Portal:Current events/2014 September 5
September 5, 2014 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Donbass:
- Somali Civil War:
- The Pentagon confirms that leader of the terrorist group al-Shabaab Moktar Ali Zubeyr was killed in an airstrike on September 1. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- Israeli President Shimon Peres meets with Pope Francis at a time of mounting tension in the Middle East. The last meeting between the Pontiff and the Israeli leader came in June, when the Pope invited Peres, along with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, to join in a prayer service for peace. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- A privately owned Socata TBM-900 (flight number N900KN) from the US flies without a conscious pilot for a thousand miles after a suspected cabin depressurization (see also) and crashes 14 miles off the coast of northeastern Jamaica. (Reuters)
International relations
- Iranian air traffic control requires a plane chartered by US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan to land over issues with the flight plan. (The New York Times) The flight later resumes without further incident. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Outgoing Slovenian prime minister Alenka Bratušek is formally nominated by Jean-Claude Juncker as the country's EU commissioner despite resistance from the prime minister-designate Miro Cerar, and according to several European media she is slated to become a Vice-President of the Commission. (Slovenia Times)