Portal:Current events/2015 June 1

June 1, 2015 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017):
- An Islamic State suicide bombing kills 37 at an Iraqi police base. (Yahoo)
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021):
- Nine Afghan employees of a Czech charity People In Need have been killed in an attack by unknown gunmen in Zari District in the north of the country. (Al Jazeera), (BBC), (Radio Prague)

Disasters and accidents

A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze River in China's Hubei province. So far, just seven have been rescued. (Xinhua via Twitter), (News Limited)

International relations

Law and crime

Nigeria's anti-graft authority arrests six senior officials from the Central Bank of Nigeria and 16 people from commercial banks for fraud. (AFP via Fraud)^{[permanent dead link]}

Politics and elections

Parts of the Patriot Act expire at 12:01 a.m. due to Congressional failure to reform the USA Freedom Act, temporarily making new surveillance of telephone records by the NSA illegal. (New York Times)
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina enters the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. (New York Times)

Politics

Former German chancellor, "architect of German reunification" and one of the authors of the European single currency Helmut Kohl is reported to be in a "critical condition" after surgery at a Heidelberg hospital. (Guardian)