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October 7, 2015 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- An FBI investigation has reportedly found that criminal networks specializing in nuclear smuggling in Eastern Europe, particularly in the nation of Moldova, have shipped radioactive material to 'Middle Eastern extremists', including the Islamic State (which in the recent past has threatened to unleash a nuclear holocaust to 'wipe the West off the face of the Earth'). (AP via The Huffington Post)
Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
- Russia launches an intense bombing campaign in the Syrian governorates of Idlib and Hama. The Syrian Army is conducting a ground offensive in the same area. (Jerusalem Post), (Reuters)
- Four Russian warships launch at least 26 cruise missiles at ISIS positions in Syria from the Caspian Sea. (RT)
- Russian airstrikes destroy the main weapons depots of a U.S.-trained rebel group, Liwa Suqour al-Jabal, in Syria's Aleppo province. Last week, Russian raids hit Liwa sites in western and northern Syria, areas where the Islamic State group has no significant presence. (Reuters)
Boko Haram insurgency
- Boko Haram suicide bombers kill at least 15 people at a mosque in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu. (AP)
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) calls for activating the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission – for the first time since its 1991 creation under the Geneva Conventions – to investigate the deadly U.S. bombing of MSF's hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. MSF says it does not trust internal military inquiries into the bombing that killed at least 22 people, which it considers a war crime. (Reuters) (BBC)
- United States President Barack Obama telephoned MSF International President Joanne Liu to apologize for the U.S. bombing of the hospital in Afghanistan, express his condolences for the 22 people killed, commit to provide a transparent, thorough, and objective accounting of the facts and circumstances of the incident, and implement any changes to make tragedies like this one less likely to occur in the future. (Reuters) (Washington Post)
Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
- Saudi-led airstrikes kill at least 30 people and wound 25 others in the southwestern Yemeni town of Sanabani at a wedding hosted by a tribal leader known to support the Houthis. (AP via ABC News) (The New York Times) (CNN)

Health and medicine

The World Health Organization announces that, since the Ebola outbreak began in March 2014, last week marked the first week of no new cases worldwide. (Time)

Law and crime

The High Court of Australia rules that the breast cancer gene BRCA-1 cannot be patented and the patent claimed by Myriad Genetics is invalid. (ABC News Australia)
China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announces their investigation of Fujian governor Su Shulin, the former chairman of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, on suspicion of serious disciplinary violations, the "euphemism for corruption." This follows the massive anti-corruption drive Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping launched when he came to power more than three years ago. Su is the first sitting governor investigated since the campaign began. (Reuters via Daily Mail) (South China Morning Post)
Brazil's Federal Accounts Court (TCU), in a unanimous 8-0 decision, rules that President Dilma Rousseff's government manipulated its accounts in 2014 to disguise a widening fiscal deficit. The ruling, while not legally binding, is expected to be used by opposition lawmakers who are calling for impeachment proceedings. (Reuters) (AP)

Science

Tomas Lindahl, Paul L. Modrich and Aziz Sancar win the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in DNA repair. (BBC)

Sport

2015 FIFA corruption case
- Fédération Internationale de Football Association ethics committee recommends FIFA President Sepp Blatter be suspended, re: the Swiss attorney general's ongoing criminal investigation. The final decision will be made by Chairman of the Ethics Committee's adjudication chamber, Hans-Joachim Eckert. (BBC) (Daily Mail)
The Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-0 in the MLB National League Wild Card Game. (ESPN)

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 ;Armed conflicts and attacks
 *[[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]]
-**An [[FBI]] investigation has reportedly found that criminal networks specializing in nuclear smuggling in [[Eastern Europe]], particularly in the nation of [[Moldova]], have shopped radioactive material to 'Middle Eastern extremists', including the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|Islamic State]] (which in the recent past has threatened to unleash a [[Nuclear holocaust|nuclear holocaust]] to 'wipe the West off the face of the Earth'). [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nuclear-smugglers-shopped-radioactive-material-to-isis-terrorists_561470c1e4b021e856d2cfa0 (AP via The Huffington Post)]
+**An [[FBI]] investigation has reportedly found that criminal networks specializing in nuclear smuggling in [[Eastern Europe]], particularly in the nation of [[Moldova]], have shipped radioactive material to 'Middle Eastern extremists', including the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|Islamic State]] (which in the recent past has threatened to unleash a [[Nuclear holocaust|nuclear holocaust]] to 'wipe the West off the face of the Earth'). [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nuclear-smugglers-shopped-radioactive-material-to-isis-terrorists_561470c1e4b021e856d2cfa0 (AP via The Huffington Post)]
 *[[Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War]]
-**[[Russia]] launches an intense bombing campaign in the [[Syria]]n governorates of [[Idlib Governorate|Idlib]] and [[Hama Governorate|Hama]]. [http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Heavy-Russian-strikes-hit-western-Syria-421137 (''Jerusalem Post'')]
+**[[Russia]] launches an intense bombing campaign in the [[Syria]]n governorates of [[Idlib Governorate|Idlib]] and [[Hama Governorate|Hama]]. The [[Syrian Army]] is conducting a ground offensive in the same area. [http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Heavy-Russian-strikes-hit-western-Syria-421137 (''Jerusalem Post'')], [http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKCN0S10BI20151007 (Reuters)]
+**Four [[Russia|Russian]] warships launch at least 26 [[Cruise missile|cruise missiles]] at [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|ISIS]] positions in [[Syria]] from the [[Caspian Sea]]. [https://www.rt.com/news/317864-russian-warships-missiles-launch/ (RT)]
+**[[Russia|Russian]] airstrikes destroy the main [[Magazine (artillery)|weapons depots]] of a [[United States|U.S.-trained]] [[Syrian opposition|rebel group]], Liwa Suqour al-Jabal, in Syria's [[Aleppo Governorate|Aleppo province]]. Last week, Russian raids hit Liwa sites in western and northern [[Syria]], areas where the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|Islamic State]] group has no significant presence. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/07/us-mideast-crisis-syria-rebels-idUSKCN0S111020151007 (Reuters)]
+*[[Boko Haram insurgency]]
+**[[Boko Haram]] suicide bombers kill at least 15 people at a [[mosque]] in the northeastern [[Nigeria|Nigerian]] city of [[Damaturu]]. [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_BOKO_HARAM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT (AP)]
+*[[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)]]
+**[[Médecins Sans Frontières]] (Doctors without Borders) calls for activating the [[International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission]] – for the first time since its 1991 creation under the [[Geneva Conventions]] – to investigate the deadly [[United States|U.S.]] bombing of MSF's hospital in [[Kunduz]], [[Afghanistan]]. MSF says it does not trust internal military inquiries into the bombing that killed at least 22 people, which it considers a [[war crime]]. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/07/us-afghanistan-attack-msf-idUSKCN0S10SX20151007 (Reuters)] [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34463608 (BBC)]
+**[[President of the United States|United States President]] [[Barack Obama]] telephoned [[Médecins Sans Frontières|MSF]] International President [[Joanne Liu]] to apologize for the U.S. bombing of the hospital in Afghanistan, express his condolences for the 22 people killed, commit to provide a transparent, thorough, and objective accounting of the facts and circumstances of the incident, and implement any changes to make tragedies like this one less likely to occur in the future. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/07/us-afghanistan-attack-msf-idUSKCN0S10SX20151007 (Reuters)] [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/07/obama-apologizes-for-afghan-hospital-bombing/ (Washington Post)]
+*[[Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen]]
+**[[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]]-led airstrikes kill at least 30 people and wound 25 others in the  southwestern [[Yemen|Yemeni]] town of Sanabani at a wedding hosted by a tribal leader known to support the [[Houthis]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20151010113155/http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/yemen-forces-capture-rebel-outpost-key-province-34318572 (AP via ABC News)] [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/world/middleeast/yemen-airsrike-said-to-kill-23-at-a-wedding.html (''The New York Times'')] [http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/08/middleeast/yemen-violence/index.html (CNN)]
+;Health and medicine
+*The [[World Health Organization]] announces that, since the [[Ebola virus disease|Ebola]] [[outbreak]] began in March 2014, last week marked the first week of no new cases worldwide. [http://time.com/4065010/ebola-free-world-west-africa/?xid=gonewsedit&google_editors_picks=true (Time)]
 ;Law and crime
 *The [[High Court of Australia]] rules that the [[breast cancer]] gene BRCA-1 cannot be patented and the patent claimed by [[Myriad Genetics]] is invalid. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-07/breast-cancer-gene-cant-be-patented-high-court-rules/6833232 (ABC News Australia)]
+*[[China|China's]] [[Central Commission for Discipline Inspection]] announces their investigation of [[Fujian]] governor [[Su Shulin]], the former chairman of [[Sinopec|China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation]], on suspicion of serious disciplinary violations, the "euphemism for corruption." This follows the massive [[Anti-corruption campaign in China|anti-corruption drive]] [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of China|Communist Party general secretary]] [[Xi Jinping]] launched when he came to power more than three years ago. Su is the first sitting governor investigated since the campaign began. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3264310/China-investigates-former-Sinopec-chairman-discipline-violations.html (Reuters via Daily Mail)] [http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1865108/fujian-governor-under-investigation-anti-corruption (South China Morning Post)]
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+*[[Brazil|Brazil's]] [[Tribunal de Contas da União|Federal Accounts Court]] (TCU), in a unanimous 8-0 decision, rules  that [[President of Brazil|President]] [[Dilma Rousseff|Dilma Rousseff's]] government manipulated its accounts in 2014 to disguise a widening fiscal deficit. The ruling, while not legally binding, is expected to be used by opposition lawmakers who are calling for [[Impeachment#Brazil|impeachment]] proceedings. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/08/us-brazil-rousseff-idUSKCN0S124S20151008 (Reuters)] [http://bigstory.ap.org/article/31d1b806ce4c4d37b443ee028f4fd7a4/brazil-court-discusses-alleged-govt-accounting-violations (AP)]
+;Science
+*[[Tomas Lindahl]], [[Paul L. Modrich]] and [[Aziz Sancar]] win the 2015 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for their work in [[DNA repair]]. [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-34464580 (BBC)]
+;Sport
+*[[2015 FIFA corruption case]]
+**[[FIFA|Fédération Internationale de Football Association]] ethics committee recommends [[President of FIFA|FIFA President]] [[Sepp Blatter]] be suspended, re: the [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[Federal administration of Switzerland#Federal Department of Justice and Police|attorney general's]] ongoing criminal investigation. The final decision will be made by Chairman of the Ethics Committee's adjudication chamber, Hans-Joachim Eckert. [https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34468663 (BBC)] [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-3263820/Sepp-Blatter-provisionally-suspended-90-days-FIFA-ethics-committee.html (Daily Mail)]
+*The [[2015 Chicago Cubs season|Chicago Cubs]] beat the [[2015 Pittsburgh Pirates season|Pittsburgh Pirates]] 4-0 in the [[2015 National League Wild Card Game|MLB  National League Wild Card Game]]. [http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/post/_/id/34938/jake-arrieta-goes-the-distance-as-cubs-advance-to-nlds (ESPN)]
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