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Current events of
April 18, 2013
(
2013-04-18
)
(Thursday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Boston Marathon bombings
:
U.S.
President
Barack Obama
visits the city of
Boston
in the wake of the
recent marathon bombings
.
(
Los Angeles Times
)
The
Federal Bureau of Investigation
posts photos of two suspects in the
Boston Marathon bombings
.
(BBC)
(Reuters)
(FBI)
A
campus
police officer
is
shot dead
in his vehicle at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in the
U.S.
city of
Cambridge
,
Massachusetts
.
(ABC News Australia)
(Reuters)
Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
:
18 April 2013 Baghdad bombing
: At least 27 people, including two children, are killed and 65 injured in a bomb attack on a
cafe
in the
Iraqi
capital
Baghdad
.
(BBC)
At least five people are killed in separate incidents in
Iraq
including a suspected
al-Qaida
leader in
Mosul
.
(Xinhua)
Arts and culture
Prominent
Hillsborough disaster
justice campaigner Anne Williams dies from
cancer
, having made her last public appearance at
Anfield
's recent 24th anniversary memorial.
(
The Independent
)
Business and economy
The
United States
reclaims its spot as the
top export market
for
Japan
as
China
slips due to economic slowdown. Japan's overall annual
trade deficit
meanwhile reaches 8.2 trillion
yen
, the highest on record.
(AP via
The Globe and Mail
)
Australian
Trade Minister
Craig Emerson
says
free trade talks
between
Australia
and
China
are deadlocked over differences of opinion on the removal of investment limits for
state-owned enterprises
.
(AFP via Channel NewsAsia)
YouTube
successfully defends itself in a billion dollar
copyright infringement
suit by
Viacom
.
(
Los Angeles Times
)
Disasters and accidents
West Fertilizer Company explosion
:
15 people are confirmed dead after the
Texas fertilizer plant explosion
in
West
,
Texas
,
United States
.
(CNN)
(BBC)
(
The Washington Post
)
International relations
2013 Korean crisis
:
North Korea
demands an end to
United Nations
sanctions
on the country as a condition for dialogue with the
United States
.
(Reuters)
Law and crime
A
Pakistani
court
issues an
arrest warrant
for former
President
Pervez Musharraf
in connection with the
house arrest of judges
in 2007.
(BBC)
(AP via
Houston Chronicle
)
Authorities in the
United Arab Emirates
say they have arrested seven suspected members of an
al-Qaeda
-linked "
terrorist cell
" seeking to carry out operations in the country and
the region
.
(AP via Fox News)
Around 30
migrant workers
, mainly from
Bangladesh
, are injured in a
shooting
by at least one farm
supervisor
on a
strawberry
farm in
Greece
after requesting
salaries
that had yet to be paid to them. The farm's owner, and at least one of the supervisors, are arrested.
(BBC)
Science and technology
Two
Earth-like planets
,
Kepler-62e
and
Kepler-62f
, are discovered cirulating around the
star
Kepler-62
in the
habitable zone
.
(Sky News Australia)
Sport
Scottish
cyclist
Sir Chris Hoy
announces his retirement from
track cycling
.
(BBC)
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