Portal:Current events/2023 September 26

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Eastern Syria insurgency
    • Deir ez-Zor clashes
      • Twenty-one gunmen, four SDF members, and a civilian are killed following the resumption of clashes in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. (SOHR)

Disasters and accidents

• Qaraqosh wedding fire
  • More than 100 people are killed and more than 150 others are injured in a fire at a wedding in Qaraqosh, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. (Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• 2020–2021 Thai protests
  • Thai pro-democracy activist Arnon Nampa, who led protests in 2020 and 2021, is sentenced to four years in prison on a charge of royal insult. (Time)
• Criticism of Amazon
  • The Federal Trade Commission and 17 U.S. states file a lawsuit against Amazon over accusations of monopoly. (NP)

Politics and elections

• 2023 United Auto Workers strike
  • President of the United States Joe Biden visits striking UAW workers near Detroit, Michigan, becoming the first sitting American president to join a union picket line. (USA Today)
• 2023 Burkina Faso coup d'état attempt
  • Civilians protest in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, in support of junta leader Ibrahim Traoré amid rumors of a coup plot. (Atlas News)
• Daniel Andrews announces his resignation as Premier of Victoria, Australia, after nine years in office. (The Guardian)
• Anthony Rota resigns as speaker of the House of Commons of Canada amid controversy over his decision to invite Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian–Canadian veteran of the Waffen-SS, to attend a speech by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and to introduce Hunka as a "hero" to the House of Commons. (CBC News)