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Portal:Current events/2016 September 8

September 8, 2016 (2016-09-08) (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
  • War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
    • Taliban militants storm the city of Tarinkot, the provincial capital of Afghanistan's Urozgan Province, with fighting reported on multiple fronts throughout the city. Local officials flee to the nearby Tarinkot Airport for shelter. (The Los Angeles Times)
Arts and culture
  • The Police Department of Everett, Washington, identifies and returns the American flag from the September 11 attacks to Ground Zero, the World Trade Center site in New York City. (Fox News)
  • Solly Msimanga, newly elected Democratic Alliance mayor of Tshwane, South Africa, rejects a fleet of luxury cars for himself and instead donates it to the city's police. (BBC)
Business and economics
  • International banking company Wells Fargo agrees to pay $190 million, including $100 million to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (largest ever for the agency), to settle a case involving deceptive sales that pushed customers into fee-generating accounts they never requested. The bank fired 5,300 employees over "inappropriate sales conduct." The firings took place over a five-year period. (Reuters)
Health
Law and crime
  • Philippine Drug War
    • Budi Waseso, head of Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency (BNN, Badan Narkotika Nasional), says he plans on copying Rodrigo Duterte's hardline tactics against drug traffickers, which have killed almost 3,000 people in the Philippines. (AFP via ABC)
  • 2016 Zimbabwe protests
  • A court in the Indian city of Mumbai convicts and sentences Ankur Panwar to the death penalty for a fatal acid-throwing attack. (BBC)
  • A female student at Alpine High School in Texas, U.S., shoots herself dead in what appeared to be an "active shooter" event, resulting in a student and police officer being injured. (The Chicago Tribune)
  • 2016 Turkish purges
Politics and elections
Science and technology
Sports
  • American swimmer Ryan Lochte agrees to a 10-month suspension while his other colleagues get four. (USA Today)
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