Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
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- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- A Palestinian man is killed and others are injured, a building is destroyed and ambulances are obstructed and shot at, during a raid by Israeli soldiers in Aqabah, in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
- Armenia says that shelling by Azerbaijani forces killed two of its soldiers and wounded another in the town of Sotk. (Reuters)
- Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
- Syrian civil war
- Deir ez-Zor Clashes (2023)
- Arab tribesmen briefly take control of two villages in Aleppo to support fellow tribesmen fighting the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeast Syria, as the battle enters its third day with at least 45 killed. (Al Jazeera)
- Deir ez-Zor Clashes (2023)
- 2023 Sudan conflict
- Siege of El Obeid
- Sudanese Armed Forces fully capture El Obeid, pushing the Rapid Support Forces out of city limits. Skirmishes continue on the outskirts of the city. (Dabanga Sudan)
- Siege of El Obeid
Business and economy
- 2022–2023 food crises
- The Philippines imposes price ceilings on rice to counter increasing costs and alleged market manipulation, setting the maximum prices for regular-milled and well-milled rice, at {{Philippine peso|41|link=yes}} (US$0.72) and {{Philippine peso|45}} ($0.80) per kilogram, respectively. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Pacific typhoon season
- Hong Kong elevates its typhoon warning signal to level 10, the highest level, as Super Typhoon Saola approaches. Over 880,000 people across Fujian and Guangdong, China, have been evacuated. (AFP via France 24)
- An explosion at a metal factory in Cabreuva, São Paulo, Brazil, kills two people and injures at least 12 others. (ABC News)
International relations
- Foreign relations of the Holy See, Foreign relations of Mongolia
- Pope Francis arrives in Mongolia, marking the first papal visit to the country, which has a small Catholic population. (NCR)
- Russia and weapons of mass destruction
- Roscosmos head Yury Borisov announces that the RS-28 Sarmat ICBM has been deployed for combat duty. (The Moscow Times)
Law and crime
- Eighteen people are killed during a shootout between robbers and police in Limpopo, South Africa. (Al Jazeera)
- Twenty-five people are arrested after a riot at a kok-boru event breaks out in Kyrgyzstan on Independence Day. (The New York Times)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Singaporean presidential election
- Singaporeans head to the polls for a presidential election. Former senior minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is elected as the 9th president with over 70% of the valid votes. (CNA)
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