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Current events of
February 3, 2012
(
2012-02-03
)
(Friday)
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Armed conflict and attacks
Insurgency in the North Caucasus
: The
Chechen
rebel leader
Doku Umarov
orders his subordinates to halt attacks on the civilian population of
Russia
, while leaving military and security personnel as legitimate targets.
(RFE/RL)
Egyptian
protests:
Egyptian police
shoot and kill two protesters in
Suez
, the first deaths to occur as protests spring up over the
Port Said Stadium clashes
.
(AP via
Atlanta Journal Constitution
)
Nearly 400 people are injured in similar protests in
Cairo
.
(BBC)
Five people are killed and 1,700 injured in clashes resulting from the incident in
Port Said
.
(Al-Jazeera)
Seven
Pakistan Army
soldiers are killed and three others wounded following a
Taliban
attack in the
Kurram Agency
.
(Dawn)
The
Syrian Observatory For Human Rights
claims that more than 100 people have been killed in shelling in the city of
Homs
.
(Reuters)
Business and economy
Hungarian
airline
Malév
ceases operation as its aircraft are grounded due to unpaid debts.
(Reuters)
Stocks rise sharply in the
United States
following positive jobs information with the
Nasdaq Composite
reaching its highest level since 2000 and the
Dow Jones Industrial Average
nearing levels last reached in 2008.
(
Wall Street Journal
)
In the
United States
, employers added over 240,000 jobs in the month of January and the
unemployment rate
dropped to 8.3%, the lowest percent in three years.
(CNN)
Disasters
An official from
Papua New Guinea
's maritime safety authority estimates that 100 people were trapped aboard the ferry
MV
Rabaul Queen
which sank off the northeast coast yesterday.
(Reuters via Alertnet)
Thousands of
Australians
are evacuated in northern
New South Wales
and
Queensland
due to rising floodwaters with parts of Queensland declared as a disaster area.
(AAP via
Melbourne Herald-Sun
)
,
(AAP via
Sydney Morning Herald
)
At least three people die and 50 are injured after a
passenger train
derails in the
Kamrup district
in
India
's
Assam
state.
(NDTV)
Highways in the US state of
Colorado
are closed due to heavy snowfall including the
I-70
.
(9 News)
Law and crime
The
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
increases the sentence of
Kang Kek Iew
, or Duch, to life for running the
Tuol Sleng
prison camp
under the
Khmer Rouge
.
(BBC)
Major General
Michael Linnington
orders a
court martial
for US
Private
Bradley Manning
responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to
Wikileaks
.
(
Baltimore Sun
)
US Federal prosecutors drop an investigation of cycling champion
Lance Armstrong
for alleged use of performance enhancing substances.
(
USA Today
)
Politics
Chris Huhne
, the United Kingdom's
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
, resigns after the
Crown Prosecution Service
announces it will bring charges against him and his wife over claims she accepted penalty points on her
driving licence
for speeding on his behalf.
(BBC)
Thousands of
Bahrainis
hold a peaceful protest in
Manama
calling for political reform and release of political prisoners.
(Al-Jazeera)
Sport
The Football Association
removes
John Terry
as
captain
of the
England national football team
over allegations of racial abuse of
Anton Ferdinand
during a match.
(BBC Sport)
The
Daily Mail
reports that the world record for the number of water skiers pulled by a single boat (145) has been broken.
(
Daily Mail
)
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