Portal:Current events/2013 May 6
May 6, 2013 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes:
- An Afghan border police guard is killed and two Pakistani troops are injured in border violence. (BBC)
- Syrian civil war:
- Rebels shoot down a Syrian Military helicopter in Deir ez-Zor Governorate killing all eight soldiers on board. (AP via Anchorage Daily News)
- A UN official on a Swiss television station says the UN has "concrete" suspicions that the rebels have used Sarin gas. The UN later released a statement in response stressing that it has not reached any official conclusions, and has yet to have acquired proof that either side used chemical weapons. (The New York Times),(BBC)
- Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- At least 10 people are killed and 26 others injured in attacks across Iraq. (Xinhua)
- 13 people die in clashes between Islamist protesters and Bangladesh Police officers in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka and the outlying suburb of Kanchpur. (AP via Fox News)
- War in North-West Pakistan:
- 15 people are killed and another 50 are injured when a bomb detonates at a political rally of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam in Kurram Valley, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. (Xinhua)
Business and economy
- Wal-Mart passes ExxonMobil as the largest company by revenue on the annual Fortune 500 list. (Economic Times)[permanent dead link]
- Bank of America agrees to pay US$1.6 billion to insurer MBIA to settle a long-running dispute between MBIA and two companies Bank of America had since acquired. (The New York Times)
Health and environment
- A new Swedish study published in the journal Pediatrics finds that children whose parents suck on their pacifiers have fewer allergies later in life. (The New York Times)
Law and crime
- Germany arrests a 93-year-old, alleged former Auschwitz guard, Hans Lipschis, on charges of murder. (AFP via Google News), (BBC)
- According to the FBI, a terror attack is disrupted when US authorities raid a mobile home in Montevideo, Minnesota, United States. (AP via News24)
- U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Krusinski, who was in charge of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, is arrested on charges of sexual assault. (ABC News)
- A stolen dinosaur skeleton is returned to Mongolia. (Los Angeles Times)
- Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio, while a 52-year-old man, Ariel Castro, is taken into custody. (The Guardian), (News Limited)
- American singer Lauryn Hill is sentenced to prison for three months after being convicted of tax evasion. (Huffington Post)
Politics and elections
- Seven-time Prime Minister of Italy Giulio Andreotti dies in Rome at the age of 94 years. (BBC)
- The US Senate passes a bill allowing states to tax internet sales. (Nordonia Hills News-Leader)