Mohibullah, a prominent Rohingya Muslim leader and high-profile advocate for the Rohingya, is killed by a gunman in a refugee camp in southern Bangladesh.
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September 29, 2021 (Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Five Malian gendarmes are killed and four others are wounded in an ambush on a convoy escorting mining equipment to the Australian-owned Morila Gold Mine in Sikasso Region. Jihadist group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin claims responsibility for the attack.
Health and environment
Three pet cats who previously tested positive for COVID-19 are euthanized in the Chinese city of Harbin amid fears that pets could spread the virus to humans.
Slovenia suspends the use of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine following the death of a 20-year-old woman who had received the vaccine.
Eleven species of birds, two fish, one bat, eight mussels and one plant are declared extinct by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The ivory-billed woodpecker, the Guam flying fox and the Bachman's warbler are among those declared extinct.
International relations
Jersey rejects 75 French fishing applications, once again raising tensions over disputed fishing rights off Jersey. France condemns the move as French fishermen threaten to impose either a "blockade" of ports, or of lorries travelling to the United Kingdom via the Channel tunnel, as retaliation.
Law and crime
The Queensland state government grants land rights over parts of the UNESCO-listed Wet Tropics, including the Daintree National Park, to the Kuku Yalanji people. The Kuku Yalanji will initially co-administer the land with the Queensland government.
The Central Bureau of Statistics adds an option for a third gender to its census forms for the first time.
The Sandiganbayan, the Philippines' anti-graft court, orders Royal Traders Holding Co. Inc., a bank formerly controlled by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, to pay the Philippine government an estimated PHP1 billion ($32.446 million) in bank certificates that were confiscated by the United States Customs Service after Marcos was deposed in 1986.
The Los Angeles County Superior Court suspends James Parnell Spears from the conservatorship of his daughter, American singer Britney Spears, which was implemented in 2008.
The U.S. Treasury Department, in coordination with Qatar, imposes sanctions on United Arab Emirates real estate company Aldar Properties and seven residents of Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia for allegedly financing Hezbollah.
Politics and elections
Tunisian President Kais Saied appoints Najla Bouden Romdhane as the first female prime minister in Tunisia and the Arab world.
The Liberal Democratic Party elects former foreign minister Fumio Kishida as its new leader. Kishida is expected to become prime minister within days, succeeding Yoshihide Suga.
Science and technology
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