Portal:Current events/2015 June 22
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All 6 of the gunmen are killed, with 18 people injured. (BBC)
- Four people are killed and thirty injured in
- Syrian Civil War
- Hundreds of People's Protection Units. (Reuters via Daily Star)
- Hundreds of
- Boko Haram insurgency
- At least 20 people are killed after a female suicide bomber attacks a fish market in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri. The militant Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected to be behind the attack. (BBC)
- At least 20 people are killed after a female
Disasters and accidents
- Over 200 die of heatstroke in
- A light plane belonging to American composer James Horner crashes in Ventura County, California resulting in his death. (KSBY), (Hollywood Reporter)
Health
- 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in South Korea
- The number of deaths from MERS in South Korea rises to 27 with three new cases reported. The government is taking unprecedented precautions in terms of public sanitation and quarantine.(Yonhap)
- Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
- Two new cases of ebola virus disease are reported from Sierra Leone’s capital city of Freetown about three weeks after the most recent new cases were found.(Time)
- Two new cases of
International relations
- southern hemisphere summer. Commercial whaling has been banned for over 30 years by the International Whaling Commission. (AFP via Straits Times)
- 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
- A United Nations report finds evidence that both Hamas and Israel committed war crimes during the 2014 conflict. (Haaretz)
- Office of Personnel Management data breach
- The United States Government. (CNN)
- The
Law and crime
- Charleston church shooting
- The U.S. Civil War memorial on the grounds of the South Carolina State House. (Washington Post)
- Walmart, the largest store in the United States, announces that it will withdraw all merchandise featuring the Confederate flag from sale at its stores and online. (CNN)
- The
Politics and elections
- Maryland Governor Larry Hogan reveals that he has advanced stage lymphoma. (AP via ABC)