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Current events of
October 29, 2013
(
2013-10-29
)
(Tuesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2013 Tiananmen Square incident
: Police in
China
name two suspects from
Xinjiang
linked to an apparent suicide attack car crash outside the
Forbidden City
on
Tiananmen Square
in the capital
Beijing
.
(BBC)
Syrian civil war
:
Syrian
civilians leave the besieged
Damascus
suburb of Moadamiya.
(BBC)
Four
French
hostages held in
Niger
by an
Al-Qaeda
offshoot since 2010 are released.
(France 24)
Business and economy
The
Nasdaq Composite
and
NASDAQ-100
stock indices froze for an hour before resuming at around 1 PM
EST
.
(CNBC)
Turkey
opens a sea tunnel
connecting
Europe
and
Asia
across the
Bosphorus Strait
in
Istanbul
.
(Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
St Jude storm
:
At least 13 people are confirmed dead after the storm hits
northern Europe
.
(ABC News Australia)
The
United Nations
confirms an outbreak of
polio
in
Syria
.
(CBC)
At least three people are dead after a
dust storm
causes an accident on
Interstate 10
near
Picacho Peak
,
Arizona
, United States.
(ABC)
Law and crime
Three judges in
Egypt
chairing the trial of the leaders
Muslim Brotherhood
step down, citing reasons of conscience.
(Al Jazeera)
Two
Kenyan
soldiers are jailed for looting during the
attack on the Westgate shopping centre attack
in September.
(BBC)
The leader of the
Boeremag
and 23 others are sentenced to 35 years in jail in
South Africa
for conspiring to kill former president
Nelson Mandela
.
(News24)
A man shoots and kills five people and then commits suicide at a house in
Greenwood County
,
South Carolina
, U.S.
(CNN)
Politics and elections
Marilyn Tavenner
, the Administrator of
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
, becomes the first
Obama administration
official to apologise for the troubled roll out of the
healthcare.gov
website as part of the
Affordable Care Act
or "Obamacare" system.
(CNN)
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