October 19, 2013 (Saturday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- Syrian Civil War:
- A suicide bomber kills 16 Syrian Army soldiers at a checkpoint near Damascus. (Wall Street Journal)
- Somali Civil War (2009–present):
- 16 people are killed and 30 wounded by a suicide bomber in an attack in a crowded restaurant in the central Somali town of Beledweyne. (Reuters)
- Tunisian security forces have killed 10 people (claimed by authorities to be Islamist militants) near the border with Algeria in a three-day operation against gunmen who attacked police patrols in the remote northern region. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 79 people have been injured, some seriously, in a train crash at the Once railway station in Buenos Aires. (Time)
- At least 11 people have been killed after a small plane carrying skydivers crashes near Namur, Belgium. (The Telegraph)
Law and crime
- Reuters reports that the United States Department of Justice and JPMorgan Chase have reached a tentative $13 billion settlement on the issue of selling bad mortgage loans to investors, the practice that contributed to Subprime mortgage crisis. (Reuters)