Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza City offensive
      • More than 83 Palestinians are killed in Israeli strikes and attacks across Gaza, including at least 61 of them in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
• Somali Civil War
  • American airstrikes in Somalia
    • USAFRICOM claims that the airstrike conducted on 12 September in Badhan in Sanaag region in Somaliland, targeting a traditional elder accused of being an Al-Shabaab member, was executed in coordination with the Somali federal government. Puntland authorities have initiated an investigation following the death of the elder in an airstrike by unidentified aircraft, an attack which his family claims was directed solely at him.  (Hiiraan Online) AFRICOM (Hiiraan Online)
• 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
  • At least 28 people are injured as Cambodian protesters clash with Thai security forces in a disputed border area between Banteay Meanchey, Cambodia, and Sa Kaeo, Thailand, raising tensions despite a ceasefire agreement. (AP)
• Islamist insurgency in Niger
  • Gunmen on motorbikes kill 22 people in Takoubatt, Tillabéri Region, Niger, most of whom were attending a baptism ceremony. (BBC News) (Report)

• Killing of Charlie Kirk
  • American late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! is suspended indefinitely by its broadcast network ABC, following controversial comments by its host regarding Charlie Kirk's killing, which sparked criticism and threats from the Federal Communications Commission. (AP)

• Five UN police officers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a MINUSCA convoy are killed when their armored personnel carrier crashes and rolls into a river while crossing a bridge near Bangui, Central African Republic. (AP)

• 2025 European heatwaves
  • The Copernicus Climate Change Service reports that at least 53 percent of Europe experienced drought in August, the highest level recorded since records began in 2012. (AFP via France 24)

• Australia–Papua New Guinea relations
  • Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese and Papua New Guinean prime minister James Marape sign a communiqué in Port Moresby confirming agreement on a mutual defence treaty after earlier plans to sign the treaty failed. (Reuters)
• Israel–European Union relations
  • The European Union outlines a set of sanctions against Israeli settlers and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and urges the 27 member states to issue these sanctions to freeze European assets and ban inter-EU travel. (AP)
• Pakistan–Saudi Arabia relations
  • Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif sign a mutual defense pact in Riyadh. (Al Jazeera)

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 North Codorus Township shooting
    • Three police officers are killed and two are critically injured in a mass shooting when a gunman opens fire during a warrant at a farm house in North Codorus Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The perpetrator is also killed. (WCAU-TV)
• 2025 Indonesian protests
  • Indonesia's Constitutional Court rules that parliament followed proper procedure in passing amendments to the military law, rejecting a petition that sought to annul the amendments. (Reuters)

• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • Philippine House Speaker Martin Romualdez resigns over his alleged involvement in the flood control controversy, with former deputy speaker Bojie Dy elected as the next speaker of the House of Representatives. (Bloomberg) (Rappler) (DZRH)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War on drugs
  • 2025 US Caribbean naval deployment
    • United States president Donald Trump claims that the U.S. military carried out a strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug cartel vessel in international waters, killing three people, making it the second such strike carried out against a suspected drug boat in September. (Reuters)
• War in the Sahel
  • Boko Haram insurgency
    • Nigerian troops kill at least eleven ISWAP fighters in two operations in the Adamawa and Borno states. (Reuters)
• Haitian conflict
  • Armed gangs attack an armored vehicle in Kenscoff, Haiti, killing the driver and injuring two police officers on board. (AP)

• Mexico–United States relations
  • The U.S. Department of Transportation orders Mexican flag carrier Aeroméxico and U.S. major carrier Delta Air Lines to end their joint venture by January 1, 2026, citing anti-competitive effects on Mexico–U.S. routes. (Reuters)
• Australian bank ANZ agrees to pay AU$240 million (US$160 million) in penalties, the largest ever imposed by the Securities and Investments Commission, for misconduct including irregularities in a government bond deal and failures affecting its customers. (Reuters)

• Sudanese refugee crisis
  • At least 50 people are killed after a boat carrying Sudanese refugees catches fire off the coast of Libya, with 24 survivors receiving medical assistance. (Reuters)
• Four people are killed and nine others injured after a bus collides with a truck in Uttar Pradesh, India. (The Times of India)

• Israel–United Kingdom relations
  • United Kingdom and the Gaza war
    • The British defence ministry bans Israelis from attending the Royal College of Defence Studies over Israel's decision to fully invade Gaza City. (Reuters)
• South Korea–United States relations
  • 2025 Georgia Hyundai plant immigration raid
    • South Korea announces it will launch a formal investigation into human rights abuses by U.S. federal personnel during the raid at a Hyundai factory in Georgia earlier this month. (DW)
• Colombia–United States relations, Colombian conflict
  • The United States adds Colombia to its list of countries failing to meet international counter-narcotics obligations for the first time since 1997, citing increased cocaine production. (AFP via France 24)

• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • Philippine president Bongbong Marcos appoints former Supreme Court associate justice Andres Reyes Jr. as the chairperson of the newly established Independent Commission for Infrastructure to investigate corruption in flood control projects. (Rappler)
• Violations of non-combatant airspaces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Poland detains a Belarusian woman and a Ukrainian man after a drone flew over the Presidential Palace in Warsaw and was neutralized by the State Protection Service. (AP)
• India's Supreme Court clears the Vantara wildlife rescue centre, run by the Reliance Foundation, of allegations of illegal animal acquisition and mistreatment after a court-appointed investigation found no such violations. (Reuters)
• Recorder of London Mark Lucraft sentences English couple Constance Marten and Mark Gordon to 14 years in prison each for the manslaughter of their newborn daughter. (CBS News)

• 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
  • U.S. president Donald Trump orders the deployment of the Army National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee, to "combat crimes". (The Independent)
• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Tanzania's electoral commission disqualifies ACT-Wazalendo candidate Luhaga Mpina from the upcoming presidential election for a second time, reversing its earlier approval on September 13. (Reuters)
• Belarusian opposition politician Mikola Statkevich, released last week as part of a prisoner deal, is returned to a penal colony in Hlybokaye, Vitebsk region, after refusing deportation to Lithuania. (Reuters)
• Chad's National Assembly approves constitutional amendments extending presidential terms from five to seven years and removing term limits, with a final Senate vote scheduled for October 13. (Reuters)

• 2025 World Athletics Championships
  • 2025 World Athletics Championships – Men's pole vault
    • Swedish–American pole vaulter Armand Duplantis breaks his own world record of 6.29 meters set in 2025 by jumping 6.30 meters, winning him the gold medal at the World Athletics Championships. (International Olympic Committee)
• 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup
  • In rugby union, France's Axelle Berthoumieu receives a 12-match suspension for biting Ireland's Aoife Wafer during their Women's Rugby World Cup quarterfinal, while teammate Manaé Feleu is banned for three matches for a dangerous tackle. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 53 Palestinians are killed by Israeli attacks, including 35 in Gaza City where the Israeli army has been concentrating its assault. (Al Jazeera)
• Colombian conflict
  • A police officer is killed and four others are injured in an attack on a police station in Cauca, Colombia, by FARC dissidents, prompting military deployment to restore order. (The Times of India)
• Islamist insurgency in Niger
  • The Nigerien government reports that at least fourteen soldiers were killed in ambushes by unknown militants in the Tillabéri Region last week. (AP)

• 77th Primetime Emmy Awards
  • At the 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards in the United States, The Studio becomes the most-nominated first-year comedy series in the awards' history at 23 nominations, tying The Bear's nominations from last year. (Variety)
  • For the first time in the awards' history, every nominee for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series has at least one woman on the writing team. (Variety)
  • The Studio wins Outstanding Comedy Series and The Pitt wins Outstanding Drama Series, while Adolescence wins Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. (The Hollywood Reporter)
  • English actor Owen Cooper wins the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his role in Adolescence, becoming the youngest male recipient of an Emmy Award. (Daily Tribune)
  • Tramell Tillman becomes the first Black man to win the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work in Severance. (Variety)
  • The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award is awarded to married actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen in recognition of "a lifetime of philanthropy", marking the first time the award is presented to a couple. (Television Academy)

• 2025 Kasaï Province Ebola outbreak
  • The World Health Organization begins Ebola vaccinations for exposed individuals and health workers in Kasaï Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)

• 2025 Turkish protests
  • Over 50,000 people march in Ankara, Turkey, to protest against and call for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to resign following the government's judicial coup against the country's opposition party, Republican People's Party, and its leader Özgür Özel. (DW)
• Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune appoints Sifi Ghrieb as prime minister following Nadir Larbaoui's dismissal in August. (Reuters)

• 2025 Vuelta a España
  • Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard wins the annual Vuelta a España road cycling race in Spain. (Le Monde)
  • The final stage of the race is suspended following pro-Palestinian protests against the Israel–Premier Tech team on Paseo del Prado in Madrid. (CNN)
• EuroBasket 2025
  • In basketball, Germany defeats Turkey 88–83 in the EuroBasket 2025 final, with Dennis Schröder selected as the MVP. In the third-place match, Greece beats Finland. (FIBA)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia–NATO relations, Romania–Russia relations
  • Violations of non-combatant airspaces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Russian drone breaches Romanian airspace, prompting NATO forces to scramble fighter jets. Lublin Airport in eastern Poland is also closed again for the second time this week due to the threat of Russian drones. (Reuters)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 62 people are killed and dozens of others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
    • Nineteen soldiers and 45 Pakistani Taliban militants are killed at two hideouts near the Durand Line in Bajaur District and South Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, during clashes in the past two days. (Reuters) (The Canadian Press)

• At least 61 people, mostly Sudanese refugees, are missing after a boat carrying 74 passengers capsized off Tobruk, Cyrenaica, Libya. (AFP via Barron's)
• At least 19 people are killed after a bus carrying wedding guests plunged into a river in Zamfara State, Nigeria. (MSN)
• At least 15 people are killed in a multi-vehicle collision along Federal Highway 180 between Campeche and Mérida in southeast Mexico. (Reuters)
• Four people are killed and one is injured after a passenger de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver crashes near Makepeace Lake in Manitoba, Canada. (CBC)
• One person is killed and 25 others are injured, including three critically, in an explosion due to a gas leak at a bar in Madrid, Spain. (DW)

• 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests
  • The government of Nepal lifts the curfew in Bhaktapur, Kathmandu, and Lalitpur, imposed on September 9, citing restored calm after Sushila Karki's appointment as interim prime minister. (AP)
• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Seven people are killed in a shooting by criminal gangs at a pool hall in Santo Domingo, Ecuador, less than a month after a similar attack at a different pool hall in the city which also killed seven people. (CBS News) (AP)
• The German customs bureau arrests two men and seizes over of cocaine at the port in Hamburg. (DW)

• 2025 British anti-immigration protests
  • More than 100,000 people protest against illegal immigration in central London, England, in a rally led by right-wing activist Tommy Robinson. Thousands of anti-racism protesters and left-wing groups also hold counter-protests. (BBC News)
• 2025 Tanzanian general election
  • Tanzania's electoral commission accepts the nomination of ACT-Wazalendo candidate Luhaga Mpina for the upcoming presidential election after the High Court overturned Mpina's earlier disqualification. (Reuters)

• 2025 Speedway Grand Prix
  • In auto racing, Bartosz Zmarzlik become a record-equalling six-time motorcycle Speedway Grand Prix World champion. (FIM Speedway)
• Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford
  • In boxing, Terence Crawford defeats Canelo Álvarez by unanimous decision, becoming the undisputed super middleweight champion and the second ever three-weight undisputed boxing champion. (ESPN)
• The 2025 World Athletics Championships start in Tokyo, Japan. (ESPN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Palestinian political violence
    • A Palestinian assailant stabs two Israeli civilians in Tzova, Jerusalem District. (The Times of Israel)
• 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests
  • Nepali police announce that nine prisoners have been killed and 12,500 others are at large after a series of jailbreaks across Nepal amid the ongoing protests. (Al Jazeera)
• Haitian conflict
  • At least 42 people are killed by armed gangs, including the Viv Ansamn, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP)
• Myanmar civil war
  • At least 18 people, mostly students, are killed in a Tatmadaw airstrike on two schools in Kyauktaw Township in Rakhine State, Myanmar, an area controlled by the Arakan Army. (AP)
• Turkey–Islamic State conflict
  • Turkish police arrest 161 people suspected of being members of the Islamic State (IS) over the last week and seize unlicensed weapons and IS documents in raids in 38 provinces, including Istanbul and Ankara. (AP)

• Norges Bank removes French mining company Eramet from Norway's sovereign wealth fund, citing risks of human rights abuses and environmental damage linked to a nickel mining project in Halmahera, Indonesia. (AFP via New Straits Times)

• 2025 Hassan district truck accident
  • At least nine people are killed and 23 others are injured, including several critically and the driver, when a truck rams into people celebrating the Ganesh Chaturthi Hindu festival in Hassan district, Karnataka, India. (News18) (The Times of India)
• A ski lift accident on Mount Elbrus in Russia kills two people and injures nine others. (AP)

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly
  • In a 142–10 vote with 12 abstentions, the UN General Assembly adopts the New York Declaration, calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza war, the release of hostages, the disarmament of Hamas, and renewed momentum toward a two-state solution. (The Guardian)
• Kosovo–United States relations, North Kosovo crisis
  • The United States suspends its planned negotiations with Kosovo, citing caretaker government actions that it says have increased tensions and instability in the region. (Reuters)

• Killing of Charlie Kirk
  • A 22-year-old is arrested as a suspect in the killing of American political commentator Charlie Kirk two days ago. (CNN)
• Costa Rican police arrest four suspects in the killing of exiled Nicaraguan former military officer Roberto Samcam near San José in June. (Reuters)
• The South African high court reopens an inquest into the 1977 death in police custody of anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko to determine possible crimes committed. (Reuters)

• 2025 Indian vice presidential election
  • C. P. Radhakrishnan is sworn in as the 15th vice president of India. (NDTV)
• 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests
  • The House of Representatives is dissolved and Sushila Karki is appointed interim prime minister of Nepal, making her the first woman to head Nepal's government. (AP) (India Today)

• 2026 Winter Olympics, Bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics, Skeleton at the Winter Olympics
  • The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation votes to ban Russian athletes from competing, including under neutral status, at next year's Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (AP)