Portal:Current events/2010 October 30

October 30, 2010 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

One person was killed and eight others were wounded when unknown assailants opened fire in Rawalpindi's Civil Lines area of Pakistan. (dawn)^{[permanent dead link‍]}
Gunman opened fire on a group of people on a neighborhood sports field in northern Honduras and killed at least 14. (Shanghai Daily)
NATO forces repel a Taliban attack on an outpost in Afghanistan's Paktika Province, killing at least 80 insurgents. (BBC) (Reuters Africa) (The Australian)
2010 cargo plane bomb plot
- The United States searches on Saturday for the people behind the attempts to send mail bombs to Chicago synagogues. (BBC) (The Jerusalem Post)
- Yemeni authorities arrest two women in relation to the attack and search for other people of interest. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai reprimands Russia after its forces enter the country without permission and "violate Afghan sovereignty" in a joint mission with United States agents. Karzai orders an investigation. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
Thousands of people flee their homes in Guinea amid ethnic clashes ahead of a presidential run-off. (IOL)
Community leaders in Plateau State, Nigeria, appeal for calm following attacks by Muslim Hausa–Fulani against a Christian village near the city of Jos. (BBC)
Somali pirates attack and seize a Liberian tanker with 24 crew on board in the Indian Ocean. (AFP)
A roadside bomb targeting the African Union Mission to Somalia kills seven people in the capital Mogadishu. (AHN)

Arts, culture and entertainment

English pop group Take That sell 1 million 2011 reunion tour tickets within 24 hours amid crashing websites and jammed phone lines. (The Times of Malta) (The Irish Times) (Reuters) (BBC)
18-year old Alexandria Mills from the United States wins the 60th edition of the Miss World pageant in China. (ABC News)

Business and economy

A large oil field is discovered off the coast of Brazil that could contain between 8 and 15 billion barrels. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

At least 16 people drown and 70 are missing after an overcrowded ferry sinks in a river in West Bengal, eastern India. (AFP)
Aftermath of October 2010 Sumatra earthquake:
- The death toll from the tsunami climbs to 413 and 218 people missing with the government of Indonesia considering evacuations. (CNN)
- Rescue workers find 135 people on a remote island and revise downwards by half the missing toll. (Al Jazeera)
Typhoon Chaba heads towards eastern Japan. (AFP via Google News)
French and Australian rescue crews find four French nationals who died in a helicopter crash in Antarctica. (CNN)
Hurricane Tomas lashes the islands of Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent in the Lesser Antilles. (BBC)

International relations

Family reunions take place in North Korea between North and South Korean families separated during the Korean War sixty years ago. (Al Jazeera) (Yonhap)
Turkey's national security council adds Israeli activity in the Middle East, "online terror" and global warming to a document listing potential threats, while removing Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran and Syria from the same list. The document also calls for a Middle East without nuclear weapons. (Ynetnews)
The prime ministers of China and Japan meet in Vietnam amid a diplomatic disagreement, with Hillary Clinton of the United States wading into the dispute during a speech. (Al Jazeera)
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia invites Iraqi political leaders for a meeting in Riyadh as part of an attempt to sort out the deadlock over the formation of a new government. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

Two men are sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of a Rwandan journalist who had allegedly uncovered evidence that the Rwandan government was behind the attempted murder of an ex-army general. (IOL)
Turkey lifts a two-year ban on YouTube, which was blocked due to videos insulting the country's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. (BBC) (Today's Zaman)
Sweden detains two people for allegedly plotting to attack Gothenburg in an alleged "terrorist crime". (Al Jazeera)
Fourteen people are killed by gunmen at a soccer field in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. (CNN)

Politics

An estimated 200,000 people attend the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear by political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Al Jazeera) (Toronto Sun) (Reuters)
Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the British Labour Party, issues an apology for branding Danny Alexander, a member of the British Government, a "ginger rodent". Mr Alexander tweets in response: "I am proud to be ginger and rodents do valuable work cleaning up mess others leave behind". (Sky News) (Press Association via The Guardian)
In an interview with Al-Hayat later quoted by Israeli television, senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar calls a "rebel" against Hamas policy anyone who fires rockets from Gaza into Israel. (Haaretz)

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