Portal:Current events/2013 April 14

April 14, 2013 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Disasters and accidents

At least 33 people die when a bus tumbles into a river near Trujillo, Peru. (CNN) (Al Jazeera) (The Nation)
Five people are killed, including the driver, and five are injured when a tourist bus carrying Russian and Ukrainian teenagers plummets off a bridge and rolls down an embankment near Ranst outside of Antwerp, Belgium. (The Telegraph) (Reuters) (Euronews)
At least 11 people are killed and 50 people are injured after a fire destroys a hotel in Xiangyang, Hubei, China. (AP via The Times of India) (Al Jazeera)

International relations

2013 Korean crisis:
- North Korea rebuffs an offer of dialogue by South Korea. (AFP via Channel NewsAsia) (Sahara Samay)
- Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of the London School of Economics, calls on the BBC to pull a scheduled edition of its Panorama documentary strand, North Korea Undercover in which three journalists travelled undercover to the country with a group of students. Calhoun argues that the group was placed at risk by the BBC's actions. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

Voters in Venezuela go to the polls for a snap presidential election, which was called after the death of President Hugo Chávez on March 5. (BBC)
In Croatia, people go to the polls to elect the first ever European MPs of the country, anticipating the formal entry of Croatia in the European Union, in July. (BBC)
Justin Trudeau, son of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is chosen as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. (CBC News)

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