Armed conflicts and attacks
• Taliban insurgency:
• A large bomb explodes in Afghan capital Kabul resulting in at least three deaths of international troops and five injuries. (BBC),(Reuters), (AP)
• Sinai insurgency:
• Six Egyptian police officers are killed and three wounded following a roadside bombing in the Sinai peninsula. (BBC)
• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:
• Islamic State fighters shoot down a Syrian Air Force warplane conducting an airstrike on Raqqa. (AFP via NDTV)

Disasters and accidents

• Twelve thousand people have been evacuated from the area near the Mayon Volcano on the Philippines island of Luzon due to concerns over a possible eruption. (Reuters via Time)
• 2014 Pacific typhoon season:
• Typhoon Kalmaegi sweeps past Hong Kong after causing six deaths in the Philippines on Saturday. (PTI via The Hindu)
• Malaysia Airlines Flight 370:
• Indonesian police chief General Sutarman says he knows what happened to the MH370 and an aviation expert claims MH370's pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, caused the plane to crash by locking his copilot out of the cockpit, depressurised the cabin and shut down all communications before turning the plane around. (News.com.au)

Health

• Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa:
• The United States will send thousands of troops to West Africa to build Ebola virus clinics and train health workers. (The Hindu)
International relations
• Lawmakers from Ukraine ratify a landmark agreement with the European Union in tandem with a meeting of the European Parliament. (BBC)

Law and crime
• Russian billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov is placed under house arrest for alleged money laundering. (AP)

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Armed conflicts and attacks
• War in Donbass:
• Heavy shelling on the city of Donetsk, Ukraine leaves 6 people dead and 15 wounded. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
Business and economics
• Information technology company Cognizant agrees to buy health care information company TriZetto Corporation for US$2.7 billion.(New York Times)
• Microsoft agrees to buy Swedish company Mojang, the makers of Minecraft, for US$2.5 billion. (AP)

Disasters and accidents
• An accidental fire severely burns a giant white rabbit erected by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in Taoyuan, Taiwan. (AFP via Channel NewsAsia) (New York Times)
• Five hundred people drowned off the coast of Malta last week after people traffickers deliberately sank their ship. (Reuters)
• Two wildfires around Bass Lake, California cause the destruction of 21 homes and the evacuation of over 1,000 people. (The Weather Channel)

Politics and elections
• Swedish Minister of Finance Anders Borg quits politics after he was considered to be the next leader of the Moderate Party, which he did not want. (Wall Street Journal)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:
• Australia sends combat aircraft and special forces to the Middle East to help in the fight against Islamic State. (The Australian)
• War in Donbass
• Heavy fighting resumes between Ukraine forces and rebels near Donetsk International Airport with at least six people dead. The terminal is burning. (Deutsche Welle), (New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 70 people are still missing after the ferry MV Maharlika II sinks off the Philippines island of Leyte. (AFP via Channel News Asia)
• 2014 India – Pakistan floods:
• India suspends rescue operations due to heavy rain in Jammu and Kashmir state where over 100,000 still await rescue. (Zee News)
• The death toll from a collapse of T. B. Joshua’s The Synagogue Church of All Nations on Friday in the Ikotun area of the Nigerianlargest city Lagos reaches 40. (The Express Tribune)
• 2014 Pacific hurricane season
• Hurricane Odile reaches Category 4 strength as it nears Mexico’s Baja California coast. (AFP via Telesur)
• 2014 Pacific typhoon season
• Typhoon Kalmaegi hits the northeast Philippines with warnings of potential floods and landslides. (AP via Daily Mail)
• A boat carrying 250 people from Africa to Europe sinks off the coast off Tajoura in Libya with most people feared drowned. (Reuters via New York Times)
Law and crime
• North Korea holds a trial for American tourist Matthew Miller who was detained in April and sentences him to six years of hard labor.(AP) (CNN)
• The Carolina Panthers deactivate defensive end Greg Hardy after his conviction on two counts of female assault and communicating threats. (USA Today)
Politics and elections

• Swedish general election, 2014:
• Voters in Sweden go to the polls for a general election with a leftist coalition led by the Swedish Social Democratic Party set to form government. Incumbent Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt announces that he will step aside as PM and as leader of theModerate Party. (BBC), (AP)
Sport

• The closing ceremony of the inaugural Invictus Games takes place in London, with a music concert at Olympic Park featuring artists and groups such as Bryan Adams, Ellie Goulding, James Blunt and the Kaiser Chiefs. (BBC) (London Evening Standard) (The Daily Telegraph)
• In basketball, the United States defeats Serbia 129-92 to win the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. (New York Times)
• In golf:
• American Billy Horschel wins the The Tour Championship played in Atlanta. (Reuters)
• South Korean teenager Kim Hyo-joo wins the year’s final LPGA major, the Evian Championship, in France. (AP via ESPN)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency:
• Three Maoists are killed and two are seriously injured in a fight with security forces in the Giridih district of India’s Jharkhand state.(PTI)
• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:
• The Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi says he has ordered the army to stop shelling areas held by the Islamic State where there are civilians present. (AP)
• Islamic State releases a video purporting to show the beheading of British aid worker David Haines. (NBC News)

Disasters and accidents
• At least 29 people are missing after the ferry MV Maharlika II sinks off the Philippines coast. (CNN)
Health
• 2014 Taiwan food scandal:
• Yeh Wen-hsiang, the chairman of Chang Guann Co, is arrested for fraud for his role in the scandal. (AFP via SBA)

International relations
• The government of Qatar asks exiled leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to leave. (AP)
Sports
• In American football, Adrian Peterson, running back for the Minnesota Vikings, turns himself in to authorities in the Houston area. The day before, he had been indicted on child abuse charges stemming from an incident in which he spanked his 4-year-old son with a tree branch that he used as a switch. The Vikings have deactivated him from Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots.(ESPN)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Central African Republic conflict (2012–present):
  • More than 5,000 people have died in the Central African Republic in the past 9 months. (AP via Washington Post)
• Russian military intervention in Ukraine:
  • The Government of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists exchange dozens of prisoners agreed to as part of a ceasefire a week ago. Both sides still hold thousands of prisoners. (Washington Post)

Health

• 2014 Taiwan food scandal:
  • Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration indefinitely halts imports of edible lard oil from Hong Kong, since an exporter was found to have falsely listed and sold industrial grade lard as safe for human consumption. (Taipei Times)
• Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa:
  • Cuba announces plans to send 165 medical staff to West Africa to help combat the Ebola virus outbreak that has claimed more than 2,400 lives. (New York Times)

International relations

• Australia raises its terror threat level to high following concerns about militants returning from conflicts in Iraq and Syria. (BBC)

Law and crime

• South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of the “culpable homicide” of his partner Reeva Steenkamp. (BBC)
• Three people are sentenced to death and one person given a life sentence for the 2014 Kunming attack in China’s Xinjiang region.(AAP via SBS News)

Politics

• Former First Minister of Northern Ireland and Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley dies, aged 88. (BBC)

Science

• NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover reaches its final destination Aeolis Mons, a mountain that rises 5.5 km at the center of Gale Crater.(Gizmodo)

Sport

• In cricket, former New Zealand player Chris Cairns is to be charged with perjury by London’s Metropolitan Police Service in relation to a 2012 libel trial regarding allegations of match fixing made by former Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi. (The Age

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