Portal:Current events/2015 September 2
September 2, 2015 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
- Syrian Civil War
- A car bomb kills at least seven people in the Latakia Governorate. (AFP via Daily Star)
Business and economy
- 150 million workers go on strike in India to oppose Prime Minister Narendra Modi's labour market reforms. (Voice of America)
Disasters and accidents
- French police arrest an arsonist for a fire in an apartment in the 18th arrondissement of Paris which killed eight people.(BBC)
International relations
- Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
- Upcoming congressional votes
- President Barack Obama has sufficient support in the United States Senate to uphold a veto of the proposed congressional vote of disapproval of the nuclear deal with Iran. (AP)
- Upcoming congressional votes
Law and crime
- Eight people have been killed and over 30 injured in riots in the Indian state of Manipur since the passage of three controversial land bills on Monday. (IBN Live)
- Crime in El Salvador
- There have been 907 deaths last month in El Salvador as a result of gang violence, a death rate not seen since the Salvadoran Civil War of the 1980s. (BBC)
- The Dutch Public Prosecution Service releases a statement that former Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands Els Borst who was murdered on 8 February 2014, died from forty-one stab wounds on her head, neck and hands. (NOS)
- A French probe into the death of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 2004 closes without bringing any new information. (Wires via France 24)
- A judge orders that President of Guatemala Otto Pérez Molina be detained for his alleged role in a corruption scandal. (AP)
Science and technology
- A new study estimates that there are three trillion trees on Earth, with 15 billion lost each year to mainly human causes. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Russian rocket Soyuz TMA-18M launches a crew of three to the ISS. (Space.com)
Sports
- 2022 Commonwealth Games
- South Africa will become the first African nation to host the Commonwealth Games as Durban is granted the rights to host the games in 2022. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Delegates elect Vitaly Mutko to be the President of Russian Football Union. (TASS)