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Evika Siliņa
- Evika Siliņa (pictured) takes office as Prime Minister of Latvia.
- In Hanoi, Vietnam, a fire at an apartment building kills at least 56 people.
- The FIBA Basketball World Cup concludes with Germany defeating Serbia in the final.
- Storm Daniel causes flooding around the central Mediterranean and the collapse of two dams in Libya, leaving thousands of people dead.
September 19, 2023 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- 2023 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes
- Four Azerbaijani police officers and two civilians are killed by separate mine explosions in Nagorno-Karabakh, with Azerbaijan blaming Armenian sabotage groups. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
- Azerbaijan launches an offensive on Nagorno-Karabakh and demands the withdrawal of ethnic Armenian forces from the region. (Al Jazeera)
- The Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan says that Armenia must hand over all weapons in order to stop "anti-terrorism" activities. (Trend)
- Azerbaijan claims its forces broke through the contact line and captured over 60 military posts in Nagorno-Karabakh. Artsakh forces, however, deny this. (Reuters)
- 2023 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes
- 2023 Jenin incursion
- Four Palestinians are killed and 30 wounded in an Israeli Army raid in Jenin refugee camp, West Bank. (Haaretz)
- Russo-Ukrainian War and 2023 Sudan war
- Ukrainian officials state that Ukrainian special forces were "likely" behind recent drone strikes and a ground operation against Wagner Group mercenaries in Sudan. (CNN)
Arts and culture
- The Institut Européen d'Archéologie Sous-Marine announces the discovery of the site of a temple to god Amun and a Greek sanctuary devoted to Aphrodite in the ancient port city of Thonis-Heracleion in the Abu Qir Bay, Egypt. (CNN)
Law and crime
- 2023 Polish parliamentary election
- Visagate, Belarus–European Union border crisis
- Civic Platform MP Michał Szczerba reveals alleged documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicating that the Polish embassy in Minsk issued 784,173 visas to individuals from 65 countries with the assistance of a Moscow-based company. It is further claimed by Szczerba that among those issued visas are people who were pushed back from the border during the Belarus–European Union border crisis. (Gazeta.pl via Microsoft Start)
- Visagate, Belarus–European Union border crisis
Politics and elections
- The general debate of the United Nations General Assembly opens at UN Headquarters. Protesters gather ahead of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's speech. (CBS News) (The Guardian)
Science and technology
- 2023 Hawaii wildfires
- It is reported that the Lahaina Banyan Tree in Lahaina has shown signs of new life a month after wildfires decimated most of Maui, Hawaii. (The Washington Post)
September 18, 2023 (Monday)
Disasters and accidents
- War in Sudan
- The Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company Tower in Khartoum suffers heavy fire damage during clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces. (NOS)
- Nine Egyptian military personnel are killed or injured when a transport truck carrying ammunition overturns in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt. (Al Ahram)
- One person is killed and another is injured by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake near Marradi, Tuscany, Italy. (Il Resto del Carlino)
International relations
- Canada–India relations
- Canada expels a top Indian diplomat after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there are credible allegations linking the government of India to the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh Khalistani activist and naturalised Canadian citizen shot to death outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia, in June. (AP) (CNN)
- Foreign relations of Russia
- Russia announces that it will withdraw from the Barents Euro-Arctic Council, citing a lack of cooperation between the members of the council. (Bloomberg)
- Iran–United States relations
- A prisoner swap takes place between Iran and the United States, resulting in the release of five prisoners from each country. Under the terms of the swap, Iran will also gain access to six billion dollars frozen in South Korean bank accounts. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Hunter Biden, son of President of the United States Joe Biden, sues the Internal Revenue Service, alleging unlawful disclosure of his taxes by whistle-blowers who work for the agency. (Reuters)
- Three people are taken to hospital after a mass stabbing at the Australian National University in Canberra. The attacker has been detained. (ABC News Australia)
September 17, 2023 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
- Ukraine says that it has recaptured the village of Klishchiivka, near Bakhmut, in Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)
- 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
Business and economy
- 2023 United Auto Workers strike
- United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain rejects an offer of a 21% wage increase from Chrysler parent company Stellantis as the strike enters its third day. (CBS News)
Disasters and accidents
- A United States Marine Corps pilot ejects from his F-35 fighter jet above North Charleston, South Carolina. The pilot lands safely, while the aircraft is missing, with search efforts focused on two nearby lakes. (AP)
International relations
- North Korea–Russia relations
- The 2023 North Korea–Russia summit concludes, with Kim Jong Un departing from Artyom, located north of the port of Vladivostok. (CNN)
Sports
- 2023–24 NHL season
- In ice hockey, Mike Babcock resigns as the head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets before coaching a game for the team, amidst an NHL Players Association investigation into his alleged requests for personal photos of players. (AP)
- Team Jumbo–Visma wins all three Grand Tours of the 2023 UCI World Tour, after Sepp Kuss wins the 2023 Vuelta a España. (AD)
September 16, 2023 (Saturday)
Disasters and accidents
- A major fire at the National Museum of Indonesia in Jakarta causes extensive damage, including the collapse of roof and outer wall. An unknown number of pre-colonial artifacts are damaged or destroyed. (The Diplomat)
- 2023 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Lee weakens into a post-tropical cyclone before making landfall in Nova Scotia, Canada. (NBC News)
- 2023 National Aerobatic Team Aermacchi MB-339 crash
- A military plane crashes near Turin, Piedmont, Italy, killing a 5-year-old child and injuring four people, including the pilot. (NOS)
- 2023 Manaus Aerotaxi Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante crash
- Fourteen people are killed in a plane crash in Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil. (BBC News)
International relations
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- Alliance of Sahel States
- The military governments of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso sign a mutual defence pact named the Alliance of Sahel States in case of internal rebellion or external military aggression. (Reuters)
- Alliance of Sahel States
Law and crime
- Mahsa Amini protests
- Human rights organizations say that Iranian police have arrested the father of Mahsa Amini on the first anniversary of her death. (Reuters)
- Mexican drug war
- Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, is extradited to the United States from Mexico on drug trafficking and money laundering charges. (Reuters)
- Storm Daniel
- Libya's top prosecutor announces a probe into the dam collapses which led to the floods that killed more than 11,000 people. (AP)
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is acquitted by the Texas Senate in his impeachment trial. (Texas Tribune)
September 15, 2023 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine claims that it has recaptured the village of Andriivka, near Bakhmut, in Donetsk Oblast. Russia denied the claim and said its forces remained in control of village. (Al Jazeera)(AP)
Business and economy
- 2023 United Auto Workers strike
- The United Auto Workers announce that they have gone on strike following failed negotiations. (AP)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
International relations
- Foreign relations of Burkina Faso, Foreign relations of France
- The military government of Burkina Faso orders the French embassy's defense attaché to leave the country due to subversive behavior. (Al Arabiya)
- France–Niger relations
- President of France Emmanuel Macron says that French ambassador to Niger Sylvain Itté and other diplomats are being held hostage at the French embassy in Niamey, Niger. (CNN)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko proposes a three-way alliance between Belarus, Russia, and North Korea during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia. (AP)
Health and environment
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service reports that the Wisconsin-based Green Bay Dressed Beef has recalled over 58,000 ground beef products in several states over concerns of E. coli contamination. (FSN)
Law and crime
- Afghan conflict
- United States invasion of Afghanistan
- The U.S. government warns a Virginia judge that allowing a United States Marine to keep an Afghan war orphan risks violating international law and could be viewed as endorsing international child abduction. (AP)
- United States invasion of Afghanistan
- Human rights in Kuwait
- Kuwait University agrees to impose gender segregation in classrooms in line with a recent agreement between Kuwaiti MP Mohammed Haif al-Mutairi, who chairs the Committee for the Promotion of Values, and the Kuwaiti Minister of Education. (The New Arab)
- The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs dismisses its legal chief and cancels all contracts to outsource visa applications after seven people are charged in a visas-for-cash scandal. (Reuters)
- The Wagner Group is designated as a terrorist organization by the United Kingdom. (ABC News)
September 14, 2023 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Crimea attacks
- Russia's defence ministry says that it destroyed a Ukrainian boat in the Black Sea. (Al Jazeera)
- Crimea attacks
Business and economy
- Economy of Argentina
- The National Institute of Statistics and Census announces that consumer prices in Argentina increased 12.4% in August, the highest increase since February 1991, while the annual inflation rate increased to 124.4%. (AP)
- Economy of the European Union
- The European Central Bank raises interest rates for the 10th time to mitigate high inflation amid concerns that higher borrowing costs could push the economy into a recession. (AP)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine's foreign ministry says that any European Union plans to extend import restrictions on Ukrainian food would be "illegal" and would harm common economic interests. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Two people are killed and 25 more are injured in a collision between a bus and a truck on a highway in Rome, Italy. (Il Messaggero)
- An explosion at the Union Pacific Railroad Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, United States, the world’s largest railyard, causes evacuations in the area due to toxic smoke. (AP)
International relations
- Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Afghanistan–China relations
- China names Zhao Seng as ambassador to Afghanistan, the first country to deliver an ambassador to Afghanistan since the 2021 Taliban offensive. However, China continues to not recognise the Taliban government. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- 2023 Brazilian Congress attack
- The Brazilian Supreme Court announces the first conviction of a participant in the January 8 riots at the Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasília. The member, identified as Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, is given a 17-year prison sentence. (Financial Times)
- International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine
- The International Criminal Court opens a field office in Kyiv, Ukraine, as part of its war crimes investigations, becoming the largest ICC office outside of its headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. (Al Jazeera)
- Mexican drug war
- Emma Coronel, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, is released from U.S. federal custody after completing a three-year sentence for her involvement in drug trafficking. (AP)
- Weiss special counsel investigation
- Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, is indicted on gun charges as part of an investigation by attorney David C. Weiss. (NBC News)
- Argentina's Federal Police shuts down a publisher that sold books supporting Nazi ideology, seizing hundreds of texts and arresting one person as part of what authorities characterized as a historic seizure of propaganda. (AP)
September 13, 2023 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2023 Nigerien coup d'état
- The U.S. military announces that they have resumed drone operations and other counterterrorism missions in Niger. (AP)
- 2023 Sudan conflict
- Battle of Geneina
- Thirteen new mass graves are found in Geneina by the United Nations, with an unspecified number of bodies. (Al Arabiya)
- Battle of Nyala
- At least 40 people are killed in an airstrike on the El Malja market and several other neighborhoods in Nyala by the Sudanese Armed Forces. (France 24)
- Battle of Geneina
- Kashmir conflict
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Four Indian troops and two rebels are killed in gunbattles in Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (Al Jazeera)
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
- Crimea attacks
- Russia says that at least 24 people were injured in Ukrainian missile strikes in Sevastopol and two boats were damaged in the attack. Ukraine claims to have destroyed the Russian landing ship Minsk, submarine B-237 and a KC-701-class patrol boat of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. (AP) (Reuters) (MSN)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Five people are killed and 25 more injured during an explosion at a rally in the Gaza Strip marking the anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005. (Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki called on the European Union to extend an embargo on the import of Ukrainian corn, wheat, sunflower and rapeseed. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Hanoi building fire
- At least 56 people are killed and 37 others are injured in a fire at a nine-story apartment building in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Al Jazeera)
- Three people are killed and several others are injured in an explosion at a factory in Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy. A similar explosion at the factory in 2020 killed three workers. (La Repubblica)
International relations
- 2023 North Korea–Russia summit
- The North Korea–Russia summit is held at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia, lasting for four hours. Russian President Vladimir Putin accepts an invitation from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to a reciprocal summit in North Korea. (AP) (CNA)
Law and crime
- 2023 Brazilian Congress attack
- The Brazilian Supreme Court holds the first trials of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who took part in the January 8 attacks on government buildings at the Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasília. (La Prensa Latina) (AP)
- Death of Sara Sharif
- Escaped U.S. fugitive Danilo Cavalcante is captured in Pennsylvania by a team of tactical officers after a two week manhunt. (AP)
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