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)