Portal:Current events/2015 September 29

Current events of September 29, 2015 (2015-09-29) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)
  • At least four people are killed in a bombing attack on Baghdad. (Euronews)
• War in Afghanistan (2015–present), Battle of Kunduz
  • Afghan National Security Forces start efforts to recapture the city of Kunduz. (CNN), (The News Hub)
  • The United States Air Force launches air-strikes on Taliban forces within Kunduz. (The Washington Post)
• 2015 PKK rebellion
  • Two police officers are gunned down by suspected PKK militants on the streets of Adana, southern Turkey. (Middle East Eye)
• Gaza–Israel conflict
  • At least one rocket is intercepted over Ashdod by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system believed to have come from the Gaza Strip. (Haaretz)

Disasters and accidents

• 2015 Pacific typhoon season
  • Typhoon Dujuan hits mainland China in Fujian province after hitting Taiwan where it caused two deaths and injured 300. (AP via ABC News)

International relations

• Amnesty International designates Cuban graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado as a prisoner of conscience. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• All 500 of the prisoners escape from the Ngaraba jail in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. (Reuters), (The Guardian)

Science and technology

• Researchers discover a biofluorescent hawksbill sea turtle, glowing bright red and green, near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean This is the first time scientists have found biofluorescence in a reptile in the wild. The hawksbill sea turtle is an endangered species. (Live Science) (CNN)