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Current events of
April 13, 2013
(
2013-04-13
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
War in North-West Pakistan
:
A bomb explodes on a
bus
in the
Pakistani
city of
Peshawar
, killing at least eight people.
(BBC)
(AP via
USA Today
)
Syrian civil war
:
Twenty civilians are killed in Saraqib,
Idlib
, after a government warplane bombs the city.
(AP via CBC News)
The Times
reports that evidence smuggled out of
Syria
indicates the
use
of
chemical weapons
in the ongoing conflict.
(Euronews)
(
The Times of Israel
)
(
Haaretz
)
Disasters and accidents
An
earthquake
estimated at a
magnitude
of 6.0
hits
Kobe
,
Japan
, injuring at least 22 people.
(AP via
The Hindu
)
(CBC News)
Lion Air Flight 904
lands short of the runway at
Ngurah Rai International Airport
near
Denpasar
,
Indonesia
. All 108 people survived with minor injuries.
(
The Daily Telegraph
)
(Xinhua)
The
main airport
in
Tegucigalpa
,
Honduras
, is shutdown due to
smoke
from a
forest fire
.
(AP via Google News)
Health and environment
A seven-year-old
girl
is confirmed as the first person in
Beijing
,
China
, to catch the
Influenza A virus subtype H7N9
bird flu
.
(AFP via
The Times of India
)
(AP via
The Vancouver Sun
)
International relations
2013 Korean crisis
:
South Korean
police stop a planned launch of anti-
North Korean
leaflets
across the
border
, as the
government of South Korea
seeks to open dialogue with the North and defuse soaring tensions in the
Korean Peninsula
.
(AFP via Channel NewsAsia)
The
United States
and
People's Republic of China
agree to work towards ridding the
Korean Peninsula
of
nuclear weapons
.
(AP via
The Globe and Mail
)
The
Philippines
offers the use of its
military bases
to the
United States
.
(AFP via
The Express Tribune
)
The
Iranian Army
announces the
successful completion
of three
rocket
tests.
(
The Jerusalem Post
)
China
and the
United States
agree to collaborate on resolving
cybersecurity
issues between the two countries.
(AFP via Google News)
Russia
bans 18
American
diplomats
from entering the country, in retaliation for similar restrictions placed on 18 Russian officials by the
Magnitsky Act
.
(
The News International
)
Law and crime
Former
Egyptian
President
Hosni Mubarak
's retrial on charges of
corruption
and
conspiracy
to kill
protesters
during the
2011 Egyptian revolution
is transferred to another court.
(
The Guardian
)
(Al Jazeera)
A man suspected of a shooting at the
New River Community College
in
Christiansburg
,
Virginia
,
United States
, is charged with multiple counts of
malicious wounding
and use of a
firearm
during the commission of a
felony
, and held without
bail
.
(CNN)
(AP via Yahoo! News)
Politics and elections
In
Ireland
, thousands of people attend an
anti-austerity
rally at
Dublin Castle
, where
EU
finance ministers
are meeting. Opposition
TDs
Richard Boyd Barrett
,
Joan Collins
and
Joe Higgins
address the demonstration.
(
The Irish Times
)
In
Chile
, 100,000
students
take to the streets to demand
educational reforms
.
(BBC)
Salam Fayyad
resigns as
Prime Minister
of the
Palestinian National Authority
following an ongoing dispute with the
President
Mahmoud Abbas
.
(BBC)
The National Transitional Council of the
Central African Republic
elects
Michel Djotodia
as the
President
confirming a position he has held since a
coup
last month.
(Press TV)
Religion
Pope Francis
appoints a panel of nine high-ranking
prelates
from around the world to advise him of the running of the
Catholic Church
and advise him on the reform of the
Vatican
bureaucracy
.
(AP via
USA Today
)
Sport
In
golf
,
Tiger Woods
receives a two-stroke penalty for a bad drop at the
2013 Masters Tournament
in
Augusta
,
Georgia
,
United States
.
(AP via
The Calgary Herald
)
In
basketball
,
Kobe Bryant
's
2012–13
NBA
season ends with an
Achilles tendon
tear
.
(
The New York Times
)
Russian
basketball
club
PBC Lokomotiv Kuban
wins
2012–13 Eurocup Basketball
defeating
Spain
's
Bilbao Basket
75–64 in the final in
Charleroi
,
Belgium
.
(Eurocup)
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