Portal:Current events/2019 October 1
October 1, 2019 (Tuesday)
Business and economy
- Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff owner, Dolphin Drilling, announces that it has found a buyer for the shipyard, infrastructure-based InfraStrata, saving it from closure. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- The Nanfang'ao Bridge, the only steel single-arch bridge in Taiwan, collapses on fishing boats in Su'ao. Ten people are injured and six are believed to have been trapped. (Reuters)
- Severe flooding affects Laxey, Isle of Man, with some residents evacuated from their homes. (Isle of Man Government)
Health and enironment
- Dutch farmers stage a protest in the Amsterdam area against proposals to halve livestock numbers in a bit to cut nitrogen emissions. Motoring group ANWB claims tractors on highways caused a total of 1,136km (700 miles) of traffic jams during morning rush hour, with tractors on one highway swerving back and forth to prevent traffic passing. (BBC)
Law and crime
- One person is killed and at least nine others injured after “a native Finnish man” attacked students with a sword at a vocational school inside a mall in Kuopio, Finland. Firearms were employed as the police disarmed and captured the suspect, who is also injured. (Evening Standard) (CNN) (NewsNow)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Hong Kong protests
- Violent clashes erupt between pro-democracy protesters and police in Hong Kong on National Day of the People's Republic of China. (The Charlotte Observer)
- China celebrates National Day with parades across the country. (CNN)
- War in Donbass, Minsk Protocol
- Ukraine agrees to the "Steinmeier formula", aimed at granting a special self-governing status to the Donbass and organising OSCE-validated elections according to Ukrainian law. (Kyiv Post) (TASS)
- 2015–19 Iraqi protests
- At least two people are killed and 200 are injured at protests against unemployment and government corruption in Iraq. Protestors also triy to enter the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. (Reuters)