Friday

August 28, 2015

Armed conflicts and attacks

South Sudanese Civil War

Rebels and the Sudan People's Liberation Army trade accusations of violations of recently-signed peace accords. (Reuters)

Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)

A car bomb detonates in the parking lot of a Baghdad police station while police attempt to defuse it, killing six officers and injuring another ten. (AP via The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

2015 India-Pakistan border skirmishes, Kashmir conflict

Indian and Pakistani border guards exchange gunfire over the disputed Kashmir border with nine civilians killed and 63 injured. (AP via KSL)

Arts and culture

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommends that Costa Rica remove Cocorí from schools because of its perceived racial connotation. (The Tico Times)