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October 8, 2014
(
2014-10-08
)
(Wednesday)
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Armed conflict and attacks
Mass graves
found in
Iguala
,
Mexico
, on October 5th reportedly contain the remains of 28 of the 43 missing students that
clashed with the police during last September
.
(The New York Times)
At least 19 Kurdish civilians were killed while protesting against the government's inaction in defending
Kobani
from
ISIS
advances.
(Times of Israel)
Taliban insurgency
A
suicide bomber
kills at least four people and wounds 16 in
Afghanistan
's
Helmand province
.
(Tolo News)
al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
al-Qaeda
launches an attack on the south
Yemen
town of
al-Bayda
killing at least four soldiers before being beaten back by the army.
(Swiss Info)
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Arts and culture
The
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
is awarded the $1 million
Birgit Nilsson Prize
in a ceremony in
Stockholm
.
(ABC News)
Archaeologists date
cave paintings
in
Maros
on the
Indonesian
island of
Sulawesi
as being 40,000 years old, which is as old as similar works in Europe.
(
New York Times
)
Health
Ebola virus disease in the United States
The first person who was diagnosed with
ebola
in the
United States
, Thomas Eric Duncan, a
Liberian
man, dies in
Dallas
,
Texas
.
(
USA Today
)
International relations
Uhuru Kenyatta
, the
President of Kenya
, appears at a status conference at the
International Criminal Court
regarding post-election violence in 2007.
(AAP via SBS)
Politics and elections
With 13 votes for and 122 against, the
European Parliament
rejects former Slovenian Prime Minister
Alenka Bratušek
's candidacy for
Vice-President of the European Commission
and as
Commissioner for the Energy Union
.
(Slovenia Times)
(EU Observer)
John Key
is sworn in for his third term as
Prime Minister of New Zealand
.
(ABC News Australia)
Science
People in
North America
,
Australia
, western
South America
and parts of
East Asia
will be able to see
a lunar eclipse
today.
(BBC)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Eric Betzig
,
Stefan Hell
and
William Moerner
share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of ‘super-resolved fluorescence microscopy’.
(
The Guardian
)
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