Portal:Current events/2018 September 5

• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • A Suicide attack at a wrestling club in a Hazara Shi’ite neighborhood of the Afghan capital Kabul and a second explosion apparently targeting emergency services and journalists kills at least 20 people and wounds 70 others. (Reuters)
• Israel’s Supreme Court rejects appeals against the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank whose fate has been a subject of international concern. (BBC)

• 2018 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Tropical Storm Gordon makes landfall near the Alabama–Mississippi border in the United States. One death is reported. (CNN)
  • Hurricane Florence, the sixth named storm of 2018, becomes the first major Atlantic hurricane of the year as it strengthens to a category 3 hurricane. (Fox News) (SFgate.com)
• An Iranian man attempts self-immolation in front of the Tehran city hall. (Trend)
• Emirates Flight 203 from Dubai is quarantined briefly after landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport when 19 passengers were deemed sick and others complained of symptoms. (USA Today)

• Israel–Paraguay relations
  • Paraguay announces that it will move its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, reversing a May decision to move it from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, citing efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders the closure of Israel's embassy in Paraguay. (Reuters), (Reuters₂)
• Bolivarian diaspora, Crisis in Venezuela
  • After an emergency summit, eleven nations of Latin America (including Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru) announce that they will all admit Venezuelan migrants without the required travel documents. (BBC)
• China–Togo relations
  • Wang Huning, a senior official of the Communist Party of China, meets with Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé in Beijing, China. (Xinhua)

• Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
  • British authorities charge two men for their alleged involvement in a Novichok poisoning earlier in 2018, claiming the men are agents of the GRU. (NPR)
  • Russia says that the United Kingdom declines to provide them with the suspects' fingerprints. (TASS)
• Kidnapping of Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman, Weinstein effect
  • Caitlan Coleman, an American woman kidnapped and held hostage for five years in Afghanistan, accused her husband Joshua Boyle physically and emotionally abusing her while the family was being held by Taliban-linked militants. (The Guardian)

• Presidency of Donald Trump
  • The New York Times publishes an editorial written by an anonymous senior administration official in the Trump administration which criticizes U.S. President Donald Trump and claims unnamed administration aides and officials, in efforts to promote national stability, conspired against the president. (AP via CBC)

• International Space Station maintenance
  • The Director General of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, says the 2mm hole detected on the International Space Station (ISS) last week was caused, possibly deliberately, by someone using a drill, and that an investigation is under way to find out who is responsible. (The Guardian)