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September 12, 2023 (Tuesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Disasters and accidents
At Salzburg Zoo in Austria, a zookeeper is killed and another is injured by a rhinoceros in its enclosure. The zoo remains closed.
The death toll from the floods caused by Storm Daniel in northeastern Libya increases to 6,000 people, with thousands more reported missing. Government of National Stability minister Hisham Chkiouat confirms that entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed in Derna.
Health and environment
The New South Wales government in Australia bans logging in a 8,400-hectare forest area, identified as home to 106 "koala hubs", as part of a conservation effort to establish a 315,000-hectare Great Koala National Park.
International relations
Law and crime
A Regional Trial Court in Pasig, Philippines, acquits Rappler Holdings Corporation and its CEO, Nobel Peace Prize awardee Maria Ressa, in the fifth and final tax evasion case against the corporation.
The Malaysian Court of Appeal upholds the acquittal of former prime minister Najib Razak and former 1MDB chief Arul Kanda Kandasamy on charges of audit tampering related to the sovereign wealth fund's corruption investigation.
Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, announces an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. This inquiry led by Representative James Comer will be conducted by the House's Judiciary Committee, Oversight Committee and Ways and Means Committee.
Politics and elections
The office of the Attorney General carries out raids in the offices of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and opens electoral boxes containing the electoral ballots. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal condemns the raids.
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