Portal:Current events/2012 October 2

October 2, 2012 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Gunmen kill at least twenty students at a hostel away from the Federal Polytechnic campus in the northeastern Nigerian town of Mubi. (BBC)
A member of the People’s Majlis, the parliament of the Maldives, is found stabbed to death near his home. (BBC)
A bomb blast in southern Afghanistan kills a United States Army service member. (Los Angeles Times)

Disasters and accidents

A minibus collides with a truck in the northern Philippine province of Ilocos Norte, killing at least 10 people. (AP via ABC News)^{[permanent dead link‍]}
The number of confirmed deaths in the ferry collision in Hong Kong rises to 38. (BBC)

Health and environment

A European Commission report draft estimates the investment needed for increasing the safety of Europe's 134 power station nuclear reactors at 10 to 25 billion euro. The full report on the stress tests is to be debated by EU ministers later this month. (Reuters) (PDF)

Law and crime

A U.S. Border Patrol agent is shot dead near the U.S.-Mexico border in the state of Arizona. A second agent was shot and is being treated for non-life threatening injuries. (BBC)
Several sources claim that a French spy killed Muammar Gaddafi in 2011; the motive to try to conceal Ghadaffi's financial support of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential election campaign. A French source dismisses the story as "nonsense". (Hindustan Times) (France 24)

Politics and elections

The OSCE titles the parliamentary election in Georgia as "fair and free". Partial results show a majority of votes for Georgian Dream. President Saakashvili concedes that his party, United National Movement, will move to opposition. Bidzina Ivanishvili is expected to become prime minister, and after legislative changes next year, also head of state. (Bloomberg via Business Week) (San Francisco Chronicle)