Portal:Current events/2016 September 27

Current events of September 27, 2016 (2016-09-27) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Aleppo Offensive
  • The Syrian Army clashes with insurgents in the 1070 Apartments district of Aleppo. (Reuters)
• Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)
  • Three bombings kill at least 17 people in Baghdad. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2016 Pacific typhoon season
  • Taiwan authorities close schools and offices as Typhoon Megi approaches the island. (AP via Star-Telegram)
• A bus skids off a mountain road in central Nepal, killing at least 19 people and injuring more than a dozen others. (The Hindustan Times)

Health

• The World Health Organization (WHO) states that 92% of the world's population lives in air pollution levels surpassing the organization's limits. (CBC), (The Guardian)
• Mitochondrial donation allows the first 'three person baby' to be born. (BBC)
• 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic
  • Thailand authorities investigate what could be the first cases of Zika virus-linked microcephaly in Southeast Asia. (Reuters)
• The WHO announces that measles has been eliminated throughout the Americas, the first time this virus has been eradicated in an entire region. The hemisphere’s last endemic case of measles — one which did not spring from an imported strain — was in 2002. (UN Dispatch), (The New York Times)

International relations

• Cuba–United States relations
  • President Barack Obama nominates Jeffrey DeLaurentis as the first United States Ambassador to Cuba since 1961. (USA Today)

Law and crime

• The Obama administration through the United States Department of Labor sues Peter Thiel's Palantir Technologies for alleged discrimination against Asians in its hiring practices. (Reuters), (BBC)
• The International Criminal Court sentences Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi to nine years in jail for leading the destruction of nine of Timbuktu's mausoleums and the centuries-old door of the Malian city's Sidi Yahya Mosque. (BBC)

Politics and elections

• Iranian presidential election, 2017
  • Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declines to run for a third term in the upcoming election. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has previously advised Ahmadinejad to not seek the presidency next year. (FARS News Agency), (The Tehran Times), (Tasnim), (The New York Times)

Sports

• Association football
  • 2016 English football scandal
    • England national football team manager Sam Allardyce resigns after only one match and 67 days in charge, due to a scandal over statements made to undercover reporters. (BBC)