Portal:Current events/2015 May 14

May 14, 2015 (Thursday)

Arts and culture

Disasters and accidents

In New Zealand's North Island heavy rains cause flooding on the Kapiti Coast in the Wellington Region prompting evacuations and closing road and rail links. (TVNZ) (Fairfax New Zealand)
2015 Philadelphia train derailment
- The death toll from the derailment rises to eight, with 43 of the more than 200 injured remaining hospitalised. (The Guardian)

International relations

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with the Gulf Cooperation Council at the White House with a proposed nuclear deal with Iran top of the agenda.(CNN)
Malaysia turns away two boats with more than 800 Rohingya and Bangladesh migrants abandoned at sea by human traffickers. (AP)