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Current events of
April 6, 2013
(
2013-04-06
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
:
At least 22 people are killed and more than 60 others injured when a
suicide bomber
blows himself up in a busy
election
campaign
tent in the
Iraqi
city of
Baquba
.
(Reuters)
Nigerian Sharia conflict
:
11 people are killed in a gun and
machete
attack in a village of Midlu in
Northern Nigeria
.
(ABC News)
War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
:
A bombing in
Qalat
, capital of the southern
Zabul Province
, kills three
U.S.
soldiers and two U.S. civilians, along with an
Afghan
doctor. An American civilian dies in another attack in the east of the country.
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
Northern Mali conflict
:
Tuareg
separatists in
Northern Mali
mark the one year anniversary since the founding of the unilaterally declared
Azawad
.
(AP via
The Washington Post
)
One soldier is killed when the
National Guard
attacked a camp occupied by police who supported the
2012 Malian coup d'état
that ousted the Malian president.
(AP via Fox News)
Disasters and accidents
Tokyo Electric Power Company
says that it is moving tons of highly
radioactive
water from a temporary storage tank to another after detecting signs of leakage at the
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
in
Futaba District
of
Fukushima Prefecture
,
Japan
.
(AP via
USA Today
)
2013 Thane building collapse
: Rescuers in
India
end the search for survivors of a building collapse which killed 74 people in the city of
Thane
on April 4.
(BBC)
Health and environment
2013 meat adulteration scandal
: The Swedish furniture giant
Ikea
withdraws
moose
meat
lasagne
, sold in its worldwide stores. Unlabelled
pork
is found after increased scrutiny from the scandal.
(BBC)
Law and crime
Five people are killed in clashes between
Muslims
and
Christians
on the outskirts of
Cairo
,
Egypt
.
(AP via Fox News)
A 24-year-old
British
tourist is found dead in a
houseboat
in
Jammu and Kashmir
,
India
.
(CNN)
Politics and elections
Former
South African
president
Nelson Mandela
is discharged after spending nine days in hospital.
(SAPA via News24)
In
Bangladesh
, thousands of protesters call for
blasphemy
laws that would include
death penalty
for
bloggers
who insult
Islam
, the
majority religion
of the country.
(Al Jazeera)
In
Lebanon
,
President
Michel Suleiman
asks
Tammam Salam
, a legislator and a former minister of culture, to head a
new cabinet
after a vast majority of the
members
of
Parliament
chose him for the job.
(
The New York Times
)
Religion
Pope Francis
appoints
Spain
's
José Rodríguez Carballo
,
O.F.M.
, as Secretary to the
Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
, which oversees all
Catholic
religious orders, his first nomination to the
Vatican
bureaucracy.
(AFP via Channel NewsAsia)
Sport
In the
2012–13 Fußball-Bundesliga
,
Bayern Munich
wins their 23rd
Bundesliga
title
with a record six games to spare.
(UEFA)
(Goal.com)
(BBC)
In
road bicycle racing
,
Colombia
's Nairo Quintana wins the
2013 Tour of the Basque Country
.
(Cycling News)
In
horse racing
,
Auroras Encore
springs a
66/1
surprise to win the
2013
Grand National
by nine lengths at
Aintree Racecourse
in
Liverpool
,
United Kingdom
.
(BBC)
In
college basketball
, the
University of Louisville
and
University of Michigan
advance to the championship game of the
2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
.
(ESPN)
(AP via ESPN)
In
synchronized skating
,
Team Unique
of
Finland
wins the
2013
World Championships
, with
NEXXICE
of
Canada
placing second and
Haydenettes
of the
USA
third.
(U.S. Figure Skating)
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