Portal:Current events/2011 July 23
July 23, 2011 (Saturday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- 2011 Norway attacks: The death toll from the shootings on Utøya and bombing in Oslo reaches at least 92. (BBC) (AP via MSNBC)
- Anders Behring Breivik, the man arrested in connection with terrorism in Norway, reveals himself as to have anti-Muslim and right-wing extremist views, stating that the attacks were "atrocious, but necessary." (Dokument) (Dagbladet) (Daily Mail)
- 2011 Syrian uprising: The United Nations says Syrian forces may have committed crimes against humanity amid the ongoing protests. (Capital FM Kenya) (Times of Oman)
- 2011 Libyan civil war: Rebels claim to have fired rockets at a meeting of senior Gaddafi-regime officials in the capital Tripoli. (Al Jazeera)
- 2011 Mumbai bombings: The death toll from the attacks rises to 22. (AFP via Google News) (Times of India)
- Gatluak Gai, a key South Sudanese rebel leader who signed a peace deal with the Sudanese government this week, is killed. (BBC)
Arts and entertainment
- English singer Amy Winehouse, 27, is found dead at her London home. (BBC) (News24)
Business and economy
- Workers at the Escondida copper mine in northern Chile vote to continue a strike for a second day. (AFP via France24)[permanent dead link]
Disasters
- Two CRH bullet trains collide in near Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, killing at least 35. (AFP via Google News) (VoA) (Xinhuanet.com) (New York Times)
- 2011 Horn of Africa famine
- Unicef states that a child dies from malnutrition every six minutes (250 a day) in Somalia. (The Sun)
- Somalia's Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali accuses al-Shabab of preventing people from leaving the region in search of food as central government condemns militants from blocking aid workers. (Voice of America)
International relations
- Kim Sung-hwan, the South Korean Minister for Foreign Affairs, meets with Pak Ui-chun, his North Korean counterpart, on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting in Bali, Indonesia. (Yonhap)
Law and crime
- Asylum seekers at the Scherger Immigration Detention Centre near Weipa in the Australian state of Queensland start harming themselves in protest. (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)
- News International phone hacking scandal
- Claims of phone hacking at the Daily Mirror and other Trinity Mirror publications are made by former Mirror journalist James Hipwell. (The Independent) (BBC) (The Guardian)
- A gunman fatally shoots six people, including himself, and wounds four others in a shooting in Grand Prairie, Texas. (The Guardian)
- Daryoush Rezaei, an Iranian scientist, is shot dead outside his home in Tehran. It was reported that the scientist had links to the country's nuclear programme. (BBC)
Politics
- Nearly 4,000 employees of the US Federal Aviation Administration are furloughed due to Congressional authorisation for its programs lapsing. (FAA)
- Voters in Sri Lanka go to the polls for local elections, with one person dying in clashes between supporters of rival parties in the Anuradhapura district. (BBC)
- Voters in Latvia go to the polls for the Latvian parliamentary dissolution referendum with 95 per cent of voters supporting dissolution of the Saeima. (AP)
- General John M. Shalikashvili, a Polish-American former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Bill Clinton during the Post-Cold War years and the Bosnian conflicts who had suffered a major stroke several years ago, dies.
- South Vietnamese premier and general Nguyễn Cao Kỳ dies at age 80 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Science
- CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produces notable fluctuations in search for Higgs Boson particle. (BBC News)
Sport
- Australian cyclist Cadel Evans wins the right to wear the yellow jersey on the final stage of the 2011 Tour de France. (News Limited)
- The world footballing body FIFA bans former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam for life over claims he tried to buy presidential votes. (BBC)