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Portal:Current events/2013 October 15
October 15, 2013 (Tuesday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021):
- 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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