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Portal:Current events/2019 September 25

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;Business and economy

;Disasters and accidents

  • Rescuers reach the wreckage of a Twin Otter cargo plane that crashed last week between Timika and Ilaga in Papua, Indonesia. All four persons on board are found dead, and their bodies are recovered. [https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/185725 (The Malaysian Insight)]

;Health and environment

;International relations

;Law and crime

  • A bomb explodes as a police riot bus passes by in Yüreğir, Adana Province, Turkey. At least five officers are injured. [http://bianet.org/english/human-rights/213509-explosion-while-riot-police-service-vehicle-passing-in-adana-5-people-wounded (Bianet)]
  • Cannabis in Australia
  • The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) becomes the first jurisdiction in Australia to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. From January 31, 2020, adults within ACT will be allowed to have 50 grams of the drug and can grow up to four cannabis plants at home. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49820735 (BBC News)]
  • Millionaire Italian yacht businessman Giulio Lolli is convicted of terrorism in Libya and sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Tripoli. Lolli is wanted for fraud in Italy, and his Italian lawyer says the Libyan legal case appears to be based on Lolli using a yacht to evacuate fighters from Tripoli. [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/italian-playboy-giulio-lolli-jailed-for-terror-in-libya-f3mg7fzs2 (The Times)]
  • A jury in New York convicts Dilkhayot Kasimov, a citizen of Uzbekistan, of terrorism offences for attempting to raise funds to assist a friend in travelling to join ISIL. Five others pleaded guilty in 2015. [https://www.apnews.com/b00f266984454143a90bee7f2d479878 (Associated Press)]
  • Suspected serial killer Gracious David-West confesses to fifteen murders at a hotel in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/25/man-confesses-killing-15-women-port-harcourt-hotel-murders-rocked/ (The Telegraph)]
  • The military court in Blida sentences Mohamed Mediène, {{ill|Said Bouteflika|ar|سعيد_بوتفليقة|fr|Saïd Bouteflika}}, {{ill|Bachir Tartag|ar|بشير_طرطاق|fr|Athmane Tartag}} and Louisa Hanoune, four persons from the ruling elite around former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, to 15-year jail terms for conspiracy against the army and the authority of the Algerian state. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-algeria-trial/algeria-jails-top-figures-of-bouteflika-era-idUSKBN1WA07P (Reuters)]
  • Impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump
  • The United States House of Representatives issues an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. [https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-impeachment-inquiry-09-25-2019/index.html (CNN)]
  • Danske Bank money laundering scandal
  • Authorities raid the German bank Deutsche Bank as part of a money laundering probe into €200 billion of suspicious payments identified into the accounts of Danske Bank's branch in Estonia. Danske Bank's Estonian boss from 2007 to 2015 is found dead near Tallinn at his home in circumstances police describe as neither suspicious nor accidental. [https://www.cityam.com/dutch-bank-abn-amro-probed-under-terror-financing-rules/ (City A.M.)]
  • A federal grand jury indicts a US Army soldier on charges of distributing explosives information as part of an alleged far-right terror plot. [https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/25/politics/army-soldier-indicted-alleged-bombing-news-network/index.html (CNN)]

;Politics and elections

;Science and technology

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