Portal:Current events/2013 July 29

Current events of July 29, 2013 (2013-07-29) (Monday)

Armed conflict and attacks Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal): A wave of twelve car bombs targeting Shiite communities in Iraq kills at least 44 people. (Reuters) War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Taliban attacks a prison in the Pakistani city of Dera Ismail Khan with more than 300 prisoners freed. (Times of India) Disasters and accidents 2013 Pacific hurricane season: Tropical Storm Flossie is predicted to make a rare landfall in the US island state of Hawaii with warnings of heavy rain with the potential for flooding and landslides. (AP) A building explosion and collapse in Philadelphia causes injuries to at least eight people. (CNN) (MyFoxPhilly) Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne resulting in dozens of injuries including four serious injuries. (RT) Seven people have been injured following a series of explosions at a propane plant in the US town of Tavares in central Florida. (Fox News), (BBC), (AP via Vancouver Post) Five people died and a woman was injured in a helicopter crash, in Romania (Puterea.ro) International relations The New Zealand Ministry of Defence announces that it will investigate claims that it collected telephone metadata on Jon Stephenson, a freelance journalist for The McClatchy Company in Afghanistan. (AP via MyFox Phoenix) Law and crime €103 million worth of diamonds and other jewels are stolen from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, in one of Europe's biggest jewelry heists in recent years. (AP via News24) FBI announces the arrests of 150 suspects, during a three-day sweep that took place in 76 cities across the United States, on charges of child sex-trafficking. (Reuters) Sports In association football, former Birmingham City and Club América striker Christian Benítez dies of cardiac arrest complications in a hospital in Qatar. Having won the championship in Mexico, Benítez signed with El Jaish SC. (Excélsior)