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Portal:Current events/2019 October 4

October 4, 2019 (2019-10-04) (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
  • 2018–19 Arab protests
Disasters and accidents
  • An Antonov An-12 cargo plane operated by Ukraine Air Alliance runs out of fuel and crashes as it approaches Lviv International Airport in Ukraine. Five of the seven occupants are killed, and the airport closes. (BBC News)
Law and crime
  • 2019 Hong Kong protests
  • Crime in Italy
    • Two police officers are killed and another is wounded after a Dominican suspect opens fire on them at a police station in Trieste, Italy. (La Repubblica)
  • A woman in Florida is arrested and charged with explosives offences after a police raid on her home finds 24 pipe bombs and bomb-making material and several other weapons. She admits constructing the devices to harm people. Police were notified of the problem by the 27-year-old's parents. (CNN)
  • 2019 college admissions bribery scandal
    • A parent is sentenced to five months in prison, a fine of $100,000 and 500 hours of community service for his involvement in the college admissions scandal. (CNN)
  • Hwaseong serial murders
    • Police in South Korea receive confessions from convicted murderer Lee Chun-jae to the serial rapes and murders, which occurred between 1986 and 1991 and left at least nine dead. He denies a tenth murder, now believed to be perpetrated by a copycat. The investigations inspired the movie Memories of Murder and saw 21,000 people investigated. Lee, who is serving life for the 1994 rape and murder of his sister in law, cannot be prosecuted because the statute of limitations has expired. He had been linked to three victims earlier this month by DNA. (CNN)
Politics and elections
Science and technology
  • Foreign interference in the 2020 United States elections, Cyberwarfare and Iran
    • Microsoft says a network of hackers linked to the Iranian government has attempted to access the email accounts of people associated with a 2020 presidential election campaign, as well as prominent Iranian expatriates in the United States. Microsoft has not named the specific campaign which was targeted by Iran. (NBC News)
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