Portal:Current events/2024 September 9

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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

Business and economy

• Draghi report on European competitiveness is published. (Politico)

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)