Portal:Current events/2015 August 9
August 9, 2015 (Sunday)
Arts and culture
- Japan commemorates the 70th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped over the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II. (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
- 2015 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll in China from Typhoon Soudelor rises to at least 22 people with more missing and millions without power. (USA Today)
Law and crime
- An arrest warrant is issued for the cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Suleiman Hilal Al-Assad, who is accused of shooting and killing Colonel Hassan Al-Sheikh of the Syrian Armed Forces at what can be described as a traffic dispute. (The News Hub), (France 24)
- Ferguson unrest
- Tyrone Harris, Jr is shot in Ferguson, Missouri after allegedly firing shots at police. He is in a critical condition.(The St Louis Post-Dispatch)
Politics and elections
- The Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi calls for abolishing the positions of Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister and says he is opening graft investigations. The previous vice president Tariq al-Hashimi was sentenced in absentia to death over political murders. (Bloomberg)
- Haitian parliamentary election, 2015
- Voters in Haiti go to the polls for the first election in four years with some polling places in the capital Port-au-Prince forced to close due to violence. (Reuters)
Sports
- NFL player and sportscaster Frank Gifford dies at the age of 84. (NBC)