Portal:Current events/2012 July 3

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;Armed conflict and attacks

• Syrian uprising (2011-present):
• A Human Rights Watch report claims that Syrian intelligence agencies are running 27 torture centers across Syria. [https://news.yahoo.com/syria-running-27-torture-centers-rights-group-050836605.html (Reuters via Yahoo! News)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/03/world/meast/syria-torture-report/index.html?hpt=imi_t2 (CNN)]
• At least 25 people are killed and 40 wounded in a truck bombing in the market place of the Iraqi city of Diwaniyah. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjdCcaBH128Mt4LjSkyifqjyubTg?docId=264efc8ee1f44d3c982e12a5f28d1721 (AP via Google News)]

;Business and economy

• Bob Diamond resigns as the Chief Executive of British bank Barclays following a scandal in which the bank tried to manipulate the Libor and Euribor interest rates systems. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18685040 (BBC)]

;Disasters

• A major earthquake strikes New Zealand with minor damage reported. [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10817223 (The New Zealand Herald)] [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-03/quake-strikes-off-nz-coast/4108232 (ABC News)]

;International relations

• Pakistan decides to reopen key NATO supply routes into Afghanistan after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized for a NATO airstrike that killed 26 Pakistani soldiers and officials in November 2011. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18691691 (BBC)]

;Politics and elections

• Police search the home and offices of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy as part of a judicial investigation into financial relations between his political camp and L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/03/us-france-sarkozy-police-idUSBRE8620TC20120703 (Reuters)]
• The current governing coalition in Romania, the Social Liberal Union, starts a fast-paced parliamentary offensive against President Traian Basescu by dismissing the leaders of both chambers of Parliament. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/19/us-romania-politics-idUSBRE85I0JE20120619 (Reuters)]
• Hundreds of activists demonstrate in Ramallah to protest against the violent dispersal of two similar rallies at the weekend in a rare expression of public discontent with the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmud Abbas. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iDZXPJ7R2Yrcr8Wb4SrE6CAtwXCw?docId=CNG.b427100ac45d92b76358ffa0029eb52a.2d1 (AFP)]

;Sport

• American gambler Antonio Esfandiari wins the 2012 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In "The Big One for One Drop" with the highest prize money in poker of $18.3 million. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120705131432/http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/48067875/ns/sports/ (AP via NBC Sports)]

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