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Current events of July 12, 2010 (2010-07-12) (Monday) |
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill
- A new cap on the destroyed oil well is put in place, and will undergo more than 2 days of testing. (AP via MSNBC)
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- Afghan rights group Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) releases its report stating that 2010 has been the most violent in the landlocked country since the United States led an invasion in 2001, though notes a reduction in airstrikes - a policy favoured by former General Stanley A. McChrystal - has led to less civilian deaths via this method in 2010. (Aljazeera)
- A gunman opens fire at a fiber optics plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico, killing two and wounding four before committing suicide. (AP via Yahoo)
- At least eight people are injured after a tornado strikes the German island of Duene in the North Sea. (BBC)
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Current events of July 13, 2010 (2010-07-13) (Tuesday) |
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- 82 police officers are injured overnight in riots across Northern Ireland, sparked by the annual Orange march through Catholic neighborhoods. (BBC News)
- A ship bound from Libya, the Al-Amal, due to deliver humanitarian aid from Algeria, Morocco and Nigeria to the Gaza Strip, changes course for Egypt after being warned to stay away by the Israeli Navy and receiving pressure from the United States to "act responsibly". (Aljazeera)
- Pakistani embassy officials confirm missing Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who was reported to have been kidnapped by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, is taking refuge in the country's Washington, D.C. embassy. (Aljazeera)
- Chile tests a package marked "anthrax" delivered to the country's foreign ministry. (Reuters)
- Farmers in Gaza are shot at by Israeli militants as they attempt to harvest their crops. (Aljazeera)
- Ugandan authorities arrest a number of people in connection with the July 2010 Kampala attacks which left at least 74 people dead. (Aljazeera)
- An Afghan soldier attacks British soldiers as a base near Lashkar Gah, killing three (one a Nepalese citizen) and wounding four more, before defecting to the Taliban. (AP) (Aljazeera)
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- A group of more than 30 journalists from such countries as Turkey, Spain, Germany, Lebanon, Egypt, the United Kingdom and the United States announces it is to take legal action against Israel for equipment lost and money stolen due to the Gaza flotilla raid. (Aljazeera)
- Previously secret papers released as a result of civil proceedings brought by six former Guantánamo Bay inmates against MI5 and MI6, the Home Office, the Foreign Office, and the Attorney General's Office reveal the British government was involved in the abduction and torture of its own citizens following the September 11 attacks. (The Guardian)
- Tens of thousands take part in a church-sponsored demonstration against same-sex marriage outside Congress in Buenos Aires, as senators prepare to vote on a bill which would make Argentina the first South American country to legalize same-sex marriage. (France 24) (BBC)
- German prosecutors raid 13 branches of Credit Suisse while probing tax fraud. (BBC)
- Venezuela extradites Colombian Carlos Alberto Renteria to the United States: the US claims he is a major drug cartel leader. (BBC) (The China Post) (Reuters)
- Former MI6 worker Daniel Houghton pleads guilty to breaching the Official Secrets Act by unlawfully disclosing top secret material to Dutch agents. (BBC)
- Former Prime Minister of Bulgaria Sergei Stanishev is charged with mishandling classified documents: he calls the charges "politically motivated". (BBC)
- Former Colombian politician and hostage Íngrid Betancourt drops her lawsuit against the state. (BBC)
- The man accused of murdering aid worker Margaret Hassan in Iraq in 2004 disappears before his retrial. (RTÉ) (BBC) (The Irish Times) (The Independent)
- Sri Lankan police file a new case against Sarath Fonseka accusing him of employing military deserters. (Aljazeera)
- A new text service to report hate speech and to be monitored by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission is launched in Kenya ahead of the upcoming referendum on a new constitution. (BBC)
- Police find 48 kilograms of illegal cannabis in Launceston and charge two men, after a week-long operation in one of the largest seizures of the drug in Tasmanian history. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
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- Rwandan police arrest a business partner of opposition politician Andre Kagwa Rwisereka in connection with his recent murder. (BBC)
- An American judge sentences a former State Department worker to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and his wife to 6¾ years for spying for Cuba for three decades. (BBC) (Reuters) (Houston Chronicle) (Sky News)
- Philip Alston expresses concern at the rise in murders in Ecuador and the declining number of murderers being caught. (BBC)
- Three Chechens are charged by France in connection with a conspiracy to attack Russia; another man is released. (BBC)
- Maria Jepsen, the world's first female Lutheran bishop, resigns due to her handling of an alleged case of sexual abuse. She is the third German bishop to resign in recent months. (BBC)
- 800 gambling dens are raided in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and China, (including Hong Kong and Macau) and 5,000 people arrested for illegal betting on the 2010 FIFA World Cup. (Aljazeera) (BBC News)
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- Photos taken on Mount Everest from the same spot where similar pictures were taken by George Mallory in 1921 reveal what is described as an "alarming" loss of ice. (BBC)
- President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez announces the exhumation of 19th-century revolutionary Simón Bolívar to investigate suspected foul play in Bolívar's death. (AP)
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- Israeli settlements dump untreated chemical waste directly into a sewage canal that runs through agricultural land in the West Bank, giving Palestinians skin and respiratory illnesses. (Aljazeera)
- Typhoon Conson makes landfall near Hai Phong, Vietnam, after devastating Southern China and the Philippines with at least 65 dead. (JTWC) (NDCC)
- One month after Israel's announcement it was easing its Gazan blockade the humanitarian situation remains dire. (Sky News)
- More than 2,000 firefighters fight a fire at the port of Dalian after two oil pipelines explode. (WAtoday) (BBC)
- Greece experiences its first forest fires of the summer season. (WAtoday)
- Twenty-eight coal miners die after a fire in their mine near Hancheng City in China's Shaanxi Province. (CRI English)
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- German minister Ilse Aigner expresses annoyance at Facebook's privacy policy, saying the website is breaking the law by collecting information such as phone numbers. (The Age)
- Bangladeshi police arrest an army major who allegedly possessed hundreds of bottles of Phensedyl, an illegal cough syrup. (BBC)
- Hugo Chávez exhumes the corpse of Simón Bolívar to investigate suspicions of foul play being involved in his death. (WAtoday)
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Current events of July 18, 2010 (2010-07-18) (Sunday) |
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- Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, who says he was abducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, says the United States wanted him to confess to being a spy as part of a plan to force the release of three Americans spies caught by Iran. (Aljazeera)
- The Arab League, speaking in Cairo, states written guarantees are required if Palestine is to enter into direct negotiations with Israel as Egyptian, Israeli, Palestinian and American representatives meet to talk. (Aljazeera)
- Colombia takes Venezuela to the Organisation of American States over claims that the latter tolerates training camps for left-wing guerrillas, particularly FARC and ELN within its borders. (BBC)
- EU commissioner Chris Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, speaking during his first visit to Gaza since 2002, calls the Israeli blockade of Gaza an "immoral failure", expresses shock at the "huge new settlements" in the West Bank, and states the United States dominance of the Quartet on the Middle East - US, EU, UN and Russia - is wrong. (The Guardian)
- A 2001 film, depicting Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu discussing methods of undermining the Oslo Accords and saying the United States is "easy" to manipulate, is aired on Israel's Channel 10. (Aljazeera)
- The United Kingdom plans to reduce or eliminate international aid to countries such as the "powerhouses" of Russia and China, as well as South American and eastern European countries. The government plans aid increases to some poorer nations including a 40% increase to Afghanistan. (The Observer)
- European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says that Israel must go beyond easing its blockade of Gaza and throw open its long-closed border. (BBC) (Xinhua)
- An Israeli religious group plans to build flats in Ajami, Jaffa. (The Observer)
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- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces that he will oppose a conversion bill that would give the Chief Rabbinate of Israel the legal power to decide whether any conversion is legitimate and could cause immigrants who converted to Judaism abroad to be denied Israeli citizenship. (AP)
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- Former MI5 head Baroness Manningham-Buller gives evidence in public before the Iraq Inquiry into Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, admitting that the 2003 invasion of Iraq served to "substantially" increase the security threat to the UK. (BBC) (Aljazeera)
- Lesbian student Constance McMillen, banned by a high school in the United States from bringing her girlfriend to her leavers' dinner, is to receive a $35,000 settlement in response to a discrimination lawsuit. (BBC) (USA Today) (Miami Herald) (The Washington Post)
- Police in Krasnodar investigate allegations of animal cruelty after a terrified donkey is forced to parasail off a beach as part of an advertising stunt in a film that has shocked Russians nationwide. (BBC) (IOL) (iAfrica) (Sky News) (Daily Mail)
- Former Indian junior diplomat Madhuri Gupta is charged under the Official Secrets Act with spying for Pakistan. (BBC) (The Times of India) (Asian Age)
- French prosecutors request that they be allowed to question Labour Minister Éric Wœrth as part of an investigation into the country's political scandal. (BBC) (Reuters)
- Two prisoners flee a jail guarded by a dummy. (BBC)
- Bailiffs and police officers swoop in and evict peace protesters from Democracy Village in Parliament Square, Central London, England (BBC)
- A police officer discharges a 50,000-volt Taser gun into the groin of a Guillain–Barré syndrome sufferer in Somerset, England, prompting a possible legal battle; he denies he was acting in an aggressive manner. (BBC) (The Independent) (Daily Mail)
- Ly Tong allegedly attacks Dam Vinh Hung with pepper spray during a concert in California, United States, accusing him of being a proponent of Communism. (BBC) (San Jose Mercury News)
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- A Stonewall study indicates that young people rarely see positive portrayals of lesbian and gay people on television, usually depicted as "promiscuous, predatory, or figures of fun", particularly on BBC One. (BBC)
- The London Review of Books issues a public apology after more than 70 leading British writers, academics and arts figures accuse it of publishing a racist blogpost comparing African migrants to baboons and black shopkeepers to rottweilers. (The Guardian)
- The Margaret Hewson Prize for new writing talent, judged by Beryl Bainbridge 10 days before her recent hospitalisation and eventual death, is awarded to Laura McClelland. (The Guardian)
- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron gifts President of the United States Barack Obama a painting, Twenty First Century City, by graffiti artist Ben Eine, while Obama gifts Cameron a signed lithograph, Column with Speed Lines, by Edward Ruscha. (BBC)
- Austria's Leopold Museum agrees to pay $19 million to the estate of Jewish art dealer Egon Schiele's for Portrait of Wally, stolen from her by Nazism in World War II. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Washington Post)
- Cécile Aubry, French film star, writer and ex-wife of Moroccan prince Si Brahim El Glaoui, dies. (BBC)
- Google Images receives one billion page views per day and receives a revamp. (BBC)
- Actor George Clooney is to receive an award for humanitarian work. (BBC) (News24) (Los Angeles Times) (The Washington Post)
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- Mexico states that it has the support of Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, the Federated States of Micronesia, Panama, Senegal, Turkey, and Uruguay in pursuing its case against Arizona's immigration law. (CNN)
- An Arab residing in Israel is convicted of "rape by deception" and jailed for 18 months for having consensual sexual intercourse in 2008 with an Israeli woman alleged to believe he was Jewish. (Aljazeera) (The Guardian)
- San bushmen in Botswana lose a court case in which they requested the re-opening of their traditional Kalahari waterhole from which the government forced them out when diamonds were discovered there in the 1980s. (BBC)
- Four men go on trial in Nukuʻalofa charged with a mother's manslaughter in the MV Princess Ashika ferry disaster. (BBC)
- Kenya awards compensation in a landmark ruling to civilians tortured by police during Daniel arap Moi's time in power in the 1980s. (BBC)
- The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague orders the retrial of former Kosovan Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj after stating his first trial was marred by witness intimidation. (Deutsche Welle) (Aljazeera) (The New York Times) (BBC)
- Human Rights Watch calls for an independent investigation in Rwanda into the death of Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, vice president of the opposition Democratic Green Party, who was killed weeks before a presidential election. (CNN) (AFP)
- Italian police announce 67 arrests, €250 million worth of property seizures and the "wipe out" of a local clan. (WAtoday)
- Israel tells the United Nations it will limit the use of fatal burning weapon white phosphorus in future conflicts after using it on civilians during its War on Gaza. (BBC) (France24)
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- The International Monetary Fund cancels Haiti's $268 million debt and approves a new three-year loan worth $60 million; the IMF expects Haiti to start paying back interest in late 2011. (Aljazeera)
- A proposal to develop nuclear energy is discussed at an energy policy meeting held by Asean in Da Lat, Vietnam. (BBC)
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- Muttiah Muralidaran takes his 800th Test wicket for the Sri Lanka cricket team in his final ball before his retirement and finishes his career as the world record holder for number of wickets. (ABC Online)
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- The United States and South Korea begin showing off their navy and air force by maneuvering dozens of ships and planes and thousands of troops in the Sea of Japan with intent to "rattle" North Korea. (BBC)
- The Royal Air Force tests fighter jets with which it intends to use to shoot down any rogue passenger planes. (BBC)
- A mass grave containing at least 50 tortured and burned corpses is unearthed east of Monterrey, Nuevo León, in Mexico. (BBC)
- France states its joint effort with Mauritania to free a French hostage is over, but no word is released on the whereabouts of the hostage or if he is even still alive. (Aljazeera)
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- A Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute study suggests that the Nili Fossae area on the surface of Mars could be a good spot to search for evidence of past life on Mars. (MSNBC)
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- The United States Department of Commerce releases statistics showing that the United States economy shrank by 4.1 per cent between the 4th quarter of 2007 and the second quarter of 2009, a deeper recession than previously thought. (Bloomberg)
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