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Current events of
July 29, 2012
(
2012-07-29
)
(Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Syrian civil war
:
Fierce fighting continues in
Syria
's second city of
Aleppo
.
(Al Jazeera)
Jordan
opens its first camp for refugees fleeing Syria.
(Petra News Agency)
A security agent serving for the Italian embassy in
Sana'a
is kidnapped by gunmen in
Yemen
.
(BBC)
Disasters and accidents
Tropical Storm Khanun
kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in
North Korea
, according to state media.
(
Business Week
)
International relations
The
Democratic Republic of the Congo
accuses
Rwanda
of backing rebels hostile to the Congolese government.
(Reuters)
Law and crime
Ten more
Islamists
are arrested in the
United Arab Emirates
as part of a crackdown on
dissidents
, according to activists.
(
Times of India
)
Politics and elections
Thousands of anti-nuclear protesters form a human chain around the
Japanese
parliament
in
Tokyo
.
(Radio Television Hong Kong)
Thousands of people protest against plans to introduce national patriotism lessons in
Hong Kong
schools, calling it
Chinese
propaganda.
(
Bangkok Post
)
Voters in
Romania
go to the polls for an
impeachment referendum
against the
President of Romania
Traian Băsescu
.
(BBC)
Science
New research published in this week's
Nature Geoscience
details a mechanism by which
carbon
is drawn down from the surface of the
Southern Ocean
to deeper water below.
(France 24)
(Phys.org)
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