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Current events of
October 3, 2013
(
2013-10-03
)
(Thursday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Islamist insurgency in Nigeria
:
Air Force
fighter jets bomb camps belonging to suspected Islamist militants in northeast Nigeria in response to
a massacre of students at an agricultural college
.
(Reuters)
The
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
attacks a compound belonging to former Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan commander Nabi Hanfi leaving 15 dead near the border of
North Waziristan
.
(Sky News)
Business and economy
The
antitrust
chief of the
European Union
,
Joaquin Almunia
, discusses coming charges against
Gazprom
, the
Russian
natural gas monopolist.
(Reuters)
Twitter Inc.
publicly files
IPO
related disclosure documents.
(Reuters)
International relations
The Gambia
is to withdraw from the
Commonwealth
, 48 years after joining the 54-member grouping, which includes the
United Kingdom
and most of its former colonies.
(
Daily Telegraph
)
Russia
evacuates
Libya
of all Russian diplomats and their families one day after an attack on their embassy left one dead.
(AP via ABC)
Disasters and accidents
2013 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck
. A fire engulfs a boat carrying African migrants off the coast of
Lampedusa
,
Italy
, killing at least 114 people, 200 remain missing.
(
The New York Times
)
(AP)
A passenger plane carrying 27 people crashes at the
Murtala Muhammed International Airport
in
Lagos
,
Nigeria
, with 13 deaths reported.
(BBC)
Law and crime
Indian politician
Lalu Prasad Yadav
is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for illegally taking money out of the
Chaibasa
treasury.
(
New York Daily News
)
A woman is
fatally shot
by police after striking a barrier at a
White House
security checkpoint followed by a car chase.
(BBC)
(
The Washington Post
)
Adobe
reveals that 2.9 million customers' data was stolen in a security breach which included credit card information.
(BBC)
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