Portal:Current events/2010 September 25

Current events of September 25, 2010 (2010-09-25) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks Gun battle between security forces and Taliban fighters leave four militants including their commander dead in Wardak province 40 km west of Afghanistan capital Kabul. (Xinhua) Two Russian police and seven militants are killed in firefights in the southern republic of Dagestan while thirty people are injured in a suicide bombing. (RIA Novosti via RT) The Israeli Navy kills a Palestinian fisherman off Gaza. (Sky News) One of three Palestinians wounded by Israeli tank fire on 14 September dies in the Gaza Strip. (AFP via Google News) Those sexually abused as children by Catholic priests in Italy gather in public for the first time in Verona to campaign for the act to be made a crime against humanity and to organise an international demonstration outside the Vatican next month. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (AP via The Age) (The Irish Times) (The Jakarta Post) Arts and culture 1986 Nobel Laureate for Literature Wole Soyinka, the first African to receive the award, launches a political party ahead of Nigeria's upcoming presidential election. (BBC) (Daily Nation) Disasters The United Nations estimates on a preliminary basis that at least 2,000 tents were damaged or destroyed in the storm that struck Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince. (Al Jazeera) At least two people are killed and seventeen injured in a domestic gas explosion in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels, Belgium. (RIA Novosti) International relations Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly, where he states that Palestinians desire "a comprehensive and just" peace agreement and requests that Israel cease its policy of building settlements in the West Bank. (Xinhua) (Al Jazeera) (BBC) The People's Republic of China demands an apology from Japan after a recently detained fishing boat captain returns. Japan's Foreign Ministry rejects the call. (Reuters) (AP via SignOnSanDiego) Law and crime A U.S. federal court judge denies convicted murderer and rapist Albert Green's request for a stay of execution, clearing the way for California's first execution in five years. (San Francisco Chronicle) Pakistan International Airlines Flight 782 departing from Toronto, Canada, for Karachi, Pakistan, carrying 273 passengers lands at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, Sweden, due to a bomb threat. A man is taken into custody by the Swedish National Task Force and then released. (AP via Yahoo! News) (CNN)(Sky News) (Big Pond News) Politics The U.S. government urges a judge to dismiss a lawsuit which challenges an American targeted killing program which is currently hunting an American citizen who has no charges brought against him. (Reuters) Campaigning begins in Myanmar ahead of November elections. (AP via The Jakarta Post) In the United Kingdom, the Labour Party elects Ed Miliband over his older brother David in the tightest leadership election in history, with Ed coming out on top in only the 4th round of voting. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera) Science The Soyuz TMA-18 capsule carrying three members of the International Space Station lands safely in Kazakhstan. (Xinhua) The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) states that the population of some animals in the country's national parks and game reserves has doubled since 1999. (BBC) (AFP via France24) (News24) Sport The Australian Football League Grand Final between Collingwood and St Kilda ends in a draw, resulting in a rematch to be played next weekend. (ABC Online) (Herald-Sun) Michael Fennell, the President of the Commonwealth Games Federation, says that the Games will go ahead but that there "was extensive work to be done" for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, ahead of its opening on 3 October. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera) The Texas Rangers clinch the American League West division in Major League Baseball. (Silicon Valley Mercury News)