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Current events of
October 23, 2011
(
2011-10-23
)
(Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2011 Libyan civil war
:
Autopsy
results reveal that former
Libyan
dictator
Muammar Gaddafi
was
killed by a gunshot to the head
.
(CNN)
Disasters
A
7.2-magnitude earthquake
rocks the city of
Van
in eastern
Turkey
, killing at least 582 people.
(CNN Türk)
,
(MSNBC)
Politics and elections
Voters in
Tunisia
go to the polls for the
country's first election
since the
Tunisian Revolution
.
(Xinhua)
Voters in
Bulgaria
go to the polls for a
presidential election
.
(AP via
Washington Post
)
Voters in
Argentina
go to the polls for a
general election
, with
exit polls
showing the
President
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
being reelected in a landslide.
(
The Guardian
)
(Bloomberg via
Business Week
)
Voters in
Switzerland
go to the polls for a
federal election
, with the
Green Liberal Party of Switzerland
gaining the most seats compared to the
2007 election
, and the
Swiss People's Party
losing eight seats but remaining the biggest party in the
Federal Assembly
.
(
Global Post
)
,
(
The Guardian
)
Sports
24-year-old
Italian
motorcycle
racer
Marco Simoncelli
dies after crashing and being hit by two other riders at the
Malaysian MotoGP
, leading to the cancellation of the race.
(
ESPN)
,
(
The Australian
)
In horseracing, Orfevre becomes the seventh Japanese Triple Crown winner, after winning the
Kikuka Sho
.
(
Japan Times
)
In professional football,
Manchester United
lose to
Manchester City
1-6 at
Old Trafford
.
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