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Current events of
July 11, 2012
(
2012-07-11
)
(Wednesday)
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Armed conflict and attacks
Mexican Drug War
: The Mexican newspaper
El Mañana
from the northern city of
Nuevo Laredo
will stop reporting on Mexico's drug-related violence after a
second grenade attack
at its installations.
(
Huffington Post
)
Syrian uprising (2011–present)
:
56 people are reportedly killed by the
Syrian army
, including a
Red Crescent
worker.
(Naharnet)
Syria's ambassador to
Iraq
,
Nawaf al Fares
, defects.
(CNN)
(Reuters)
Syrian opposition
figures arrive in
Russia
for talks with the Russian government.
(Ghana Broadcasting Corporation)
United Nations
peacekeepers are redeployed to the
Congolese
city of
Goma
to protect it from
March 23 Movement
rebels.
(UPI)
A
suicide bombing
at a police academy in the
Yemeni
capital of
Sana'a
kills at least 20 people.
(BBC)
An ambush by suspected
Abu Sayyaf
rebels kills 6 rubber plantation workers and injures a further 22 in the southern
Philippines
.
(AP via
Washington Post
)
520 men and boys killed in the
Srebrenica massacre
in 1995 are buried in
Potočari
,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
.
(IOL)
Arts and culture
Artists sign a letter accusing the
European Commission
of "breaking promises" on the matter of missing royalties.
(BBC)
A rare
giant panda
born naturally
in captivity
at a
Tokyo
zoo dies after only six days, prompting widespread mourning in
Japan
.
(
National Post
)
Business and economy
Bolivia
revokes a mining concession to
Canada
's
South American Silver Corporation
after violent protests by
Quechua people
.
(Al Jazeera)
International relations
Japan
lodges a formal protest with
China
after the presence of the latter's patrol boats near the
disputed
Senkaku Islands
.
(BBC)
ASEAN
nations and China fail to agree on a code of conduct designed to ease tensions over
territorial disputes
in the
South China Sea
.
(Al Jazeera)
The
Canadian government
warns
Iran
not to use its
embassy in Ottawa
to recruit expatriates in Canada to serve the Islamic Republic’s interests.
(
National Post
)
Law and crime
Court documents reveal former
FIFA
president
João Havelange
had accepted bribes upwards of 1.5m Swiss francs.
(BBC)
Lee Sang-deuk
, the elder brother of South Korean president
Lee Myung-bak
, is arrested in
Seoul
on bribery charges.
(AP via
The Washington Post
)
British police
widen their
phone-hacking inquiry
with new arrests of journalists from newspapers not owned by
News Corporation
, which previously has been the focus of the investigation.
(
Los Angeles Times
)
Politics and elections
Russia
's
lower parliament
approves a bill creating a list of blacklisted websites, amid fears of
censorship
.
(AFP via Google News)
(Russia Today)
Chinese
authorities order internet video providers to prescreen all videos before making them available.
(
Times of India
)
The Republican-controlled
United States House of Representatives
votes for the thirty-third time to repeal the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
, commonly known as Obamacare; the measure is not likely to pass the Democratic-controlled
United States Senate
.
(
USA Today
)
(CBS News)
Police clash with demonstrators in Madrid as Prime Minister
Mariano Rajoy
introduces new widescale cuts.
(BBC)
(Reuters)
Police clash with
Chilean
fishermen opposed to a new law said to favour larger companies;
Chilean police
use
tear gas
and
water cannon
to break up demonstrations in
Valparaíso
.
(BBC)
Science
Astronomers announce the discovery of
S/2012 P 1
, the fifth moon of
Pluto
.
(Fox News)
Sport
British Armed Forces
are on standby to provide an extra 3,500 troops to help with security at the
2012 Olympics
.
(BBC)
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