Portal:Current events/2013 July 19

Current events of July 19, 2013 (2013-07-19) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal): A suicide bombing inside a Sunni mosque in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala kills at least twenty people. (BBC) Colombian FARC offer to release Kevin Scott Sutay, an American soldier captured last month. (AFP via France 24) International relations The Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, announces a plan to settle asylum seekers who come by boat in Papua New Guinea. (The Australian) Law and justice Pope Francis names a new Pontifical Commission to investigate current accounting practices among all Vatican offices and bodies and to help devise new strategies for greater fiscal responsibility and fiscal transparency. (Catholic News Service) A Russian court releases Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a day after being sentenced for alleged embezzlement. (AP via The Hindu) Politics and elections Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy returns home to contest the general election after receiving a royal pardon for a conviction in 2009. (AP via Calgary Herald) The Muslim Brotherhood calls for millions of supporters to hold rallies across Egypt two weeks after Mohamed Morsi was deposed as president. (NBC News)