Current events: 2023-09-15

Wikipedia Current Events · Sep 15, 2023

Armed conflicts and attacks

Business and economy

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia impose national import bans on 24 Ukrainian agricultural products, including grains, vegetables, several meat products and honey. (Reuters)
2023 United Auto Workers strike
- The United Auto Workers announce that they have gone on strike following failed negotiations. (AP)

International relations

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko proposes a three-way alliance between Belarus, Russia and North Korea during a meeting with President of Russia Vladimir Putin. (AP)
France–Niger relations
- President of France Emmanuel Macron says that French ambassador to Niger Sylvain Itté and other diplomats are being held hostage at the French embassy in Niamey, Niger. (CNN)
Burkina Faso–France relations
- The military junta of Burkina Faso orders the French embassy’s defense attaché to leave the country due to subversive behavior. (Al Arabiya) Law and crime
Afghan conflict
- United States invasion of Afghanistan
  - The U.S. government warns a Virginia judge that allowing a United States Marine to keep an Afghan war orphan risks violating international law and could be viewed as endorsing an act of international child abduction. (AP)
Foreign relations of Poland
- The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs fires its legal chief and cancels all contracts to outsource visa applications after seven are charged in a visas-for-cash scandal. (Reuters)
Women's rights in Kuwait
- Kuwait University agrees to impose gender segregation in classrooms in line with a recent agreement between the Kuwaiti MP Mohammed Haif al-Mutairi, who chairs the Committee for the Promotion of Values, and the Kuwaiti Minister of Education. (The New Arab)