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Portal:Current events/2019 September 25

September 25, 2019 (2019-09-25) (Wednesday)
Business and economy
  • Collapse of Thomas Cook
  • Northern Irish bus manufacturer Wrightbus collapses into administration after buyout talks fail, with 1,200 jobs lost. Local politicians urge action from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who commissioned the so-called "Boris Bus" from the company when he was Mayor of London and previously promised to "do everything we can to ensure the future of" Wrightbus. (Sky News)
Disasters and accidents
Health and environment
International relations
Law and crime
  • A bomb explodes as a police riot bus passes by in Yüreğir, Adana Province, Turkey. At least five officers are injured. (Bianet)
  • Cannabis in Australia
  • Millionaire Italian yacht businessman Giulio Lolli is convicted of terrorism in Libya and sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Tripoli. Lolli is wanted for fraud in Italy, and his Italian lawyer says the Libyan legal case appears to be based on Lolli using a yacht to evacuate fighters from Tripoli. (The Times)
  • A jury in New York convicts Dilkhayot Kasimov, a citizen of Uzbekistan, of terrorism offences for attempting to raise funds to assist a friend in travelling to join ISIL. Five others pleaded guilty in 2015. (Associated Press)
  • Suspected serial killer Gracious David-West confesses to fifteen murders at a hotel in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. (The Telegraph)
  • The military court in Blida sentences Mohamed Mediène, Said Bouteflika, Bachir Tartag and Louisa Hanoune, four persons from the ruling elite around former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, to 15-year jail terms for conspiracy against the army and the authority of the Algerian state. (Reuters)
  • Impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump
  • Danske Bank money laundering scandal
    • Authorities raid the German bank Deutsche Bank as part of a money laundering probe into 200 billion of suspicious payments identified into the accounts of Danske Bank's branch in Estonia. Danske Bank's Estonian boss from 2007 to 2015 is found dead near Tallinn at his home in circumstances police describe as neither suspicious nor accidental. (City A.M.)
  • A federal grand jury indicts a US Army soldier on charges of distributing explosives information as part of an alleged far-right terror plot. (CNN)
Politics and elections
Science and technology
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