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jmetaB029b0165ee2ec05398e1b42f78767eab89587b2d03eec4484da932f55812ffc0bd@c68dc37064cc06fa105a5d01c8d4bdddb4b215fad1e4b7a38759dada50418c91rss.itemmetarss.netMuA<item><title>Current events: 2024-09-05</title><link>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2024_September_5</link><description> &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Armed conflicts and attacks&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict" title="Israeli–Palestinian conflict"&gt;Israeli–Palestinian conflict&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Israeli_military_operation_in_the_northern_West_Bank" title="2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank"&gt;2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Six &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian" title="Palestinian"&gt;Palestinian&lt;/a&gt; gunmen are killed and another is injured in an &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" title="Israel"&gt;Israeli&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airstrike" title="Airstrike"&gt;airstrike&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubas_%28city%29" title="Tubas (city)"&gt;Tubas&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank"&gt;West Bank&lt;/a&gt;. Separately, a teenager is killed by &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_soldiers" title="Israeli soldiers"&gt;Israeli soldiers&lt;/a&gt; in Tubas. &lt;a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-drone-strike-kills-palestinian-gunmen-amid-more-west-bank-raids-2024-09-05/"&gt;(Reuters)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish%E2%80%93Turkish_conflict" title="Kurdish–Turkish conflict"&gt;Kurdish–Turkish conflict&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Turkey_relations" title="Iraq–Turkey relations"&gt;Iraq–Turkey relations&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party_insurgency" title="Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency"&gt;Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt; A &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey"&gt;Turkish&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_drone" title="Combat drone"&gt;drone&lt;/a&gt; strike kills three people, including a child, in &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Region" title="Kurdistan Region"&gt;Kurdistan Region&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq"&gt;Iraq&lt;/a&gt;, one day after a similar attack on a car in the region killed three people from the same family. &lt;a href="https://www.barrons.com/news/drone-strike-kills-3-in-iraq-s-kurdish-region-official-58d7baf5"&gt;(&lt;i&gt;Barron's&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Arts and culture&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States"&gt;American&lt;/a&gt; rock band &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkin_Park" title="Linkin Park"&gt;Linkin Park&lt;/a&gt; emerges from a seven-year hiatus with the announcement of an upcoming &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Zero_%28album%29" title="From Zero (album)"&gt;studio album&lt;/a&gt;, a worldwide concert tour, and introduces &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Armstrong_%28musician%29" title="Emily Armstrong (musician)"&gt;Emily Armstrong&lt;/a&gt; as the band's new co-vocalist. The band went on hiatus in 2017 following the death of then-lead vocalist &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Bennington" title="Chester Bennington"&gt;Chester Bennington&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/linkin-park-new-vocalist-emily-armstrong-tour-album-from-zero-1235096109/"&gt;(&lt;i&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business and economy&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom"&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_and_Markets_Authority" title="Competition and Markets Authority"&gt;Competition and Markets Authority&lt;/a&gt; announces an investigation into &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticketmaster" title="Ticketmaster"&gt;Ticketmaster&lt;/a&gt; over the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_pricing" title="Dynamic pricing"&gt;dynamic pricing&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_Live_%2725_Tour" title="Oasis Live '25 Tour"&gt;Oasis Live '25 Tour&lt;/a&gt; tickets. &lt;a href="https://apnews.com/article/oasis-concerts-ticketmaster-investigation-c1873b77aee4958de51a8f387ae01bd7"&gt;(AP)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Health and environment&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%932024_mpox_epidemic" title="2023–2024 mpox epidemic"&gt;2023–2024 mpox epidemic&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo"&gt;Democratic Republic of the Congo&lt;/a&gt; receives its first batch of &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Nordic" title="Bavarian Nordic"&gt;Bavarian Nordic&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpox" title="Mpox"&gt;mpox&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine" title="Vaccine"&gt;vaccines&lt;/a&gt; donated by the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union"&gt;European Union&lt;/a&gt; and is expected to receive the second batch of vaccines on September 7. &lt;a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/5/dr-congo-expects-first-shipment-of-mpox-vaccines-to-arrive-on-thursday"&gt;(Al Jazeera)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;International relations&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Nicaragua–United States relations"&gt;Nicaragua–United States relations&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_Daniel_Ortega" title="Protests against Daniel Ortega"&gt;Protests against Daniel Ortega&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States"&gt;United States&lt;/a&gt; announces that it has secured the release of 135 &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_prisoner" title="Political prisoner"&gt;political prisoners&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua"&gt;Nicaragua&lt;/a&gt;, who were jailed by the government of &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Nicaragua" title="President of Nicaragua"&gt;President&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ortega" title="Daniel Ortega"&gt;Daniel Ortega&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/5/us-secures-release-of-135-political-prisoners-from-nicaragua"&gt;(Al Jazeera)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Law and crime&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Apalachee_High_School_shooting" title="2024 Apalachee High School shooting"&gt;2024 Apalachee High School shooting&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Georgia Bureau of Investigation"&gt;Georgia Bureau of Investigation&lt;/a&gt; arrests the father of Colt Gray, the perpetrator of yesterday's &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting" title="Mass shooting"&gt;mass&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting" title="School shooting"&gt;school shooting&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrow_County%2C_Georgia" title="Barrow County, Georgia"&gt;Barrow County&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29" title="Georgia (U.S. state)"&gt;Georgia&lt;/a&gt;, United States, on charges of &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-degree_murder" title="Second-degree murder"&gt;second-degree murder&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_manslaughter" title="Involuntary manslaughter"&gt;involuntary manslaughter&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_access_prevention_law" title="Child access prevention law"&gt;allowing his son&lt;/a&gt; to possess a gun. &lt;a href="https://apnews.com/article/georgia-high-school-shooting-c3c97267a4dfff64a59e1605e515c2f9"&gt;(AP)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_Kenya" title="Domestic violence in Kenya"&gt;Domestic violence in Kenya&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugandans" title="Ugandans"&gt;Ugandan&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon" title="Marathon"&gt;marathoner&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Cheptegei" title="Rebecca Cheptegei"&gt;Rebecca Cheptegei&lt;/a&gt; dies at a hospital in &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldoret" title="Eldoret"&gt;Eldoret&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya"&gt;Kenya&lt;/a&gt;, after sustaining burns from a &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline" title="Gasoline"&gt;gasoline&lt;/a&gt; attack by her former partner almost a month after participating in the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2024_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_marathon" title="Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon"&gt;women's marathon&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics" title="2024 Summer Olympics"&gt;2024 Summer Olympics&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vx0kq2xr2o"&gt;(BBC News)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weiss_special_counsel_investigation" title="Weiss special counsel investigation"&gt;Weiss special counsel investigation&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden" title="Hunter Biden"&gt;Hunter Biden&lt;/a&gt; pleads guilty to &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion_in_the_United_States" title="Tax evasion in the United States"&gt;federal tax evasion&lt;/a&gt; shortly before his trial was expected to begin in &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California"&gt;California&lt;/a&gt;, United States. &lt;a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/hunter-biden-intends-plead-guilty-federal-tax-charges-rcna169621"&gt;(NBC News)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;An &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrians" title="Austrians"&gt;Austrian&lt;/a&gt; man is killed in a shootout with &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Germany" title="Law enforcement in Germany"&gt;police&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich" title="Munich"&gt;Munich&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany"&gt;Germany&lt;/a&gt;, near the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Documentation_Centre_for_the_History_of_National_Socialism" title="Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism"&gt;Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consulate-General_of_Israel%2C_Munich" title="Consulate-General of Israel, Munich"&gt;Israeli Consulate&lt;/a&gt;. A &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist" title="Terrorist"&gt;terrorist&lt;/a&gt; motive is suspected. &lt;a href="https://time.com/7018025/police-shooting-nazi-museum-israel-consulate-munich/"&gt;(&lt;i&gt;TIME&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A 15-year-old &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism_in_Bangladesh" title="Hinduism in Bangladesh"&gt;Hindu&lt;/a&gt; boy is killed by a &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims"&gt;Muslim&lt;/a&gt; mob inside a &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_station" title="Police station"&gt;police station&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khulna" title="Khulna"&gt;Khulna&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh"&gt;Bangladesh&lt;/a&gt;, after allegedly insulting the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam" title="Islam"&gt;Islamic&lt;/a&gt; prophet &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad"&gt;Muhammad&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/hindu-boy-hacked-to-death-in-bangladesh-police-station-over-blasphemous-post-minorities-group-101725585841660.html"&gt;(&lt;i&gt;The Hindustan Times&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and seven other countries sign the first international &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty" title="Treaty"&gt;treaty&lt;/a&gt; on the use of &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence"&gt;artificial intelligence&lt;/a&gt; systems. &lt;a href="https://www.dw.com/en/us-uk-eu-sign-international-ai-treaty/a-70144667"&gt;(DW)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/council-of-europe-opens-first-ever-global-treaty-on-ai-for-signature"&gt;(Council of Europe)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Politics and elections&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_of_the_House_of_Lords" title="Reform of the House of Lords"&gt;Reform of the House of Lords&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;In the United Kingdom, the ruling &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_%28UK%29" title="Labour Party (UK)"&gt;Labour Party&lt;/a&gt; drafts a bill that would remove the right of all &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_peer" title="Hereditary peer"&gt;hereditary peers&lt;/a&gt; to sit in the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords"&gt;House of Lords&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl2j90ydzgo"&gt;(BBC News)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Barnier" title="Michel Barnier"&gt;Michel Barnier&lt;/a&gt; is appointed &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_France" title="Prime Minister of France"&gt;Prime Minister of France&lt;/a&gt;, succeeding caretaker &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Attal" title="Gabriel Attal"&gt;Gabriel Attal&lt;/a&gt;, who announced his resignation in the aftermath of the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_French_legislative_election" title="2024 French legislative election"&gt;legislative elections&lt;/a&gt; in July. &lt;a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/05/michel-barnier-france-prime-minister-macron/"&gt;(&lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sports&lt;/b&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325_UEFA_Nations_League" title="2024–25 UEFA Nations League"&gt;2024–25 UEFA Nations League&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino_national_football_team" title="San Marino national football team"&gt;San Marino&lt;/a&gt;, the lowest-ranked &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA" title="FIFA"&gt;FIFA&lt;/a&gt;-affiliated national team, defeats &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein_national_football_team" title="Liechtenstein national football team"&gt;Liechtenstein&lt;/a&gt; 1–0 in &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serravalle%2C_San_Marino" title="Serravalle, San Marino"&gt;Serravalle&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino" title="San Marino"&gt;San Marino&lt;/a&gt;, to win the team's &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino_national_football_team_results" title="San Marino national football team results"&gt;first competitive victory&lt;/a&gt; in their 36-year history. &lt;a href="https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/41138705/san-marino-win-liechtenstein-20-years-nations-league"&gt;(ESPN)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0000</pubDate></item>