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Portal:Current events/2013 April 24

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;Disasters

  • A 5.7 magnitude earthquake strikes 25 kilometers from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, leaving 33 people dead and another 115 injured. Heavy damage of buildings are reported across Nangarhar Province. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130427225014/http://www.voanews.com/content/moderate-earthquake-strikes-eastern-afghanistan/1647953.html (Voice of America)]
  • 2013 Savar building collapse:
  • An eight-story commercial building collapses in Savar Upazila near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, resulting in at least 256 people dead, one thousand injured and scores more trapped. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130505154931/http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/bangladesh-building-collapse-kills-traps-19027864 (AP via ABC News)], [http://www.smh.com.au/world/bangladesh-building-collapse-kills-25-20130424-2ieji.html (Reuters via Sydney Morning Herald)], [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313974/Eight-story-building-collapses-Bangladesh-killing-32-people-trapping-scores-mountain-rubble.html (Daily Mail)]
  • Syrian Civil War:
  • The 11th-century minaret of the Umayyad Great Mosque at the World Heritage Site of Aleppo is destroyed. Both warring parties blame each other. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22283746 (BBC)], [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/24/minaret-historic-syrian-mosque-destroyed-aleppo (AP via The Guardian)]

;Law and crime

  • A shooting occurs in Manchester, Illinois, United States, leaving 5 dead and another injured. The suspect is then killed in a gunfight with police. [http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/24/5-reportedly-dead-1-in-custody-in-winchester-ill-shooting/ (Fox News)]
  • The U.S. government wins an early round in its litigation against The Bank of New York Mellon over the latter's allegedly fraudulent practices in the trading of currencies. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/24/us-bankofnewyorkmellon-lawsuit-idUSBRE93N12820130424 (Reuters)]

;International Relations

;Politics and elections

  • Malaysian police claim that there have been hundreds of cases of election-related violence since campaigning for the Malaysian general election went underway last weekend. [http://www.mysinchew.com/node/85655 (My Sinchew)]
  • Italian President Giorgio Napolitano gives vice-secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta the mandate to form a new government. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/apr/24/eurozone-crisis-italy-prime-minister-markets (The Guardian)], [http://www.france24.com/en/20130424-italy-president-enrico-letta-prime-minister (France 24)]

;Sport

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