Portal:Current events/2013 September 1
September 1, 2013 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war:
- The Arab League discusses the ongoing crisis in Syria at a closed-door meeting in Cairo. (Al Jazeera)
- Secretary of State John Kerry asserts the United States now has evidence of sarin gas use in Syria from hair and blood samples. (AP via News24)
- Armed militants stage an unsuccessful attack on a container ship passing through the Suez Canal in an attempt to disrupt the flow of ships through the waterway. (Al Jazeera)
- War in North-West Pakistan:
- A roadside bomb targeting a passing Pakistani army convoy kills nine soldiers in North Waziristan near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. (ABC) (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
Law and crime
- The controversial spiritual guru Asaram Bapu is arrested on a rape charge filed by a teenage girl in northwest India. (AP via News24)
Politics and elections
- Former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela is discharged from hospital in the capital Pretoria. (BBC)