- Robert Mugabe, the former President of Zimbabwe, dies at the age of 95.
- A fire aboard a charter boat (pictured) near Santa Cruz Island in California leaves at least thirty-three people dead and one other missing.
- Hurricane Dorian makes landfall in the Bahamas as a Category 5 hurricane, killing at least 20 people.
- Brazil's National Institute for Space Research announces that it has detected more than 80,000 wildfires in the country since January, at least 40,000 of which have occurred in the Amazon rainforest.
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