Current events: 2024-09-02

Wikipedia Current Events · Sep 2, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Afghan conflict
- Six people are killed and 13 others are injured in a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan. No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing. (AP)
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Two people, including an independent contractor working for UNIFIL, are killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Tyre-Naqoura road in Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

Wreck of the Titanic
- An expedition to the shipwreck of the RMS Titanic reveals considerable deterioration of the bow, as well as the rediscovery of a bronze Diana of Versailles replica last seen during the initial survey of the wreck in 1986. (AP)

International relations

Foreign relations of Ukraine, Mongolia–Russia relations
- President of Russia Vladimir Putin arrives in Mongolia to discuss a China–Russia gas pipeline meant to recoup Russian losses from Western sanctions, despite Ukraine and the European Union urging Mongolia to arrest Putin under his International Criminal Court warrant. (Reuters) (Euronews)
- Ukraine's Foreign Ministry states that Mongolia's refusal to arrest Vladimir Putin while on a state visit means that it shares "responsibility for the war crimes" committed by Russia, and vows to work with allies to enforce punitive measures towards Mongolia. (Reuters)
Foreign relations of Turkey
- Turkey formally applies to join the BRICS geopolitical bloc, citing the lack of progress in its accession to the European Union. (Bloomberg) (Daily Sabah)
United States–Venezuela relations
- The United States seizes a Dassault Falcon 900 jet used by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on accusations that the purchase of the jet violated U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, and flies the jet from the Dominican Republic to Florida. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Sports