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Current events of
July 24, 2013
(
2013-07-24
)
(Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Mexican Drug War
:
Clashes between the
Knights Templar Cartel
and the
Mexican federal police
leave 22 dead in the state of
Michoacán
. According to government press reports, two of the dead were law enforcement officials, while the rest were cartel gunmen.
(BBC)
A bomb explodes at a police station in the
Egyptian
city of
Mansoura
, the capital of the
Dakahlia Governorate
, killing at least one person and injuring 17.
(Reuters via
Hindustan Times
)
Four people are killed and at least 40 wounded in a bomb and gun attack on an
Inter-Services Intelligence
compound in
Sukkur
,
Pakistan
.
(Reuters)
Business and economy
Wells Fargo
of the
United States
becomes the world's largest bank by
market capitalisation
, replacing the
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
amid an economic slowdown in
China
.
(AFP via France 24)
Disasters and accidents
An
Australia
-bound boat carrying
Iranian
asylum seekers
sinks off the coast of
Indonesia
, leaving at least three people dead, 157 rescued and an uncertain number missing.
(
The Australian
)
(BBC)
A
high-speed train carrying 225 passengers derails
near
Santiago de Compostela
,
Spain
, leaving 80 dead and over 140 injured. It is Spain's deadliest rail incident since the
2004 Madrid train bombings
, and the country's worst accidental train disaster since the
Torre del Bierzo rail disaster
in 1944.
(Bloomberg)
(
El Mundo
)
(Reuters)
(BBC)
Law and crime
A
British
judge rules that Shrien Dewani will be extradited to
South Africa
to stand trial for the 2010
murder of Anni Dewani
.
(Sky News)
At least three prisoners die in a
prison riot
in
Abidjan
,
Ivory Coast
.
(BBC)
International relations
Despite earlier reports to the contrary, fugitive
NSA
whistleblower
Edward Snowden
remains stranded at
Sheremetyevo International Airport
in
Moscow
,
Russia
.
(CNN)
Science
Scientists warn that a massive release of
methane
resulting from
Arctic sea ice decline
could cause significant global disruption, potentially costing the
world economy
an extra
US$
60 trillion to $400 trillion from the
effects of global warming
and
climate change
. The full impact of
climate change in the Arctic
, including, for example,
ocean acidification
, and altered
ocean
and
atmospheric circulation
, will be much greater.
(
The Independent
)
(
Nature
)
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