Current events: 2023-08-27

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Disasters and accidents

• 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)

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)

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