Portal:Current events/2010 September 30

September 30, 2010 (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and incidents

Three paramilitary soldiers of the
Kurram Agency tribal area. Pakistan responds by closing an important supply route that runs through its territory. Interior Minister Rehman Malik announces a high-level meeting to discuss NATO violations of Pakistani sovereignty. (Bernama via Malaysian Digest)

An explosion rocks Taliban birthplace Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, wounding eight people. (Xinhua)
Two policemen and a civilian are killed and four others wounded in a failed bank robbery in southern Baghdad. (Xinhua)
2010 Ecuador crisis
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  Congress, in which the government declared was an attempted coup d'état. (The Telegraph)
- President Rafael Correa is injured and Peru and Colombia close their border with the country. (AFP) (BBC) (The Telegraph)(Euronews)
- The Ecuadorian Army rescues President Correa from hospital where he was being held by rebel troops. (CNN)
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Disasters

Three
mountain climbers and a guide go missing in Nepal after attempting to climb the Himalayan mountain Dhaulagiri. (AFP via Google News)

Heavy rain from former Tropical Storm Nicole causes flooding the US states of North Carolina and Virginia and delays in airline flights on the east coast. (CNN)

International relations

The United States imposes sanctions on a Swiss-based Iranian oil company, the Naftiran Inter-trade Company. (VOA)
The first inter-Korean military talks between North and South Korea in two years end without progress. (Yonhap) (Hürriyet) (Xinhua)
China and the United States officially resume military ties after a 10-month break following US arms sales to Taiwan, with the two countries emphasizing the importance of a close military dialogue. The two countries will also confer on maritime issues next month.(Business Week) (BBC)

Argentina grants asylum to the Chilean former leftist guerrilla Galvarino Apablaza, who has been charged in Chile with assassinating a senator, despite the Chilean government's request to extradite him. (AP) (Buenos Aires Herald)

Law and crime

58 people, including 34 former government officials, are given sentences in
China over a deadly landslide at an illegal iron ore mine that killed 277 people in 2008. (China Radio International) (Sify India)

Somali pirates seize a Panamanian-flagged ship with 15 Indian crewmen on board, off the coast of Tanzania. (The Citizen) (Emirates 24/7)

Hundreds of soldiers are deployed to
Aba in southern Nigeria after the kidnapping of 15 school children by an armed gang. (Reuters) (AFP) (NEXT Nigeria)

Ayodhya title suits, amid fears that the ruling could spark unrest. They decide to split the site into three portions between Hindus and Muslims. (CNN) (BBC) (The Times of India)

The
drilling for oil and other resources, hindering Barrick Gold from drilling for gold in the Pascua Lama mine. (Reuters Africa)

China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reports that the computer worm Stuxnet has affected 6 million computers and almost 1,000 enterprises in the country. (Wall Street Journal) (Economic Times)

Sport

The
cyclist Alberto Contador, the current Tour de France champion, after he was found to have tested positive for a small amount of clenbuterol, a banned substance, on July 21. He blames food contamination for the positive sample.(Sydney Morning Herald) (AAP via The Australian) (New York Times), (Reuters)