Disasters and accidents
Health and environment
Law and crime
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- 2023 Tver plane crash
- Russia confirms that Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has died in a plane crash on an Embraer Legacy 600. (The Moscow Times)
- 2023 Atlantic hurricane season
- Tropical Storm Idalia forms in the Gulf of Mexico as the tenth tropical storm or subtropical storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. (New York Times)
- Three US Marines are killed and 20 others are injured when their tiltrotor crashes north of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. (BBC News)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
- The North Korean government announces the lifting of certain pandemic-era travel restrictions, allowing citizens abroad to return to the country provided they remain in quarantine for one week. (AFP via WION)
- COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
Law and crime
- The Taliban announces that it has banned women from the Band-e Amir National Park in Afghanistan’s Bamyan Province. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- Syrian Civil War
- 2023 Syrian protests
- Anti-government protests continue in government-held territory in Syria for the eighth day, with protesters shutting down government buildings and burning pictures of President Bashar Al-Assad. (SOHR)
- 2023 Syrian protests
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