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September 15, 2014
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2014-09-15
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Armed conflicts and attacks
War in Donbass
:
Heavy shelling on the city of
Donetsk
,
Ukraine
, leaves 6 people dead and 15 wounded.
(AP via
Houston Chronicle
)
Business and economics
Information technology company
Cognizant
agrees to buy health care information company TriZetto Corporation for
US$
2.7 billion.
(
New York Times
)
Microsoft
agrees to buy
Swedish
company
Mojang
, the makers of
Minecraft
, for US$2.5 billion.
(AP)
Disasters and accidents
An accidental fire severely burns a
giant white rabbit
erected by Dutch artist
Florentijn Hofman
in
Taoyuan
,
Taiwan
.
(AFP via Channel NewsAsia)
(
New York Times
)
Five hundred people drowned off the coast of
Malta
last week after
people traffickers
deliberately sank their ship
.
(Reuters)
Two wildfires around
Bass Lake, California
, USA, cause the destruction of 21 homes and the evacuation of over 1,000 people.
(The Weather Channel)
Politics and elections
Ewa Kopacz
becomes
Poland
's second female
prime minister
.
(Reuters)
Swedish Minister of Finance
Anders Borg
quits politics after he was considered to be the next leader of the
Moderate Party
, which he did not want.
(
Wall Street Journal
)
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