Portal:Current events/2010 February 13
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February 13, 2010 (Saturday)
- U Tin Oo, the Vice-Chairman of the National League for Democracy was released today in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, after the expiration of his term of house arrest. (UN)
- Cyclone Rene approaches Manu'a at full force winds of 150 kilometres an hour. (Radio New Zealand International)
- A suspected terrorist attack in the western Indian city of Pune kills 9 people and injures more than 45 others. BBC news (The Times of India) (The Hindu) (The Times)
- Burma releases vice-chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Tin Oo at the age of 82, after he has spent more than a decade in prison or under house arrest. (BBC)
- The Côte d'Ivoire government is dissolved with President Laurent Gbagbo saying on state television that the peace process has broken down. (Al Jazeera) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Reuters)
- 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver:
- The men's downhill skiing is postponed due to "slushy conditions", with the women's super-combined event having already been postponed. (BBC) (Sky Sports)
- The luge event goes ahead at the Whistler Sliding Centre a day after the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili. (BBC) (The Times) (ABC)
- Year of the Tiger:
- China prepares to celebrate New Year holidays with tens of millions of people travelling and fireworks anticipated. (The Daily Telegraph)
- Wen Jiabao delivers his New Year message in state newspapers. (Reuters)
- Clashes erupt in Dresden 65 years after the city was bombed at the end of World War II. (Al Jazeera) (CBC) (Press TV) (The Washington Post) (BBC)
- Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki demands eight senior officials to resign due to corruption scandals in the education ministry and a maize scandal. (BBC)
- NATO forces in Afghanistan launch Operation Moshtarak against the Taliban-controlled village of Marja in Helmand Province. (The New York Times)
- At least 10 people are electrocuted to death when a power cable collapses onto a bus in Port Harcourt. (BBC)
- Three people die and others are seriously injured after a Danish bus en route from Berlin to Munich hits a barrier and flips over on the Bundesautobahn 9 near Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt. The Autobahn is closed in both directions. (The Local) (IOL) (RTÉ)