Portal:Current events/2008 October 15
October 15, 2008 (Wednesday)
- 2008 Atlantic hurricane season: Hurricane Omar strengthens to a Category 3 hurricane as it nears the United States and United States Virgin Islands. (AP via ABC News)
- The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in the fifth game of the 2008 National League Championship Series winning the series 4-1 and advancing to the 2008 World Series. (New York Times)
- Retail sales in the United States decline by 1.2% in September 2008, a third successive month in decline and the sharpest decline in three years, further evidence that the United States economy is in a recession. (USA Today)
- The International Maritime Bureau claims that pirates have hijacked a bulk carrier with 21 crew members in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia. (AP via the Charlotte Observer)[permanent dead link]
- 2008 Cambodian-Thai stand-off: Cambodia claims that Thai forces are grouping near the disputed area with later reports of an exchange of gunfire resulting in the death of two Royal Cambodian Army soldiers. (AFP via Google News), (AFP via Google News), (AP via Google News)
- The Waki Commission releases its report into the 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis which followed the disputed Kenyan presidential election, 2007. The Report found that senior politicians and businessmen—including up to six unnamed current cabinet ministers—had planned, financed and perpetrated the violence. (CNS News)