User:Khazar2/ITN

In the news

Below is a list of WP:ITN items for which I was the nominator or one of the primary updaters.

Cheick Modibo Diarra, the Prime Minister of Mali, and his government resign after Diarra's arrest by leaders of the Malian coup d'état.
A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
In the East DR Congo conflict, the March 23 Movement seizes control of the provincial capital of Goma.
At least sixty people are killed in fighting between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine State, Burma.
Iranian dissidents Nasrin Sotoudeh and Jafar Panahi are awarded the Sakharov Prize.

The High Court of Botswana rules that women have the constitutional right to inherit property.
In Mali, Islamist militants seize control of Douentza, ousting the local secular militia.
A blast at the Paraguaná Refinery Complex in Venezuela kills at least 26 people and injures more than 80 others.
Burma announces an end to pre-publication censorship of print media.
Chinese and Japanese activists stage protests around the disputed Senkaku islands.

South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute near Rustenburg.
Three members of Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist punk-rock collective, are convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.
The government of Ecuador grants political asylum to Julian Assange (pictured), founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks.
British bank Standard Chartered agrees to pay a US$340 million fine to New York State to settle money laundering charges.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi orders Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi to resign and cancels military-declared constitutional amendments.

Researchers announce new fossils of Homo rudolfensis, helping to confirm it as a species distinct from Homo habilis.
Libya's National Transitional Council transfers power to the recently elected General National Congress.
Three gunmen kill nineteen people in a church near Okene, Nigeria.
Flooding from Typhoon Haikui forces the evacuation of at least 250,000 people in Metro Manila.
Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Farid Hijab defects to the opposition.

Unidentified gunmen kill 16 Egyptian police officers on the Egyptian-Israeli border in Sinai.
American author and playwright Gore Vidal dies at the age of 86.
A referendum to impeach Romanian President Traian Băsescu (pictured) fails due to low voter turnout.
A power grid failure in India leaves 20 states in the country without electricity, affecting 600 million people.
At least 42 people are killed in clashes between rebels and Tajik government troops in Gorno-Badakhshan.

Ghanaian President John Atta Mills dies at the age of 68 and is succeeded by Vice President John Dramani Mahama.
Ansar Dine and MOJWA take over Gao and destroy World Heritage Sites in the northern Malian region of Azawad after fighting the MNLA.
An Australian coroner rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain in 1980.
A passenger plane crashes into a building in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 153 people on board.
In response to the Houla massacre, high-ranking Syrian diplomats are expelled from several countries.

In the ongoing Spanish financial crisis, Bankia requests €19 billion in funds from the Spanish government, the largest bank bailout in the nation's history.
A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted in 2001 in connection with the Lockerbie bombing, dies in Libya.
Facebook, Inc. raises US$16 billion with its initial public offering, the third largest in U.S. history.
Using terahertz radiation, researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Suzukakedai campus pictured) set a new record for wireless data transmission speed.

Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, who influenced the Latin American Boom, dies at the age of 83.
Mali's Azawad National Liberation Movement claims military victory and declares independent the new state of Azawad.
The Malian towns of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu fall to rebel control.
The African Union suspends Mali after President Amadou Toumani Touré is ousted in a coup d'état.
Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng escapes house arrest and flees to Beijing.