Portal:Current events/2014 September 25
September 25, 2014 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian Civil War
- Several Syrian rebel groups sign an agreement to unite in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and President Bashar al-Assad's forces. (CNN)
Disasters and accidents
- A 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes southern Alaska, causing minor damage and affecting the state's largest city, Anchorage. (Alaska Dispatch News)
International relations
- Barack Obama, the President of the United States, signs a memorandum expanding the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument to 490,000 square miles, making it the biggest marine preserve in the world. (AP via ABC News)
Politics
- Eric Holder announces his resignation as Attorney General of the United States, effective from when the Senate confirms a successor. (NPR).
- President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announces a wide-ranging reform program entitled Strategy 2020 to prepare Ukraine for applying for European Union membership in 2020. (BBC)