Portal:Current events/2012 October 18

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war: Syrian military airstrikes kill at least 40 people, including civilians, in the rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan in Idlib governorate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/world/middleeast/horrific-bombing-in-northern-syria-kills-dozens.html (The New York Times)]

;Arts and culture

• A fictional feature film, called South of Sanity, is shot in Antarctica for the first time. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-19980602 (BBC)]
• Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel—the first star of adult cinema—dies. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19990457 (BBC)]
• Veteran Irish writer Gene Kerrigan wins the Golden Dagger. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/18/gene-kerrigan-gold-dagger-crime-novel (The Guardian)]

;Business and economy

• American weekly news magazine Newsweek announces it will cease print publication on December 31 and will move to an online-only format. [http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/18/news/companies/newsweek-print-edition/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 (CNN)]
• Trading of Google stock on NASDAQ is temporarily suspended after it drops 9% following an inadvertent early release of its quarterly report showing a 20% decline in profits. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19995730 (BBC)] [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-18/google-falls-after-third-quarter-sales-miss-analysts-estimates.html (Bloomberg)]

;Politics and elections

• Tens of thousands of workers participate in anti-austerity protests in Greece. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021002449/http://www.voanews.com/content/greek-anti-austerity-protests-turn-violent/1528850.html (Voice of America)]
• Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg, Rwanda, and South Korea are elected to the United Nations Security Council for two-year terms starting in 2013.

;Law and Crime

• The Boy Scouts of America release documents containing over 15,000 pages relating to allegations of sexual abuse by over 1200 scout leaders between 1965-1985.[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/us/boy-scout-documents-reveal-decades-of-sexual-abuse.html?pagewanted=all (New York Times)]

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