Portal:Current events/2015 September 2

• Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
  • Masked men in military uniforms kidnap 16 Turkish workers in Baghdad. (AP)
• Syrian Civil War
  • A car bomb kills at least seven people in the Latakia Governorate. (AFP via Daily Star)

• 150 million workers go on strike in India to oppose Prime Minister Narendra Modi's labour market reforms. (Voice of America)

• French police arrest an arsonist for a fire in an apartment in the 18th arrondissement of Paris which killed eight people.(BBC)

• Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
  • Upcoming congressional votes
    • President Barack Obama has sufficient support in the United States Senate to uphold a veto of the proposed congressional vote of disapproval of the nuclear deal with Iran. (AP)

• Eight people have been killed and over 30 injured in riots in the Indian state of Manipur since the passage of three controversial land bills on Monday. (IBN Live)
• Crime in El Salvador
  • There have been 907 deaths last month in El Salvador as a result of gang violence, a death rate not seen since the Salvadoran Civil War of the 1980s. (BBC)
• The Dutch Public Prosecution Service releases a statement that former Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands Els Borst who was murdered on 8 February 2014, died from forty-one stab wounds on her head, neck and hands. (NOS)
• A French probe into the death of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 2004 closes without bringing any new information. (Wires via France 24)
• A judge orders that President of Guatemala Otto Pérez Molina be detained for his alleged role in a corruption scandal. (AP)

• A new study estimates that there are three trillion trees on Earth, with 15 billion lost each year to mainly human causes. (Sydney Morning Herald)
• Russian rocket Soyuz TMA-18M launches a crew of three to the ISS. (Space.com)

• 2022 Commonwealth Games
  • South Africa will become the first African nation to host the Commonwealth Games as Durban is granted the rights to host the games in 2022. (AP via Yahoo! News)
• Delegates elect Vitaly Mutko to be the President of Russian Football Union. (TASS)