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September 23, 2022
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2022-09-23
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Afghanistan conflict
September 2022 Kabul mosque bombing
Seven people are killed and 41 others are injured when a
car bomb
explodes
at a
mosque
in
Kabul
,
Afghanistan
.
(Reuters)
Tigray War
A 60-year-old man is killed by an
Ethiopian
airstrike
on
Mekelle
, in the rebel-controlled
Tigray Region
.
(Reuters)
Mexican drug war
Gunmen kill ten people in a
mass shooting
at a
pool hall
in
Tarimoro
,
Guanajuato
,
Mexico
.
(CBS News)
Health and environment
COVID-19 pandemic
,
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism
,
Tourism in Bhutan
Bhutan
reopens its borders for international tourists following a two-year closure due to the
pandemic
.
(ANINews)
Law and crime
Mahsa Amini protests
,
Iran–United States relations
Sanctions
are imposed on seven
Iranian government
officials and one group by the
United States Department of the Treasury
, which blames the
Guidance Patrol
for the
death of Mahsa Amini
.
(AP)
Politics and elections
Russo-Ukrainian War
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Referendums
begin in the Russian-occupied
Ukrainian oblasts
of
Kherson
and
Zaporizhzhia
and the
separatist
republics of
Donetsk
and
Luhansk
on whether to join
Russia
, in what
Ukraine
and other countries consider to be "sham" referendums.
(AFP via
Barron's
)
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