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Current events of
April 12, 2013
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2013-04-12
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Armed conflicts and attacks
War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
:
Thirteen soldiers of the
Afghan National Army
are killed and one is injured in an ambush in the eastern
Kunar Province
.
(CNN)
(AP via ABC News)
Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
:
At least 11 people are killed and more than 30 are wounded in bomb attacks at
Sunni
mosques in
Baghdad
and in the province of
Diyala
.
(BBC)
Northern Mali conflict (2012–present)
:
2013 Kidal suicide attack
: Two suicide bombers kill three
Chadian
soldiers
and injure dozens of civilians at a market in
Kidal
,
Mali
.
(AP via
Montreal Gazette
)
Arts and culture
The
BBC
confirms that it will not be playing "
Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
" in full when it counts down the
UK
pop chart
on Sunday, saying it finds "distasteful" the timing of the song's rise up the charts in the wake of
Margaret Thatcher
's
death
.
(
The Irish Times
)
(
Time
)
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
is released in
Japan
as fans of
Haruki Murakami
queue at midnight outside
Tokyo
bookshops.
(
The Guardian
)
Veteran
Bollywood
actor
Pran
is announced as the winner of the
2012
Dadasaheb Phalke Award
.
(
The Hindu
)
(
The Indian Express
)
(
The Times of India
)
Business and economy
European Union
finance ministers
and
central bank
governors begin a two-day meeting at
Dublin Castle
to talk about austerity, the
collapse
of the
Cypriot
economy
and the creation of a federal bank.
(RTÉ News)
(Reuters)
Australian
company
Woodside Petroleum
shelves its controversial $45 billion
Browse LNG
project planned for
James Price Point
on
Western Australia
's
Dampier Peninsula
.
(ABC News Australia)
Macy's
loses a bid to stop
JC Penney
from selling unbranded
housewares
designed by
Martha Stewart
.
(
The New York Times
)
Disasters and accidents
Indonesia
's
National Search and Rescue Agency
searches for an
asylum-seeking
boat carrying more than seventy people, which is feared to have sunk in the
Sunda Strait
.
(AAP via
The Australian
)
A powerful
storm
system hits
Midwestern
and
Southern United States
spawning a
dozen
tornadoes
and killing 3 people.
(AP via Fox News)
International relations
2013 Korean crisis
:
South Korea
's
defense ministry
says it doubts
North Korea
has the ability to launch a
nuclear-armed
ballistic missile
as claimed in a report by the
United States
Defense Intelligence Agency
.
(AFP via
Channel NewsAsia
)
United States
Secretary of State
John Kerry
lands in
Seoul
,
South Korea
, as he embarks on three-day trip through South Korea,
Japan
, and
China
to send a "tough" message to
North Korea
.
(Al Jazeera)
North Korea
declares that
Japan
will face
annihilation
if it threatens to wage war. Japan declares that the
Patriot missiles
deployed in
Okinawa Island
will be permanent.
(The Japan Daily Press)
(AFP via
The Economic Times
)
British
Prime Minister
David Cameron
travels to
Berlin
to discuss his demands for sweeping reform of the
European Union
with
German
Chancellor
Angela Merkel
.
(BBC)
Israel
reopens a trade route in the
Gaza Strip
after closing it for several days earlier in response to
rocket fire
from the
Palestinian
enclave
.
(
The Daily Star
)
Sudan
's
President
Omar al-Bashir
visits
South Sudan
for the first time since the country won its
independence in 2011
to meet with
President
Salva Kiir
.
(AFP via Capital FM Kenya)
The
United States
imposes sanctions on 18 "
Magnitsky list
"
Russians
accused of
human rights
violations.
Russia
threatens to retaliate.
(
The New York Times
)
A representative from the
Vietnamese
Foreign Ministry
’s National Boundary Commission hands over a diplomatic note to a representative of the
Chinese Embassy
in
Hanoi
to protest
China
's recent plan to bring
tourists
to the disputed
Paracel
archipelago
.
(
TalkVietnam
)
Law and crime
India
's
Supreme Court
clears the way for the
execution
of
Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar
, a
Sikh
militant
, rejecting his appeal for his sentence to be commuted to
life imprisonment
.
(AFP via Channel NewsAsia)
The
French
Senate
approves
same-sex marriage in France
putting the bill on track to become law by summer.
(AP via ABC News)
In
Taiwan
, 600 people are evacuated from a
high-speed train
en route to
Zuoying
from
Taipei
after
timed explosives
are found in a
restroom
.
(CNN)
North Carolina A&T State University
, a college in
Greensboro
,
North Carolina
, is put into
lockdown
in response to reports of a gunman on campus. No gunman is found in the resulting search.
(Reuters)
(AP via CBS News)
Police
are tipped off when a posting on
4chan
reveals plans to commit a
mass shooting
at
New River Community College
in
Christiansburg
,
Virginia
,
United States
. Two women are injured and a suspect is apprehended.
(CNN)
(AP via ABC News)
(Gawker)
Politics and elections
Iran
's former
nuclear negotiator
Hassan Rouhani
enters the
race
to succeed
President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
, accusing the
incumbent
of needlessly incurring crippling
economic sanctions
.
(Al Jazeera)
Science and technology
Russian
President
Vladimir Putin
unveils a new
$
50 billion drive for the country to preserve its status as a top space power, including the construction of the new
Vostochny Cosmodrome
to
fly humans to space
by the end of the decade.
(AFP via Channel NewsAsia)
(
Wired UK
)
A 32-foot tall, 60,000 ton
stone
monument
found in the
Sea of Galilee
in 2003 is determined to be man-made, dating to approximately 2000
B.C.
(
Los Angeles Times
)
Sport
The draw for the
semi-finals
of the
2012–13 UEFA Champions League
is held in
Nyon
,
Switzerland
.
Bayern Munich
will play
Barcelona
while
Borussia Dortmund
will face
Real Madrid
.
(UEFA)
The draw for the
semi-finals
of the
2012–13 UEFA Europa League
is held in
Nyon
,
Switzerland
.
Basel
will play
Chelsea
while
Fenerbahçe
will face
Benfica
.
(UEFA)
Kobe hits two free throws after tearing his achilles, leading the team to a 118-116 victory over the Golden State Warriors.
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