Portal:Current events/2013 November 4
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November 4, 2013
(Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syria civil war:
- Colonel Abdul Jabbar Akaidi, top rebel leader and chief recipient of U.S. aid, quits his position blaming recent losses on rebel infighting. (Washington Post)
- A truck carrying four people hits a land mine on a road leading to Menaka in Mali, killing all of the occupants. (AP via Miami Herald)
Arts and culture
- German magazine Focus reports the 2012 discovery of Nazi plundered art worth €1 billion in Munich, including lost works by Picasso and Matisse. (Deutsche Welle)
Law and crime
- A man fatally stabs three people on a bus en route between Årdal and Tyin in Norway. (NBC News)
- The company Johnson & Johnson agrees to pay $2.2 billion in regards to a U.S. probe of the drug risperdal. (Reuters)
- A gunman opens fire inside the Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, shooting out security cameras. Hours later, the gunman commits suicide near the mall. (CNN)
- In Florida, United States, Eric Rivera Jr. is convicted of second-degree murder in the 2007 killing of NFL Washington Redskins player Sean Taylor during a burglary. (Fox News)
Politics and elections
- Egyptian deposed president Mohamed Morsi's trial regarding charges of violence is postponed to 8 January 2014. (AllAfrica)
Science
- Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works undertakes to build a successor to the SR-71 Blackbird capable of mach 6 speed flight by 2030. (Fox News)