Portal:Current events/2012 September 10

September 10, 2012 (Monday)

Armed attacks and conflicts

Mexican Drug War:
- Mexican police officers discover 16 corpses with signs of torture inside a vehicle in the southern state of Guerrero. (Reuters)
Yemeni officials report that Said al Shihri, the second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), is killed in southern Yemen. (BBC)
A suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan, kills at least 16 people; a local doctor says "21 or more". (AFP via The Financial Express) (BBC)

Arts and culture

Business and economy

Teachers in Chicago go on strike. Around 350,000 students are affected. (CBS News) (Reuters) (Chicago Tribune)
Around 10,000 South African miners demonstrate at the Lonmin mines in Marikana (Rooikoppies), Rustenburg, Bojanala Platinum district, North West province. Fifteen thousand miners strike at the Gold Fields KDC West Driefontein mine. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Disasters

Floods and landslides caused by heavy rain kill at least 29 people in northern and central Vietnam. (AP via Seattle PI)
Hurricane and tropical storm warnings are issued for parts of the Canadian province Newfoundland and Labrador as Tropical Storm Leslie approaches. (National Hurricane Centre)
Three people are killed and several others seriously injured after a coach taking people home from the Isle of Wight-based music festival, Bestival 2012 crashes in Surrey, England. (BBC)

Health and environment

A new United States national strategy to prevent suicides is to be released by the Surgeon General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Army Secretary. It will include, among others, the use of social medium Facebook as a tactic. (Chicago Tribune)

International relations

Law and crime

Three boys aged eight and nine are killed when a bazooka grenade, left over from a war in Cambodia, explodes. (AP via ABC News)^{[permanent dead link]} (Jane's)
Tariq al-Hashimi rejects the charges leading to his death sentence in Baghdad on Sunday. He, being a Sunni, claims to be a "target" of Shiite prime minister Nouri al-Maliki. He refuses to return to Iraq for an appeal as long as, according to him, the judicial system is "corrupt". He claims to put the verdict "on his chest as a medal". Al-Qaeda says "black days" are ahead. The reaction of Iraqi people on the street generally welcomes a fair rule of law but is wary of political influencing and sectarianism. (ABC News) (Euronews)
According to a parliamentary answer by the ministry of health, the value of a life lost during a clinical trial is 2.2 lakh rupees ($ 4,000) in India in 2011. This number is the average compensation paid for deaths during clinical trials. No rules governing compensations for clinical trial-related injury or death have been approved by the Parliament of India yet. (IRNA)^{[permanent dead link]}

Politics and elections

Members of the new Somali Parliament elect Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud President. (BBC)
Hong Kong legislative election, 2012:
- Voice of America says official results for the 35 "geographical" seats in Hong Kong's legislative elections show 18 seats for the "pan-democracy" camp, 16 seats for the "pro-Beijing" camp and one seat for an independent candidate. The "super" seats show a 3 to 2 win for the pan-democrats. Voter turnout was 53 %, up from 45 % at the previous election in 2008. Reuters says support is "steady" for pro-Beijing chief executive Leung Chun-ying. The New York Times says that, despite winning more votes, the pro-democracy camp has fewer seats than expected. (Voice of America) (South China Morning Post) (Reuters via Chicago Tribune)^{[permanent dead link]} (Reuters via Stuff.co) (New York Times) (results)
- The chairman of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, Albert Ho, apologises and says he will resign due to the election result. (The Standard)'
Chairman Justice Markandey Katju of the Press Council of India, defends Aseem Trivedi: "he did nothing illegal". Since September 9th, the Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi is detained in Mumbai on charges of sedition related to the content of his work. (Christian Science Monitor) (First Post) (Indian Express)

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