The National Hurricane Center reports that Hurricane Polo has strengthened into a category 5 Pacific hurricane.
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The Independent 
September 22
Disasters and accidents
Typhoon Dujuan kills at least four people and injures 22 others in Japan, while six remain missing after landslides. More than 45,000 households in Chiba Prefecture lose power, and over 460 homes are damaged.
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Taipei Times
Moldova's parliament approves a 60-day state of emergency in the energy and water sectors as low levels in the Dniester and Prut rivers threaten water supplies and global conflicts raise energy costs.
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AP
Law and crime
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Al Jazeera
Eleven people are wounded in a mass shooting at a high school in Turgutlu, Turkey. The perpetrator is arrested.
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Al Jazeera
Three men are killed in a shooting in Gugulethu, Cape Flats, South Africa. Police are investigating it as a triple homicide.
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Cape Town ETC
International relations
Delegations from Afghanistan and Turkmenistan agree to establish a joint commission on road transport and to facilitate transit between the two countries.
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Trend News Agency
Denmark, Greenland, and the United States sign an agreement expanding U.S. military access to Greenland, permitting new defence areas and a missile defence system while reaffirming Greenland's self-determination and amending the 1951 defence agreement.
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Reuters
Armed conflicts and attacks
The Houthi-affiliated Saba News Agency reports that Saudi airstrikes on the Houthi-held city of Mokha, Yemen, have killed six civilians.
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AFP via CNA
Health and environment
The Atlantic hurricane season breaks a 112-year record without a hurricane, due to a strong El Niño event in the Pacific.
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AccuWeather
Tunisia's meteorological service reports that summer 2026 is the country's hottest since records began in 1950, with average temperatures 2.9°C (5.2°F) above the previous record and repeated heat waves contributing to water shortages and power cuts.
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AFP
September 21
Disasters and accidents
Two pilots are killed in a helicopter crash while fighting a wildfire in Yosemite National Park, California, United States.
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Reuters
The Nepalese government announces that they are discussing resettling victims of flooding from Bhotekoshi Rural Municipality to safe places in the country.
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Daily Pioneer
An explosion injures three South Korean military officers during an operation inside the Demilitarized Zone, south of the military demarcation line. The Joint Chiefs of Staff says the cause remains unknown.
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The Peninsula
International relations
European Union ambassadors agree in principle to remove Russian oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Alisher Usmanov from sanctions imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while renewing restrictions on about 3,000 other Russian-linked individuals and entities for three years. However Latvia later blocks the deal.
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Reuters
Business and economy
Ceer Motors unveils the EXOBOT SUV and sedan in Saudi Arabia, its first electric vehicles in the country.
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Electrek
Arts and culture
The Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia is postponed to 2027 due to the ongoing conflict with the Houthis.
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Gulf News
Law and crime
Jason Eaton is found guilty for shooting and critically wounding three Palestinian students in Burlington, Vermont, United States, who wore keffiyehs in solidarity with Palestine in the wake of the beginning of the Gaza war.
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IndyStar
Singapore's Land Transport Authority introduces fines of up to S$500 (US$390) for eating on public buses or placing feet on seats, while severe cleanliness or safety violations can incur penalties of up to S$5,000 (US$3,900).
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AFP
Armed conflicts and attacks
British prime minister Andy Burnham says that the United Kingdom will offer Saudi Arabia aerial refueling in its ongoing conflict with the Houthis.
Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)Yemeni civil war (2014–present)Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict2026 Yemen offensivesSaudi Arabia–United Kingdom relations
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The Hill
U.S. senior advisor Massad Boulos says that he has held talks with Sudanese foreign minister Mohieddin Salem and Egyptian foreign minister Badr Abdelatty at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in an effort to end the three-year long civil war.
Sudanese civil war (2023–present)Foreign relations of SudanEgypt–Sudan relationsEgypt–United States relationsSudan–United States relations
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Sudan Horizon
The Sudanese military at night launches heavy airstrikes against Rapid Support Forces targets in Nyala, South Darfur.
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Sudan Tribune
An attack on a gold mining market in North Kordofan by the Rapid Support Forces kills five citizens, including a goldsmith worker.
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Sudan Tribune
The United Nations's International Organization for Migration reports that 5 million displaced people have decided to return to Sudan despite the civil war.
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Arab News
Pakistan's military launches strikes over the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in retaliation for the 2026 Kohat attack. Afghanistan's government and the UNAMA report that a family of three was killed in the strikes, while Pakistan says the strikes killed 28 Pakistani Taliban militants.
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Reuters
Health and environment
New Zealand's critically endangered black robin wins Forest & Bird's Bird of the Year competition with more than 26,000 votes out of about 105,000 votes.
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AFP
September 20
Law and crime
Haiti sends 18 suspects in the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse to the United States to face federal charges related to the killing.
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Reuters
Pakistani police arrest businesswoman Aleema Khan, sister of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, at her home in Lahore, Punjab, one week before his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party's planned protest march. Police and the government do not state a reason for the arrest.
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Reuters
Four unauthorized miners are killed in a shooting targeting a vehicle by unidentified gunmen in Barkin Ladi, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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Daily Post Nigeria
Three people are killed and another is injured in a mass shooting at a shack in an informal settlement in Philippi, Cape Flats, South Africa.
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SABC
Politics and elections
State elections are held in Germany for the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Berlin House of Representatives, with an expected decline for the Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party, the CDU.
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BBC News
International relations
Iranian authorities close down a French language centre affiliated with the French embassy in Tehran under a judicial order. Prosecutors say it operated without a licence and conducted activities against Iranian culture and national security.
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Reuters
Sports
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AFP
In cycling, Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel becomes the first man to win four consecutive Road World Championship titles in the individual time trial event and equals Fabian Cancellara and Tony Martin's joint record for the most titles. Swiss rider Marlen Reusser wins the women's time trial event.
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The Guardian
Business and economy
The Statistical Center of Iran reports that the country's gross domestic product contracted 10.1% year-on-year from late March to late June, during the war, amid longstanding sanctions and currency depreciation.
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The Straits Times
Health and environment
The Democratic Republic of the Congo launches vaccinations for frontline workers amdist the Ebola outbreak in the country.
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Africanews
Armed conflicts and attacks
Qatar's foreign ministry says that they are working to resume ceasefire negotiations between Iran and the United States.
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Middle East Eye
Ukrainian forces launch a massive drone attack on Moscow Oblast, Russia, with more than 1,600 long-range drones launched from Ukraine. At least two people are killed with hundreds more evacuated while Moscow Refinery is on fire following several direct hits.
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Al Jazeera
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirms he ordered the attack on Moscow in response to Russian forces targeting civilians in Ukrainian cities, saying that FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles and ballistic missiles were also used in the attack.
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L'Unione Sarda
Seven Ethiopian armed groups, including Tigrayan forces, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the Fano militia, and the Oromo Liberation Army, form an alliance against the federal government. The TPLF says the coalition seeks to remove the government and establish a transitional administration.
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Arab News
Disasters and accidents
The National Hurricane Center reports that Tropical Depression Six strengthened into Tropical Storm Fay amidst an unusually quiet Atlantic hurricane season caused by El Niño, becoming the sixth named storm of the season.
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WFLA-TV
Eight people are killed and another is injured in a fire at a textile factory in Guangdong Province, China.
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Reuters
Seven people are killed and 13 others are injured after the explosion of a gas cylinder in Ashulia, Bangladesh.
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Xinhua
September 19
Armed conflicts and attacks
Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaee says that Iran has set seven conditions for resuming ceasefire negotiations with the United States.
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Iran International
United States Central Command commander Brad Cooper says that oil, cargo, and liquefied natural gas shipments in the Strait of Hormuz have hit a six-month high.
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Middle East Eye
Israeli airstrikes kill at least three Palestinians in Gaza, including the eldest son of the Gaza Health Ministry director-general. Israel says it targeted militants, while medics report additional deaths in Sheikh Radwan and Shuja'iyya.
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Reuters
The U.S. military strikes a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, killing four people whom the Southern Command says were involved in drug trafficking.
Operation Southern SpearUnited States strikes on alleged drug traffickers during Operation Southern Spear
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Reuters
A series of clashes, involving combined police and military forces and remaining wanted members of the Dawlah Islamiya and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, erupts in Tugunan, Special Geographic Area of the Bangsamoro, Philippines. Seven members from both groups are killed.
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The Philippine Star
Politics and elections
Russian election commission chairperson Ella Pamfilova reports cyberattacks targeting Russia's online voting system during the second day of the parliamentary election and says they are repelled. The Minkomsvyaz separately reports thwarting a sabotage attempt on Far Eastern communication lines.
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ABC News Australia
Marat Kambolov is declared the winner of the presidential elections in the partially recognized South Ossetia.
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Reuters
United States president Donald Trump's executive office denies journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and access to the White House and confiscates or disables their press passes, citing their coverage of his administration.
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Philippine Daily Inquirer
Law and crime
South Africans hold memorial runs and protests after police find the bodies of nine women in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, over two months. Police investigate possible links between the killings, which renew public concern over violence against women.
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Reuters
Sports
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Reuters
In women's basketball, Atlanta Dream player Angel Reese becomes the first player in Women's National Basketball Association history to reach 500 rebounds in a single season.
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Bleacher Report
In rugby union, hosts Japan win their fourth Pacific Nations Cup title after defeating the defending champions Fiji 20–15 in the final at Chichibunomiya Stadium in Tokyo.
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AFP via RFI
Disasters and accidents
Tropical Depression Six forms in the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores amidst an unusually quiet Atlantic hurricane season caused by El Niño.
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WTSP
Indonesia accepts Malaysian assistance to combat wildfires in Kalimantan, including a Bombardier CL-415MP aircraft, three helicopters, and 52 personnel, as the fires cause transboundary haze affecting Southeast Asia.
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AFP via France 24
International relations
The U.S. treasury department lifts the sanctions against Eritrea's ruling party previously imposed by former U.S. president Joe Biden's administration.
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AP
Chilean Michelle Bachelet announces that she is withdrawing from the race to become UN Secretary-General after losing support, and that in the latest informal poll, Costa Rica’s Rebeca Grynspan is reported in the lead.
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Reuters