Portal:Current events/2019 September 29
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September 29, 2019 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Saudi Arabian and Yemeni border conflict, Yemeni Crisis, Najran attack
- Yemen's Houthi movement releases footage appearing to show captured Saudi Arabian Army soldiers and burning armoured personnel carriers, after claiming to have conducted an "all-out" cross-border offensive inside Saudi Arabia's Najran Region that defeated three "enemy military brigades". (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- A fire at an overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos kills an Afghan woman living in a shipping container. A local official claims "aggressive" residents at the camp prevented firefighters from accessing the blaze, and that thrown stones and other missiles injured first responders and damaged their vehicles. (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Austrian legislative election
- The Federal Electoral Authority, based on preliminary results, reports the People's Party, headed by the prior chancellor Sebastian Kurz, wins the snap election with 38.4 percent of the vote. Second place Social Democratic Party got 21.5%. (BBC News) (The New York Times) (National Election Authority (in German)) (Reuters)
Sports
- 2019 UCI Road World Championships
- Mads Pedersen wins the men's Road race World Championship as the first rider from Denmark ever. (BBC Sport)