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
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.
Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)Yemeni civil war (2014–present)Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict2026 Yemen offensives
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AFP via CNA
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
Papua New Guinea police rescue 39 Indonesians allegedly trafficked through false job offers and held in Port Moresby. Officers arrest four Chinese nationals and investigate possible links to a wider transnational trafficking network.
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The Straits Times
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
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
International relations
Afghanistan and Turkmenistan agree to establish a joint commission on road transport and to facilitate transit between the two bordering countries.
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Trend News Agency
Belgium and Rwanda restore diplomatic relations 18 months after severing ties over the Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict. The countries plan to reopen their embassies following months of meetings facilitated in part by Qatar.
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Reuters
Diplomatic sources and the United Nations say that the United States refused to issue Sudanese military chief and leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan a visa to attend the UN General Assembly in New York City. Sudan asks the UN to intervene.
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AFP
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
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.
Source:
The Peninsula
A helicopter crashes in a mountainous area of Urubici, Santa Catarina, Brazil, killing the five occupants, including singer Rick Sollo.
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Xinhua
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
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
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)Egypt–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
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
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
Politics and elections
Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education introduces nationwide rules restricting cellphone and tablet use throughout the school day in public primary and secondary schools, effective November 3. High schools set their own limits for educational use.
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The Star
September 20
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
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
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
Armed conflicts and attacks
Qatar's foreign ministry says that they are working to resume ceasefire negotiations between Iran and the United States.
Source:
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
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
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
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
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