Portal:Current events/2011 September 27

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

• North Caucasus insurgency:
• One policeman and seven civilians die as a result of car bombing in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/28/us-russia-dagestan-bomb-idUSL5E7KS73320110928 (Reuters)]
• An explosion destroys the Arab Gas Pipeline in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula supplying natural gas to Jordan and Israel. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/27/egypt-pipeline-idUSL5E7KR00B20110927 (Reuters)]
• Australian Minister for Defence Stephen Smith announces that women will be serving in frontline-combat roles in the Australian military within five years. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-27/women-on-the-frontline/2946258 (ABC News Online)]
• 2011 Syrian uprising:
• The Syrian Army launches an attack on the town of Rastan near the city of Homs. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110929133351/http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/syria-forces-storm-main-town-fight-defectors-residents (Reuters via Alertnet)]
• Abu Sayyaf gunmen attack pro-government militia in the township of Sumisip on Basilan Island in the Philippines, with six people reported killed and five wounded. [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PHILIPPINES_ABU_SAYYAF?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT (AP)]
• A suicide bomber kills at least two people in the city of Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. [https://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/09/27/general-as-afghanistan_8702282.html (AP via Forbes)]

;Business and economy

• Visitors to Australia face delays as Australian Customs and Border Protection Service staff go on strike over a pay dispute. [http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/overseas-travellers-face-delays-as-customs-and-border-protection-staff-go-on-strike/story-e6freuy9-1226147472004 (Daily Telegraph)]
• South Korea's Financial Services Commission announces plans to pump more money into suspended local savings banks. [http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2011/09/27/60/0200000000AEN20110927002000320F.HTML (Yonhap News)]
• Thousands of airline passengers are stranded at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila after Philippine Airlines staff stage a walkout. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150609050730/http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationsubcategoryid=200&articleid=731489 (Philippines Star)]
• Defence company BAE Systems confirms almost 3,000 jobs will be lost among its UK workforce. [http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16077855 (Sky News)]
• The board of LCH.Clearnet, an independent European clearing house, reportedly approves of a takeover proposal by the London Stock Exchange. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/27/us-lse-lch-idUSTRE78Q1GP20110927 (Reuters)]

;Disasters

• Typhoon Nesat hits the island of Luzon in the Philippines with at least sixteen deaths, 100,000 people evacuated and the capital Manila brought to a standstill. [http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/65799/pedring-slams-luzon-baby-drowns (AFP via Inquirer)] [https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/27/philippines-weather-idUSL3E7KR0M920110927 (Reuters)] [http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/09/27/at-least-seven-dead-after-massive-typhoon-hits-manila/ (AP via Fox News)] [http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/16-dead-as-typhoon-nesat-hits-philippines-20110928-1kvrm.html (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)]
• More than 80 people have died and more than two million affected by floods in India with the states of Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar worst affected. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15070815 (BBC)]
• At least 37 people are killed, including 30 schoolchildren, and another seventy critically injured following a school bus accident at Kallar Kahar in the Punjab province of Pakistan. [http://tribune.com.pk/story/260923/six-killed-as-bus-carrying-school-children-overturns-on-motorway/ (Express Tribune)]
• One miner is killed and another injured following an underground roof collapse at Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire, one of the United Kingdom's deepest remaining mines. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-15083044 (BBC)]

;International relations

• Israel approves the construction of 1,100 homes in the Jewish settlement of Gilo on the outskirts of Jerusalem. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15080160 (BBC)]

;Law and Crime

• CEOs of Iranian Melli Bank and Saderat Bank resign from their positions as a result of $2.6 billion bank fraud. [http://www.tabnak.ir/fa/news/193142/%D9%85%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9-%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B9%D9%81%D8%A7-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%8C-%D9%85%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7...!%D8%9F (TABNAK)]
• Fugitive hijacker George Wright is caught in Portugal, thirty-nine years after he and members of the Black Liberation Army took control of Delta Air Lines Flight 841 and flew it to Algeria. [http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/justice/hijacker-found/ (CNN)]
• The trial of Dr Conrad Murray for manslaughter in connection to the death of American singer Michael Jackson begins in California. [http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/michael-jackson-death-trial-kenny-ortega-worried-mjs/story?id=14614384 (ABC News America)]

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