Portal:Current events/2018 September 19: Difference between revisions

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Arts and culture

• Discoveries of exoplanets, Stars and planetary systems in fiction
  • Astronomers discover a exoplanet located in the 40 Eridani star system mentioned in the Star Trek series where the planet Vulcan is located. (Forbes) (SYFY)

Disasters and accidents

• Hurricane Florence
  • The death toll rises to 37 after two mental health patients have died when the police van they were being transported got caught in floodwaters. (BBC)
• Two people have died as Storm Ali brings winds of up to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) in Ireland and Northern Ireland. (BBC)

Law and crime

• Panama Papers case
  • Islamabad High Court suspends the NAB accountability court sentences and orders the release of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz, and son-in-law Muhammad Safdar Awan. However, the convictions remain standing. (Al-Jazeera)
• 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal
  • Former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, is arrested in connection with the allegation that RM2.6 billion (US$681 million when first reported three years ago) went into his personal bank accounts. New charges are, once approved, due to be filed tomorrow. (The Wall Street Journal)
• Weinstein effect
  • An arrest warrant is issued for 3D-printed gun rights activist and Defense Distributed owner Cody Wilson in connection with the sexual assault of a child. (ABC News) (Gizmodo)
• Gun violence in the United States
  • A gunman shot 3 people at an office in Wisconsin before being fatally wounded by the Wisconsin [[Police](CNN)
• A gunman shot people at a Pennsylvania Courthouse five people were shot not known if the gunman was one of those shot. One person is pronounced dead. (ABC News)

Science and technology

• Discoveries of exoplanets, 2018 in spaceflight
  • NASA discovers its first exoplanet via the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite space telescope. Pi Mensae c, a small Earth-like exoplanet, is located nearly 60 light-years away from Earth. (Gizmodo)

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