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Sep
17
Politics / Government

2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee President Shahriar Kabir is arrested in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on charges of crimes ag

2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee President Shahriar Kabir is arrested in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on charges of crimes against humanity, mass killing, and murder for his involvement with Sheikh Hasina's government during the quota reform movement. (Dhaka Tribune)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 17, 2024
Sep
17
Politics / Government

Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee President Shahriar Kabir is arrested in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on charges of crimes against humanity, mass killing, and murd

Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee President Shahriar Kabir is arrested in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on charges of crimes against humanity, mass killing, and murder for his involvement with Sheikh Hasina's government during the quota reform movement. (Dhaka Tribune)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 17, 2024
Sep
18
Politics / Government

Mexican drug war Mexican Secretary of Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval announces that at least 30 people have been killed since September 9 during shootouts betw

Mexican drug war Mexican Secretary of Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval announces that at least 30 people have been killed since September 9 during shootouts between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel in Sinaloa, Mexico. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador partially blames the United States for the surge in violence. (AP) (AP 2)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 18, 2024
Sep
19
Politics / Government

2000 Fijian coup d'état Fijian coup leader George Speight is released from prison after obtaining a pardon from President Wiliame Katonivere.

2000 Fijian coup d'état Fijian coup leader George Speight is released from prison after obtaining a pardon from President Wiliame Katonivere. Speight was imprisoned in 2002 for his role in the 2000 coup d'état in which ethnic Fijian nationalists attempted to overthrow Indo-Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry. (RNZ)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 19, 2024
Sep
20
Politics / Government

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announces a loan of up to €35 billion (US$39 billion) for Ukraine in military and energy support follo

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announces a loan of up to €35 billion (US$39 billion) for Ukraine in military and energy support following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's drafting of a new victory plan against Russia. (Reuters)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 20, 2024
Sep
20
Politics / Government

Ukraine–European Union relations President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announces a loan of up to €35 billion (US$39 billion) for Ukraine in

Ukraine–European Union relations President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announces a loan of up to €35 billion (US$39 billion) for Ukraine in military and energy support following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's drafting of a new victory plan against Russia. (Reuters)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 20, 2024
Sep
21
Politics / Government

2024 Sri Lankan presidential election Sri Lankan voters head to the polls to elect a new president between 39 candidates.

2024 Sri Lankan presidential election Sri Lankan voters head to the polls to elect a new president between 39 candidates. The main frontrunners are Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the socialist National People's Power and current Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa of the progressive United People's Power Party. (BBC)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 21, 2024
Sep
22
Politics / Government

2024 Sri Lankan presidential election For the first time in Sri Lanka's history, election officials begin a second round of vote counting.

2024 Sri Lankan presidential election For the first time in Sri Lanka's history, election officials begin a second round of vote counting. In the first round, National People's Power candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake led with 42.31% of the vote counted, while opposition leader and United People's Power candidate Sajith Premadasa took second place with 32.76%. Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe came in third place with 17% of the vote. Following the counting of second and third preferences, Dissanayake is declared president-elect by the election commission. (AP) (BBC News)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 22, 2024
Sep
22
Politics / Government

For the first time in Sri Lanka's history, election officials begin a second round of vote counting.

For the first time in Sri Lanka's history, election officials begin a second round of vote counting. In the first round, National People's Power candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake led with 42.31% of the vote counted, while opposition leader and United People's Power candidate Sajith Premadasa took second place with 32.76%. Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe came in third place with 17% of the vote. Following the counting of second and third preferences, Dissanayake is declared president-elect by the election commission. (AP) (BBC News)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 22, 2024
Sep
23
Politics / Government

2024 AFL season 2024 Brownlow Medal In Australian football, Patrick Cripps wins his second Brownlow Medal with 45 votes, the most votes since the current voting

2024 AFL season 2024 Brownlow Medal In Australian football, Patrick Cripps wins his second Brownlow Medal with 45 votes, the most votes since the current voting system was introduced, and also becomes the seventeenth player to win the award more than once. (ABC News Australia)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 23, 2024
Sep
23
Politics / Government

2024 Brownlow Medal In Australian football, Patrick Cripps wins his second Brownlow Medal with 45 votes, the most votes since the current voting system was intr

2024 Brownlow Medal In Australian football, Patrick Cripps wins his second Brownlow Medal with 45 votes, the most votes since the current voting system was introduced, and also becomes the seventeenth player to win the award more than once. (ABC News Australia)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 23, 2024
Sep
24
Politics / Government

2024 Brazil wildfires Over thirty environmental organizations condemn Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's actions that contradict his calls for furt

2024 Brazil wildfires Over thirty environmental organizations condemn Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's actions that contradict his calls for further global action against climate change, such as requests for drilling oil reserves near the Amazon River and paving the BR-319 roadway through the Amazon that they state contribute to ongoing wildfires. (AP)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 24, 2024
Sep
24
Politics / Government

2024 South American wildfires 2024 Brazil wildfires Over thirty environmental organizations condemn Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's actions that

2024 South American wildfires 2024 Brazil wildfires Over thirty environmental organizations condemn Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's actions that contradict his calls for further global action against climate change, such as requests for drilling oil reserves near the Amazon River and paving the BR-319 roadway through the Amazon that they state contribute to ongoing wildfires. (AP)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 24, 2024
Sep
24
Politics / Government

Argentine President Javier Milei proposes an "agenda of freedom" with economic, social, and foreign policies that directly contradict the United Nations' "Pact

Argentine President Javier Milei proposes an "agenda of freedom" with economic, social, and foreign policies that directly contradict the United Nations' "Pact for the Future", which he calls a model to "repress, restrict and curtail" humanity's freedom and ineffective at preventing conflicts. (Reuters)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 24, 2024
Sep
24
Politics / Government

Human rights in Belarus Belarusian independent news outlet Reform.news reports that Jörg Dornau, an Alternative for Germany member of the Saxony parliament, has

Human rights in Belarus Belarusian independent news outlet Reform.news reports that Jörg Dornau, an Alternative for Germany member of the Saxony parliament, has allegedly used political prisoners as labor on a Belarusian onion plantation owned by his agricultural firm. (Politico)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 24, 2024
Sep
24
Politics / Government

Over thirty environmental organizations condemn Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's actions that contradict his calls for further global action agai

Over thirty environmental organizations condemn Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's actions that contradict his calls for further global action against climate change, such as requests for drilling oil reserves near the Amazon River and paving the BR-319 roadway through the Amazon that they state contribute to ongoing wildfires. (AP)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 24, 2024
Sep
25
Politics / Government

Brazil–Ukraine relations, China–Ukraine relations Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Brazil and China of using their proposed peace plan for ending

Brazil–Ukraine relations, China–Ukraine relations Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Brazil and China of using their proposed peace plan for ending the Russo-Ukrainian War to increase their geopolitical power "at Ukraine's expense" by urging developing nations to agree to the peace plan. (Reuters)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 25, 2024
Sep
25
Politics / Government

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Brazil and China of using their proposed peace plan for ending the Russo-Ukrainian War to increase their geopoli

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Brazil and China of using their proposed peace plan for ending the Russo-Ukrainian War to increase their geopolitical power "at Ukraine's expense" by urging developing nations to agree to the peace plan. (Reuters)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 25, 2024
Sep
28
Politics / Government

2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike Hezbollah announces the death of its leader Hassan Nasrallah in yesterday's Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, Lebanon.

2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike Hezbollah announces the death of its leader Hassan Nasrallah in yesterday's Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters) Interim Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati announces the country will have a national mourning period of three days for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, starting on Monday. (Al Jazeera) Iran confirms that Abbas Nilforoushan, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deputy commander, was killed in yesterday's airstrikes in Beirut. (Al Arabiya)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 28, 2024
Sep
30
Politics / Government

Australia–Tuvalu relations, Climate change in Tuvalu Tuvalu's climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government's decision to expand three coal mines a

Australia–Tuvalu relations, Climate change in Tuvalu Tuvalu's climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government's decision to expand three coal mines as an existential threat to the nation, due to the role of the mines in causing rising sea levels that have forced mass displacement across Tuvalu's low-lying islands. (The Guardian)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 30, 2024
Sep
30
Politics / Government

Tuvalu's climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government's decision to expand three coal mines as an existential threat to the nation, due to the rol

Tuvalu's climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government's decision to expand three coal mines as an existential threat to the nation, due to the role of the mines in causing rising sea levels that have forced mass displacement across Tuvalu's low-lying islands. (The Guardian)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Sep 30, 2024
Oct
01
Politics / Government

Russian invasion of Ukraine Eastern Ukraine campaign Battle of Vuhledar Russian forces capture the town of Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, after Ukrainian

Russian invasion of Ukraine Eastern Ukraine campaign Battle of Vuhledar Russian forces capture the town of Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, after Ukrainian forces retreat from the town. (The Daily Telegraph) Southern Ukraine campaign Seven people are killed and 12 others are injured in Russian strikes in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Reuters)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Oct 1, 2024
Oct
02
Politics / Government

Israel and the United Nations Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz bans UN Secretary-General António Guterres from entering Israel and declares him p

Israel and the United Nations Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz bans UN Secretary-General António Guterres from entering Israel and declares him persona non grata for not "unequivocally" condemning yesterday's Iranian missile attack. (Reuters) (DW)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Oct 2, 2024
Oct
03
Politics / Government

Armed gunmen from the Gran Grif gang commit a mass shooting with automatic rifles and a series of arson attacks in the town of Pont-Sondé, Haiti, killing at lea

Armed gunmen from the Gran Grif gang commit a mass shooting with automatic rifles and a series of arson attacks in the town of Pont-Sondé, Haiti, killing at least 70 people and seriously injuring 16 others, with a local government prosecutor describing the incident as a massacre. (CTV News)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Oct 3, 2024
Oct
03
Politics / Government

Haitian crisis Pont-Sondé attack Armed gunmen from the Gran Grif gang commit a mass shooting with automatic rifles and a series of arson attacks in the town of

Haitian crisis Pont-Sondé attack Armed gunmen from the Gran Grif gang commit a mass shooting with automatic rifles and a series of arson attacks in the town of Pont-Sondé, Haiti, killing at least 70 people and seriously injuring 16 others, with a local government prosecutor describing the incident as a massacre. (CTV News)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Oct 3, 2024
Oct
03
Politics / Government

Pont-Sondé attack Armed gunmen from the Gran Grif gang commit a mass shooting with automatic rifles and a series of arson attacks in the town of Pont-Sondé, Hai

Pont-Sondé attack Armed gunmen from the Gran Grif gang commit a mass shooting with automatic rifles and a series of arson attacks in the town of Pont-Sondé, Haiti, killing at least 70 people and seriously injuring 16 others, with a local government prosecutor describing the incident as a massacre. (CTV News)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Oct 3, 2024
Oct
03
Politics / Government

Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip An Israeli airstrike in central Gaza kills Aziz Salha, known for his role in the 2000 Ramallah lynching.

Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip An Israeli airstrike in central Gaza kills Aziz Salha, known for his role in the 2000 Ramallah lynching. (Jerusalem Post) The Israel Defense Forces announces that they killed Rawhi Mushtaha, head of the Hamas government in Gaza, along with Sameh al-Siraj and Sami Oudeh, who were responsible for security in Hamas, in an airstrike three months ago in northern Gaza. (BBC News)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Oct 3, 2024
Oct
03
Politics / Government

Prosecution of S.

Prosecution of S. Iswaran Former Singapore Transport Minister S. Iswaran, who pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining valuable items as a public servant and one charge of obstruction of justice last week, is sentenced to one year in jail. (CNA) (Straits Times)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Oct 3, 2024
Oct
04
Politics / Government

Georgia–European Union relations, Accession of Georgia to the European Union The European Union threatens sanctions and a suspension of relations with Georgia i

Georgia–European Union relations, Accession of Georgia to the European Union The European Union threatens sanctions and a suspension of relations with Georgia if Georgia becomes a "one-party state" with no political opposition following the next parliamentary elections on October 26. (Reuters)

Source: Wikipedia Current Events | Oct 4, 2024
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