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July 16, 2012
(
2012-07-16
)
(Monday)
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Armed conflict and attacks
Mexican Drug War
: The Mexican
Federal Police
arrested one of the three ringleaders responsible for the deadly shootout last month in the
Mexico City International Airport
's busy food court. An anonymous tip-off led police to his whereabouts.
(
Global Post
)
Syrian uprising (2011–present)
:
Heavy fighting is reported in the capital
Damascus
overnight with claims of at least five deaths and dozens of injuries.
(Reuters via
The Irish Times
)
Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov
argues that Western nations are using blackmail to secure a new
UN Security Council resolution
in order to make the use of force in
Syria
legitimate.
(CBS)
Pakistani Taliban
attack an office of the security force's intelligence agency in
Bannu
and take several hostages.
(
USA Today
)
Two American tourists who were kidnapped in the
Sinai Peninsula
in
Egypt
on 13 July 2012 are freed.
(CBS)
Thailand
's security forces kill seven alleged drug smugglers from
Myanmar
in a gunbattle.
(AP via
Arab News
)
Arts and culture
American director
William Asher
who directed the tv show "Bewitched" dies.
English composer and pianist
Jon Lord
dies after suffering a
pulmonary embolism
.
(BBC)
(
NME
)
American singer
Kitty Wells
, the "Queen of
country music
" and the first female singer to have a number one song on the country charts with "
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
", dies of complications of a
stroke
.
(
Los Angeles Times
)
Business and economy
The
United States Senate
accuses the
HSBC
bank of laundering Mexican drug money.
(BBC News)
The launch of a
flagship nuclear power
station in
Finland
is delayed for a third time.
(BBC)
NBCUniversal
buys full control of the US news website MSNBC.com and rebrands it as
NBCNews.com
.
(NBC News)
Stephen Covey
, author of
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
, businessman and motivational speaker dies.
(AP via Newsday)
Disasters
Japan Self-Defense Forces
airlift supplies to thousands of people isolated by flooding in southwest
Japan
, as the death toll rises to 24.
(AAP via SBS News)
Law and crime
Former
National Rugby League
player
Craig Field
is charged with murder following the death of a man allegedly assaulted in the Australian town of
Kingscliff, New South Wales
.
(
Sydney Morning Herald
)
A "multiple
shooting
" incident at
Scarborough
, a major district in
Toronto
,
Canada
, results in at least one death and 19 injured.
(
National Post
)
Politics and elections
North Korea
announces that
Ri Yong-ho
, a senior military figure and a member of the central presidium of the
Workers' Party of Korea
, is relieved of all duties due to illness.
(AP via Yahoo! News)
Science, medicine and technology
The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration
approves
Truvada
as the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection.
(CBS News)
(
USA Today
)
Sports
Thousands of athletes and officials start arriving in the
United Kingdom
for the
London Olympics
.
(BBC)
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