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Current events of
October 2, 2012
(
2012-10-02
)
(Tuesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Gunmen kill at least twenty students at a hostel away from the
Federal Polytechnic
campus in the northeastern
Nigerian
town of
Mubi
.
(BBC)
A member of the
People’s Majlis
, the parliament of the
Maldives
, is found stabbed to death near his home.
(BBC)
A bomb blast in southern
Afghanistan
kills a
United States Army
service member.
(
Los Angeles Times
)
Disasters and accidents
A minibus collides with a truck in the northern
Philippine
province of
Ilocos Norte
, killing at least 10 people.
(AP via ABC News)
The number of confirmed deaths in the
ferry collision in Hong Kong
rises to 38.
(BBC)
Health and environment
A
European Commission
report draft estimates the investment needed for increasing
the safety
of
Europe
's 134 power station
nuclear reactors
at 10 to 25 billion euro. The full report on the
stress tests
is to be debated by EU ministers later this month.
(Reuters)
(PDF)
Law and crime
A
U.S. Border Patrol
agent is shot dead near the U.S.-Mexico border in the state of
Arizona
. A second agent was shot and is being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
(BBC)
Several sources claim that a
French
spy killed
Muammar Gaddafi
in 2011; the motive to try to conceal Ghadaffi's financial support of
Nicolas Sarkozy
's
2007 presidential election
campaign. A French source dismisses the story as "nonsense".
(
Hindustan Times
)
(France 24)
Politics and elections
The
OSCE
titles the
parliamentary election in Georgia
as "fair and free". Partial results show a majority of votes for
Georgian Dream
.
President
Saakashvili
concedes that his party,
United National Movement
, will move to opposition.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
is expected to become
prime minister
, and after legislative changes next year, also head of state.
(Bloomberg via
Business Week
)
(
San Francisco Chronicle
)
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