Portal:Current events/2015 July 3

• Syrian Civil War
  • Turkey deploys additional troops along its border with Syria as fighting intensifies. (france24 with Reuters)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Toll of Boko Haram massacre in northeastern Nigeria rises to nearly 170.(News 24)(Naij)

• 2015 Sousse attacks
  • The United Kingdom holds a minute of silence at midday to commemorate the 38 people - including 30 Britons - killed in Tunisia a week ago. (BBC)
• Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)
  • A United States drone strike kills at least four militants in Yemen. (AFP via Frnce24)

• The XV International Tchaikovsky Competition concludes with a ceremony awarding top prizes to Dmitry Masleev in piano, Yu-Chien Tseng in violin, Andrei Ionuț Ioniță in cello, as well as Yulia Matochkina and Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar in voice. (medici.tv) (Reuters)

• American health insurer Aetna agrees to buy competitor Humana in a $37 billion deal. (AP)
• A UBS whistle blower is assisting the government of Brazil in its investigation of currency manipulation by global banks, according to a Brazilian paper. (Reuters)

• Six people are dead following an explosion at a chemical plant in Ulsan in South Korea. (Yonhap), (AP via ABC News America)
• 2015 Pacific typhoon season
  • Typhoon Chan-hom strengthens as it heads towards the Pacific island of Guam. (Accuweather)
• At least four people are dead and 48 injured following a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Pishan County in China's Xinjiang region. (BBC)
• Sinking of Kim Nirvana-B
  • The death toll from yesterday's capsizing of the M/B Nivana off the coast of the Philippines rises to 56 as murder charges are filed against the owner and crew. (AP via USA Today), (AFP via Straits Times)

• Research shows that during the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, the ReEBOV Antigen Rapid Test, developed by Corgenix, showed promise as a bedside rapid Ebola test, successfully detecting Ebolavirus. (Harvard), (Corgenix), (The Lancet)
• At least 29 people have died in a cholera outbreak in South Sudan. (AFP via Daily Star)

• Phil Walsh, the coach of the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League, is stabbed to death in his home with his son charged with murder. (ABC News Australia)
• Dutch police detain 200 young people in The Hague for not following curfew as violence continues in the Schilderswijk district for a fourth night. (AFP via Daily Star)
• Jeffrey Webb, a former Vice President of FIFA and President of CONCACAF, is reportedly charged with healthcare fraud in his native Cayman Islands. (Eurosport via Yahoo!)

• Danish general election, 2015
  • Pia Kjærsgaard becomes the first woman to be elected speaker of the Danish parliament, the Folketing. (Politiko.dk/Berlingske)

• The U.S. Air Force's outgoing chief scientist, Mica Endsley, announces plans for an unmanned hypersonic flying weapon by 2023, which could travel at least up to Mach 5. (CNN)
• Solar Impulse project
  • The solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 landed in Hawaii from Japan, completing the longest leg of its circumnavigation trip starting in Abu Dhabi. (BBC)