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September 2021 was the ninth month of that common year. The month, which began on a Wednesday, ended on a Thursday after 30 days.

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from September 2021.

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  • Brexit and the Irish border
    • The European Union rejects a request from the United Kingdom to renegotiate the deal governing the trading position of Northern Ireland. The EU adds that renegotiating the deal, which agreed to leave some EU rules in place in Northern Ireland and to accept checks on goods arriving from elsewhere in the UK following Brexit, would result in "instability, uncertainty and unpredictability in Northern Ireland". (Yahoo! News)

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  • 2021 Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference
    • The 2021 Dismantling Global Hindutva conference, or the DGH, held between 10-12 September, apparently started out as a small group of academics planning a modest gathering to explore the dangers of Hindutva ideology. [1] [2]

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  • A knifeman stabs and wounds two bus controllers in Rimini, Italy. After exiting the bus, he stabbed and wounded three passersby, including a 6-year-old child who is in a critical condition, before being arrested. Authorities ruled out terrorism as a possible motive behind the attack. (Reuters)

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  • 2021 Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference
    • The 2021 Dismantling Global Hindutva conference, or the DGH, held between 10-12 September, apparently started out as a small group of academics planning a modest gathering to explore the dangers of Hindutva ideology. [3] [4]

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  • 2021 Argentine legislative election
    • Argentines head to the polls for the primaries of the election, with the ruling Peronist center-left government expected to suffer losses. The general midterm election will occur on November 14, where 127 seats of the Chamber of Deputies and 24 seats of the Senate will be contested. Right-wing political parties are expected to win most of the seats. (Reuters)

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  • 2021 Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference
    • The 2021 Dismantling Global Hindutva conference, or the DGH, held between 10-12 September, apparently started out as a small group of academics planning a modest gathering to explore the dangers of Hindutva ideology. [5] [6]

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  • Property giant China Evergrande Group admitted it is under "tremendous pressure" and may not be able to meet its crippling debt obligations. Angry protesters have been gathering outside the real estate firm's headquarters, demanding to know about its future. Evergrande is holding $305 billion in liabilities on $147 billion in assets reported in 2020. (DW)

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  • Russia demonstrates the use of unmanned ground vehicles in combat formations during the weeklong Zapad joint military exercises with Belarus. The two vehicles demonstrated were the Uran-9, a tracked vehicle equipped with a 30 mm autocannon, machine gun, anti-tank missiles and a flamethrower; and the Nerekhta, equipped with a mounted machine gun and a grenade launcher as well as cargo capacity. (Military.com)
  • TikTok announces that they have banned the devious lick challenge, which saw videos of students stealing items from schools, such as soap dispensers. (Business Insider)

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  • Volkswagen submits an offer of €2.5 billion for French car rental firm Europcar. The deal, which would give Volkswagen 66% of Europcar's shares, has been accepted by the board but still needs to be accepted by regulators in France. Volkswagen previously owned Europcar and sold it to French investment firm Eurazeo for €3.3 billion in 2006. (RTE)
  • Twitter agrees to pay $809.5 million to settle a shareholder class action lawsuit that accused the social media company of painting an overly rosy picture of its future. (Bloomberg)

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  • A 96-year-old German woman accused of collaborating with the SS in the deaths of thousands of people at the Stutthof concentration camp, where she was employed as a typist, is arrested by German police shortly after a court ordered her arrest for evading the beginning of her trial. The court now orders the woman to be examined to determine whether she is fit to be jailed or to attend the court proceedings in person. (Al Jazeera)

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  • 2021 in sumo
    • Hakuhō, the 69th yokozuna and widely considered to be one of the greatest professional sumo wrestlers of all time, officially retires from competition after a 20-year career, 14 of them at the sport's highest rank. (The Mainichi)
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