Portal:Current events/2023 September 5

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Nigerien crisis
  • France–Niger relations
    • France and Niger's military government begin talks on the possible withdrawal of French troops from the West African country. (Al Jazeera)
• Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • 2023 Yatenga Province clashes
    • Seventeen Burkinabé soldiers, thirty-six VDP militiamen, and several dozen Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin militants are killed during fighting in Yatenga, Burkina Faso. (ABC News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022–2023 western Russia attacks
    • Russia's defense ministry says it has shot down three Ukrainian aerial drones over Istra, Moscow, and over the Kaluga and Tver regions near Moscow. (Al Jazeera)
    • Governor of Bryansk Oblast Alexander Bogomaz says border guards and security services prevented an attempt by an Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group to cross into Russia. (Al Arabiya)
  • Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Cuban foreign ministry says criminal proceedings have been initiated against a recruiting group primarily seeking to enlist Cuban citizens residing in Russia to fight for the country in Ukraine as mercenary activities are prohibited in Cuba, and reiterated that it was not part of the war. (The Guardian) (New York Times)
  • Russia's defense ministry says it destroyed four Ukrainian military boats carrying troops in the Black Sea travelling in the direction of Cape Tarkhankut on the Crimean coast. (Al Jazeera)
  • Russia's defense ministry says it repelled a Ukrainian aerial drone attack over the Black Sea. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• 2021–present United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
  • Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, declares itself bankrupt. The council says all spending, with the exception of protecting vulnerable people and statutory services, will stop immediately. (Sky News)
• Viking Link, the world's longest submarine power cable, a joint venture between the United Kingdom's National Grid and Denmark's Energinet, is completed. The HVDC interconnector will supply around 1.4 million homes in the UK with electricity. (Electrek)
• The Egyptian General Authority for Supply Commodities buys 480,000 metric tonnes of Russian wheat, relying on the imports to fulfill its domestic needs. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Tropical Storm Lee forms east of the Lesser Antilles, moving in west-northwest direction towards the Caribbean. (NHC) (AP)

Law and crime

• Aftermath of the 2021 January 6 United States Capitol attack
  • Criminal proceedings in the January 6 United States Capitol attack
    • Enrique Tarrio, leader of the far-right Proud Boys group, is sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy, which is the longest sentence to date handed down to a January 6 defendant. (CNN)
• Kyoto Animation arson attack
  • Shinji Aoba pleads guilty to arson and 36 murders for setting a fire at an animation studio in Kyoto, Japan, in July 2019. (AP)
• Rubiales affair
  • Spanish football player Jennifer Hermoso files a legal complaint against Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales over a forcible kiss after the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup final. (CNN)