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Portal:Current events/2016 September 22

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • The death toll from a Saudi-led Arab coalition airstrike which hit a house in a residential area in western Yemen has risen to 26 people. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-idUSKCN11S178?il=0 (Reuters)]
  • Iraqi Civil War
  • Iraqi Armed Forces recapture al-Shirqat, southwest of al Hujayl, from ISIL. [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN11S0MW (Reuters)][http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/iraq-forces-push-isil-militants-from-key-northern-town (The National)]
  • Syrian Civil War
  • A suicide bombing at the opening of a local police station in the rebel-held town of Inkhil, Daraa Governorate, in southern Syria, kills at least 12 people, including an opposition minister. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-bomber-idUSKCN11S264 (Reuters)]

;Law and crime

  • The Obama administration through federal prosecutors announces corruption charges against nine defendants, including a former close aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, over their roles in alleged bribery and fraud schemes tied to the awarding of large state contracts and other activities. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-corruption-idUSKCN11S1E3 (Reuters)]
  • 2014 Yahoo! data breach
  • Yahoo! discloses a data breach that compromised the details of 500 million users. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-cyber-idUSKCN11S16P (Reuters)]
  • Operation Car Wash
  • Brazilian police arrest former Finance Minister Guido Mantega as part of an ongoing probe into corruption. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-mantega-idUSKCN11S14C (Reuters)]
  • In a standoff which has continued for two days, an exchange of gunfire with a barricaded suspect in Anchorage, Alaska, injures two police officers. The standoff is one of two occurring in the Alaskan city. [http://www.alaskapublic.org/2016/09/22/apd-working-to-resolve-hillside-standoff/ (Alaska Public Radio Network)]
  • A gunman shoots dead two people and then himself at the Tennessee factory Thomas & Betts Corp. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160923120146/http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dead-plant-shooting-east-tennessee-42294439 (ABC News)]
  • A man in Philadelphia firebombs a man's car, referring to the injured burned man as being Muslim. [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/there-you-go-muslim-says-8891711 (The Independent)]

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