From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arab Spring:
- Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, after visiting North Korea, calls on the U.S. and South Korea to stop starving the North Koreans and accuses the U.S. and South Korea of violating the human rights of the North Korean people. Carter also says Kim Jong-il is willing to hold unconditional talks with South Korea, though current U.S. officials dismiss the visit of their former president to North Korea as "strictly private". (BBC)
- At least 15 people are killed and at least 20 others are injured after a bomb tears through the Argana cafe in Marrakesh's main Djemaa el-Fna square. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- At least 6 people are killed and at least 15 others are injured in a suicide attack in Baladruz, Iraq. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- At least 2 people are killed when a bomb explodes on a Pakistan Navy bus taking employees to work in Karachi. (AP via MSNBC)
- Protesters riot in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, after the arrest of the opposition leader, Kizza Besigye for the fourth time in two weeks. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Thailand announces that it will send more troops to its border with Cambodia after a seventh day of fighting near the disputed Preah Vihear Temple that has killed 15 people. (Reuters) (AP via Yahoo News)
- U.S. president Barack Obama nominates General David Petraeus, current head of the war on Afghanistan, as his new CIA chief, and names outgoing CIA chief Leon Panetta as head of The Pentagon. (BBC)
- U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart vows increased sales of weapons, including rifles and shotguns. (BBC) (CNN)
- Business and economy
Constellation Energy Group in a stock swap valued at $7.9 billion. (Reuters)
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