Current events: 2023-08-29

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Ethiopian civil conflict
  • War in Amhara
    • The United Nations reports at least 183 people have been killed during recent clashes between Fano militiamen and security forces in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Idalia
    • Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Florida, United States, closes ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Idalia. (WFOR-TV)
    • Widespread flooding and power outages are reported as Idalia makes landfall in Cuba. (The Wall Street Journal)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Papua New Guinea
  • The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, James Marape, announces that his country will open its Israeli embassy in disputed Jerusalem. (RNZ)

Law and crime

• 2023 Imran Khan arrest attempts
  • The Islamabad High Court in Pakistan reverses a lower court's three-year imprisonment verdict against former prime minister Imran Khan for graft, while granting him bail. (AFP via CNA)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
  • Mayor of Miami Francis Suarez suspends his campaign to run in the 2024 United States presidential election, becoming the first Republican candidate to do so. (The Guardian)
• 2023 Tver Oblast plane crash
  • Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is buried following a private funeral in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Politico EU)

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