Portal:Current events/2017 September 15

• 2017 Parsons Green bombing
  • An explosion on a train at the Parsons Green tube station in London injures 29. Scotland Yard is treating the incident as a terrorist attack. (The Guardian) (BBC)

• Oldest living people
  • Jamaican Violet Mosse-Brown, the world's oldest person, dies in Montego Bay at age 117. (UPI)

• Economy of California
  • Key housing bills pass in California, the U.S. state with the highest number of people suffering from homelessness and poverty. (The Sacramento Bee) (Los Angeles Times)

• 2017 Atlantic hurricane season
  • In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, the island of Barbuda is fully depopulated for the first time in 300 years. (CNN)
• 2017 Pacific typhoon season
  • Typhoon Doksuri (Maring) hits central Vietnam killing one person and injuring ten. (AP)
• Crocodile attack
  • A journalist for the British newspaper Financial Times is killed by a crocodile in Sri Lanka. (The Chicago Tribune)

• Fight against hunger
  • The World Health Organization says that hunger around the world has risen as a result of war and climate change. (The World Health Organization)

• 2017 North Korea crisis
  • September 2017 North Korean missile launch over Japan
    • A North Korean missile flies over Hokkaido, Japan, triggering the J-Alert system, following a similar event on 29 August. (Bloomberg)
    • South Korea responds with its own missile firing just six minutes after the North's test was detected. (Yonhap)

• Shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith
  • The ex-police officer involved in a fatal 2011 shooting of a black man in St. Louis, Missouri is acquitted of all charges related to the case. (DW)
  • Hundreds of people protest the decision. After some protests become violent, 10 police officers are injured and 32 protesters are arrested. (ABC News)

• Politics of Iceland
  • Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson is criticised after his father wrote a letter recommending that a convicted child molester be pardoned. The Bright Future party withdraws from the governing coalition, triggering its collapse. (BBC)
• Philippine Drug War
  • Around 1,200 members of the Philippine National Police in the suburb of Caloocan are fired over allegations of crimes attributed to the police. (U.S. News and World Report)
• Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum, 2017
  • The Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament votes to go ahead with the planned independence referendum, scheduled to take place on 25 September, 2017. (BBC)

• Cassini retirement
  • After 20 years "floating" the Solar System, the Cassini space probe to the Saturn system ends the mission with a controlled fall into the atmosphere of the planet. (BBC)