Portal:Current events/2022 September 26

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Russian mobilization
      • 2022 anti-war protests in Russia, 2022 North Caucasian protests
        • Spontaneous protests against the mobilization continue in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria. (Radio Liberty)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • A police officer is killed and another injured during a shooting and bomb attack near a police station in Mersin, Turkey. Both the attackers are killed. (Reuters)
• Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • Eleven soldiers are killed as a 150-vehicle convoy carrying supplies to Djibo is ambushed by Islamist militants in Gaskindé (Pobé-Mengao), Soum Province. (Reuters)
• Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, publicly admits for the first time that he founded the Wagner Group, a private military company accused of war crimes in places where they had been deployed. Prigozhin had previously denied any involvement with the organization. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

• September 2022 United Kingdom mini-budget
  • The pound sterling falls to its record lowest level against the U.S. dollar. (BBC News)
• Inter-American Development Bank chief Mauricio Claver-Carone is fired by the bank's board of governors after an external investigation, started because of a whistleblower complaint, found that Claver-Carone had an undisclosed intimate relationship with his subordinate and committed several ethics violations in connection with her. (Reuters) (Financial Times)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Pacific typhoon season
  • Six people are killed as Typhoon Noru makes landfall on the island of Luzon, Philippines. (NPR)
• Six Pakistani military personnel are killed in a helicopter crash in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Barron's)
• Seven people are killed in a fire in a shopping mall in Daejeon, South Korea. (AP)
• Three people are killed in a building collapse in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP)
• Four people are killed after a boat sinks in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
    • Chancellor Olaf Scholz tests positive for COVID-19. (Reuters)
• 2022 Uganda Ebola outbreak
  • The death toll from an Ebola virus outbreak in Mubende District, Uganda, increases to 23, with a total of 36 confirmed and suspected cases. (CNN)
• The death toll from the cholera outbreak in Syria increases to 29, with a total of 338 cases reported, the majority of whom are in Aleppo Governorate. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Colombia–Venezuela relations
  • The Colombia–Venezuela border reopens for commerce and trade after a seven-year closure. (Bloomberg)
• Kazakhstan–Russia relations
  • Kazakhstan says that it will not recognize the results of the ongoing annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Izhevsk school shooting
  • A man kills 17 people and injures 24 others in a mass shooting at a school in Izhevsk, Russia, before killing himself. (BBC News)
• 2022 California wildfires
  • The United States Forest Service seizes equipment owned by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, as part of a criminal investigation into the company's role in the Mosquito Fire. (Reuters)
• Russia–United States relations
  • President Vladimir Putin signs a decree granting Russian citizenship to American whistleblower Edward Snowden. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Cuban Family Code referendum
  • A referendum is approved in Cuba, granting, among other things, broader rights for the LGBT community, including marriage. (Time)

Science and technology

• Double Asteroid Redirection Test
  • NASA's DART spacecraft successfully impacts Dimorphos at 23:16 UTC, becoming the first spacecraft to impact an asteroid. (CNN)