Portal:Current events/2019 October 9

October 9, 2019 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Halle synagogue shooting
- Two people are killed and two others are injured in attacks by a man wearing military camouflage near a synagogue and at a kebab shop in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Shots are also reported in nearby Landsberg. A suspect, 27-year-old Stephan Billiet, is arrested. The attack had been livestreamed on Twitch for 35 minutes citing anti-Semitic and racist motivations. (BBC News) (DW) (The Guardian)
2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria, Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War, Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says his country has launched a military invasion of northern and eastern Syria. The Kurdish YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces say that Turkish fighter aircraft strike targets and "civilian areas". Syrian state television says the Turkish artillery shelling of Ras al-Ayn, al-Hasakah Governorate, is "random", and Ayn Issa, Raqqa Governorate, is also being shelled. (Deutsche Welle) (Al Jazeera) (Xinhuanet)
- The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces requests urgent air support from the United States, and a no-fly zone over northern Syria to protect it from Turkish air raids. U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. forces to not intervene in the conflict. (Reuters) (BBC News)
- Women at the SDF-controlled Al-Hawl refugee camp, which holds around 74,000 refugees, mostly the wives and children of ISIL fighters, riot and burn their tents according to a Kurdish security official. (Kurdistan24)
- The U.S. military takes two militants of the Beatles ISIL cell previously held by Kurdish forces to face trial in the United States. (Reuters) (ABC News)
- Multiple reports that ISIL has committed multiple suicide bombings in the Syrian city of Raqqa. (Time)
Military activity of ISIL
- President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou claims that American hostage Jeffery Ray Woodke is still alive and being held by a jihadist group affiliated with ISIL. Woodke was kidnapped in October 2016. (ABC News)

Business and economy

The OECD releases a set of proposals, for the 134 countries which accepted the principle, to discuss and negotiate a change in international taxation of the big digital and consumer goods companies' global profits. (Reuters)
International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis
- Adobe cuts access to its software and cancels all Creative Cloud memberships in Venezuela, to comply with U.S. President Donald Trump's trade restrictions. (BBC News)
European debt crisis
- Greece issues new three-month debt at a negative interest rate. (Financial Times)

Law and crime

2019 Tunisian presidential election
- An appeals court in Tunisia releases candidate Nabil Karoui from prison, days before the second round of the presidential election. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

2019 Ecuadorian protests
- Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno says that he will not resign "under any circumstance" and continues with his government in Guayaquil. (Infobae)

Science and technology

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium ion batteries. (CNN)