Current Events 9/23 Flashcards
Kenya
Shooting at mall; Al- shabab (terrorist group)
Blackberry
Shares in smartphone maker blackberry plunge 17% as re company announces thousands of job losses and issues a profits warning.
Mexico
As he visits the landslide-hit village of La Pintada, Mexico’s president Enrique Pena Nieto says it is likely that all 68 people are dead. ( entire town gone)
Paris
Police at Charles de Gaulle airport seize more than one ton of cocaine hidden in suitcases on board an air France flight from Venezuela
Pakistan
A bomb blast outside a church in Peshawar kills at least 75 people and wounds many, in the latest attack against Pakistan’s Christian community
Iraq
At least 60 people have been killed and 120 injured at a funeral in the mainly Shia Sadr city district
Blackberry
Sold for $4.7 billion
U.S.A.
Immigration, up to 11.7 million from 11.3 million in 2009, and been decreasing… In 2007 it was all time high with 12.7 million ( more non-Mexicans then Mexicans coming.
Egypt
Muslim brotherhood completely shut down by government as NGO.
(Non govt. organization)
Afghan
11 policeman killed by Taliban at Pakistan border checkpoint
Russia
Ready to send troops into Syria to help with weapon turnover
U.S.A.
On October first, health care exchanges start. ( young buyers will likely pay more then older ones)
Obama
Tell the UN general assembly there is an opening for a “meaningful agreement” over Iran’s nuclear program, while Iran says peace is “within reach”
Chicago
Four men are charged over a shooting with a military-grade weapon that wounded 13 people, including a three-year-old boy, at a city park
Texas
Sen. Ted Cruz took to the senate floor in a long speech against the new health-care law,the biggest test of whether his conservative rhetoric can upend the ways if congress. ( went 21 hours straight!) might have even read green eggs and ham
