An
al-Shabaab member
blows himself up outside a hotel in
Mogadishu,
Somalia, killing three guards and two security forces. Six gunmen then stormed the hotel in 13-hour siege, causing a gunfight with the
army in which three soldiers and the six attackers are killed. Twenty-seven other people are wounded.
(Al Jazeera)(NDTV)
The
Croatian government votes to dissolve the
parliament, thereby requiring that a parliamentary election be held within the next two months. The parliamentary election was originally scheduled to be held on September 22.
(Reuters)
SpaceX successfully launches the first
Starship rocket, the most powerful rocket ever built, at
Starbase in
Texas,
United States, after two previous failed attempts. The rocket reached an altitude of more than 200 kilometres (120 mi), but was destroyed during re-entry.
(Al Jazeera)