Armed conflicts and attacks

Ukraine begins the implementation of "dragon drones" that spray molten thermite on forest cover to reveal and help destroy Russian units and military equipment. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/9/what-are-dragon-drones-ukraines-latest-weapon-against-russia

Armed conflicts and attacks

At least eight people are killed and dozens are wounded in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip, bringing the confirmed Palestinian death toll to over 41,000. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/9/at-least-eight-palestinians-killed-as-israeli-attacks-on-gaza-intensify

Armed conflicts and attacks

At least 25 people are killed and more than 40 others are injured in overnight Israeli airstrikes targeting Iranian research centers in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (The Guardian) (Syriahr)

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/09/middle-east-crisis-seven-killed-in-israeli-airstrike-on-iran-linked-military-site-in-syria-says-war-monitor
• https://www.syriahr.com/en/343584/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Thirteen people are injured when a roadside bomb targets a police vehicle escorting a polio vaccination team in Wana, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Arab News)

• https://www.arabnews.pk/node/2570677/pakistan

Armed conflicts and attacks

The Turkish Ministry of Defense announces that a Turkish soldier was killed in clashes with the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Duhok Governorate, Iraq. (Daily Sabah)

• https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/war-on-terror/turkish-soldier-killed-in-clashes-with-pkk-terrorists-in-iraq

Armed conflicts and attacks

The Rapid Support Forces renew an assault on the city of Sennar, Sennar State, Sudan, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 100 others. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/rsf-paramilitaries-kill-31-sudanese-city-sennar-activists-say-2024-09-09/

Disasters and accidents

Fifty-nine percent of Brazil's area suffers from significant drought conditions, the worst national drought recorded. These conditions cause historically low Amazon basin levels and are contributing to at least 160,000 wildfires in 2024 that are causing widespread air pollution. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/brazil-drought-amazon-wildfires-smoke-heat-7d96dbbf5c4339050fb24bbbde6c3b82

Disasters and accidents

The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam increases to more than 64 people, with 24 others still missing. (Al Jazeera) (AP News)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/9/at-least-24-dead-in-vietnam-after-typhoon-yagi-triggered-landslides-floods
• https://apnews.com/video/vietnam-bridge-collapses-hurricanes-and-typhoons-a299ea1c51894f6da58bae9a4138b6c8

Disasters and accidents

At least six people are killed when a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Senegal over the weekend. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/least-six-dead-after-boat-carrying-migrants-sinks-off-senegal-2024-09-09/

International relations

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expresses "disappointment" regarding assertions made by Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico that Kyiv should remove "fascist elements" from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, using rhetoric similar to Russian allegations of current neo-Nazism in Ukraine's Azov Brigade. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-disappointed-slovak-pms-fascism-comments-2024-09-10/

Law and crime

Forty-seven inmates escape from a maximum security prison in Margibi County, Liberia. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/forty-seven-inmates-escape-liberian-prison-2024-09-09/

Law and crime

Authorities in Guinea-Bissau say that they have seized more than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine that was found on a plane arriving from Venezuela at Osvaldo Vieira International Airport in Bissau. (BBC News)

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w7vzxe1v1o