September 5, 2022 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- Thirty-five civilians are killed and 37 others injured as a convoy of vehicles carrying supplies strike a roadside bomb along the road from Bourzanga to Djibo, Soum Province, Burkina Faso. (Al Jazeera)
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- Afghanistan conflict
- Islamic State–Taliban conflict
- Bombing of the Russian embassy in Kabul
- Eight people are killed when an Islamic State suicide bomber detonates his explosives near the entrance of the Russian embassy in Kabul. Two of the victims were Russian staff members. (Al Jazeera)
- Bombing of the Russian embassy in Kabul
- Islamic State–Taliban conflict
- Five Pakistani soldiers and four Pakistani Taliban militants are killed during a gunfight in North Waziristan. (Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
- 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
- Russia's Gazprom announces that gas flows through the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline to Europe will not resume until sanctions against Russia are lifted. (Financial Times)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Luding earthquake
- A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Luding County, Sichuan, China, killing at least 66 people and injuring at least 250 others. (Reuters)
- September 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
- Ten people are killed and nine more injured during an earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. (Pajhwok Afghan News)
- 2022 Pacific hurricane season
- A vehicle and train collision in Kunfehértó, Hungary, kills seven people and injures the train's driver. (Times Union)
- One person is killed and nine others are missing after a floatplane crashes in the Puget Sound near Seattle, Washington, United States. (AP)
- Six people are killed after a building collapses in Lagos, Nigeria. (AP)
Law and crime
- 2022 Saskatchewan stabbings
- One of the suspects in yesterday's mass stabbing that killed ten people in Saskatchewan is found dead. The other suspect remains at large. (AP)
- Ivan Safronov, a former Russian journalist, is sentenced to 22 years in prison on treason charges after being found guilty of disclosing "state secrets", which he alleged were open source. Safronov had been under detention since July 2020. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
- Liz Truss is elected Leader of the Conservative Party and will succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 6 September. (BBC News)
- 2022 Kenyan general election
- The Supreme Court of Kenya rules that William Ruto is the winner of the presidential election after facing court challenges over the results. (Leadership)