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April 5, 2014
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2014-04-05
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2014 Aswan tribal clashes
:
Twenty-three people are killed in a gunfight between feuding tribes near the
Egyptian
city of
Aswan
.
(
Al-Ahram
)
(
The Hindu
)
Two
Italian
priests and a
Canadian
nun have been kidnapped by gunmen in
Cameroon
.
(AFP via Yahoo! News)
Business and economy
Tyson Foods
recalls 75,000 pounds of frozen
chicken nuggets
due to complaints that pieces of plastic were found in its products.
(KTVU)
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permanent dead link
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(USDA)
Disasters and accidents
At least three are killed and seven injured when a passenger train derails in the
Tasikmalaya
District, in
Indonesia
's West
Java
Island after hitting mounds of mud following a downpour of rain.
(MSN)
Politics and elections
Afghan presidential election, 2014
:
Amidst violence, voters in
Afghanistan
elect a new President in what is the country's first democratic transfer of power.
(BBC News)
(
HuffPost
)
Australian Senate special election in Western Australia, 2014
:
Voters in the
Australian
state of
Western Australia
go to the polls for a Federal
Senate
election.
(AAP via News Limited)
Sinn Féin
’s
Martin McGuinness
, the
Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland
accepts an invitation to attend several events during the forthcoming State visit of
Irish President
Michael D. Higgins
to the United Kingdom, including a
banquet
to be held by
Elizabeth II
at
Windsor Castle
.
(RTÉ News)
Religion
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
archbishop
Wilton Gregory
announces he will sell his recently-acquired $2.2 million mansion amid criticism amongst parishioners.
(KATC)
Sports
In
horse racing
,
Pineau De Re
, trained by Dr.
Richard Newland
and ridden by 37-year-old
Leighton Aspell
, who returned to racing after coming out of retirement, wins the
2014 Grand National
at
Aintree racecourse
with the odds of
25/1
.
(BBC Sport)
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