Portal:Current events/2014 July 14

Current events of July 14, 2014 (2014-07-14) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Korean maritime border incidents
  • South Korea claims that North Korea has fired dozens of artillery shells into the sea near the disputed border. (AP via Fox News)
• Sinai insurgency
  • One soldier and seven civilians, including two children, have been killed in two successive mortar blasts in Egypt's city of Al-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula. (Indian Express)
• 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
  • Contact is lost with an Antonov An-26 military transport plane near Luhansk where there is currently heavy fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatist rebels. The Ukraine claims that it was shot down by a rocket fired from Russia. (Interfax), (AP via CBC)
  • Ukraine and Russia trade charges of alleged violations of the border with the Russians claiming that shell fired from the Ukraine killed a man in a border town on the weekend. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Anti-Israel protesters in Paris, France surround a synagogue and chant anti-Semitic slogans resulting in a clash with police leaving three temple members in the hospital. Additional anti-Semitic attacks take place across the country including the firebombing of a synagogue and the assualt of a 17 year old girl. (JPost)

Arts and culture

• The General Synod of the Church of England meeting in York votes to allow women to become bishops. (BBC)

Business and economy

• South Korean electronics company Samsung suspends business with one of its Chinese suppliers after finding possible evidence of use of child labour in one of its plants. (AFP via NDTV)
• Shareholders in Australian retailer David Jones Limited agree to accept a $2 billion takeover from South African retailer Woolworths. (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Disasters and accidents

• Costa Concordia disaster
  • Efforts to refloat the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia begin off the coast of Italy two and a half years after it sank. (Sky News Australia)

Health

• 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak
  • The ebola virus outbreak in West Africa continues to get worse with the death toll now exceeding 500. (AP)