Portal:Current events/2016 August 13
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August 13, 2016 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
- At least 10 children are killed and 28 injured in an air attack on a school in northern Yemen. The Houthi group claims that the Saudi Arabia led coalition is responsible. (Reuters via ABC News)
- Syrian civil war
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that at least 51 people have been killed in the Syrian city of Aleppo. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2016 Louisiana floods
- Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards declares a state of emergency as over 17 inches of rain (43 cm) causes unprecedented flooding across the region and takes at least three lives in his state, with more rain expected through Sunday. (Reuters), (AP)
- The death toll from Thursday's explosion in a Silver Spring, Maryland, apartment building rises to three with others still missing. The cause of the blast has not yet been officially determined. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Six people are injured by a knifeman who also set fire to a train at Salez, Switzerland. (BBC News Online)
- A lone gunman shoots a Muslim cleric and an associate to death in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Both were still wearing religious garb following afternoon prayers. No arrests have been made. (Reuters)
- 2016 Milwaukee riots
- Violence breaks out in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, following a fatal police shooting of a 23-year-old male criminal armed with a handgun earlier in the day. The Milwaukee Police Department says an officer was injured after being struck in the head by a brick, while a police car and gas station were set on fire. (NBC News)
Sport
- 2016 Summer Olympics
- Darya Klishina, Russia's sole track and field competitor at the Rio Olympics, has her exemption to Russia's blanket ban revoked. Reportedly, new evidence emerged in relation to a World Anti-Doping Agency report. Klishina is appealing the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. (Reuters)
- The United States becomes the first nation to win 1000 gold medals at the Olympic Games when its 4 × 100 medley relay team of Kathleen Baker, Lilly King, Dana Vollmer and Simone Manuel wins. (USA Today)