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Revision as of 21:14, 9 May 2022
September 5, 2018 (2018-09-05) (Wednesday) Armed conflicts and attacks- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- 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)
Disasters and accidents
- 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)
International relations
- 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
- China–Togo relations
- Wang Huning, a senior official of the Communist Party of China, meets with Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé in Beijing, China. (Xinhua)
Law and crime
- 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)
Politics and elections
- 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)
Science and technology
- 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)