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May 10, 2013 (Friday)

Armed conflict and attacks

Bombs explode outside two police stations in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi. (Reuters)
Albert del Rosario, the Philippines Secretary of Foreign Affairs, wants to withdraw Filipino peacekeepers from the Golan Heights subsequent to Syrian rebels kidnapping four troops. (Straits Times)
Boston Marathon bombings:
- Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried in the al-Barzakh Cemetery in Doswell, Virginia, United States. (Reuters via News24)
- Evidence mounts that the brothers may be involved in an unsolved triple murder in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States from September 11, 2011 - one of the victims, Brendan Mess, was once a roommate of Tamerlan. (ABC News)

Disasters

2013 Savar building collapse:
- The death toll reaches 1,042 with many people still missing. (BD Today)
- A survivor, Reshma Begum, is found alive 17 days after the collapse. (AP via Miami Herald)

International relations

Taiwan demands an apology from the Philippines related to an incident where a Taiwanese fisherman died after a Philippine Coast Guard intercepted his fishing vessel in the disputed waters of the Bashi Channel. (BBC)

Law and crime

After yesterday's attack, preserve park authorities discover that twenty-six elephants, including four calves, were killed by poachers in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in the Central African Republic. (The Guardian)
A paramedic in West, Texas, United States is arrested for possession of an explosive device, but authorities do not elaborate as to whether there is a connection to the deadly explosion last month at the town's fertilizer plant. (Reuters via News24)
A Guatemala court finds former military leader Efraín Ríos Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentences him to 80 years in prison. (BBC)

Science and technology