September 10, 2016 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war and Russia–United States relations
- The U.S. Obama administration and the Russian Putin administration agree to a Syrian peace deal. The deal is intended to end combat in specified areas and create a joint center of combat to fight ISIL and Al-Nusra Front. (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
- A boiler explodes causing a fire in a factory in the Bangladeshi city of Tongi killing at least 25 people and injures 70 others. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- 2016 Tanzanian earthquake
- A magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurs in northern Tanzania, near Lake Victoria, killing at least 13 people and injuring 200 others. Tanzanian authorities report significant damage in the town of Bukoba. The governments of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda report tremors. (BBC) (AFP via The Daily Mail)
Law and crime
- The District Court for the District of Columbia releases John Hinckley Jr, U.S. President Ronald Reagan's March 1981 would-be assassin, from a psychiatric hospital after 35 years. (BBC)
- Philippine Drug War
- The sister of Filipino actress Maritoni Fernandez and daughter of British hereditary peer Antony Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan is shot dead in a suburb of Manila. Through deliberate evidence left at the scene, the perpetrator's motive appears to be an implication that Moynihan had been a drug dealer. (Rappler)
Politics and elections
- Fiji authorities detain two opposition party leaders, a prominent trade unionist, and another opposition activist, following their participation in Wednesday's forum on the Pacific island's 2013 constitution. A police spokesperson told the Fiji Times that several people were being questioned about comments made at the forum that, "Could affect the safety and security of all Fijians." (Reuters) (Radio New Zealand)
Sports
- 2016 US Open (tennis)
- In tennis, German Angelique Kerber defeats Czech Karolína Plíšková in three sets to win the 2016 US Open women's singles title. (AP) (BBC) (US Open)