Portal:Current events/2011 September 23

September 23, 2011 (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2011 Yemeni uprising: The President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, returns from Saudi Arabia after a three-month absence, amid an increase in political unrest and violence in Yemen. (Al-Jazeera)
Thousands of mourners gather in Kabul for the funeral of former President of Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was killed by a suicide bomber earlier in the week. (BBC)

Business and economy

Global stock markets fall for a second day amid fears of a deepening economic crisis. (Sydney Morning Herald) (Bloomberg) (CNBC)^{[permanent dead link‍]} (Sky News)
Thousands of Toyota workers in Australia go on strike over a pay dispute. (ABC News Australia)
Fitch Ratings predicts that financial returns on commercial property in the United States will stabilize, though slowly, in the months ahead. (Reuters)

Disasters

Floods in the Filipino province of Maguindanao affect 16,000 families. (Inquirer)

International relations

Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- During the opening of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, makes a bid for UN recognition in a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state, which would exist in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and have East Jerusalem as its capital. (Washington Post) (Sky News)
- The quartet of Middle East negotiators - the United States, European Union, Russia and the United Nations - call on both Israel and Palestine to resume negotiations. (BBC)

Law and crime

South Korean prosecutors raid the offices of seven savings banks whose operations were suspended last week, with the president of one bank committing suicide. (Yonhap)

Politics

Patriotic Front leader Michael Sata is declared the winner of the Zambian presidential election. (BBC)
The United States House of Representatives passes a resolution providing funding for the Government through to November 18, but the Senate vows to reject it, making a government shutdown from October 1 possible. (Washington Post)

Science

NASA's 1991-era Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is expected to fall from orbit sometime this evening Greenwich Mean Time. (BBC)