Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian artillery shelling kills three Red Cross workers and injures two others in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/three-killed-two-injured-russian-shelling-eastern-ukrainian-village-2024-09-12/

Armed conflicts and attacks

A spokesperson for the Indian Foreign Ministry say that about 45 Indian nationals have been discharged from the Russian military, with efforts currently underway to get a further 50 Indians released. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-discharges-45-indians-fighting-its-army-2024-09-12/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian shelling of the settlement of Borova in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, kills three civilians and injures nine others, including several emergency service personnel. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-attack-village-ukraines-kharkiv-region-kills-three-injures-nine-2024-09-12/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Fourteen people are killed and six more are injured during a mass shooting by Islamic State militants against a bus carrying Shia Hazara people between the Afghan provinces of Ghor and Daikundi, after returning from a pilgrimage in Iraq. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-islamic-state-shiite-hazara-attack-c6e6e4004a11569156723f9061a7f0dc

Armed conflicts and attacks

Three border guards are killed and a civilian is injured by Jaish ul-Adl gunmen in Mirjaveh, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/iran-baluchistan-jaish-aladl-attack-border-guards-ad25428b32f82f3c936201a6671fbfcf?utm_source=RecoReel&utm_medium=articlePage&utm_id=Taboola

Business and economy

Microsoft announces that it will lay off 650 Microsoft Gaming employees as part of cuts to its workforce. (Variety)

• https://variety.com/2024/gaming/news/microsoft-gaming-layoffs-650-employees-1236141947/

Health and environment

The British government announces that a ban on junk food adverts on television before 9 PM will enter force in October 2025 under plans to tackle childhood obesity. (Sky News)

• https://news.sky.com/story/ban-on-junk-food-ads-before-9pm-to-come-into-force-next-year-13213403

International relations

The United States government imposes sanctions on 16 allies of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, accusing them of voter suppression and human rights abuses. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-us-sanctions-presidential-election-0e0033f6259d4b7d3a600965813db2b7

Politics and elections

Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye dissolves the opposition-led National Assembly and calls for a snap election on November 17. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/senegal-president-dissolves-parliament-faye-581a6f55ead32310f792c30758e40ced

Science and technology

American billionaire Jared Isaacman becomes the first person to perform a commercial spacewalk as part of the Polaris Dawn private spaceflight mission operated by SpaceX. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/spacex-spacewalk-private-polaris-dawn-87d4c78853f0249baf29631bedfac749