Portal:Current events/2011 February 10
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2011 Egyptian protests:
- Protests against the Mubarak regime go on nationwide for a seventeenth consecutive day. (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera)
- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refuses to resign in an address to the nation. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
- At least 16 people have been killed the Jonglei, breaking a ceasefire agreed last month. (Al Jazeera)
- A suicide bomber attacks a Pakistan Army recruitment centre in northwestern Pakistan causing at least 27 deaths and 40 injuries. (Reuters) (AP via Courier Mail) (BBC) (Sify)
- The FARC organisation releases the first of five hostages promised this week as a gesture of peace to the government in Colombia. (BBC)
- Israeli forces remove Palestinian tents near Nablus of which 8 were reportedly used as homes.(Jerusalem Post)(Arab News)
Arts and culture
- Vietnam is to host the debut International Choir Festival. (Vietnam News)
- World Youth Day 2011 organizers announce Pope Benedict XVI’s schedule of activities for the multi-day event, which will take place Aug. 18-21 in Madrid, Spain. (Catholic News Agency)
Disasters
- Eight people are killed in a warehouse fire in Perm, Russia. (Itar Tass) (AFP via Google News)
- A crashes on landing, killing six and injuring at least another six. It is the deadliest in Irish aviation since 1968. (The Guardian) (RTÉ) (CBC News)
- Three people are dead, and two others are missing after a natural gas line rupture and explosion in the city of Allentown, Pennsylvania. (CNN)
- A snowstorm hits the Southeastern United States and Tennessee Valley with warnings in place across ten states. (CNN)
International relations
- Cuban Information and Communications Minister Medardo Diaz welcomes the arrival of an undersea fibre-optic cable linking it to Venezuela, which offered to help the island speed up its internet connection after the United States refused. (BBC)
- North Korea reports that it will not conduct further talks with South Korea, citing a perceived lack of seriousness on South Korea's part. (MSNBC)
- Reuters reports that India and Pakistan have agreed to resume peace talks that were broken off after the 2008 Mumbai attacks. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- The trial of
Politics and elections
- Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says, in a secretly shot video, that he is still under house arrest after being released from prison. (BBC) (Radio Television Hong Kong) (AFP via Google News)
- The British House of Commons votes 234-22 against prisoners receiving the right to vote. (BBC)
- Former dishonestly claiming parliamentary expenses. The sentence comes on the same day that Jim Devine, another former Labour MP, is convicted of dishonestly claiming £8,385 of expenses by using false invoices for cleaning and printing work. (BBC)
Sport
- Ray Allen scores his 2,561st 3-point shot, passing Reggie Miller for the all-time NBA record for 3-point field goals made.