Portal:Current events/2013 July 11

July 11, 2013 (Thursday)

Armed conflict and attacks

Bomb and gun attacks across Iraq kill more than 30 people including members of the Iraqi security forces. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

2013 Assam floods: Floods in Indian state of Assam force nearly 250,000 people to leave their homes. (BBC)
The death toll from the Lac-Mégantic train disaster is presumed at 50. (Los Angeles Times)
Heavy rain in southwest China causes floods and landslides with at least 9 people dead and 62 missing. (AFP via Channel News Asia)
Taiwan evacuates 2,000 tourists as it prepares for Typhoon Soulik expected later this week. (AFP via France 24)
Eight people are injured (three seriously) in Lower Manhattan as a result of an explosion and partial collapse, of as-yet unknown cause, in a five-storey building, in Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City, on Pike Street, near Henry Street. (NBC)

International relations

An Iranian exile group claims that it has evidence of secret nuclear facilities located in tunnels beneath a mountain near the town of Damavand. (AFP via France 24)
Six women climb western Europe's tallest skyscraper, The Shard, towering over Shell's headquarters in London, to protest against Arctic drilling. (BBC)

Law and crime

A district court in Moscow convicts the late investment fund auditor Sergei Magnitsky of tax evasion in Russia's first posthumous trial. (Russia Today)
An Indian juvenile court is due to deliver its verdict on a seventeen-year-old boy accused of participating in the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in the New Delhi suburb of Munirka. (BBC)
Three suspected robbers are killed in a shoot-out in Davao City, Philippines, and one suspected robber is returned to Manila to be imprisoned. (ABS-CBN News Online)
The lower house of the Irish parliament passes the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, legalising abortion when the woman's life is at risk. (RTE)

Politics and elections

The Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker resigns over a scandal in the Service de Renseignement de l'État (State Intelligence Service), leading to an election being called. (BBC)
The Mali government returns to the northern city of Kidal. (ABC), (Washington Post)