Portal:Current events/2022 September 1
September 1, 2022 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Two Palestinian men are killed by Israeli soldiers during two separate raids in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- Cross-Strait relations
- Taiwanese forces shoot down an unidentified civilian drone which entered its airspace near the Shi Islet in the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense says the drone ignored several warning shots before being shot down. (Reuters)
- Syrian civil war
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- Israeli Air Force jets fire four missiles at Aleppo International Airport in Syria, hitting the runway and several warehouses allegedly containing Iranian rockets, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Syrian government reports no casualties. (ABC News)
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- Tigray War
- The Tigray People's Liberation Front claims that Eritrea and Ethiopia launched a joint offensive in the Tigray Region. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Lukoil chairman and prominent critic of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ravil Maganov, dies after falling from a window at Moscow Central Clinical Hospital. (The Guardian)
Business and economy
- 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis
- The International Monetary Fund provisionally approves a 2.9 billion US dollar-bailout to Sri Lanka. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- A second person dies from an yet undetermined virus in Tucumán Province, Argentina. Authorities have ruled out COVID-19, influenza, and hantavirus, but continue to investigate the cluster. The European Centre for Disease Control and the World Health Organization have been notified. (The Telegraph) (Ámbito)
Law and crime
- The High Court of Malaysia finds Rosmah Mansor, wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, guilty of corruption. (Straits Times) (CNN)