Portal:Current events/2015 July 16
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July 16, 2015 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2014–15 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
- India and Pakistan exchanged gunfire and mortar bombs along their disputed frontier, killing five civilians and injuring more than a dozen. (Reuters)
- Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)
- Members of exiled President of Yemen Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi's Cabinet tour the southern city of Aden for the first time in several months. (Reuters via Daily Mail)
- Sinai insurgency
- The Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) has claimed that it sank an Egyptian patrol boat in the Mediterranean, just off the coast of Rafah. The Egyptian military claimed the ship sank from a fire not caused by attacks. (Time) (Ahram Online)
- Boko Haram, Timeline of Boko Haram insurgency
- Twin blasts at a market in Gombe, Nigeria kill at least 49 people. (BBC)
- Boko Haram militants kill a dozen villagers in Niger. (Reuters)
- South Thailand insurgency
- Two Thai Army soldiers are killed in an ambush in Thailand's Narathiwat Province. (Bangkok Post)
- At least 11 people are killed and many others injured in a tribal fight in a remote area of Papua New Guinea. (AFP via ABC Australia)
Arts and culture
- Nominations for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards are announced with Game of Thrones receiving 24 nominations. (Variety)
Business and economy
- The European Union launches an antitrust action against American semiconductor company Qualcomm, for possible abuse of a dominant market position, on the one hand, and predatory pricing, on the other hand. (European Union)
Disasters and accidents
- Sixty-five thousand people in the Indian state of Assam are affected by floods and heavy rainfall. (NDTV)
- Ash from the Raung volcano closes five airports in Indonesia, while ash from the Gamalama volcano closes the Babullah Airport in Ternate. (Channel News Asia)
- 2015 Pacific typhoon season
- Typhoon Nangka makes landfall on the Japanese island of Shikoku. (Weather.com)
- The Nexen pipeline at the Long Lake facility near Fort McMurray, Alberta, spills 5,000,000 litres (1,100,000 imp gal; 1,300,000 US gal) of oil emulsion. (CBC)
Law and crime
- 2015 Chattanooga shootings
- A shooting occurs at a United States Navy recruiting office and a Navy operational support center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four U.S. Marines and the gunman and wounding a police officer, a Marine Corps recruiter and a sailor who is listed in serious condition. (Reuters via MSN) (The Tennessean), (NBC News), (WRCB) (CNN)
- 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting
- James Holmes, a former University of Colorado neuroscience student, is found guilty of first-degree murder in relation to a mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, which killed 12 and injured 70; he had pled not guilty by reason of legal insanity. (Reuters, via MSN)
Politics and elections
- Japan's lower house of parliament passes a pair of bills changing the country's security laws, allowing Japanese soldiers to fight overseas for the first time since the end of World War II under certain conditions, over strong protests from opposition lawmakers, who walked out of the vote.(BBC) (NHK)