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Portal:Current events/2011 July 23

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;Armed conflict and attacks

  • 2011 Norway attacks: The death toll from the shootings on Utøya and bombing in Oslo reaches at least 92. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14259356 (BBC)] [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43854355/ns/world_news-europe/ (AP via MSNBC)]
  • Anders Behring Breivik, the man arrested in connection with terrorism in Norway, reveals himself as to have anti-Muslim and right-wing extremist views, stating that the attacks were "atrocious, but necessary." [http://www.document.no/anders-behring-breivik/ (Dokument)] [http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/07/20/nyheter/politikk/innenriks/auf/17367745/ (Dagbladet)] [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017851/Norway-attacks-gunman-Anders-Behring-Breivik-right-wing-extremist-hated-Muslims.html (Daily Mail)]
  • 2011 Syrian uprising: The United Nations says Syrian forces may have committed crimes against humanity amid the ongoing protests. [http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2011/07/23/un-fears-crimes-against-humanity-in-syria/ (Capital FM Kenya)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110927110650/http://www.timesofoman.com/innercat.asp?detail=48048&rand= (Times of Oman)]
  • 2011 Libyan civil war: Rebels claim to have fired rockets at a meeting of senior Gaddafi-regime officials in the capital Tripoli. [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/07/20117238472925170.html (Al Jazeera)]
  • 2011 Mumbai bombings: The death toll from the attacks rises to 22. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jX8604DBbUhwAOP1k_COK4nf1rgw?docId=CNG.78170485c209b06fff87142edb44c459.531 (AFP via Google News)] [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Mumbai-blasts-toll-climbs-to-22/articleshow/9334535.cms (Times of India)]
  • Gatluak Gai, a key South Sudanese rebel leader who signed a peace deal with the Sudanese government this week, is killed. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14261525 (BBC)]

;Arts and entertainment

  • English singer Amy Winehouse, 27, is found dead at her London home. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237 (BBC)] [http://www.channel24.co.za/Music/News/Police-Singer-Amy-Winehouse-dies-20110723 (News24)]

;Business and economy

  • Workers at the Escondida copper mine in northern Chile vote to continue a strike for a second day. [http://www.france24.com/en/20110724-strike-extended-worlds-largest-copper-mine (AFP via France24)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

;Disasters

  • Two CRH bullet trains collide in near Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, killing at least 35. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i7DGrd6CDo5-fy1BIEwALk5yL93w?docId=CNG.fe768764ef7d83a788e89cdd526cf0de.a61 (AFP via Google News)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120303110714/http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Lightning-Sparks-Chinese-Train-Crash-11-Dead-126061533.html (VoA)] [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-07/24/c_131004925.htm (Xinhuanet.com)] [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/world/asia/24train.html?_r=1 (New York Times)]
  • 2011 Horn of Africa famine
  • Unicef states that a child dies from malnutrition every six minutes (250 a day) in Somalia. [http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3710240/Child-dies-every-six-minutes-in-Somalia-famine.html (The Sun)]
  • Somalia's Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali accuses al-Shabab of preventing people from leaving the region in search of food as central government condemns militants from blocking aid workers. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110917132825/http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Somalia-Central-Government-Condemns-Militants-Famine-Denial-126057038.html (Voice of America)]

;International relations

;Law and crime

  • Asylum seekers at the Scherger Immigration Detention Centre near Weipa in the Australian state of Queensland start harming themselves in protest. [http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/detainees-start-self-harm-in-qld-protest-20110723-1htxc.html (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)]
  • News International phone hacking scandal
  • Claims of phone hacking at the Daily Mirror and other Trinity Mirror publications are made by former Mirror journalist James Hipwell. [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/hacking-was-endemic-at-the-mirror-says-former-reporter-2319039.html (The Independent)] [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14259180 (BBC)] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/23/phone-hacking-piers-morgan-mirror (The Guardian)]
  • A gunman fatally shoots six people, including himself, and wounds four others in a shooting in Grand Prairie, Texas. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/24/gunman-texas-birthday-party (The Guardian)]
  • Daryoush Rezaei, an Iranian scientist, is shot dead outside his home in Tehran. It was reported that the scientist had links to the country's nuclear programme. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14263126 (BBC)]

;Politics

  • Nearly 4,000 employees of the US Federal Aviation Administration are furloughed due to Congressional authorisation for its programs lapsing. [http://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=64216 (FAA)]
  • Voters in Sri Lanka go to the polls for local elections, with one person dying in clashes between supporters of rival parties in the Anuradhapura district. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14259705 (BBC)]
  • Voters in Latvia go to the polls for the Latvian parliamentary dissolution referendum with 95 per cent of voters supporting dissolution of the Saeima. [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_LATVIA_REFERENDUM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-07-23-16-42-44 (AP)]
  • General John M. Shalikashvili, a Polish-American former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Bill Clinton during the Post-Cold War years and the Bosnian conflicts who had suffered a major stroke several years ago, dies.
  • South Vietnamese premier and general Nguyễn Cao Kỳ dies at age 80 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

;Science

;Sport

  • Australian cyclist Cadel Evans wins the right to wear the yellow jersey on the final stage of the 2011 Tour de France. [http://www.news.com.au/national/cadel-evans-wins-the-tour-de-france/story-e6frfkvr-1226100568298 (News Limited)]
  • The world footballing body FIFA bans former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam for life over claims he tried to buy presidential votes. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14262937.stm (BBC)]

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