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September 15, 2015
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2015-09-15
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Boko Haram insurgency
,
2015 West African offensive
The
Nigerian Army
rescues dozens of women and children in
Borno State
.
(AP via ABC News)
Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
Houthi
militants backed by Yemeni
troops
reportedly seize control of al-Rabu’ah, a town in
Saudi Arabia
's southwestern
Asir region
near the
Yemeni
border, forcing Saudi forces to pull out of the area.
(Press TV)
Disasters and accidents
2015 Southeast Asian haze
The
Indonesian
province of
Riau
declares a
state of emergency
due to high levels of smoke haze from forest fires in Riau,
Jambi
and
South Sumatra
that have led thousands of people to flee the capital
Pekanbaru
.
(AFP via
Straits Times
)
The 24 hour
Pollutant Standards Index
in Singapore remains in the unhealthy range due to smoke haze.
(Channel News Asia)
Two students die and three others are injured after a
school bus
is struck by another vehicle and swerves off an
Interstate 610
overpass
in
Houston
,
Texas
.
(Houston Chronicle)
,
(Reuters)
The death toll from yesterday's
flash floods
in the American towns of
Hildale, Utah
, and
Colorado City, Arizona
, rises to 12 with one person still missing.
(AP via ABC News)
,
(NBC News)
A
floatplane
crashes during takeoff near
Iliamna
in southwest
Alaska
, killing three people and injuring the other seven on board.
(AP via Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
Seven
mountain climbers
die in an
avalanche
in the
French Alps
near the town of
Pelvoux
.
(Accuweather)
Health
The
U.S.
Food and Drug Administration
orders
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
to stop further U.S. sale and distribution of four
cigarette
products because they may be more dangerous than similar older cigarettes.
(Reuters)
International relations
European migrant crisis
Hungary
declares a
state of emergency
in two of its southeastern counties as tougher laws come into effect aimed at preventing
asylum-seekers
and other migrants from entering the country.
(BBC)
,
(AP via U.S. News & World Report)
Politics and elections
Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, September 2015
Malcolm Turnbull
is sworn in as the
Prime Minister of Australia
following his election to the leadership of the
Liberal Party of Australia
.
(ABC News Australia)
The
Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia
appoints a special prosecutor into a
wiretapping
scandal.
(AP via ABC News)
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