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Current events of
September 16, 2011
(
2011-09-16
)
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Armed conflict and attacks
Authorities in
South Korea
arrest a
North Korean
citizen for an alleged
assassination
attempt against
Park Sang-hak
, a noted
defector
and activist.
(Yonhap)
Disasters
Hurricane Maria
hits the Canadian province of
Newfoundland and Labrador
as a Category 1 hurricane.
(National Hurricane Centre)
Areas in
Delhi
,
India
, are flooded by heavy rain, with record rainfall recorded at
Indira Gandhi International Airport
.
(IBN Live)
The
Prime Minister of Pakistan
,
Yusuf Raza Gilani
, cancels a visit to the United States to address the
United Nations General Assembly
as a result of the
2011 Sindh floods
.
(Reuters)
Four trapped coal miners are confirmed dead following a
mining accident
at the
Gleision Colliery
in
South Wales
.
(BBC)
2011 Reno Air Races crash
: At least 5 people are killed and at least 50 injured when a
P-51D Mustang
airplane crashes into the crowd at the annual
Reno Air Races
in
Reno, Nevada
, in the
United States
.
(MSNBC)
,
(AP via
Washington Post
)
(Reno Gazette-Journal)
International relations
Kosovo Serbs
block off two border crossings with
Serbia
as the
Kosovo
government seeks to take them over.
(AFP via Google)
The
Prime Minister of Turkey
,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
, arrives in
Libya
for a meeting with the
National Transitional Council
.
(Euronews)
Law and crime
The first
security camera
pictures are released of
Anders Behring Breivik
, the perpetrator of the
2011 Norway attacks
.
(MSNBC)
The
Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China
arrests more than 2,000 people in a crackdown on gang-related crime.
(AP via
Washington Post
)
UBS
trader
Kweku Adoboli
is charged with fraud and false accounting.
(BBC)
Politics
Ecofin
ministers agree on a bill on financial governance in Europe, aiming to prevent future
economic crises
.
(
Wall Street Journal
)
The
Health Services Union
disaffiliates from the
Australian Labor Party
in the states of
New South Wales
and
Victoria
and the
Australian Capital Territory
, following the commencement of a
New South Wales Police Force
investigation into alleged "inappropriate practices" by current and former
union
officials, including
Craig Thomson
, a member of the
House of Representatives
.
(
Sydney Morning Herald
)
Sinn Féin
's officer board gives its approval to put forward
Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister
Martin McGuinness
as a candidate for the
2011 Irish presidential election
.
(BBC)
Mahmoud Abbas
, the
President
of the
Palestinian National Authority
, says he will push for full
United Nations
membership as a
nation state
for the Palestinian National Authority at the September 23
UN General Assembly
meeting.
(CNN)
(Bloomberg News via S.F. Chronicle)
Science
Scientists at
NASA
announce the
Kepler
mission's discovery of a planet orbiting
two suns
. This is the first unambiguous detection of a
circumbinary planet
, i.e., a planet that orbits two stars instead of one.
(BBC)
(NASA.gov)
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