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Current events of
October 15, 2013
(
2013-10-15
)
(Tuesday)
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Armed conflict and attacks
War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
:
A bomb in a mosque in
Afghanistan
's
Logar Province
kills the governor
Arsala Jamal
and results in other injuries.
(Reuters via IOL)
Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
:
A bomb detonates outside a
Sunni
mosque in
Kirkuk
,
Iraq
, killing 12 worshipers and injuring another 24.
(
The Irish Times
)
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
:
The
Israeli army
finds a second tunnel laden with explosives dug from the
Gaza Strip
into
Israel
and proceeds to destroy it.
(AP via Fox News)
(
The Times of Israel
)
Arts and culture
New Zealand
author
Eleanor Catton
wins the
2013 Man Booker Prize
for her work "
The Luminaries
".
(AFP via Yahoo News Australia)
Business and Economy
United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013
:
International credit rating group
Fitch Ratings
places the
United States
under a "Rating watch negative" in response to the looming financial crisis.
(Reuters)
Glenn Greenwald
, a reporter with
The Guardian
who has
published information
provided him by NSA contractor
Edward Snowden
, is leaving the British newspaper to join a new journalistic enterprise to be bankrolled by
Pierre Omidyar
, the founder of
eBay
.
(Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
2013 Bohol earthquake
:
A magnitude 7.2
earthquake
is reported in the
Philippines
near the town of
Balilihan
in
Bohol
province resulting in at least 74 deaths.
(Reuters)
A
state of emergency
is declared in the
New Zealand
district of
Whanganui
due to flooding.
(TV New Zealand)
Typhoon Nari
hits central
Vietnam
with over 122,000 people being evacuated.
(Reuters)
Law and crime
The former
Liberian President
Charles Taylor
arrives in the
United Kingdom
to serve the remainder of a 50-year sentence after becoming the first head of state to be convicted of war crimes since
World War II
.
(BBC)
The perpetrator of the
2013 Beijing Capital International Airport bombing
Ji Zhongxing is sentenced to 6 years imprisonment by a
Chinese
court.
(The Australian)
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