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Current events of October 17, 2015 (2015-10-17) (Saturday) edit history watch
Armed conflicts and attacks
  • Henriette Reker, a candidate in Cologne's mayoral race, is stabbed in the neck by a man claiming to be angry over Germany's refugee policies. (BBC)
Arts and culture
  • Stephen Glass, author, former journalist and attorney, will repay Harper’s Magazine and other outlets because works he authored were found to have been fabricated. (New York Times)
  • The Writers’ Revolt: Nayantara Sahgal, is one of the latest authors in India who will return that nation’s highest award from the National Academy of Letters in protest against what Salman Rushdie has characterized as “’thuggish violence’ creeping into Indial life hunder the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.(New York Times);Business and economy
  • The United States cancels two potential Arctic lease sales off Alaska's northern coast, and announces Shell and Statoil current leases will not be extended because of "current market conditions and low industry interest." (NPR) (BBC)
  • US Airways final flight, Flight 1939 -- named for the airline's founding year, landed at Philadelphia International Airport at 5:54 a.m. Saturday. Future flights will fly under the American Airlines banner, completing the merger announced in 2013. (Christian Science Monitor) (AP via WSAW)
Disasters and accidents
Law and Crime
  • Ardit Ferizi, a 20-year-old hacker from Kosovo and computer student in Malaysia, is arrested for hacking into a Phoenix, Arizona computer system and stealing the names and personal information of thousands of U.S. military personnel. Ferizi is accused of giving the information to ISIS. The U.S. is seeking Ferizi’s extradition. (CNN)
International relations
Politics and elections
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