Portal:Current events/2011 September 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. [http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2011/09/16/0200000000AEN20110916002900315.HTML (Yonhap)]

;Disasters

• Hurricane Maria hits the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador as a Category 1 hurricane. [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/160245.shtml (National Hurricane Centre)]
• Areas in Delhi, India, are flooded by heavy rain, with record rainfall recorded at Indira Gandhi International Airport. [http://ibnlive.in.com/news/rains-continue-to-lash-delhi-roads-waterlogged/184578-3.html (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. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/16/us-pakistan-floods-gilani-idUSTRE78F0S620110916 (Reuters)]
• Four trapped coal miners are confirmed dead following a mining accident at the Gleision Colliery in South Wales. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14955526 (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. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44556695/ns/us_news-life/ (MSNBC)], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/plane-crashes-near-grandstand-at-national-championship-air-races-in-nevada-unknown-injuries/2011/09/16/gIQAj7rZYK_story.html?wpisrc=al_national (AP via Washington Post)] [http://www.rgj.com/article/20110917/EVENTS05/110917006/Renown-reports-two-air-race-crash-victims-died-overnight?odyssey=mod|defcon|text|FRONTPAGE (Reno Gazette-Journal)]{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

;International relations

• Kosovo Serbs block off two border crossings with Serbia as the Kosovo government seeks to take them over. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iKEDVm4F5UDYzms7Pt1dVEWsV6bw?docId=CNG.0530edcec7e29105ec261a904d0b8c5c.21 (AFP via Google)]
• The Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, arrives in Libya for a meeting with the National Transitional Council. [http://www.euronews.net/2011/09/16/erdogan-s-arab-spring-tour-stops-in-libya/ (Euronews)]

;Law and crime

• The first security camera pictures are released of Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44540320/ns/world_news-europe/#.TnK7cL-aOKw (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. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/china-arrests-more-than-2000-in-sweeping-crackdown-on-gang-related-crime/2011/09/15/gIQAx6Z7VK_story.html (AP via Washington Post)]
• UBS trader Kweku Adoboli is charged with fraud and false accounting. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14950873 (BBC)]

;Politics

• Ecofin ministers agree on a bill on financial governance in Europe, aiming to prevent future economic crises. [http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110916-709798.html (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. [http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/health-union-chief-refuses-to-step-down-as-union-quits-alp-20110916-1kcwa.html (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. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14943373 (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. [http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/09/16/palestinian.authority.abbas.un/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 (CNN)][http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/09/16/bloomberg_articlesLRMQHR0YHQ0X.DTL (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. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14940885 (BBC)] [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-16b.html (NASA.gov)]

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