Portal:Current events/2015 August 2

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Law and crime
  • A court in Egypt postpones a verdict in the prominent trial of two journalists with Al-Jazeera, who have been charged with aiding the Muslim Brotherhood. (Reuters)
  • A Catholic and a Baptist church in Las Cruces, New Mexico are rocked by explosions at a mailbox and a trash can. (USA Today)
  • Services are held outdoors after Dustin Connor allegedly stole a computer, discharged fire extinguishers, and damaged a cross and other structures at a church in Piqua, Ohio. He is aleady a person of interest in similar vandalism to another church in the town.(The Washington Times and The Dayton Daily News)
  • Authorities jail a man in Melbourne, Florida, after he tries to rob the church during a sermon with an airsoft gun before being subdued by the Pastor. (The San Francisco Chronicle and Florida Today)
  • In an apparent road rage incident in Reedley, California, an 18-year-old pregnant woman is shot in the left eye after passing a slow-driving SUV which subsequently pulls up alongside and opens fire.(Sky News)

Politics and elections