Peter Nygård is sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexual assault. (CBC News)
- Authorities in Guinea-Bissau say that they have seized more than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine that was found on a plane arriving from Venezuela at Osvaldo Vieira International Airport in Bissau. (BBC News)
September 8, 2024 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Pokrovsk offensive
- Russia formally claims control of Novohrodivka, Donetsk Oblast, twelve kilometers (seven miles) from the strategically important Ukrainian logistical hub city Pokrovsk. (Reuters)
- Pokrovsk offensive
- War in Afghanistan
- Fall of Kabul, 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee release a report criticizing U.S. President Joe Biden for his handling of the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan. (The Hill)
- Fall of Kabul, 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- The Israeli military says that several Hezbollah militants were killed in airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- Syrian civil war
- Sudanese civil war
- The World Health Organization reports that the death toll from the civil war in Sudan has increased to more than 20,000 people. (AP)
Arts and culture
- 76th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
- American historical drama television series Shōgun wins a record 14 Emmys at the 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the most won for any single season. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Wildfires in the United States during 2024
- Over 11,000 people are evacuated in San Bernardino County, California, United States, as the Line Fire quadruples in size to over 27 sq mi (17,000 acres). (The New York Times) (BBC News)
- Forty-eight people and 50 cattle are killed in an explosion caused by a collision between a fuel tanker and a truck in Agaie, Niger State, Nigeria. (AP)
- Fourteen people are killed and another person is injured when a bus crashes on a highway between Aden and Taiz in Yemen. (AP)
Law and crime
- 2024 Allenby Bridge shooting
- Three Israeli civilians are killed in a shooting at the Allenby Bridge on the Israel–Jordan border. (Reuters)
- Kingdom of Jesus Christ compound standoff
- Kingdom of Jesus Christ pastor Apollo Quiboloy, who is charged with sex trafficking, is arrested amid a standoff between the police and members of the church at the church's headquarters in Davao City, Philippines. (Al Jazeera)
- Nine people, including El Salvador's National Civil Police chief Mauricio Arriaza Chicas and a fraud suspect, are killed during a helicopter crash while being en route to San Salvador. The crash is considered to be intentional. All flags on government buildings will be flown half-mast for three days. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Algerian presidential election
- Incumbent President of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune is re-elected for his second term with 95% of the vote. (Al Jazeera)
- 2024 Venezuelan political crisis
- Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González flees Venezuela to seek political asylum in Spain. The Spanish government says that González left Venezuela on a Spanish Air Force plane at his own request. (BBC News)
Sports
- 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Thailand at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Wheelchair fencing at the Summer Paralympics
- Thai wheelchair fencer Saysunee Jana becomes the first female wheelchair fencer, and the second overall, to win gold medals in all three fencing disciplines, épée, foil, and sabre. (Bangkok Post)
- Thailand at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Wheelchair fencing at the Summer Paralympics
- 2024 US Open
- In tennis, Jannik Sinner defeats Taylor Fritz in the final of the US Open Men's singles tournament to win his first US Open title ever and his second Grand Slam title overall. Sinner is also the first Italian man to ever win the US Open. (CNN)
September 7, 2024 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russian artillery targets the city of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, killing three civilians and injuring 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 closed in response. (Al Jazeera)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Three Lebanese paramedics are killed and two others are wounded in an Israeli airstrike while they were firefighting in Faroun with two Amal militants killed in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah launches over 100 missiles and shelling at several Israeli military sites in Israel in retaliation. (VOA) (Middle East Eye)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- Typhoon Yagi
- Four people are killed and at least 78 people are injured by Typhoon Yagi in Hải Dương and Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam, as it makes landfall in Hanoi. (BBC News)
- Typhoon Yagi
- Thirteen people are killed and 44 others injured after a collision between a tank truck and a bus between Bouaké and Korhogo, in Ivory Coast. (AP)
International relations
- 2024 Venezuelan political crisis, Argentina–Venezuela relations
- Venezuelan security forces surround the Argentine embassy in Caracas after several opposition members take refuge inside the embassy. Electricity is reportedly cut to the embassy, with Vente Venezuela describing the situation as a siege. (CNN)
Law and crime
- Interstate 75 Kentucky shooting
- Several people are injured in a mass shooting near Interstate 75 in Laurel County, Kentucky, United States. (CNN)
- Five inmates escape from a high-security prison near Lisbon, Portugal. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Algerian presidential election
- Algerians vote for the President, with incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune expected to win a second term. (Al Jazeera)
- French anti-Barnier government protests
- Nationwide protests against Emmanuel Macron's appointment of Michel Barnier as the new prime minister break out in 130 cities and towns across France, with left-wing coalition New Popular Front claiming that Macron stole the election. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- The Boeing Crew Flight Test capsule returns to Earth uncrewed, landing at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, United States, after being docked for three months at the International Space Station. (CNN)
Sports
- 2024 US Open
- In tennis, Aryna Sabalenka defeats Jessica Pegula in the final of the US Open Women's singles tournament to win her first US Open title ever and her second Grand Slam title overall. (Reuters) (WTA)
September 6, 2024 (Friday)
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
- Israeli occupation of the West Bank
- 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 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)
- Killing of Aysenur Eygi
- 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
- 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)
September 5, 2024 (Thursday)
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
- 2024 Niuean constitutional referendum
- Voters in Niue approve a bill to change the title of the Premier of Niue to prime minister, effective immediately, while rejecting a proposal to increase the term of the Niue Assembly from three to four years. (Radio New Zealand)
- Reform of the House of Lords
- House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
- 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)
- House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
- 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)
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