Portal:Current events/2011 July 23

Current events of July 23, 2011 (2011-07-23) (Saturday)

Armed conflict and attacks 2011 Norway attacks: The death toll from the shootings on Utøya and bombing in Oslo reaches at least 92. (BBC) (AP via MSNBC) Anders Behring Breivik, the man arrested in connection with terrorism in Norway, reveals himself as to have anti-Muslim and right-wing extremist views, stating that the attacks were "atrocious, but necessary." (Dokument) (Dagbladet) (Daily Mail) 2011 Syrian uprising: The United Nations says Syrian forces may have committed crimes against humanity amid the ongoing protests. (Capital FM Kenya) (Times of Oman) 2011 Libyan civil war: Rebels claim to have fired rockets at a meeting of senior Gaddafi-regime officials in the capital Tripoli. (Al Jazeera) 2011 Mumbai bombings: The death toll from the attacks rises to 22. (AFP via Google News) (Times of India) Gatluak Gai, a key South Sudanese rebel leader who signed a peace deal with the Sudanese government this week, is killed. (BBC) Arts and entertainment English singer Amy Winehouse, 27, is found dead at her London home. (BBC) (News24) Business and economy Workers at the Escondida copper mine in northern Chile vote to continue a strike for a second day. (AFP via France24) Disasters Two CRH bullet trains collide in near Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, killing at least 35. (AFP via Google News) (VoA) (Xinhuanet.com) (New York Times) 2011 Horn of Africa famine Unicef states that a child dies from malnutrition every six minutes (250 a day) in Somalia. (The Sun) Somalia's Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali accuses al-Shabab of preventing people from leaving the region in search of food as central government condemns militants from blocking aid workers. (Voice of America) International relations Kim Sung-hwan, the South Korean Minister for Foreign Affairs, meets with Pak Ui-chun, his North Korean counterpart, on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting in Bali, Indonesia. (Yonhap) Law and crime Asylum seekers at the Scherger Immigration Detention Centre near Weipa in the Australian state of Queensland start harming themselves in protest. (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald) News International phone hacking scandal Claims of phone hacking at the Daily Mirror and other Trinity Mirror publications are made by former Mirror journalist James Hipwell. (The Independent) (BBC) (The Guardian) A gunman fatally shoots six people, including himself, and wounds four others in a shooting in Grand Prairie, Texas. (The Guardian) Daryoush Rezaei, an Iranian scientist, is shot dead outside his home in Tehran. It was reported that the scientist had links to the country's nuclear programme. (BBC) Politics Nearly 4,000 employees of the US Federal Aviation Administration are furloughed due to Congressional authorisation for its programs lapsing. (FAA) Voters in Sri Lanka go to the polls for local elections, with one person dying in clashes between supporters of rival parties in the Anuradhapura district. (BBC) Voters in Latvia go to the polls for the Latvian parliamentary dissolution referendum with 95 per cent of voters supporting dissolution of the Saeima. (AP) General John M. Shalikashvili, a Polish-American former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Bill Clinton during the Post-Cold War years and the Bosnian conflicts who had suffered a major stroke several years ago, dies. South Vietnamese premier and general Nguyễn Cao Kỳ dies at age 80 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Science CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produces notable fluctuations in search for Higgs Boson particle. (BBC News) Sport Australian cyclist Cadel Evans wins the right to wear the yellow jersey on the final stage of the 2011 Tour de France. (News Limited) The world footballing body FIFA bans former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam for life over claims he tried to buy presidential votes. (BBC)