Portal:Current events/2015 September 23
September 23, 2015
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2015-09-23
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Colombian conflict (1964–present)
The
President of Colombia
Juan Manuel Santos
and the leader of
FARC
Timoleón Jiménez
will announce a deal on justice for crimes committed in the fifty-year-long conflict.
(BBC)
Arts and culture
Pope Francis' visit to the United States
Pope Francis
makes his first ever visit to the U.S. and becomes the third Pope to visit the
White House
. He was received in an official welcome ceremony by President and Mrs. Obama and is scheduled to meet with a bishops' conference of the United States and hold mass and canonize
Junípero Serra
at the
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
, near the
Catholic University of America
.
(AP via MSN)
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(
The New York Times
)
,
(
Washington Post
)
,
(CNN)
Business and economy
Volkswagen emissions violations
Martin Winterkorn
resigns as the CEO of
Volkswagen
as a result of an emissions cheating scandal.
(BBC)
Law and crime
Egypt
pardons
al-Jazeera
journalists
Mohamed Fahmy
and Baher Mohamed, who have been recently sentenced to three years in prison.
(BBC)
European migrant crisis
Slovakia
mounts a legal challenge to mandatory quotas decided in a
European Union
ministerial summit yesterday.
(BBC)
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