Portal:Current events/2013 November 4

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syria civil war:
• Colonel Abdul Jabbar Akaidi, top rebel leader and chief recipient of U.S. aid, quits his position blaming recent losses on rebel infighting. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/rebels-lose-ground-to-assad-forces-in-syria-war-free-syrian-army-official-akaidi-resigns/2013/11/03/e3ecbf44-44bb-11e3-95a9-3f15b5618ba8_story.html (Washington Post)]
• A truck carrying four people hits a land mine on a road leading to Menaka in Mali, killing all of the occupants. [http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/04/3731771/officials-4-people-killed-in-mine.html (AP via Miami Herald)]

;Arts and culture

• German magazine Focus reports the 2012 discovery of Nazi plundered art worth €1 billion in Munich, including lost works by Picasso and Matisse. [http://www.dw.de/german-authorities-reportedly-discover-1500-paintings-seized-by-nazis/a-17201713 (Deutsche Welle)]

;Law and crime

• A man fatally stabs three people on a bus en route between Årdal and Tyin in Norway. [http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/04/21308934-three-killed-in-norway-bus-attack (NBC News)]
• The company Johnson & Johnson agrees to pay $2.2 billion in regards to a U.S. probe of the drug risperdal. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/04/us-jnj-settlement-idUSBRE9A30MM20131104 (Reuters)]
• A gunman opens fire inside the Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, shooting out security cameras. Hours later, the gunman commits suicide near the mall. [http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/04/us/new-jersey-mall-shooting/ (CNN)]
• In Florida, United States, Eric Rivera Jr. is convicted of second-degree murder in the 2007 killing of NFL Washington Redskins player Sean Taylor during a burglary. [http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2013/11/04/fla-man-convicted-second-degree-murder-in-killing-redskins-star-taylor-during/ (Fox News)]

;Politics and elections

• Egyptian deposed president Mohamed Morsi's trial regarding charges of violence is postponed to 8 January 2014. [http://allafrica.com/stories/201311041636.html (AllAfrica)]

;Science

• Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works undertakes to build a successor to the SR-71 Blackbird capable of mach 6 speed flight by 2030. [http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/11/04/lockheed-martin-skunkworks-to-build-successor-to-sr-71-blackbird/?intcmp=obnetwork (Fox News)]

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