Portal:Current events/2015 August 4
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen
- Roughly 1,500 Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. Previous attempts by the Saudi Arabian Army and Royal Saudi Air Force to defeat the Houthis were unsuccessful. (AFP via Yahoo)
- Roughly 1,500
Business and economy
- The Norfolk Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. (CNN)
- The Government of the United Kingdom sells 5.4% of the Royal Bank of Scotland raising £2.1bn. (ITV)
Disasters and accidents
- A street-corner sized sinkhole forms at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 64th Street in Sunset Park in Brooklyn, New York City, ruining the street corner. The northbound N Broadway Local train undergoes delays; there is at least one disconnected pipe and some gas lines requiring repair by National Grid workers. Local police cordon off the area. No fatalities or injuries are reported. (Business Insider, via MSN)
- Two express passenger trains (12 coaches of the derail, after being partially swept off a bridge while crossing flooded tracks in India's Madhya Pradesh state leaving at least 31 people killed and about 100 others injured. Related to this incident are monsoon rains and the end of a cyclone which have killed more than 100 people in India. (NDTV), (Reuters via MSN)
- Two boats collide between Kiwa and Remba Islands on Lake Victoria leaving several people dead. (The Nation)
Health
- Researchers from the
Religion
- The Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (Archdiocese of Milwaukee),(AP)