Portal:Current events/2019 September 10

September 10, 2019 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021)
- The United States Air Force launches a small shock and awe bombing raid using F-35 and F-15 Eagle warplanes on the ISIL-occupied Qanus Island in Iraq's Saladin Governorate, dropping 36,000 kg of explosives. The small island was being used by ISIL as a "major transit hub", according to the U.S.-led coalition. (The Independent) (Sky News)

Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

Karbala stampede
- Thirty-one pilgrims are killed and 100 others are injured in a stampede in the city of Karbala, Iraq, while marking Ashura. (Gulf News)

Health and environment

Fukushima disaster cleanup
- As Tepco says that, by 2022, it will run out of storage room for what is now more than 1 million tonnes of radioactively contaminated reactor core cooling water, Japanese Minister of the Environment Yoshiaki Harada opines that "the only option will be to drain it into the sea and dilute it". (Reuters)

International relations

Colombia–Venezuela relations
- 150,000 Venezuelan troops begin exercises along the Colombian border. Nicolás Maduro's Venezuelan government says it is to intercept an attack from the other country, despite no indications there will be one. (Reuters)
2019 Hong Kong protests, Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act
- Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam urges "foreign parliaments" not to interfere in Hong Kong's internal affairs and says continued violence "cannot solve the issues". (CNN)

Politics and elections