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Current events of
February 18, 2013
(
2013-02-18
)
(Monday)
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Arts and culture
Artist
Ruth Stage
, who uses the ancient
egg tempera
painting technique, wins the 2013 Lynn Painter-Stainers art prize for her work
The Isabella Plantation
.
(BBC)
English
singer-songwriter
Kevin Ayers
dies at the age of 68.
(
The Guardian
)
Disasters and accidents
A
fishing vessel
capsizes off of
Liverpool
,
Nova Scotia
,
Canada
, leaving 5
fishermen
missing in the frigid waters.
(
The Chronicle Herald
)
At least 15 people are killed in
Indonesia
after flooding and multiple landslides ravage the
North Sulawesi
province.
(AP via USA Today)
(BBC)
Health and environment
Food giant
Nestlé
removes its
beef
pasta meals from
supermarkets
in
France
,
Spain
, and
Italy
, after tests confirmed that the product
contained
horse meat
.
(BBC)
Law and crime
2013 Belgium diamond heist
: Armed
robbers
steal
a haul of
diamonds
worth $50 million during a raid at
Brussels Airport
in
Belgium
.
(BBC)
(AP via Google)
(
The Guardian
)
The perpetrator and his girlfriend's father are dead in a
murder-suicide
near
Fairdealing
,
Missouri
,
United States
, and two others are injured.
(AP via
STL Today
)
Politics and elections
Voters in
Armenia
go to the polls for a
presidential election
with incumbent
President
Serzh Sargsyan
expected to win.
Independent observers
including the
Parliamentary Assembly
of the
Council of Europe
have expressed concern about the conduct of the elections.
(BBC)
President
of
Venezuela
Hugo Chávez
returns home after undergoing
cancer surgery
in
Cuba
.
(
The New York Times
)
Prime Minister
of
Tunisia
Hamadi Jebali
announces that plans for a new
government
of technocrats has failed.
(AAP via SBS News)
Sport
In
cycling
,
Team Katusha
is granted a
World Tour
licence by the
Union Cycliste Internationale
(UCI) after the
Court of Arbitration for Sport
(CAS) last week upheld the
Russian
team's appeal against the UCI's original decision to deny it a
ProTeam
licence.
(Cycling Weekly)
(Velonation)
(RCUK)
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