Current events: 2023-09-25

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2022–present North Kosovo crisis
  • Banjska attack
    • Kosovo Police enter the village of Banjska, North Kosovo, with armored vehicles, a day after the village was attacked by gunmen. (Reuters)
• Aftermath of the 2023 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes
  • The number of refugees fleeing to Armenia from Artsakh increases to 6,500. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine
    • Ukraine receives its first shipment of M1 Abrams tanks from the United States. (RFE/RL)
• Yemeni civil war
  • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
    • An ambush by Houthi insurgents kills two Bahraini soldiers, including an officer, and injures several others. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• A five-year-old girl is killed and 18 others are missing following heavy rains and a landslide in Guatemala City, Guatemala. (ABC News)
• An explosion occurs at a fuel warehouse near Stepanakert, Artsakh, injuring over 200 people. (The New York Times)
• Flooding in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico kills seven people and leaves nine others missing. (AP)
• Five people are killed when two private planes collide in La Galancita, Durango, Mexico. (AP)

International relations

• Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • The Philippine Coast Guard removes a series of buoys installed by China in the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea under President Bongbong Marcos' order. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Aftermath of the Derna dam collapses
  • The mayor of Derna, Abdelmounem al-Ghaithi, along with several other officials, is detained over mismanagement and negligence accusations after the Derna dam collapse killed over 5,000 people. (Reuters)
• Burkina Faso suspends Jeune Afrique from reporting in the country after a report yesterday mentioned tension and discontent within the Burkinabe Armed Forces. (Reuters)

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