Portal:Current events/2015 June 4

June 4, 2015 (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Several rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel and exploded near the cities of Ashdod, Netivot and Ashkelon causing no casualties. The IDF retaliated with airstrikes against empty Hamas training camps in Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
Naxalite Insurgents kill at least 20 Indian Army soldiers and injure 12 in an attack on a convoy in the state of Manipur. (BBC)

Arts and culture

St Benet's Hall at Oxford University decides to admit women, making it the last of the University's institutions to do so. (Reuters Trust)

Business and economy

Officials of the ruling Syriza party in Greece say that they cannot accept a last-minute deal proposed by the country's creditors: default deadline looms. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

Sinking of the Dong Fang Zhi Xing
- The death toll from the Monday night sinking of the cruise ship in the Yangtze River rises to 75 with most of the 450 passengers on board still missing. (The Guardian), (NBC News)
An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, kills at least 78 people. (Al Jazeera)

Health

Surgeons, led by Dr. Jesse Selber, working with the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in a 15-hour, 12-doctor operation, perform the world's first partial-skull and scalp transplant, at Houston Methodist Hospital, on 55-year-old Jim Boysten, a software developer from Austin, Texas suffering from a large head wound from cancer treatment; immediately afterward, he was finally able to receive a new kidney and pancreas, which replaced the previous transplants that were failing. (MSN)
2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak in South Korea
- The number of people with Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea rises to 35 with over 700 schools suspending classes due to fears of the syndrome. (Xinhua)
Panel of advisors to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends approval of flibanserin by 18–6 to improve a woman's libido. (NPR)

International relations

Associated Press reports that there has been a massive hack from the American Office of Personnel Management and US Department of the Interior with the Washington Post claiming that Chinese hackers were responsible. The records of at least four million US Government workers are believed to have been compromised. (AP), (Washington Post), (The Telegraph)

Politics

2016 United States presidential election
- Former Governor of Texas Rick Perry announces that he will be a candidate for the Republican Party. (CNN)
USA Freedom Act
- President Barack Obama signs the bill, reinstating expired provisions of the Patriot Act while reforming Section 215 of the Act. (NBC)