Portal:Current events/2011 July 13
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 13 July 2011 Mumbai bombings:
- Several explosions shake Mumbai, India, killing 20 and injuring over 100 persons. (NDTV) (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Guardian)
- The blasts hit the Zaveri Bazaar, Dadar and Opera House areas of the central business district. (IBN)
- Arab Spring:
- 2011 Syrian uprising: Fire damages a pipeline in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate, according to regime officials and state media. (BBC)(SANA)[permanent dead link]
- 2011 Egyptian revolution: Several hundred police officers are dismissed in concessions to protesters. (Al Jazeera)
- 2011 Libyan civil war: The President of the United States Barack Obama expresses support for Russia acting as a mediator in the uprising. (White House)
- Qawalish from Gaddafi forces hours after they took it. (Al Jazeera)
- In response to rocket fire into Israel, a Palestinian woman is injured in an airstrike on Gaza. (BBC)
Arts and culture
- The house in Tutshill near Chepstow where J. K. Rowling grew up is for sale. (The Guardian)
Business and economics
- Moody's threatens to cut the debt rating of the United States. (BBC)
Disasters
- Sixteen people are killed when Brazilian state of Pernambuco. (BBC)
- Five people are killed in an explosion at an industrial estate in Boston, Lincolnshire. (Channel 4) (BBC News) (The Guardian)
International relations
- South Sudan is admitted to the United Nations, the first new member since 2006. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Sir Christopher Rose is to investigate reports that surveillance tapes recorded by UK police spy Mark Kennedy were suppressed by prosecutors. (The Guardian)
- The High Court of Malaysia sets dates for the trial of Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim on sodomy charges from August 8 to 26. (The Star)
- Sexual abuse scandal in Cloyne diocese:
- Ireland prepares for the release of a 400-page report into the sexual abuse of children by priests. (The Irish Times) (Irish Independent) (Irish Examiner)
- Bishop John Magee, a former private secretary of Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II, is found to have deliberately misled an inquiry into child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. (RTÉ) (The Belfast Telegraph)
- The Vatican is strongly criticised in the report. (The Guardian)
- A Palestinian university student is killed as he attempts to defy arrest after residents throw stones at
- Mexican Drug War
- Knights Templar drug cartel. (AP via Washington Post)
- Twenty-one people are killed in the town of
- U.S. senators call for a legal investigation into allegations that phone hacking scandal continues. (The Guardian)
- BSkyB. (BBC News) (The Washington Post)
Politics and elections
- Norman Moore, a senior politician in the Australian state of Western Australia, calls on the state to consider secession. (Western Australia Today)
- House of Representatives including incoming Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and outgoing Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. (Bangkok Post)[permanent dead link]
- Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (Al Jazeera)
- The Moody's Investor Services warns of a potential loss of a AAA credit rating. (Reuters)
Science
- Two studies show that AIDS can also be used to prevent infection with HIV. (Washington Post)
Sports
- North Korea announces that it would like to co-host the 2018 Winter Olympics which is scheduled to be held in the South Korean alpine town of PyeongChang. (Yonhap News)