Portal:Current events/2018 September 11
September 11, 2018 (Tuesday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Florence
- The Donald Trump campaign cancels a rally for Missouri ahead of Hurricane Florence, which is expected to make landfall on the East Coast. (Politico)
- The North Carolina Tar Heels football game against the UCF Knights and the North Carolina State Wolfpack game against the West Virginia Mountaineers are cancelled due to Hurricane Florence. (Orlando Sentinel) (Sporting News)
- A bus carrying pilgrims from a Hindu temple in the hills of Telangana in India plunges off a road, killing at least 57 people and injuring 25 others.
(NDTV) Braview Academy Highschool in Whitefield, Dundee (Scotland) burns down after a major fire occurred as dozens of fire fighters finally put it out fortunately no one was injured
Health and environment
- 2018 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak
- South Korean health authorities announce that they are searching for around 50 foreign nationals who may have been in contact with the recently confirmed MERS patient, including those who arrived in Incheon Airport from Dubai on the same flight last Friday. (The Straits Times)
International relations
- Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict, Eritrea–Ethiopia relations
- The Eritrean–Ethiopian border reopens for the first time since 1998. (The New York Times)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in Iraq
- Iraq announces the executions of seven terror convicts in Dhi Qar, saying the men, all citizens of Iraq, were hanged yesterday. (Gulf News)
Politics and elections
- 2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis
- A million Catalonia residents launch an "autumn of protests" on National Day of Catalonia to demand independence from Spain and release "high-profile" secessionists from jail. (The Evening Standard) (ABC News)
- The Spanish Health Minister Carmen Montón resigns after the irregularities in her master's degree and the plagiarism of part of her final project were made public on 10 September. She is the second minister to resign since Sánchez formed the government on 7 June. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- RiskIQ, a cybersecurity firm, reports that it has discovered the software that was used to gather credit card information from the British Airways website. The firm further states that the "supply chain attack" was very similar to an earlier attempt to skim data from the Ticketmaster website. (BBC)