September 27, 2023: Nagorno-Karabakh, Iraq wedding fire, US Senate shutdown looms, Bob Menendez, N. Korea to expel Travis King
1. A former head of the breakaway ethnic Armenian government in Nagorno-Karabakh was arrested by Azerbaijan as he tried to escape into Armenia as part of an exodus of tens of thousands of people that has triggered a humanitarian crisis.
2. A fire ripped through a packed wedding hall in northern Iraq late on Tuesday, killing more than 100 people in a Christian town that had survived Islamic State occupation as authorities announced an investigation into the blaze.
3. The U.S. Senate took a step forward on a bipartisan bill meant to stop the government from shutting down in just five days, while the House sought to push ahead with a conflicting measure backed only by Republicans.
4. U.S. Senator Bob Menendez is set to appear in court on Wednesday to face charges of taking bribes from three New Jersey businessman, as calls for his resignation from his fellow Democrats escalated.
5. North Korea's United Nations envoy accused the United States and South Korea on Tuesday of pushing the Korean peninsula closer to the brink of nuclear war, telling the U.N. General Assembly that as a result his country had no choice but to further accelerate a build-up of its self-defense capabilities.
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