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Current events of
November 21, 2013
(
2013-11-21
)
(Thursday)
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Armed conflicts
Drone attacks in Pakistan
:
Pakistani
officials claim that an American
drone
strike on an
Islamic
seminary
has killed six people, including two Afghan
Taliban
leaders and a leader of the
Haqqani network
.
(AP)
Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
:
A truck bomb detonates in a vegetable market in northeastern
Iraq
, killing at least 31 people.
(AP via ABC)
Disasters and accidents
2013 Riga Maxima superstore collapse
:
At least six people are killed and 35 injured as a Maxima superstore collapses in the
Latvian
capital
Riga
.
(AFP via ABC Online)
International relations
2013 global surveillance disclosures
:
Indonesian
protesters gather outside the
Australian
embassy in
Jakarta
and protesters burn
Australian flags
to protest alleged bugging of
President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
's phone.
(AAP via Weekly Times)
Law and crime
A Honduran Vice-minister of Defense states that the
Sinaloa Cartel
boss
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
, Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, may be hiding in Honduras.
(InSight Crime)
Metropolitan Police
arrested two suspects after
three women are rescued
from a residential address in
Lambeth
,
South London
, after thirty years of
captivity
.
(BBC)
The
parole board
in the
U.S.
state of
Alabama
grants posthumous pardons to three members of the
Scottsboro boys
falsely accused of raping a white teenager.
(
Wall Street Journal
)
Science
The
Japanese Coast Guard
claims that a
volcanic
eruption has created a new islet in the
Bonin Islands
south of
Japan
.
(AP)
Sports
Sheffield City Council
begins the demolition of the
Don Valley Stadium
athletics stadium in
Sheffield, England
.
(BBC)
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