Portal:Current events/2013 May 10
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May 10, 2013 (Friday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- Bombs explode outside two police stations in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi. (Reuters)
- Albert del Rosario, the Philippines Secretary of Foreign Affairs, wants to withdraw Filipino peacekeepers from the Golan Heights subsequent to Syrian rebels kidnapping four troops. (Straits Times)
- Boston Marathon bombings:
- Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried in the al-Barzakh Cemetery in Doswell, Virginia, United States. (Reuters via News24)
- Evidence mounts that the brothers may be involved in an unsolved triple murder in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States from September 11, 2011 - one of the victims, Brendan Mess, was once a roommate of Tamerlan. (ABC News)
Disasters
- 2013 Savar building collapse:
- The death toll reaches 1,042 with many people still missing. (BD Today)
- A survivor, Reshma Begum, is found alive 17 days after the collapse. (AP via Miami Herald)
International relations
- Taiwan demands an apology from the Philippines related to an incident where a Taiwanese fisherman died after a Philippine Coast Guard intercepted his fishing vessel in the disputed waters of the Bashi Channel. (BBC)
Law and crime
- After yesterday's attack, preserve park authorities discover that twenty-six elephants, including four calves, were killed by poachers in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in the Central African Republic. (The Guardian)
- A paramedic in West, Texas, United States is arrested for possession of an explosive device, but authorities do not elaborate as to whether there is a connection to the deadly explosion last month at the town's fertilizer plant. (Reuters via News24)
- A Guatemala court finds former military leader Efraín Ríos Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentences him to 80 years in prison. (BBC)
Science and technology
- ISS crew members prepare for a contingency spacewalk to stop an anticipated ammonia coolant leak. (NASA) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)