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August 9, 2013
(
2013-08-09
)
(Friday)
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Armed conflict and attacks
An American drone strike kills five suspected
Al Qaeda
terrorists in eastern
Yemen
.
(Reuters)
The
United States
withdraws diplomats from its consulate in the
Pakistani
city of
Lahore
due to terrorist threats.
(CNN)
Gunmen open fire
at a
Sunni
mosque in the city of
Quetta
killing at least eight people and injuring 24.
(Al Jazeera)
Two
Turkish Airlines
pilots are abducted by a previously unknown
Shiite
militia, Zuwwar al-Imam Rida, in
Beirut
,
Lebanon
.
(BBC News)
An
Israeli
drone strike coordinated with the
Egyptian Army
kills five suspected
Al Qaeda
militants in the
Sinai Peninsula
.
(AP via ABC News)
Clashes erupted between two communities
after
Eid
prayers, in the
Kishtwar
district of
Jammu and Kashmir
,
India
, leaving two dead and several other injured.
(
The Hindu
)
Disasters and accidents
Taiwan
's
Control Yuan
investigatory agency reports that the
Taiwan Power Company
's
Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant
has been leaking radioactive water for three years.
(Reuters)
Three people are missing after a
Rockwell Turbo Commander
turboprop
plane crashes into two homes in
East Haven
,
Connecticut
, United States.
(NBC News)
An
Ethiopian Air Force
cargo plane carrying ammunition for international forces fighting Islamist militants in
Somalia
crashes and catches fire on landing at the
Aden Adde International Airport
in
Mogadishu
, killing four of the six crewmembers.
(BBC News)
,
(Xinhua)
Law and crime
Mexican
drug lord
Rafael Caro Quintero
, who was convicted for the 1985 murder of U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration
Enrique Camarena
, is ordered released from prison.
(
The Guardian
)
Liu Tienan, the deputy head of
China
's
National Development and Reform Commission
, is expelled from the
Communist Party
for corruption.
(BBC)
A 31-year-old
Florida
man kills his wife and posts a picture of her corpse with a confession onto
Facebook
. The picture is removed and the man is arrested.
(CNN)
Politics and elections
President
Boni Yayi
of
Benin
dismisses his entire Cabinet.
(Reuters)
Zimbabwe
's
Movement for Democratic Change
files papers with the Constitutional Court in
Harare
arguing that the
recent elections
be annulled because of widespread allegations of illegalities and intimidation of voters by
Robert Mugabe
's
ZANU–PF
party.
(Reuters via News24)
Sports
At the
FIBA Asia Championship
, the
Chinese Taipei men's national basketball team
knocks defending champion
China
out of the tournament during a quarterfinal match.
(Yahoo! Sports)
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