Disasters and accidents
International relations
Law and crime
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- 2023 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Lee weakens into a post-tropical cyclone. However, it is still expected to make landfall in Nova Scotia in eastern Canada. (NBC News)
- A military airplane crashes near Turin, Italy, killing a 5-year old child and injuring four others including the pilot. (NOS)
International relations
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso sign a three-state pact named the Alliance of Sahel States, vowing to come to the defense of any of them in cases of "rebellion or external aggression". (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Mahsa Amini protests
- Human rights organizations say that Iranian police arrested the father of Mahsa Amini on the first anniversary of her death. (Reuters)
- Storm Daniel
- Libya's top prosecutor announces a probe into the dam collapses which led to the floods that killed more than 11,000 people. (AP)
- Mexican Drug War
- Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, is extradited to the United States from Mexico on drug trafficking and money laundering charges. (Reuters)
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