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April 6, 2014
(
2014-04-06
)
(Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Syrian Civil War
:
Mortar fire kills two people near the
Damascus Opera House
.
(AP via Yahoo! News)
2014 pro-Russian protests in Ukraine
:
Pro-Russian demonstrators seize an administrative headquarters in the eastern Ukrainian city of
Donetsk
.
(BBC News)
2014 Aswan tribal clashes
:
Two more people are killed in
Egypt
's
Aswan
in a third day of clashes. Death toll rises to 25.
(Reuters)
(Bloomberg)
Business and economy
The world's two largest
cement
manufacturers,
LaFarge
of
France
and
Holcim
of
Switzerland
, agree to a merger that would create a firm with a market value of $55 billion.
(Reuters)
Nigeria's economy
passes
South Africa
's to become the largest in Africa.
(BBC News
Law and crime
The Ambassador of Italy to
Turkmenistan
is charged for alleged child abuse while on holiday in the
Philippines
.
(Reuters)
Politics and elections
Costa Rican general election, 2014
:
Voters in Costa Rica go to the polls for a general election.
Luis Guillermo Solís
is the only presidential candidate left in the race following the withdrawal of
Johnny Araya
.
(BBC News)
Hungarian parliamentary election, 2014
:
Voters in Hungary go to the polls, and
Prime Minister
Viktor Orbán
's
Fidesz
and their allies the
Christian Democrats
win re-election easily, with 45% of the vote.
(BBC News)
Russian municipal elections
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
candidate
Anatoly Lokot
was elected mayor of the third-largest city of
Novosibirsk
, defeating ruling
United Russia
party candidate.
(
The Moscow Times
)
Sports
In
cricket
,
Australia
win the
women's ICC World Twenty20 tournament
and Sri Lanka win the
men's tournament
.
(BBC Sport)
In athletics,
Kenenisa Bekele
of Ethiopia wins the
Paris Marathon
.
(France 24)
In
rowing
,
Oxford
beats
Cambridge
in
the 160th edition
of
The Boat Race
.
(BBC Sport)
In
women's road cycling
,
Ellen van Dijk
wins the
Tour of Flanders
World Cup race.
(BBC Sport)
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