Portal:Current events/2018 September 28
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Disasters and accidents
- 2018 Pacific hurricane season
- Hurricane Rosa strengthens to a category 4 hurricane in the Pacific Ocean and is expected to affect parts of the coastlines of southwestern Mexico, the Baja California Peninsula, and Southern California. (NBC News)
- Air Niugini Flight 73 lands short at Chuuk International Airport and settles in a shallow lagoon. All passengers and crew are successfully evacuated. (ABC)
- 2018 Sulawesi earthquake
- Indonesia is hit by a tsunami after being hit by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, resulting in at least one death and entire families being reported missing. (News.com) (CBS News)
- [[A USAF F-35 jet crashes in coastal South Carolina making this the first crash of the U.S. military's newest and most expensive aircraft. (CBS News)
- Religion
- Catholic sexual abuse cases in Chile
- The Roman Catholic Church has announces that it has defrocked Father Fernando Karadima, a priest at the center of a sex abuse scandal in Chile. (Reuters)
- Politics and elections
- Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination
- U.S. Senator Jeff Flake will vote for nominee Brett Kavanaugh for the United States Supreme Court. (CNN)
- Science and technology
- Facebook says 50 million user accounts affected by security breach. (The Guardian)
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