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Otto Pérez Molina in 2013 Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina (pictured) is arrested after resigning amid charges of customs fraud. The ancient temples of Bel and Baalshamin in Palmyra are destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, is renamed to its traditional name of Denali by the United States. Flash floods and mudslides caused by Tropical Storm Erika kill at least 31 people across Dominica in the Lesser Antilles. India is declared free from maternal and neonatal tetanus. Wildfires across the U.S. state of Washington, including the Okanogan Complex fire, destroy more than 200 homes and burn 920 square miles (2,400 km2). Ongoing events: European migrant crisis Recent deaths: Nelson Shanks Wes Craven Oliver Sacks

Current events of September 5, 2015 (2015-09-05) (Saturday) Law and crime Former vice president Annette Lu of Taiwan files charges of treason against former vice president Lien Chan, accusing him of breaching national security when he attended the 2015 China Victory Day Parade. (Taipei Times) Current events of September 4, 2015 (2015-09-04) (Friday) Armed conflicts and attacks Iraq War (2014–present) Iraqi security forces raid the offices of Kata'ib Hezbollah in Baghdad, accusing them of being involved in the abduction of 18 Turkish workers. (Reuters via Economic Times) Sinai insurgency Two roadside bombs detonate in the Sinai Peninsula injuring six international peacekeepers, who were there to support the 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty. (AP via CBS) Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen An explosion at an arms depot in Yemen kills 45 Emirati soldiers who were part of the Saudi led coalition. (Yahoo) Five Bahraini soldiers are killed on the Saudi-Yemeni border while taking part in a military operation against Yemen-based Houthi militants. (Reuters) Clashes in and around Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe kill at least 17 people. Government representatives blame the attacks against security forces on former Deputy Defense Minister Aduhalim Nazarzoda, who fought against government forces in the Tajikistan Civil War. (BBC) Syrian Civil War, Cold War II Russian President Vladimir Putin confirms the Russian military has intervened in Syria's civil war in support of the Assad regime and is providing “serious” training and logistical support to the Syrian army. (Telegraph) Arts and Culture The world's shortest man ever recorded, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, dies from pneumonia in an American Samoan hospital at age 75. Dangi lived with his family in Dang District, Nepal. His height, listed in the Guinness World Records, is 54.6 centimeters / 21.5 inches. (Kathmandu Post) (Daily Pakistan) Business and economics General Mills sells subsidiary Green Giant to B&G Foods Inc. for $765 million. (Star Tribune via The Ledger) Disasters and accidents 2015 Atlantic hurricane season Tropical Storm Fred's predicted track will turn northeast toward the Azores islands off the coast of Portugal as a Tropical Depression. (Weather.com) 2015 Pacific hurricane season Tropical Storm Ignacio, currently headed north-northwest away from Hawaii, is anticipated to turn northeast on Sunday, heading for the Alaskan panhandle and northwestern British Columbia. (AccuWeather), (SurfLine.com) Forty one people are injured when a British tourist bus and four trucks are involved in a collision between Sempach and Sursee in Switzerland. (Reuters via News24) Law and crime Two British VICE News journalists, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, arrested on 28 August in Diyarbakir Province in southeastern Turkey on terror charges, are released while their colleague, translator Mohammed Ismael Rasool, remains in custody. (Turkish Weekly), (Time) Current events of September 3, 2015 (2015-09-03) (Thursday) Disasters and accidents European migrant crisis/Syrian Civil War Death of Aylan Kurdi Bodies of Syrian refugees are found on a beach in Turkey, including a 3-year-old boy, pictures of whose body spread virally and prompt grave international concern. (Al Jazeera) An overloaded wooden boat with Sumatra-bound migrants sinks off the coast of Malaysia killing at least 15 people, 13 of which are women. Nearby fisherman rescue 19 people with more than 40 missing. The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency states that the boat was taking migrant workers home to Tanjung Balai in Indonesia's Sumatra province for the Hari Raya Haji celebration. (Reuters) (The NY Daily News) (Malaysian Star) Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: French prosecutors state that they believe "with certainty" that a piece of debris that had washed ashore on Reunion Island came from the missing plane. (BBC) International relations 2015 China's V-Day Parade A military parade is held in Beijing featuring 12,000 members of the People's Liberation Army, 500 vehicles and 200 People's Liberation Army Air Force air craft. Women of the Chinese military are allowed to participate in the parade for the first time. (RT) Law and crime The President of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, resigns after being charged in a corruption scandal; Vice President Alejandro Maldonado is sworn in as interim head of state. (The New York Times) (BBC News) 2015 Bangkok bombing Another suspect in the bombing is arrested in Narathiwat Province in southern Thailand and flown to Bangkok. (Bangkok Post) Miller v. Davis Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk, is jailed for contempt of court for continuing to refuse, on grounds of religious freedom, to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples per U.S. District Judge David Bunning's August 12, 2015, order. The deputy clerks are ordered to issue these licenses. (Reuters), (New York Times) Sports National Football League In arbitration, U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman overturns the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. The judge rules that Brady had been given no notice that ball deflation would result in a suspension. The NFL announces that they will appeal the ruling. (AP) (ESPN) Current events of September 2, 2015 (2015-09-02) (Wednesday) Armed conflicts and attacks Iraq War (2014–present) Masked men in military uniforms kidnap 16 Turkish workers in Baghdad. (AP) 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) 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) Current events of September 1, 2015 (2015-09-01) (Tuesday) Armed conflicts and attacks Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL The United Nations confirms the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has completely destroyed the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria, after earlier reports that the structure was mostly intact. (BBC) (Al Jazeera English Online) War in Somalia (2009–present) Al-Shabaab claims to have killed scores of African Union troops in a successful attack that captured a compound in Janaale, south of Mogadishu. (Al-Jazeera), (AP) War in North-West Pakistan Six suspected militants are killed in a United States drone attack in the tribal area of North Waziristan. (IANS via Yahoo! News India) Arts and culture Pope Francis releases a letter granting priests the ability to grant absolution to women who have received an abortion. (Washington Post) Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia Wikipedia concludes a large-scale operation blocking hundreds of users centered on networks of for-pay edits violating the encyclopedia's guidelines. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Ars Technica) Disaster and accidents A chemical plant owned by the Shandong Binyuan Chemical Company explodes in the Chinese city of Dongying in the coastal Shandong province, killing at least one person with the extent of other injuries unknown. (AP via Asian Correspondent) (Voice of America) (Shanghaiist) The death toll from a Legionnaires' disease outbreak at a Quincy, Illinois veterans home rises to at least seven with more than the current number of 32 sickened expected since the incubation period for illness can be up to two weeks. (Reuters) International relations European migrant crisis Authorities in Hungary close the Budapest Keleti railway station to prevent hundreds of migrants from boarding trains to other European capitals. (ITV) Thousands of refugees arrive in Germany's München Hauptbahnhof from Budapest. Police and firefighters on the scene provide them with food, water and medical aid even as more continue to arrive. (thelocal) More than 11,000 Icelanders offer to open their homes to Syrian refugees to help with the European crisis.(The Independent) (Time) Eurostar services between Paris and London are delayed by hundreds of migrants trying to board the trains at Calais. (Reuters) Law and crime Lake County, Illinois authorities seek three suspects, believed to be two white men and a black man, who killed a police officer from the Fox Lake, Illinois Police Department, Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, a 30-year veteran of the force who had been a mentor to many youths in the area and one of the most decorated officers in his department. (Chicago Tribune) Politics and elections Guatemala's Congress unanimously votes to strip President Otto Pérez of immunity from prosecution for his alleged role in a graft scandal that has engulfed his government. Nationwide elections are scheduled for Sunday, September 6th; Pérez is not eligible because of constitutional term limits. (Reuters) (Bloomberg) New Zealand flag debate Four alternatives to the current New Zealand flag are chosen for a Spring referendum (20 November – 11 December 2015) in which New Zealanders will determine their favorite of the new designs. (TV New Zealand) (New Zealand Government) A law affecting online personal computer data storage comes into force in Russia. (RT) Faroese general election, 2015 The centre-left opposition, led by Aksel V. Johannesen, wins the elections on the Faroe Islands; the new government is expected to pass legislation allowing same-sex unions. (The Local)] Current events of August 31, 2015 (2015-08-31) (Monday) Armed conflicts and attacks 2015 Bangkok bombing Thai police say they have discovered bomb-making material in a raid in an apartment in an outer side of Bangkok. (AP) Arts and culture Denali, the highest mountain peak in North America, officially regains its original Alaska Native name through an executive order issued by American President Barack Obama. Previously, since 1917, it had been known as Mount McKinley. (The New York Times) Disasters and accidents 2015 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Fred hits Cape Verde causing flooding and the closure of airports. (AP via New York Times) International relations Turkey–PKK conflict Two reporters and a support worker for Vice News are charged with being members of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant by a judge in Turkey, following their arrest a few days prior. (Al Jazeera English Online) Minsk II implementation Riot police clash with protesters armed with firecrackers and petrol bombs outside the parliament building, in Kiev, Ukraine, leaving one national guardsman dead and around 100 people injured. (Al Jazeera English Online) (The News Hub) (BBC) Syria–North Korea relations A park in Damascus is named after the North Korean founding leader Kim Il-Sung. (Al Jazeera English Online) Law and crime Kevin Dahlgren, who is suspected of killing four Czech family members, has been extradited from the United States to face trial. (Yahoo news) (Fox news) White supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. (also known as Frazier Glenn Cross) is convicted of three counts of murder outside two Jewish centres in the American state of Kansas. (AP via Yahoo! News) At least three people are dead and three people injured in the Churachandpur district of India's Manipur State following riots after the passage of three bills in the Manipur Legislative Assembly yesterday. (NDTV) Science and technology According to a new study, the Sumatran Rhino is now considered extinct in the wild in Malaysia. No new wild animals have been spotted since 2007, elsewhere fewer than 100 Rhinos remain in the wild. (MSN). Current events of August 30, 2015 (2015-08-30) (Sunday) Armed conflicts and attacks Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen An air strike from a Saudi-led coalition kills 36 civilians working in a bottling plant in the northern Hajjah Governorate. (Reuters) Arts and culture The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that ISIL has blown up the ancient Temple of Bel in Palmyra. (Fox News) Disasters and accidents A fire at an Aramco housing complex in the Saudi Arabian city of Khobar kills at least two people and injures 105. (BBC) 2015 Atlantic hurricane season Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit declares disaster status for nine local areas where access by road is impossible after flooding and mudslides from Tropical Storm Erika which killed at least 20 people and left more than 50 missing. Skerrit also appealed for international aid. (Fox News) 2015 Pacific hurricane season Hurricane Ignacio, which has weakened to a Category 3 (115 mph) storm, is expected to side-step Hawaii this week though will still generate high surf, rain and powerful winds. The Big Island and Maui remain on a tropical storm watch. Ignacio may re-strengthen to a hurricane when he clears Oahu on Wednesday. (Inquisitr) (Reuters) European migrant crisis Hungary makes a fifth arrest in relation to the death of seventy-one migrants in a truck in Austria. (CNN) 65 girls and young women traveling to an annual dance festival are killed after an open truck smashes into the back of a van near Mbabane, Swaziland. (RT) (The Telegraph) Politics and elections 2015 Lebanese protests Protestors in Beirut continue their protests against the government due to a lack of effective garbage collection in the city during one of the hottest summers on record. (NPR) 2015 Iglesia ni Cristo protests Practitioners of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) Christian sect in the Philippines rally in the capital Manila against the Department of Justice for its ongoing investigation of INC leaders. (Channel News Asia) (Philippine Star) Bersih 4 rally There is a second day of rallies in Malaysia calling on Prime Minister Najib Razak to resign over the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal. (BBC) Japanese anti-militarism protests Students and activists protest in Tokyo against a proposal to amend Japan's pacifist constitution. (U.S. News and World Report) Egyptian parliamentary election, 2015 Voters in Egypt will go to the polls for parliamentary elections starting in October 2015. (Reuters via Mix Fargo) More August 2015 events...

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About this page • Suggest a headline News about Wikipedia  Ongoing events Economic Chinese stock market crash Greek government-debt crisis Political Anti-corruption campaign in China Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger Malaysian protests against corruption Russian military intervention in Ukraine Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen Second Libyan Civil War Sinai insurgency South China Sea disputes Syrian and Iraqi civil wars Military intervention against ISIL More details on ongoing conflicts below  Recent deaths September 2: Charles Gyamfi 1: Dean Jones 1: Willy Stähle 1: Aleksandar Stipčević August 31: Joy Beverley 31: Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu 30: Wes Craven 30: Bart Cummings 30: Marvin Mandel 30: Oliver Sacks 30: David Williamson 29: William McCormick Blair, Jr. 29: Wayne Dyer 29: Luo Lan 29: Graham Leggat 28: Al Arbour 28: Kyle Jean-Baptiste 28: Nelson Shanks 28: Józef Wesołowski 27: Kazi Zafar Ahmed 27: George Cleve 27: Darryl Dawkins 27: Teresa Gorman 26: Vester Flanagan 26: Allison Parker 26: Amelia Boynton Robinson 26: Adam Ward 25: James "Red" Duke 25: Frank E. Petersen 25: Francis Sejersted 24: Cees van Kooten 24: Joseph F. Traub 24: Justin Wilson 23: Augusta Chiwy 23: Mark Costello 23: Guy Ligier 23: Paul Royle 22: Mariem Hassan 22: Arthur Morris 22: Merl Reagle 22: William L. Rowe 22: Ieng Thirith 22: Lou Tsioropoulos 21: Wang Dongxing 21: Anna Kashfi 21: Gerry Steinberg 20: Egon Bahr 20: Veronica Brady 20: Melody Patterson 19: George Houser 19: Doudou N'diaye Rose 19: Suharno 19: Sanat Mehta 18: Khaled al-Asaad 18: Suvra Mukherjee 18: Roger Smalley 18: William Jay Smith 18: Louis Stokes 18: Bud Yorkin 17: Yvonne Craig 17: Eduardo Guerrero 17: László Paskai 16: Jacob Bekenstein 16: Shuja Khanzada 16: Kitty McGeever 16: Mile Mrkšić 15: Julian Bond 15: Hamid Gul 15: Geoff McGivern 14: Agustín Cejas 14: Bob Johnston 14: Lavanam 14: Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano 13: Om Prakash Munjal 13: John A. Nerud 12: Jaakko Hintikka 12: Stephen Lewis 12: Chris Marustik 12: Ihor Yeremeyev 11: Nour El-Sherif 11: Harald Nielsen 11: Magomed Suleimanov 10: Buddy Baker 10: Boris Gostev 9: Frank Gifford 9: David Nobbs 9: John Henry Holland 9: Jonathan Ollivier 9: Susan Sheridan 8: Samuil Lurie 8: Ann McGovern 8: Gus Mortson 8: Sean Price 7: Sólveig Anspach 7: Manuel Contreras 7: Terrence Evans 7: Wei Jianxing 7: Frances Oldham Kelsey 7: Jerome G. Miller 7: Niloy Neel 7: Neville Neville 7: Louise Suggs 7: Uggie 6: Frederick R. Payne, Jr. 6: Orna Porat 5: George Cole 5: Tony Millington 5: Svetlana Boym 5: Ellen Vogel 4: Elsie Hillman 4: Chris Hyndman 4: Les Munro 4: Billy Sherrill 3: Robert Conquest 3: Mel Farr 3: Coleen Gray 3: Margot Loyola 3: Johanna Quandt 3: Giovanni Riggi 3: Arnold Scaasi  Ongoing conflicts Africa Algeria, Tunisia and Niger Maghreb insurgency Central African Republic Civil war Democratic Republic of Congo Kivu conflict ADF insurgency Katanga insurgency Ituri conflict Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Libya Civil war Mali Northern Mali conflict Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger Boko Haram insurgency Somalia Civil war South Sudan South Sudanese Civil War Sudan War in Darfur South Kordofan conflict Americas Colombian conflict Internal conflict in Peru Mexican War on Drugs Asia Afghanistan War China Xinjiang conflict India Naxalite–Maoist insurgency Insurgency in Northeast India India and Pakistan Kashmir conflict Pakistan War in North-West Pakistan Balochistan conflict Philippines CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion Moro conflict Moro conflict in Sabah Southeast Asia Internal conflict in Burma Papua conflict South Thailand insurgency Europe Georgia Abkhaz–Georgian conflict Georgian–Ossetian conflict Chechen-Russian conflict North Caucasus insurgency War in Ingushetia Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Ukraine War in Donbass Russian military intervention in Ukraine Middle East Arab–Israeli conflict Gaza–Israel conflict Israeli–Lebanese conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Egypt Sinai insurgency Iran Iran–PJAK conflict Iraqi civil war American-led intervention in Iraq Iranian intervention in Iraq Syrian Civil War American-led intervention in Syria Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon Turkey Turkey-PKK conflict Yemeni crisis Houthi rebellion Al-Qaeda insurgency South Yemen insurgency  Elections Recent August 9: Haiti, Senate, Chamber of Deputies 17: Sri Lanka, Parliament 20: Iraqi Kurdistan, President Upcoming September 1: Faroe Islands, Løgting 6: Guatemala, President (1st round), Congress 6: Poland, Referendum 7: Trinidad and Tobago, House of Representatives 11: Singapore, Parliament 20: Greece, Hellenic Parliament 27: Catalonia, Parliament  Trials Recently concluded Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes Brazil: Mensalão scandal Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty, Luka Magnotta China: Ji Jianye, Liao Shaohua, Ni Fake, Chen Baihuai, Zhou Yongkang, Gu Junshan Croatia: Ivo Sanader Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Peter Greste, Mohamed Morsi Germany: Bernie Ecclestone, Uli Hoeness, Christian Wulff, Breno Borges Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi Israel: Hussam Qawasmeh Italy: Silvio Berlusconi Jordan: Abu Qatada Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Romania: Liviu Dragnea, Dan Diaconescu Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot South Africa: Shrien Dewani, Oscar Pistorius, Chris Mahlangu Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw, Aggro Santos, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Michael Le Vell, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot United States: Abu Hamza al-Masri, Michael Grimm, Bob McDonnell, Vilma Bautista, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Jodi Arias, Anas al-Libi Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes International ECCC: Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan ICC: Germain Katanga, Thomas Lubanga ICTY: Momčilo Perišić, Mladen Markač, Ante Gotovina, Zdravko Tolimir SCFSL: Charles Taylor Ongoing China: Jiang Jiemin, Yao Mugen, Li Chuncheng, Guo Youming, Zhu Zuoli France: Dominique Strauss-Kahn Germany: Beate Zschäpe Iran: Babak Zanjani Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Janet Lim-Napoles, Jovito Palparan, Joseph Scott Pemberton Romania: , Darius Vâlcov, Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Radu Mazăre, Gheorghe Nichita, Marian Vanghelie, Cătălin Voicu, Relu Fenechiu, Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae Russia: Alexei Navalny South Korea: MV Sewol crew members International ICTY: Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladic PCA: China Upcoming China: Wu Changshun Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Spain: Lionel Messi United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dylan Quick, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, 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