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Current events of
October 11, 2010
(
2010-10-11
)
(Monday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
A
Telugu Desam
leader is murdered in broad daylight in a restaurant near
Srikantam
circle in
Anantapur
, India.
(Deccan Chronicle)
Afghanistan
:
Afghan
President
Hamid Karzai
confirms holding unofficial talks with
Taliban
"for quite some time" in order to end the
nine-year war
.
(AFP via Google News)
(Xinhua)
Six
Taliban
fighters including shadowy district governor are killed in separate operations in western
Herat province
.
(PLA)
Two Indians are killed in a missile attack launched by the
Taliban
on an Indian NGO's office in Afghanistan's
Kunar province
.
(
Deccan Chronicle
)
The
Indian Army
says that nearly 40 militants have been killed by security forces during 25 infiltration attempts in Indian-controlled
Kashmir
from across the border in the last two months.
(China Daily)
Arts and culture
The Hobbit
is set to be most expensive movie ever. The
New Zealand
company,
Wingnut Films
, is waiting for the green light for its planned adaptation.
(NZ Herald)
British
pop singer
George Michael
is released from a
Suffolk
prison after serving 4 weeks for driving while under the influence of
cannabis
.
(BBC)
,
(Sky News)
Australian
opera
singer Dame
Joan Sutherland
dies in
Switzerland
after a lengthy illness.
(
Sydney Morning Herald
)
(Swissinfo.ch)
Business and economy
Economists
Peter A. Diamond
,
Dale T. Mortensen
and
Christopher A. Pissarides
win the
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
for their work in
labor market
analysis.
(Nobel Prize)
,
(AP via Fox News)
Microsoft
launches
Windows Phone
devices.
(C-Net)
Disasters
18 people are killed when a bus falls into a river in
Bulandshahr
district,
Uttar Pradesh
, India.
(
Deccan Chronicle
)
(Zeenews)
The death toll from
flooding
in
Indonesia
reaches 145 with
West Papua
most heavily affected.
(CNN)
(
Straits Times
)
(
Jakarta Post
)
2010 Atlantic hurricane season
:
Tropical Storm Paula
forms near
Honduras
and is expected to become a
hurricane
by Tuesday.
(AP)
International relations
Israeli
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
says that he will extend the settlement freeze if the Palestinian leadership recognizes Israel as a Jewish state. The
Palestinians
quickly reject the offer.
(
Haaretz
)
,
(AFP via Google News)
Liu Xiaobo
:
China
cancels a meeting with
Norwegian
Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs
Lisbeth Berg-Hansen
after the
Nobel Peace Prize
is awarded to him.
(Reuters)
Xiaobo's lawyer confirms that his wife
Liu Xia
is under
house arrest
in
Beijing
.
(CNN)
The
United Arab Emirates
closes its airspace to
Canada
's
Defence Minister
Peter MacKay
over a growing
dispute over aviation rights
.
(CBC)
Law and crime
Greek Police
officer Epaminondas Korkoneas is convicted of the
culpable homicide
of teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos which sparked the
2008 Greek riots
.
(Greek reporter)
(BBC)
British
judge
Heather Hallett
opens the
inquests
into the
7 July 2005 London bombings
.
(Reuters UK)
Benigno Aquino III
, the
President of the Philippines
, elects only for administrative, and no criminal charges to be laid in relation to the botched
Manila hostage crisis
in August.
(
Philippines Star
)
(
Philippines Daily Enquirer
)
A woman accused of
sexually abusing
girls at the
Oprah Winfrey
Leadership Academy for Girls
in
Meyerton
,
South Africa
, is acquitted.
(AP via USA Today)
The son of
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
, the woman sentenced to death by stoning, and two
German
journalists
posing as tourists seeking to interview him, may have been arrested in
Iran
.
(AFP via Herald Sun)
Politics
Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election
:
Five Kyrgyz political parties, including
Ata-Zhurt
,
Social Democratic Party of Krygyzstan
,
Ar-Namys
,
Respublika
, and
Ata Meken
, have passed all thresholds at the election thus can obtain parliamentary seats.
(24.kg)
(Xinhua)
The
Bharatiya Janata Party
government of
India
's
Karnataka state
wins a
vote of no confidence
after 16 members of the
Karnataka Legislative Assembly
are disqualified from voting.
(OneIndia)
(
Hindustani Times
)
The
government
of
Bolivia
annuls a new
coca
production law which cut the number of leaves growers could sell following widespread protests.
(BBC)
Science
Surgeons
at the
Shepherd Center
in
Atlanta
,
Georgia
inject a
spinal cord
injury patient with
embryonic stem cells
in an experiment approved by
United States
Food and Drug Administration
.
(
USA Today
)
Sport
Nigerian
athlete
Oludamola Osayomi
, the winner of the
100 metres
sprint
at the
2010 Commonwealth Games
in
Delhi
,
India
, tests positive for the banned stimulant
Methylhexanamine
.
(AFP via Yahoo! News Australia)
,
(ABC News Australia)
,
( Sky Sports)
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