Armed conflicts and attacks

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of using a sniper to kill one of its soldiers in Kalbajar. Armenia denies involvement. (The Star)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Maldivian presidential election
  • Maldivians vote in a run-off election between candidates Mohamed Muizzu and Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. (Reuters)
• 2023 Slovak parliamentary election
  • Slovaks go to the polls to elect 150 members of the National Council. (Reuters)
• Aftermath of 2023 Guatemalan general election
  • The office of the Attorney General of Guatemala seizes the tally sheets of votes from the general election and the runoff. The judges of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal opposed it but were attacked by police and prosecutors. Electoral tribunal officials were also intimidated. (AP)

Sports

• 2023 AFL season
  • Collingwood defeats the Brisbane Lions by four points to win the 2023 AFL Grand Final. (The Guardian Australia)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • 2023 Mastung bombing
    • At least 50 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured in a suicide bombing at a religious gathering in Mastung, Balochistan, Pakistan. (BBC News)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Hangu mosque bombing
    • Five people are killed and ten others are injured by two suicide bombers at a mosque in Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
• Mogadishu tea shop bombing
  • At least five people are killed and 18 others are injured when an Al-Shabaab suicide bomber detonates his bomb in a tea shop in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Toys "R" Us announces plans to open 24 new flagship stores across the United States, along with new shops in airports and on cruise ships, after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy six years ago. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• September 2023 New York floods
  • New York City declares a state of emergency due to widespread flooding caused by heavy rain. (CNN)
• Nagorno-Karabakh fuel depot explosion
  • The death toll from an explosion at a fuel warehouse in Berkadzor, Artsakh, on Monday increases to 170 people. (Reuters)
• Six people are killed and fifteen others are trapped after a mine collapses in Chegutu, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. (Reuters)
• A semitruck carrying a toxic substance turns over near Teutopolis, Illinois, United States, causing evacuations and killing at least five people. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• 2021 Oxford High School shooting
  • Ethan Crumbley is sentenced to life in prison without parole for a school shooting that killed four and injured seven in Oxford, Michigan, United States. (NBC News)
• Murder of Tupac Shakur
  • Duane "Keefe D" Davis is arrested by police for the 1996 murder of American rapper Tupac Shakur. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Aftermath of 2023 Guatemalan general election
  • Rafael Curruchiche, a prosecutor in the Guatemalan attorney general's office, accused the Organization of American States and the European Union of "interference" in the election and claims that around a thousand people denounced "irregularities" in electoral process. In response, a US State Department official says his country will "persecute" officials who undermine the transition in Guatemala. (Prensa Libre)(Prensa Libre)
• Incumbent senator Dianne Feinstein, the longest serving female U.S. Senator, dies at the age of 90. (NBC News) (AP) (PBS)
• The Supreme Court of Belarus bans the activities of the Belarusian Left Party after a complaint filed by the Ministry of Justice. Only four political parties remain permitted to operate. (Nasha Niva)

September 30: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada

• 1139 – A violent earthquake struck the Caucasus near Ganja, killing up to an estimated 300,000 people.
• 1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, composed shortly before his death, premiered at Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna.
• 1920 – Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn.
• 1939 – NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
• 2000 – Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead in the Gaza Strip; the Israel Defense Forces initially accepted responsibility but retracted it five years later.