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Portal:Current events/2015 August 19

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • Boko Haram insurgency
  • A Boko Haram attack last week on a northeastern Nigerian village, Yadin Kukuwa killed at least 151 people. News of the attack was slow to emerge because the militants destroyed telecom masts around the village. [http://www.independent.ie/world-news/africa/boko-haram-attack-on-nigerian-village-leaves-151-dead-31462214.html (The Independent)], [http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2015/08/19/Up-to-150-drowned-shot-fleeing-Boko-Haram-ambush-in-Nigeria (AFP via Times Live)]
  • ISIL beheading incidents, Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL, Syrian Civil War
  • Islamic State militants behead 82-year-old antiquities scholar Khaled Asaad, who worked for over 50 years as head of antiquities in Palmyra. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/18/us-mideast-crisis-archaeology-idUSKCN0QN24K20150818 (Reuters)], [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33984006 (BBC)]
  • Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
  • A suicide bomber kills at least 20 Iraqi Army troops in the city of Baiji. [http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/19/Suicide-bombing-in-Beiji-kills-at-least-20-Iraqi-soldiers.html (Al-Arabiyah)]
  • South Sudanese Civil War
  • Fighting resumes in South Sudan after the failure to reach a deal between tribes loyal to the president and tribes loyal to the former vice-president. [http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/08/19/fighting-resumes-in-south-sudan-after-president-declines-to-sign-peace-deal/ (AP via Fox News)]
  • Turkey-PKK Conflict
  • A bomb detonated by Kurdish militants kills at least eight soldiers. [https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/08/19/world/europe/ap-eu-turkey-kurds.html (The New York Times)], [http://www.independent.ie/world-news/eight-soldiers-killed-in-pkk-bomb-attack-in-turkey-31463308.html (The Independent)]

;Business and economy

  • Greek government-debt crisis
  • The Bundestag votes to approve a third bailout for Greece. [https://www.theguardian.com/business/blog/live/2015/aug/19/german-mps-to-vote-on-greek-bailout-live (The Guardian)]
  • Samsung Bioepis Co., a drug development arm of global giant Samsung, picks four banks to manage an IPO it plans for the United States in 2016. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/20/us-samsung-bioepis-ipo-idUSKCN0QP08F20150820 (Reuters)]

;Disasters and accidents

  • A brush fire burning near the American town of Twisp, Washington, kills three firefighters, injures as many as four others, and forces the evacuation of the towns of Twisp and Winthrop. [http://www.krem.com/story/news/local/wildfire/2015/08/19/50-acre-fire-evacuates-town--twisp/32021205/ (KREM)], [http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/chelan-fires-grow-but-firefighters-mop-up-contained-areas/ (The Seattle Times)]

;International relation

  • Estonian-Russian relations
  • A court in Russia sentences Estonian security official Eston Kohver to 15 years in prison for espionage. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33986733 (BBC)]
  • South Sudan–United States relations
  • The United States announces that it is proposing sanctions against those connected to the South Sudan conflict, unless a ceasefire is reached promptly. [http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/south-sudan-sign-peace-deal-face-sanctions-150819070307800.html (Al Jazeera)]

;Law and crime

  • Following a July 15 hacking, user data of the infidelity-promoting dating website Ashley Madison is leaked with over 30 million users having their information compromised. [https://www.bbc.com/news/business-33984017 (BBC)]
  • Police in the U.S. city of St. Louis, Missouri make nine arrests and use tear gas to disperse protesters after a killing of an armed man allegedly aiming a gun at police officers earlier in the day. [http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/19/us/st-louis-police-shooting/index.html (CNN)]
  • A drive by shooting outside of a Boys & Girls Club in Rochester, New York leaves three people killed and four injured. [http://www.wgrz.com/story/news/2015/08/20/3-dead-4-wounded-shooting-boys-and-girls-club/32037567/ (WGRZ)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

;Politics and elections

  • The United States Navy SEALs announce a plan to allow women to register, the first time in history. [http://www.navytimes.com/story/military/2015/08/18/women-seals-greenert-losey-buds/31943243/ (The Navy Times)]

;Sports

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