Portal:Current events/2015 August 2

August 2, 2015 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
- A projectile fired from Yemen into the city of Najran kills a Saudi Arabian citizen. (Al-Arabiya)
Turkey–PKK conflict
- A suicide attack by the PKK kills two Turkish Army soldiers and injures 24 others in the Turkish town of Doğubeyazıt in Ağrı Province near the Iran border. (BBC)
General Adolphe Nshimirimana, former chief of staff of the Burundi Army, is assassinated in Bujumbura. (RFI original in French)
Boko Haram
- Nigerian Army soldiers rescue 178 people from Boko Haram camps including 101 children. (AP)

Law and crime

A court in Egypt postpones a verdict in the prominent trial of two journalists with Al-Jazeera, who have been charged with aiding the Muslim Brotherhood. (Reuters)
A Catholic and a Baptist church in Las Cruces, New Mexico are rocked by explosions at a mailbox and a trash can. (USA Today)
Services are held outdoors after Dustin Connor allegedly stole a computer, discharged fire extinguishers, and damaged a cross and other structures at a church in Piqua, Ohio. He is aleady a person of interest in similar vandalism to another church in the town.(The Washington Times and The Dayton Daily News)
Authorities jail a man in Melbourne, Florida, after he tries to rob the church during a sermon with an airsoft gun before being subdued by the Pastor. (The San Francisco Chronicle and Florida Today)
In an apparent road rage incident in Reedley, California, an 18-year-old pregnant woman is shot in the left eye after passing a slow-driving SUV which subsequently pulls up alongside and opens fire.(Sky News)

Politics and elections

Bronwyn Bishop resigns as the Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives following an expenses scandal. (The Australian)
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirms that he has asked Governor General David Johnston to dissolve the Canadian Parliament and set a general election for October 19. This will be the longest election campaign for Canada in recent history, since voting was once staggered over months to accommodate people travelling from remote regions of the country using archaic means of transportation. (CBC)