Portal:Current events/2023 September 25

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2022–present North Kosovo crisis
  • Banjska attack
    • Kosovo Police enter the village of Banjska, North Kosovo, with armored vehicles, a day after the village was attacked by gunmen. (Reuters)
• Aftermath of the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Exodus of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh
    • The number of refugees that have fled to Armenia from Artsakh increases to 6,500, while a further 700 are sheltering with Russian peacekeepers.(AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • Ukraine receives its first shipment of M1 Abrams tanks from the United States. (RFE/RL)
• Yemeni civil war
  • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
    • An ambush by Houthi insurgents kills two Bahraini soldiers, including an officer, and injures several others. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Nagorno-Karabakh fuel depot explosion
  • Sixty-eight people are killed and 290 others are injured by an explosion at a fuel warehouse near Stepanakert, Artsakh. (Al Jazeera)
• Six people are killed and 13 others are missing following heavy rains and a landslide in Guatemala City, Guatemala. (AFP via GMA News)
• Flooding in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico, kills seven people and leaves nine others missing. (AP)
• Five people are killed when two private planes collide in La Galancita, Durango, Mexico. (AP)

International relations

• Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • The Philippine Coast Guard removes a series of buoys installed by China in the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea under orders of President Bongbong Marcos. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Aftermath of the Derna dam collapses
  • The mayor of Derna, Libya, Abdelmounem al-Ghaithi, and several other officials are detained over mismanagement and negligence accusations following the Derna dam collapse which killed over 5,000 people. (Reuters)
• Burkina Faso suspends Jeune Afrique from reporting in the country after the release of a report claiming tension and discontent within the Burkinabe Armed Forces. (Reuters)