Wednesday,  September 21st, 2022 

In a major address to the nation, Russian president Vladimir Putin announces a partial mobilization, with the exceptions of students and conscripts. (AP) 

Lithuania places its rapid reaction force on high alert in response to Russia’s mobilization, according to Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas. (LRT) 

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says Russia’s military mobilization is “dangerous and reckless”, and condemns Putin’s use of “nuclear rhetoric”. (NTV) 

Eight people are injured after an explosion tore through a building in Austin, Chicago, Illinois, United States. (AP) 

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces that the city will end its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses on November 1. (Axios) 

Hurricane Fiona reaches Category 4 as it moves from Turks and Caicos to Bermuda. (CNN) 

World Taekwondo denies giving bribes in order to become an Olympic sport after allegations emerge from a former employee turned whistleblower. (The Guardian) 

Tuesday,  September 20th, 2022 

It is announced that the referendums on the entry of the Luhansk People’s Republic, the Donetsk People’s Republic, and the occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts into Russia as federal subjects will be held from September 23 to 27. (RIA Novosti) 

Russian State Duma deputies approve the introduction of the concepts of mobilization, martial law, wartime and armed conflict, as well as punishment for desertion, into the Criminal Code. (Forbes) 

The National Bank of Georgia formally applies to join the European Union’s Single Euro Payments Area. (Agenda) 

Protests continue for the fourth consecutive day across Iran in response to the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the morality police. Two people are killed during protests in Kermanshah. (The Washington Post) (Times of Israel) 

Irish judge Síofra O’Leary is elected the new president of European Court of Human Rights, becoming the first woman to hold that position. (The Journal) 

An 84-year-old woman is murdered in Holon, Israel in a suspected terror attack. The Qalqilya-born suspect is found dead, presumably by suicide, inside an abandoned building in Tel Aviv. (Times of Israel) 

Four people are killed and 114 others are injured as Typhoon Nanmadol makes landfall on the island of Kyushu, Japan. (BBC News) 

UEFA announces that Russia will continue to be suspended meaning their team is barred from the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying draw. (UEFA) 

A civilian is killed and another iscriticallywoundedduringclashesbetweenPalestinian fighters and Palestinian authorities outside a police station in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, after two Al-Qassam Brigades militants were arrested. (Al Jazeera) 

Tigray People’s Liberation Front authorities say that Eritrea has launched a full-scale intervention into the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. (Reuters) 

Uganda reports an outbreak of Ebola after a rare case of the Sudan ebolavirus strain infected a 24-year-old man who later died, the first known fatality from the strain since 2011. (Reuters) 

Monday,  September 19th, 2022 

Luhansk People’s Republic authorities say that a Ukrainian shelling attack has killed seven civilians including three children in the town of Krasnorichenske. (Reuters) 

Mongolia places Khovd Province under quarantine after confirming a case of bubonic plague in Möst district. (Xinhua) 

Four people are killed and more than 30 injured as police open fire on people protesting in Saqqez, Kurdistan province, Iran, over the death of a woman under police custody in Tehran. (The Guardian) 

Equatorial Guinea abolishes the death penalty after its president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo signs a new penal code into law. (The Guardian) 

Thirteen people are killed and scores more are wounded in explosions in the Donetsk People’s Republic-held city of Donetsk. DPR leader Denis Pushilin accuses Ukraine of being behind the attacks. (BBC) 

The Ukrainian Ground Forces recapture the village of Bilohorivka in Luhansk Oblast as it advances on Lysychansk. (The Telegraph) 

The state funeral of Elizabeth II is held in London, United Kingdom. (BBC) 

Hurricane Fiona makes landfall in the Dominican Republic after causing vast devastation in Puerto Rico. (CNN) 

Afghanistan releases American engineer Mark Frerichs in exchange for Afghan drug lord Bashir Noorzai who has been held by the United States on drug charges since April 2005. (Reuters) 

The State Duma of Russia reported that a referendum on the accession of the Luhansk People’s Republic to Russia will be held in the near future. (TASS) 

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