Portal:Current events/2022 September 23

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan conflict
  • September 2022 Kabul mosque bombing
    • Seven people are killed and 41 others are injured when a car bomb explodes at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
• Tigray War
  • A 60-year-old man is killed by an Ethiopian airstrike on Mekelle, in the rebel-controlled Tigray Region. (Reuters)
• Mexican drug war
  • Gunmen kill ten people in a mass shooting at a pool hall in Tarimoro, Guanajuato, Mexico. (CBS News)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism, Tourism in Bhutan
  • Bhutan reopens its borders for international tourists following a two-year closure due to the pandemic. (ANINews)

Law and crime

• Mahsa Amini protests, Iran–United States relations
  • Sanctions are imposed on seven Iranian government officials and one group by the United States Department of the Treasury, which blames the Guidance Patrol for the death of Mahsa Amini. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine
      • Referendums begin in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian oblasts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia and the separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk on whether to join Russia, in what Ukraine and other countries consider to be "sham" referendums. (AFP via Barron's)