Monday

September 12, 2016

Armed conflicts and attacks

Moro conflict

Abu Sayyaf of the Philippines allegedly kidnap three Filipino fishermen from their trawler off the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo island. (International Business Times) (The Sun Daily)[permanent dead link]

Kashmir unrest

Clashes in Kashmir kill eight militants and a policeman. (BBC) (The Hindu)

Arts and culture

The Arctic Research Foundation discovers the wreck of the Royal Navy's HMS Terror almost completely intact off the southern coast of King William Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, 168 years after being abandoned during Franklin's lost expedition in 1848. (The Guardian)