Portal:Current events/2013 October 1

Current events of October 1, 2013 (2013-10-01) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks Syrian civil war: A team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons enters Syria to begin work on dismantling the Assad regime's stockpile of chemical weapons. (BBC) Politics and elections United States federal government shutdown of 2013: U.S. President Barack Obama, the White House Office of Management and Budget, issues a partial shutdown of government agencies after the House and Senate fail to come to an agreement on a spending bill to keep government operations running. (NBC News) Law and crime A Buddhist mob torches more than 70 Muslim homes and stabs a 94-year-old woman to death in Rakhine State, Myanmar. (AP via The Times of India) Bangladeshi politician Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury is sentenced to death for war crimes including murder, torture, and genocide for his atrocities in the Bangladesh Liberation War. (BBC) International relations The government of Venezuela expels three United States diplomats after accusing them of "economic sabotage". (BBC)