Portal:Current events/2024 September 13

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian artillery targets 15 areas in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, killing two civilians near the village of Yampil and injuring nine others. (Reuters)
  • China and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Reuters reports that Russia has begun production of thousands of Garpiya-A1 long-range combat drones used against Ukrainian civilian and military targets, that incorporate engines, parts, and technology from China. (Reuters)
  • Humanitarian impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency reports that due to the ongoing war, Ukraine's death rate is now the highest in the world at 18.6 per thousand people, while its birth rate is the lowest at six children born per thousand people. (Kyiv Post)
• War on drugs in Ecuador
  • Ecuadorian security crisis
    • Maria Daniela Icaza, director of the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, the largest prison in Ecuador and the site of the country's deadliest prison riot in 2021, is fatally shot in her vehicle by suspected drug cartel gunmen. (CBS News)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Two Indian soldiers are killed in action in clashes with separatists in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (NDTV)
• Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
  • Abu Ali Al-Tunisi, an Islamic State commander for whom the U.S. Treasury Department had offered $5 million for information for, is killed during a joint United States–Iraq operation in Al Anbar Governorate. Ahmad Hamed Zwein, an Islamic State deputy commander in Iraq, is also killed in the operation. (AP)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • A Redwan Force commander is killed and 17 injured in Israeli drone strikes in Ahmadiya and Kfar Remen in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• 2024 Boeing machinists strike
  • More than 33,000 Boeing factory workers go on strike for the first time since 2008 after rejecting a labor contract. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam increases to 233 people, with more than 820 others injured, and 103 people still missing. (AP)
  • At least ten people are killed by flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon Yagi in Thailand, along with at least 33 people killed in Myanmar. (DW)
• A Bulgarian Air Force L-39 Albatros jet crashes during rehearsals for an air show at the Graf Ignatievo Air Base near Plovdiv, Bulgaria, killing both pilots. (AP)
• Two people are presumed dead and at least two others are injured in an explosion and subsequent fire at a gas station in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States. (AP)

International relations

• Germany–Kenya relations, Immigration to Germany
  • Germany and Kenya agree on a labour migration deal which will see 250,000 skilled and semi-skilled Kenyan workers go work in Germany amid a shortage of skilled labour in the German economy. The agreement will also simplify the return of illegal migrants to Kenya. (BBC News)
• Russia–United Kingdom relations
  • Russia revokes the accreditation of six British diplomats and accuses them of espionage. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• 2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup attempt
  • A court in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, sentences 37 people to death for their alleged roles in the attempted coup the prior May. (AP)
• Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal
  • Seven men receive prison sentences ranging from six to 25 years for sexual offences against girls aged 11 to 16 that occurred in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Northern England from the late 1980s until 2013. (BBC News)
• Bedfordshire Police arrest an 18-year-old man on suspicion of murder after three people are found dead in flat in a tower block in Luton, England, United Kingdom. (BBC News)
• Three young Chinese people are killed in a suspected arson attack on a shop in Milan, Italy. (ANSA)
• China increases the country's retirement age for the first time since 1978. Beginning in 2025, the retirement age for men will be increased to 63, and the retirement age for women will be increased to either 55 or 58 depending on their occupation. (NPR)