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Current events of
February 5, 2013
(
2013-02-05
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Senkaku Islands dispute
:
Japanese
Defense Minister
Itsunori Onodera
states that the country has lodged a protest with
China
after a
People's Liberation Army Navy
frigate
directed weapon-targeting
radar
at a
Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force
destroyer
near the disputed
Senkaku Islands
.
(BBC)
Business and economy
Dell
announces it will go
private
after a
$
24 billion
leveraged buyout
deal with a consortium led by founder
Michael Dell
.
(
The New York Times
)
(Reuters)
Standard & Poor's
says it expects a lawsuit by the
US government
over its assessment of
mortgage
bonds prior to the
subprime mortgage crisis
.
(BBC)
IBM
issues a $1 billion two year
corporate bond
deal at a
negative spread
to Libor (the
London Interbank Offered Rate
).
(Reuters)
International relations
Iranian
President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
travels to
Egypt
. It is the first time since
1979 revolution
that an Iranian head of state visits that country.
(
The Guardian
)
A
North Korean
propaganda film
, which featured
New York
in flames, is taken down by
Activision
due to the video using footage from
Modern Warfare 3
.
(
BBC
)
Law and crime
Riots take place in
Dhaka
, the capital of
Bangladesh
, ahead of the verdict of a trial in the
International Crimes Tribunal
against
Abdul Quader Molla
, the assistant secretary general of the
Jamaat-e-Islami party
dating from the 1971
Bangladeshi War of Independence
. He is given a
life sentence
.
(AFP via Dawn.com)
(AFP via
The Express Tribune
)
A report into
Ireland
's
Magdalene asylums
finds "significant" state collusion in the admission of thousands of "
fallen women
" into the institutions where they were abused and worked for nothing in conditions of slavery before they were shut down less than two decades ago.
(
The Irish Times
)
(
The Guardian
)
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
The trial of five men accused in the
2012 Delhi gang rape case
begins today, while
President
of
India
Pranab Mukherjee
approves
the
death penalty
for rapists.
(
The Times of India
)
Three people are shot to death in a house near
Forestville
,
Sonoma County
,
California
,
United States
.
(
San Francisco Chronicle
)
Four people are dead in a possible
murder-suicide
in
Johns Creek
,
Georgia
,
United States
.
(CBS News)
Politics and elections
Brazilian
President
Dilma Rousseff
launches a new national economy politics based on rising the price of local oil over the reduction of light consumption prices.
(Reuters via R7 News)
The
United Kingdom
's
House of Commons
votes overwhelmingly in favour of
government
legislation
to introduce
same-sex marriages
.
(BBC)
(Sky News)
(
The Guardian
)
The
University of Düsseldorf
strips
German
Minister of Education and Research
Annette Schavan
of a doctorate and degree following allegations of
plagiarism
.
(BBC)
Science and technology
Curtis Cooper
, a mathematician and computer science professor at the
University of Central Missouri
, discovers the largest known 17.4 million-digit
prime number
.
(New Scientist)
(GIMPS)
Sport
The
Australian Football League
announces an
Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority
investigation into whether players from the
Essendon Football Club
were given performance enhancing
drugs
.
(
Courier-Mail
)
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