Portal:Current events/2013 October 19

Current events of October 19, 2013 (2013-10-19) (Saturday)

Armed conflict and attacks Syrian Civil War: A suicide bomber kills 16 Syrian Army soldiers at a checkpoint near Damascus. (Wall Street Journal) War in Somalia (2009–present): 16 people are killed and 30 wounded by a suicide bomber in an attack in a crowded restaurant in the central Somali town of Beledweyne. (Reuters) Tunisian security forces have killed 10 people (claimed by authorities to be Islamist militants) near the border with Algeria in a three-day operation against gunmen who attacked police patrols in the remote northern region. (Reuters) Disasters and accidents At least 79 people have been injured, some seriously, in a train crash at the Once railway station in Buenos Aires. (Time) At least 11 people have been killed after a small plane carrying skydivers crashes near Namur, Belgium. (The Telegraph) Law and crime Reuters reports that the United States Department of Justice and JPMorgan Chase have reached a tentative $13 billion settlement on the issue of selling bad mortgage loans to investors, the practice that contributed to Subprime mortgage crisis. (Reuters)