Portal:Current events/2012 August 14
August 14, 2012 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war:
- One journalist, three lieutenant colonels and one auditor defect to and participate in the Free Syrian Army (FSA). (Anadolu Agency via The Journal of Turkish Weekly)[permanent dead link]
- Mexican Drug War:
- Alleged members of the Gulf Cartel storm a bar in Monterrey and kill 10 people. (Fox News)
- A series of suicide bombings across Afghanistan kill at least 46 people and injure up to 80 others. (BBC) (CBS)
- Turkish lawmaker Hüseyin Aygün, who was kidnapped by Kurdish rebels on 12 August 2012, is released. (AP via The Washington Post)
Law and crime
- Kariem McFarlin, 35, of Alameda, California, is arrested and charged with residential burglary and selling stolen property from the Northern California home of the late Steve Jobs. (MSN)
- Eleven bodies of individuals stabbed to death are found in the mountainous Ile Alatau national park, near Kazakh capital Almaty. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- Mohamed Salem, an Egyptian lawyer, files a lawsuit over President Morsi's removal of Hussein Tantawi and Sami Anan. (Reuters)