Portal:Current events/2013 October 28
October 28, 2013 (Monday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- Two Thai police die while trying to defuse a bomb in Narathiwat province. (Bangkok Post)
- An Indian Army soldier is reported killed and another injured along the Line of Control on the border with Pakistan in Kashmir. (Hindustan Times)
- Islamist protests in Egypt (July 2013–present):
- Three Egyptian policemen are killed by masked men in an attack at a checkpoint in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura. (Reuters)
- Syrian civil war:
- The Syrian army retakes the ancient Christian town of Sadad. (Press TV) (The Huffington Post)
- Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon:
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Two rockets fired from the Gaza strip at a southern Israeli coastal city are shot down. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
- Somali Civil War (2009–present):
- A suspected U.S. drone strike kills at least two Islamist Al-Shabaab insurgents and commander driving in a car south of the Somali capital Mogadishu. (Reuters) (BBC)
- War in Afghanistan (2001–present):
- Australia declares its war in Afghanistan over while the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, visits Afghanistan. (Herald Sun)
Business and economy
- Copper fabricator Southwire Co. drops its lawsuit against two giant Wall Street firms over a possible copper exchange-traded fund, as market and regulatory conditions make such an ETF seem decreasingly likely. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Five people are killed after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
- St Jude storm:
- The storm hits England and Wales, causing at least one death with flights and train services cancelled. (BBC) (AP via CBS News)
Law and crime
- Three Chinese anti-graft activists go on trial in Xinyu in west-central Jiangxi province. (Reuters)
- Dr Conrad Murray is released from prison in the American city of Los Angeles for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. (ABC News)
Politics and elections
- 2013 Tunisian protests:
- Government and opposition leaders launch talks discussing a new premier. (The Daily Star)
- Ennahda party leader Rashid al-Ghannushi announces in a televised interview that the party may be willing to give up the government but not power. (Al Arabiya)
- Voters in the Canadian territory of Nunavut go to the polls to select members to the territory's Legislative Assembly.[citation needed]
Science
- Three new species of animals are discovered (a leaf-tailed gecko, a golden-coloured skink, and a boulder-dwelling frog) in the Cape York Peninsula of the Australian state of Queensland. (news.com.au)