Portal:Current events/2015 August 9

August 9, 2015 (Sunday)

Arts and culture

Japan commemorates the 70th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped over the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

2015 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll in China from Typhoon Soudelor rises to at least 22 people with more missing and millions without power. (USA Today)

Law and crime

An arrest warrant is issued for the cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Suleiman Hilal Al-Assad, who is accused of shooting and killing Colonel Hassan Al-Sheikh of the Syrian Armed Forces at what can be described as a traffic dispute. (The News Hub), (France 24)
Ferguson unrest
- Tyrone Harris, Jr is shot in Ferguson, Missouri after allegedly firing shots at police. He is in a critical condition.(The St Louis Post-Dispatch)

Politics and elections

The Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi calls for abolishing the positions of Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister and says he is opening graft investigations. The previous vice president Tariq al-Hashimi was sentenced in absentia to death over political murders. (Bloomberg)
Haitian parliamentary election, 2015
- Voters in Haiti go to the polls for the first election in four years with some polling places in the capital Port-au-Prince forced to close due to violence. (Reuters)

Sports