Portal:Current events/2018 September 25
September 25, 2018
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2018-09-25
)
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Business and economy
Inspire Brands
announces its purchase of fast food chain
Sonic Drive-In
for
US$
2.3 billion.
(
USA Today
)
Dunkin' Donuts
announces it will drop the "Donuts" part of its name and be simply known as "Dunkin' " beginning in January 2019.
(
USA Today
)
Health and environment
Pussy Riot
activist
Pyotr Verzilov
states on
Twitter
that he is recovering after spending two weeks at
Charité
in the
intensive care unit
from a suspected poisoning.
(CBS News)
International relations
Russia–Ukraine relations
Russia
acknowledges that it was notified of
Ukraine
's decision not to renew the
Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty
.
(TASS)
China–United States relations
The
U.S. consulate in Hong Kong
says that
China
denied a request for a port call to
Hong Kong
by the
USS Wasp
.
China
says that it handles approvals "case by case, in accordance with the
principle of sovereignty
".
(Reuters)
Brexit
,
Opposition to Brexit in the United Kingdom
The
Labour Party
plans to reject
UK Prime Minister
Theresa May
's
Chequers Agreement
and is open to a new
Brexit
referendum.
(Reuters)
(AP News)
Law and crime
A court in
Vietnam
sentences 42-year old activist
Doan Khanh Vinh Quang
to 27 months in prison for writing anti-government
Facebook
posts criticizing the
Communist Party of Vietnam
.
(Fox News)
Philippine Senator
Antonio Trillanes
, a vocal critic of
President
Rodrigo Duterte
, is arrested on charges of rebellion. Trillanes says that Duterte is "silencing his political critics, those who tell the truth."
(Al Jazeera)
Bill Cosby sexual assault cases
American actor/comedian
Bill Cosby
is sentenced to three to ten years in a Pennsylvania prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004.
(
The New York Times
)
Politics and elections
Politics of Sweden
Swedish
Prime Minister
Stefan Löfven
loses a vote of confidence in
parliament
.
(BBC)
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