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September 26, 2023
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2023-09-26
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Syrian civil war
Eastern Syria insurgency
Deir ez-Zor clashes
Twenty-one gunmen, four
SDF
members, and a
civilian
are killed following the resumption of clashes in
Deir ez-Zor
,
Syria
.
(SOHR)
Disasters and accidents
Qaraqosh wedding fire
More than 100 people are killed and more than 150 others are injured in a fire at a wedding in
Qaraqosh
,
Nineveh Governorate
,
Iraq
.
(Al Arabiya)
Law and crime
2020–2021 Thai protests
Thai
pro-
democracy
activist
Arnon Nampa
, who led protests in 2020 and 2021, is
sentenced
to four years in prison on a
charge
of
royal insult
.
(
Time
)
Criticism of Amazon
The
Federal Trade Commission
and 17
U.S. states
file a
lawsuit
against
Amazon
over accusations of
monopoly
.
(NP)
Politics and elections
2023 United Auto Workers strike
President of the United States
Joe Biden
visits
striking
UAW
workers near
Detroit
,
Michigan
, becoming the first sitting American president to join a union
picket line
.
(
USA Today
)
2023 Burkina Faso coup d'état attempt
Civilians protest in
Ouagadougou
, the capital of
Burkina Faso
, in support of
junta
leader
Ibrahim Traoré
amid rumors of a
coup
plot.
(Atlas News)
Daniel Andrews
announces his
resignation
as
Premier
of
Victoria
,
Australia
, after nine years in office.
(
The Guardian
)
Anthony Rota
resigns as
speaker of the House of Commons
of
Canada
amid controversy over his decision to invite
Yaroslav Hunka
, a Ukrainian–Canadian veteran of the
Waffen-SS
, to attend a speech by
President of Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
and to introduce Hunka as a "hero" to the House of Commons.
(CBC News)
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