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Current events of
June 23, 2013
(
2013-06-23
)
(Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon
:
Six
Lebanese Army
soldiers are killed and several others injured in clashes at a checkpoint on the outskirts of
Sidon
.
(Al Jazeera)
Gunmen
storm a hotel
in
Northern Pakistan
, killing nine tourists and a Pakistani
tour guide
.
(BBC)
16 people are killed and more than 20 others wounded in tribal violence in
Kenya
.
(Muscatine Journal)
2013 protests in Brazil
:
Police again fire
tear gas
at demonstrators participating in nationwide protests across
Brazil
.
(
The Guardian
)
Al-Qaeda
-linked gunmen kidnap two sisters working on a film in the
Philippines
(Sky News)
Arts and culture
Several places in
North Korea
are named as
World Heritage Sites
by
UNESCO
.
(ABC)
Disasters and accidents
2013 North India floods
:
The death toll from the disaster soars to more than 6,500, as units of the
Indian Army
struggle to reach thousands of people stranded in country's northwest.
(Al Jazeera)
At least 18
Romanians
were killed and 32 were injured after a
bus crash
, in
Montenegro
.
(Huffington Post)
International relations
After a failed U.S. extradition request
Hong Kong
says does not fully comply with the law,
U.S.
whistleblower
Edward Snowden
leaves Hong Kong for
Moscow
.
(Al Jazeera)
(
The Guardian
)
Politics and elections
Voters in
Albania
go to the polls for a
parliamentary election
. Activist Gjon Pjeter Gjoni is shot dead and three other people are wounded in a shoot out near a polling station in the town of
Laç
.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
,
(AFP via Yahoo New Zealand)
Mahmoud Abbas
, the
President
of the
Palestinian National Authority
, accepts the resignation of
Prime Minister
Rami Hamdallah
who had offered his resignation on Thursday.
(Reuters)
Nelson Mandela
, former
President of South Africa
, is in a critical condition after his lung infection takes a turn for the worse.
(ABC News)
Sport
In
cricket
,
India
narrowly defeats
England
by 5 runs to win the
2013 ICC Champions Trophy
at
Edgbaston Cricket Ground
in the English city of
Birmingham
.
(AFP via Yahoo! Sports Australia)
American
daredevil
Nik Wallenda
becomes the first person to complete a high wire walk across a
Little Colorado River
Gorge near the
Grand Canyon
.
(Canadian Press via CBC)
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