Portal:Current events/2010 October 23

October 23, 2010 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

50 people are injured in Bangladesh protests attacked army camps, set a jeep on fire and damaged two other vehicles during the clashes in Roopganj, a sub-district of Narayanganj near Dhaka. (Tha Indian)
Iraq War Logs: Julian Assange of Wikileaks tells a London news conference that the 400,000 classified U.S. military documents released to the general public yesterday reveal that the Iraq War is "a bloodbath on every corner". (AFP via Tehran Times)
There are clashes on the streets of Conakry after the second round of voting in the Guinean presidential election, due on 24 October, is deferred for the third time. (BBC)
Suspected Maoist rebels kill six policemen in eastern India. (Al Jazeera) (AP via Google News) (Times of India)
A suicide bomber attacks the United Nations compound in western Afghanistan based in Herat. (Voice of America)
Nine Taliban fighters, including two commanders, are killed as security forces storm their hideout in Kandahar province, south of Afghanistan. (Xinhua via PLA)

Business and economy

2010 strikes in France: French unions challenge a back-to-work order in court, one day after the senate voted in favour of increasing their retirement age. (Al Jazeera)
Group of Twenty finance leaders agree to give 6% more International Monetary Fund votes to developing countries, though the U.S. retains its veto power, in a meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea. (BBC) (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Residents of Naples are repelled by the police force while expressing their ire over a government plan to open a huge garbage dump on the edge of town. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

At least one person is killed and thousands more are affected after Cyclone Giri makes landfall in western Burma. (Al Jazeera)
The death toll from Typhoon Megi in Taiwan has reached as least eleven with at least 23 people from two Chinese tour groups missing. It has now made landfall in China's Fujian province. (CNN) (Reuters)
Seven people are killed at Nyayo National Stadium in the Kenyan capital Nairobi as fans try to enter a Kenyan Premier League football match between Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
Several people are killed in a helicopter crash in the Mourne Mountains, County Down. (BBC) (RTÉ) (Xinhua)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project that as many as 1 in 3 adult Americans will have diabetes by 2050 if current trends in diet and exercise continue.(Reuters)

International relations

Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Richard Falk, a UN human rights rapporteur, issues a report to the United Nations General Assembly saying continued settlement construction would probably make Israel's occupation of Palestinian land irreversible and that said the UN, the US and Israel had failed to uphold the rights of Palestinians. (BBC)
- Bishops from across the Middle East urge Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories at the end of a two-week-long meeting at the Vatican. (The New York Times)
- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reports that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are preventing it from building schools in Gaza; the Israeli Defense Ministry says it is doing so to thwart Hamas from building the schools next to Hamas military installations.(The Jerusalem Post) (Ynetnews) (RIA Novosti)
Rival demonstrations take place in China and Japan over the disputed Senkaku Islands. (CP) (Straits Times)
German economy minister Rainer Bruederle criticizes the United States' monetary easing as indirectly manipulation of the USD exchange rates. (Reuters)

Law and crime

The high court in Egypt orders the government to ban police officers from university campuses. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
306 former Tamil Tiger combatants are to be released from rehabilitation in Sri Lanka. (Xinhua)
Gunmen kill thirteen people and wound fifteen at a birthday party in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)

Politics and elections

David Thompson, the Prime Minister of Barbados, dies of pancreatic cancer with Freundel Stuart being sworn in as the new Prime Minister. (Reuters via ABC News Online)
Voters in Bahrain go to the polls for the Bahraini parliamentary election. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
The opposition Social Democrats are awarded control of the Czech senate by the people in mid-term elections, giving them the chance to oppose right-wing government attempts to cut the wages of workers, stop them sending more troops to Afghanistan and make government reforms "socially more tolerable". (BBC) (AFP via France24)^{[permanent dead link]}
The Chinese government announces it will review a new language policy promoting mandarin as the sole language of instruction in universities following protests by Tibetan students across the country. (The Hindu)

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