Portal:Current events/2013 May 9
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in North-West Pakistan:
- Ali Haider Gillani, the son of former May 11 general election. (BBC)
- Ali Haider Gillani, the son of former
- Indonesian police shoot dead seven terror suspects in raids on the island of Java including some allegedly planning to bomb the Sri Lankan embassy. (AFP via The News International)
- Suspected Sudanese ivory poachers shoot dead an unknown number of elephants at the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park world heritage site in the Central African Republic, close to the border with Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo. (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
- A fuel train derails in Russia's Rostov Oblast causing a massive fire with one person missing, 27 injured and 3,000 evacuated. (RT)
- 2013 Savar building collapse:
- The death toll rises to 1,006 - Bangladesh's worst industrial accident and the deadliest structural collapse in modern human history. (Channel News Asia)
International relations
- Pakistani militant Sanaullah Haq dies after being assaulted in an Indian jail as a revenge attack following the death of Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan last week. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- It is revealed today that in February hackers stole $45 million from worldwide bank ATM's with large numbers of criminals using fradulent debt cards. (AP via FOX News)(The New York Times)
Politics and elections
- The federal election on September 14. (The Australian)
Sport
- Current
- In Swedish team, Artemis Racing. (San Francisco Chronicle)