Portal:Current events/2023 September 14

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Crimea attacks
    • Russia's defence ministry says that it destroyed a Ukrainian boat in the Black Sea. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• Economy of Argentina
  • The National Institute of Statistics and Census announces that consumer prices in Argentina increased 12.4% in August, the highest increase since February 1991, while the annual inflation rate increased to 124.4%. (AP)
• Economy of the European Union
  • The European Central Bank raises interest rates for the 10th time to mitigate high inflation amid concerns that higher borrowing costs could push the economy into a recession. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Ukraine's foreign ministry says that any European Union plans to extend import restrictions on Ukrainian food would be "illegal" and would harm common economic interests. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Two people are killed and 25 more are injured in a collision between a bus and a truck on a highway in Rome, Italy. (Il Messaggero)
• An explosion at the Union Pacific Railroad Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, United States, the world’s largest railyard, causes evacuations in the area due to toxic smoke. (AP)

International relations

• Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Afghanistan–China relations
  • China names Zhao Seng as ambassador to Afghanistan, the first country to deliver an ambassador to Afghanistan since the 2021 Taliban offensive. However, China continues to not recognise the Taliban government. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• 2023 Brazilian Congress attack
  • The Brazilian Supreme Court announces the first conviction of a participant in the January 8 riots at the Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasília. The member, identified as Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, is given a 17-year prison sentence. (Financial Times)
• International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine
  • The International Criminal Court opens a field office in Kyiv, Ukraine, as part of its war crimes investigations, becoming the largest ICC office outside of its headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. (Al Jazeera)
• Mexican drug war
  • Emma Coronel, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, is released from U.S. federal custody after completing a three-year sentence for her involvement in drug trafficking. (AP)
• Weiss special counsel investigation
  • Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, is indicted on gun charges as part of an investigation by attorney David C. Weiss. (NBC News)
• Argentina's Federal Police shuts down a publisher that sold books supporting Nazi ideology, seizing hundreds of texts and arresting one person as part of what authorities characterized as a historic seizure of propaganda. (AP)