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Portal:Current events/2010 October 20

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;Armed conflicts and incidents

  • Somali gunmen release a British security consultant for Save the Children after six days in captivity. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11581026 (BBC)]

;Arts and culture

;Business and economy

  • French strikes
  • France braces itself for another day of strikes against proposed cuts to pensions that the Senate will consider later this week. [https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101020/ts_nm/us_france_pensions (Reuters via Yahoo! News)]
  • The Government of France sends in security forces to lift blockades in three oil depots at Donges, La Rochelle and Le Mans. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11580492 (BBC)]
  • China denies reports that it has banned export of rare earth mineral to the United States and Europe following similar measures against Japan. [http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/10/20/china.rare.earth/index.html?eref=edition (CNN)]
  • The Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city holds a groundbreaking ceremony for its Eco-technology Park in Binhai New Area, a key national strategic area in Tianjin. [http://english.enorth.com.cn/system/2009/08/18/004166044.shtml (enorth)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120229204244/http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/m/tianjin/e/2010-09/29/content_11369282.htm (China Daily)]
  • Apple announces iLife '11, Mac OS X Lion, a refreshed MacBook Air and the Mac App Store.

;Disasters

  • All four Ecuadorean miners trapped underground since a mine collapse have been found dead. [http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/20/ecuador.miners/index.html?eref=edition (CNN)]

;International relations

  • South Korea arrests an alleged North Korean agent on suspicion of plotting to kill high-profile defector Hwang Jang-yop who died of a heart attack earlier this month. [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/10/2010102015647458350.html (Al Jazeera)]
  • Danish and Swedish royals celebrate 200 years since establishment of Swedish royal family. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101027011706/http://cphpost.dk/news/136-royal-news/50278-royal-anniversary.html (CPHPOST)]

;Politics and elections

  • Leader of the Batkivschyna party Yulia Tymoshenko says that an additional monetary emission by the Ukrainian government of Hr 83.6 billion has already translated into growth in consumer prices. [http://www.kyivpost.com/news/business/bus_general/detail/86995/#ixzz14grUKuVG (Kyiv Post)]
  • At least 1,000 Tibetan students protest in China against a new language policy which they say erodes their culture. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11581189 (BBC)] [http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/news/englishnews/20101021/news_20101021_56_706611.htm (RTHK)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20101028225824/http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/108760/tibetan-students-protest-being-taught-in-chinese.html (Turkish Weekly)]
  • Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero reshuffles his cabinet in a move to strengthen his government. [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69J2ZW20101020 (Reuters)]
  • The two rival presidential candidates in Guinea agree to go ahead with a presidential run-off on Sunday amid the replacement of the head of the election commission. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11583821 (BBC)]
  • In the United Kingdom, Chancellor George Osborne outlines a Comprehensive Spending Review which will see the biggest spending cuts in decades, totalling £81bn, with welfare, local government and police particularly affected. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11579979 (BBC)]
  • The Obama administration notifies the United States Congress of plans for a $60billion-dollar weapons deal with Saudi Arabia in a move to threaten Iran. [http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/10/20/us.saudi.arms.deal/index.html?eref=edition (CNN)] [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69J4ML20101020 (Reuters)]

;Science

  • Astronomers announce the discovery of the galaxy UDFy-38135539, the most distant object observed from earth. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1322166/UDFy-38135539-galaxy-13-billion-light-years-away-astronomers.html (Daily Mail)]

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