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Portal:Current events/2013 September 28

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • Sudanese protests (2011–present):
  • Sudanese security forces fire live ammunition on a march that followed the funeral of a demonstrator killed the day before. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/slain-protesters-buried-as-wave-of-unrest-in-sudan-continues/2013/09/28/d1098510-2823-11e3-8ab3-b5aacc9e1165_story.html (The Washington Post)]
  • Islamist insurgency in Nigeria:
  • Gunmen from the Islamist group Boko Haram kill 27 villagers in two attacks in Nigeria's restive northeast. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/28/us-nigeria-bokoharam-idUSBRE98R0E320130928 (Reuters)]
  • Syrian civil war:
  • Syrian rebels claim taking control of a military post on the edge of the city of Deraa on Syria's southern border with Jordan after four days of heavy fighting with the Syrian Armed Forces. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/28/us-syria-crisis-fighting-idUSBRE98R0A820130928 (Reuters)]

;Arts and culture

;Disasters and accidents

  • A 6.8-magnitude earthquake strikes the Pakistani province of Balochistan, four days after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake killed at least 515 people in the same region. [http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/28/new-massive-earthquake-rocks-southwest-pakistan/ (AP via Fox News)]

;Law and crime

  • Nikolaos Michaloliakos, the leader of the Greek far-right party Golden Dawn, is arrested on charges of forming a criminal organization. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24314319# (BBC)]
  • U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Tim Giardina is suspended from his duties as #2 of the U.S. Strategic Command due to an investigation into gambling-related issues. [http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/28/20734598-no-2-us-nuke-commander-suspended-amid-gambling-probe?lite (NBC)]

;Politics and elections

;Sports

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