• Sinai insurgency
  • Militants ambush a police convoy in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula killing 18 police and wounding seven others. (AP)
• Syrian Civil War
  • Siege of Deir ez-Zor (2014–17)
    • Russia sends 175 demining combat engineers to defuse mines in Deir ez-Zor Governorate. (Reuters)

• Monkey selfie copyright dispute
  • PETA and David Slater settle the monkey selfie copyright dispute. (CNN)

• Rail accidents in 2017
  • Two trains collide in Andermatt railway station in the Canton of Uri, Switzerland, injuring around 30 people. (Reuters)

• Aurora 17
  • Sweden starts its largest military exercise in over 20 years. Nearly 20,000 troops are set to participate, including a contingent of over 1,000 U.S. soldiers. The drills will take place on and around the island of Gotland, including soldiers from NATO countries. (AP)
• 2017 North Korea crisis, United Nations Security Council Resolution 2375
  • The United Nations Security Council approves new sanctions on North Korea, limiting refined petroleum imports and banning textile exports, in response to its recent nuclear test. (Bloomberg)

• Crime in Belgium
  • Mouscron mayor Alfred Gadenne is found dead with his throat slashed inside the Belgian city's cemetery. A suspect has reportedly turned himself in to police. (Reuters)
• Crime in Brazil
  • Brazil is to investigate the supposed murder of ten members of an Amazonian tribe in the Javari Valley. (The Guardian)
• Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
  • California, Maine, Maryland and Minnesota sue the Trump administraion over the termination of DACA. (The Los Angeles Times)

• Politics of the Philippines
  • Philippine Justice secretary Vitaliano Aguirre is caught allegedly conspiring a lawsuit against opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros. (Rappler)
• Catalan independence
  • Around a million people rally in Barcelona to mark the National Day of Catalonia and to support the upcoming independence referendum on 1 October. (Reuters)