Portal:Current events/2022 September 29

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
      • Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
        • Russian forces strike a residential neighborhood in Dnipro with a cruise missile, killing a family of four, including two children, and injuring 18 other civilians, according to local authorities. (Ukrinform) (Ukrainska Pravda)
        • Three people are killed and 12 others are injured by a Russian cluster munition attack on a bus stop in Mykolaiv, according to mayor Oleksandr Sienkievych. (Ukrainska Pravda)
    • Russian emigration following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
      • Finland announces that it will deny entry to Russian tourists beginning on Thursday night, thereby cutting off the last direct link between Russia and the European Union. (Reuters)
• Kurdish–Iranian conflict
  • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launches ballistic missiles at Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan Region, killing nine civilians and injuring 32 others. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry says that it will summon the Iranian ambassador in response to the attacks. (RFE/RL)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Ian
    • A section of the Sanibel Causeway in Florida, United States, collapses following damage from Ian, blocking access to the islands of Sanibel and Captiva. (Tampa Bay Times) (WTVJ-TV)
    • Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announces that the state has launched efforts to rescue people stranded from their homes by flooding from Ian. Additionally, President Joe Biden declares Ian a major disaster. (Politico)
    • The death toll from the hurricane increases to at least 17. (CNN)
• 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
  • Swedish authorities report a fourth gas leak from the Nord Stream pipelines. (Sky News)
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the Nord Stream gas leaks "an unprecedented act of international terrorism". (RBK)
• One person is dead after a fire breaks out at an election agency in Asunción, Paraguay. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
      • COVID-19 vaccination in Indonesia
        • Indonesia grants approval for the first Chinese mRNA vaccine against COVID-19, the Walvax COVID-19 vaccine. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
      • Taiwan announces that it will end the mandatory quarantine of visitors on October 13 and will also restore temporarily suspended visa-free travel for countries that had a relevant agreement with the island. (The Straits Times)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Nicaragua
  • Bettina Muscheidt, the European Union ambassador to Nicaragua, is declared persona non grata, presumably due to her criticism of undemocratic policies of President Daniel Ortega. (Euractiv)
• Montenegro–Russia relations
  • Montenegro expels six Russian diplomats, whom the country accuses of spying. In response, the Russian embassy in Montenegro announces that its consular section will suspend its services beginning on Friday and "until further notice". (Reuters) (Pobjeda)

Law and crime

• Abortion in India
  • The Supreme Court of India strikes down a portion of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act that forbade unmarried women from having an abortion, thus legalising the procedure for all women until the 24th week of pregnancy. The ruling also notes that forcing a woman to carry the child could constitute marital rape, which is not, however, recognised as an offence in India. (Al Jazeera)
• Aung San Suu Kyi, the ousted leader of Myanmar, is sentenced to a further three years' imprisonment for "violating the state's secrets act". She is already serving 20 years on other charges. (AP)
• The Catholic Church reveals that it disciplined Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, an East Timorese minister and former bishop who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996, over allegations of sexual abuse of teenage boys committed in the early 1990s. (Reuters)
• The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda begins the trial of Félicien Kabuga, one of the richest Rwandan businessmen in the 1990s who is implicated in the Rwandan genocide. Kabuga pleads not guilty and does not appear on the first day of the proceedings. (BBC News)
• The European Commission sues Malta in the European Court of Justice, seeking to end the country's "golden passport" scheme, which is the only such scheme still active in the EU. This scheme allows large investors to be granted Maltese citizenship, and by extension, citizenship of the European Union. (Bloomberg)

Politics and elections

• Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine
  • Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov says that the Kremlin is scheduled to sign agreements on the annexation of the occupied territories of Ukraine by Russia on September 30. (Forbes)
  • President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that he will convene an urgent meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on September 30. (Ukrainska Pravda)
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree recognizing the "independence" of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts, which were proclaimed yesterday. (The Guardian) (RIA Novosti)
• 2022 Nauruan parliamentary election
  • Russ Kun is inaugurated as President of Nauru following the general election on 24 September. (Radio New Zealand)