Portal:Current events/2011 September 27
September 27, 2011 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- North Caucasus insurgency:
- One policeman and seven civilians die as a result of car bombing in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. (Reuters)
- An explosion destroys the Arab Gas Pipeline in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula supplying natural gas to Jordan and Israel. (Reuters)
- Australian Minister for Defence Stephen Smith announces that women will be serving in frontline-combat roles in the Australian military within five years. (ABC News Online)
- 2011 Syrian uprising:
- The Syrian Army launches an attack on the town of Rastan near the city of Homs. (Reuters via Alertnet)
- Abu Sayyaf gunmen attack pro-government militia in the township of Sumisip on Basilan Island in the Philippines, with six people reported killed and five wounded. (AP)
- A suicide bomber kills at least two people in the city of Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. (AP via Forbes)
Business and economy
- Visitors to Australia face delays as Australian Customs and Border Protection Service staff go on strike over a pay dispute. (Daily Telegraph)
- South Korea's Financial Services Commission announces plans to pump more money into suspended local savings banks. (Yonhap News)
- Thousands of airline passengers are stranded at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila after Philippine Airlines staff stage a walkout. (Philippines Star)
- Defence company BAE Systems confirms almost 3,000 jobs will be lost among its UK workforce. (Sky News)
- The board of LCH.Clearnet, an independent European clearing house, reportedly approves of a takeover proposal by the London Stock Exchange. (Reuters)
Disasters
- Typhoon Nesat hits the island of Luzon in the Philippines with at least sixteen deaths, 100,000 people evacuated and the capital Manila brought to a standstill. (AFP via Inquirer) (Reuters) (AP via Fox News) (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
- More than 80 people have died and more than two million affected by floods in India with the states of Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar worst affected. (BBC)
- At least 37 people are killed, including 30 schoolchildren, and another seventy critically injured following a school bus accident at Kallar Kahar in the Punjab province of Pakistan. (Express Tribune)
- One miner is killed and another injured following an underground roof collapse at Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire, one of the United Kingdom's deepest remaining mines. (BBC)
International relations
- Israel approves the construction of 1,100 homes in the Jewish settlement of Gilo on the outskirts of Jerusalem. (BBC)
Law and Crime
- CEOs of Iranian Melli Bank and Saderat Bank resign from their positions as a result of $2.6 billion bank fraud. (TABNAK)
- Fugitive hijacker George Wright is caught in Portugal, thirty-nine years after he and members of the Black Liberation Army took control of Delta Air Lines Flight 841 and flew it to Algeria. (CNN)
- The trial of Dr Conrad Murray for manslaughter in connection to the death of American singer Michael Jackson begins in California. (ABC News America)