Portal:Current events/2021 September 10

September 10, 2021 (2021-09-10) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan conflict
  • War in Afghanistan
    • 2021 evacuation from Afghanistan
      • Operation Allies Refuge
        • American flights carrying evacuees from Afghanistan are temporarily paused following four cases of measles in Afghan refugees arriving in the United States. (U.S. News & World Report)
    • Drone strikes in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
      • A footage released by the New York Times shows that a US drone strike conducted on August 29 of last month targeted an aid worker named Zemari Ahmadi instead of ISIS-K militants. The report also confirms that 10 Afghans were killed in the drone strike, including seven children. (Business Insider)
  • 2021 Afghan protests
    • The Office of the United Nations for Human Rights says that the Taliban response to the peaceful marches has been increasingly violent, with authorities using live ammunition, batons and whips, causing the deaths of four civilians. A spokesperson for the rights office says that the response from the Taliban has been "unfortunately severe". (Reuters)
• 2021 Guinean coup d'état
  • The African Union suspends Guinea in response to last week's military coup. (Africa News)

Arts and culture

• LGBT rights in Africa
  • A forum for the promotion of LGBT rights is hosted in Kigali, Rwanda to address minority rights. At the forum, a Rwandan man describes being assaulted by family members when he came out as gay. The forum also documented and urged the governments of Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Kenya to decriminalize homosexuality and protect the minority. (The East African)

Business and economy

• 2021 Guinean coup d'état
  • In response to Guinea's expulsion from the Economic Community of West African States, the military junta freezes all government assets in the Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea to "preserve the country's interest". (AP via Washington Post)
• Epic Games v. Apple
  • United States District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rules that Apple Inc. cannot stop app developers directing users to third-party payment options, issuing a permanent injunction against the company. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

• Two people are killed and nine more are wounded after a powerful whirlwind hit Pantelleria, Sicily, Italy. (La Repubblica)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia
      • Mongolia surpasses 1,000 deaths from COVID-19. (AKI Press)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
      • Singapore reports 568 new locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single-day total of new cases since August 2020. (Today)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United Arab Emirates
      • Visitors to the upcoming Expo 2020 event in Dubai won't be required to show proof of vaccinations or be tested for COVID-19. (Al Jazeera)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam, COVID-19 vaccination in Vietnam
      • The Vietnamese Ministry of Health issues a conditional approval of the Hayat-Vax COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in the country. (Vietnam Plus)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales
      • New South Wales reports a record 1,542 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. (7News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark
    • Denmark becomes the first country in the European Union to lift all of its COVID-19-related restrictions after 548 days with lifting of digital pass requirement to enter nightclubs as the country no longer considers COVID-19 as a "socially critical" disease and the vaccination rate surpasses 80%. (The Guardian) (AP)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Togo
    • Togo closes all place of worships and bans all cultural, sporting and political events, including weddings and funerals, following surge of the COVID-19 cases in recent weeks. (AFP via Barron's)

International relations

• Brexit and the Irish border
  • The European Union rejects a request from the United Kingdom to renegotiate the deal governing the trading position of Northern Ireland. The EU adds that renegotiating the deal, which agreed to leave some EU rules in place in Northern Ireland and accept checks on goods arriving from elsewhere in the UK following Brexit, would result in "instability, uncertainty and unpredictability in Northern Ireland". (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Trump–Ukraine scandal
  • Former Rudy Giuliani associate Igor Fruman pleads guilty to one count of soliciting a contribution by a foreign national. (USA Today)

Politics and elections

• A new government is formed in Lebanon, with Najib Mikati becoming Prime Minister of Lebanon for the third time. (CNN)
• Venko Filipče, the health minister of North Macedonia, resigns claiming moral responsibility for the fire at the field hospital that occured in Tetovo, North Macedonia. (Anadolu Agency)

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