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Political activist Charlie Kirk is shot and killed at an event in Utah, United States.
- On September 10, 2025, right-wing American conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot while addressing an audience on the campus of Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem, Utah, United States. The outdoor event was the first in the fall portion of his American Comeback Tour, organized by Turning Point USA, which he co-founded.
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In Nepal, Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli resigns amid anti-corruption protests.
- In September 2025, large-scale protests and demonstrations took place across Nepal, predominantly organized by Generation Z students and young citizens. Commonly referred to as the Gen Z protests, they began following a nationwide ban on numerous social media platforms, but had their origin in the public's frustration with corruption and display of wealth by government officials and their families, as well as allegations of mismanagement of public funds. The movement expanded to encompass broader issues of governance, transparency, and political accountability. The protests escalated with violence against public officials and vandalism of government and political buildings taking place throughout the country.
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In the Norwegian parliamentary election, the centre-left bloc wins a majority of the seats in the Storting.
- Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 8 September 2025 to elect all 169 members of the Storting, the Norwegian parliament, for the 2025–2029 parliamentary term. Advance voting took place from 11 August to 5 September.
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Israel attacks the Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar.
- On 9 September 2025, during the Gaza war, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted an airstrike in the Leqtaifiya district of Qatar's capital Doha. The airstrike targeted the leadership of Hamas, housed in a Qatari government residential complex, as it met to discuss an active ceasefire proposal presented by the United States. The attack killed and injured Hamas members, Qatari security forces, and multiple civilians. The attack was Israel's first known attack in Qatar, and its first direct strike on a Gulf Cooperation Council member.
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Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is sentenced to 27 years in prison for his involvement in a coup plot.
- Jair Messias Bolsonaro (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒaˈiʁ meˈsi.ɐz bowsoˈnaɾu]; born 21 March 1955) is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2019. In 2025 he was sentenced to over twenty years in prison for crimes surrounding his 2022 coup plot.
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- AP 2668 (Portuguese: Ação Penal 2668, lit. 'Penal Action 2668') is a criminal case of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil concerning the 2022 Brazilian coup plot following the election win of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Jair Bolsonaro. The defendants were convicted in a 4–1 vote for participation in an armed criminal organization, attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, attempted coup d'état, qualified damage, and deterioration of protected heritage property.
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Anutin Charnvirakul is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Thailand following the removal of Paetongtarn Shinawatra by the Constitutional Court.
- Anutin Charnvirakul (Thai: อนุทิน ชาญวีรกูล, RTGS: Anuthin Chanwirakun; born 13 September 1966) is a Thai politician and engineer who has served as the 32nd prime minister of Thailand since 2025 and as leader of the Bhumjaithai Party since 2012. He previously served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2019 to 2025, Minister of Public Health from 2019 to 2023, and Minister of the Interior from 2023 to 2025. He has also been a member of the House of Representatives since 2019.
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President of Guyana Irfaan Ali wins a second term in the general election.
- General elections were held in Guyana on 1 September 2025. The result was a victory for President Irfaan Ali and the governing People's Progressive Party/Civic, who won 36 seats, an increase of three from the 2020 election. The declaration of the result was made by GECOM on 7 September 2025 at midnight, and Ali was inaugurated later that day.
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The Jamaica Labour Party, led by prime minister Andrew Holness, wins a third term in the general election.
- General elections were held in Jamaica on 3 September 2025. The incumbent Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) government, led by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, successfully won a third term in office against the opposition People's National Party (PNP). However, the JLP lost 14 seats to the PNP, still retaining a majority.
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The observation of a black hole merger verifies the second law of black hole thermodynamics for the first time.
- GW250114 was a black hole merger detected by LIGO on January 14, 2025. The detection exhibited the clearest gravitational wave signal to date, with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of approximately 77–80, surpassing GW230814's SNR of 42, and identified (with a 4.1σ level of significance) the first overtone of the Kerr solution for a spinning black hole. The findings were corroborated in a September 2025 scientific article.
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NATO forces shoot down Russian drones over Poland.
- On 9 September 2025, at approximately 11:30 p.m. CEST, 19 to 23 drones entered Poland's airspace after allegedly being launched from Russia. The incursion triggered a Quick Reaction Alert by the Polish Air Force and other NATO militaries who scrambled aircraft, and up to four drones were confirmed to have been shot down, most of them by the Dutch Air Force. Poland's prime minister Donald Tusk said that the drones "posed a direct threat" and had been shot down. The airspace over Warsaw International Airport, Warsaw Modlin Airport, Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport, and Lublin Airport was closed while the Russian drone fleet was in Polish airspace.
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Gaza war (ongoing)
- The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought since 7 October 2023, as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts dating back to the 20th century. On 7 October 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups launched a surprise attack on Israel, in which 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals, including 815 civilians, were killed, and 251 taken hostage with the stated goal of forcing Israel to release Palestinian prisoners. Since the start of the Israeli offensive that followed, over 64,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, almost half of them women and children, and more than 163,000 injured. A study in The Lancet estimated 64,260 deaths in Gaza from traumatic injuries by June 2024, while noting a potentially larger death toll when "indirect" deaths are included. As of May 2025, a comparable figure for traumatic injury deaths would be 93,000.
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Russian invasion of Ukraine (ongoing)
- On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
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Sudanese civil war (ongoing)
- A civil war began on 15 April 2023 between two rival factions of the military government of Sudan. The conflict involves the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (commonly known as Hemedti), who also leads the broader Janjaweed coalition. Several smaller armed groups have also taken part. Fighting has been concentrated in the capital, Khartoum, where the conflict began with large-scale battles, and in the Darfur region. Many civilians in Darfur have been reported dead as part of the Masalit massacres, which have been described as ethnic cleansing or genocide. Sudan has been described as facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis; nearly 25 million people are experiencing extreme hunger. On 7 January 2025, the United States said it had determined that the RSF and allied militias committed genocide.
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