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Current events of
December 3, 2013
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2013-12-03
)
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Law and crime
Russian
ballet dancer
Pavel Dmitrichenko
is convicted of organizing an acid attack on
Sergei Filin
, artistic director of the
Bolshoi Theatre
.
(BBC)
An
inquiry
into the
1989 Jonesborough ambush
finds that members of the
Garda Síochána
colluded with the
IRA
in the shooting of two
RUC
officers as they crossed the
Irish border
.
(BBC)
A leaked French report on the
cause of Yasser Arafat's death
says he died of an infection. A Swiss inquiry had said
polonium
poisoning was most likely.
(AFP)
(BBC)
(LA Times)
Politics and elections
2013 Thai protests
:
Thai police
say that they will not resist protesters seizing the
Bangkok
police headquarters.
(Reuters Trust)
2013 Ukraine pro-European Union protests
:
The
Government
of
Prime Minister of Ukraine
Mykola Azarov
easily survives a no-confidence motion amid continuing protest against the decision of Azarov and President
Yanukovych
to back away from stronger
ties
with the
European Union
. However, the Government is in danger of not surviving a similar motion tomorrow.
(Euronews)
Romanian
President
Traian Băsescu
sparks a new crisis by refusing to sign the country's
IMF
accord and threatens
Prime Minister
Victor Ponta
's
government
with rejecting the
national budget
, blocking important indexations of salaries and pensions for the following year, over an ongoing political feud between the two leaders.
(Bloomberg)
Reports from
South Korea
claim that prominent
North Korean
powerbroker
Jang Sung-taek
has been sacked as the Vice-chairman of the
National Defence Commission
.
(BBC)
Science and technology
An extremely well-preserved baby
Chasmosaurus
dinosaur fossil has been unearthed in
Alberta
,
Canada
.
(Postmedia News via Canada.com)
Health and medicine
Researchers at
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
at
Yeshiva University
in
New York City
have found that a modified version of the
leukemia
treatment
radioimmunotherapy
can kill latent
HIV
cells, possibly providing a cure for one of the world's deadliest diseases.
(NBC)
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