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Current events of
September 13, 2013
(
2013-09-13
)
(Friday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Taliban
insurgents
attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan
, with two members of the
Afghan National Police
reported as killed and about 20 civilians injured.
(BBC)
Al-Qaeda
's leader
Ayman al-Zawahiri
calls for attacks inside
United States
to "bleed America economically".
(Reuters)
A bomb in a
Baghdad
Sunni
mosque kills at least 30 people.
(AP via NZ Stuff)
Disasters and accidents
Dozens of people are feared dead after a fire at a psychiatric hospital in
Russia
's
Novgorod Oblast
.
(RT)
Nine people are confirmed dead following massive floods in the past 24 hours in
Galați County
,
Romania
.
(journalgazette)
At least four people are dead, 80 unaccounted for and thousands have been evacuated following heavy
floods
in
Boulder County
in the US state of
Colorado
.
(Fox News)
,
(9 News)
A
World War II
shell explodes in the
Finnish
town of
Kemi
in
Lapland
, killing one person and causing the evacuation of hundreds of residents.
(Reuters via Yahoo News UK)
Law and crime
Four people are found dead in a car in
Crossville
,
Tennessee
,
U.S.
A man is arrested in connection with the deaths.
(AP via
San Francisco Chronicle
)
An
Indian
court sentences four men to death for the
2012 Delhi gang rape case
.
(CNN)
Politics and elections
Bill Shorten
and
Anthony Albanese
will contest a month-long ballot process to determine who will be the Leader of the
Australian Labor Party
and
Leader of the Opposition
.
(
Canberra Times
)
Narendra Modi
is named as the
Bharatiya Janata Party
leader in next year's
Indian general election
.
(BBC)
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