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October 19, 2013 (Saturday)

Armed conflict and attacks

Syrian Civil War:
- A suicide bomber kills 16 Syrian Army soldiers at a checkpoint near Damascus. (Wall Street Journal)
Somali Civil War (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)

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