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Portal:Current events/2013 September 26
September 26, 2013 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Terrorists attack a police station in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, killing six people, before attacking an Army camp. (Reuters)
- Interpol issues a red notice arrest warrant for Briton Samantha Lewthwaite at Kenya's request. (BBC) (Irish Times)
- Al-Shabaab militants attack two Kenyan towns near the Somali border. (USA Today)
Business and economy
- Authorities in the U.S. arrest Paul Konigsberg, an accountant, charging him with complicity in the Ponzi scheme of former New York financier Bernard Madoff, a scheme that unraveled in 2008. (Reuters)
International relations
- The United States and Russia agree on a draft United Nations Security Council resolution aiming to rid Syria of its chemical weapons. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Law and crime
- South Korean prosecutors charge Unified Progressive Party MP Lee Seok-ki with plotting an armed revolt in support of North Korea. (AFP via Channel News Asia)
- The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague rejects an appeal against a conviction of former President of Liberia Charles Taylor on war crime charges. (BBC)
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