Portal:Current events/2013 April 13

April 13, 2013 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

War in North-West Pakistan:
- A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least eight people. (BBC) (AP via USA Today)
Syrian civil war:
- Twenty civilians are killed in Saraqib, Idlib, after a government warplane bombs the city. (AP via CBC News)
- The Times reports that evidence smuggled out of Syria indicates the use of chemical weapons in the ongoing conflict. (Euronews) (The Times of Israel) (Haaretz)

Disasters and accidents

Health and environment

International relations

2013 Korean crisis:
- South Korean police stop a planned launch of anti-North Korean leaflets across the border, as the government of South Korea seeks to open dialogue with the North and defuse soaring tensions in the Korean Peninsula. (AFP via Channel NewsAsia)
- The United States and People's Republic of China agree to work towards ridding the Korean Peninsula of nuclear weapons. (AP via The Globe and Mail)
- The Philippines offers the use of its military bases to the United States. (AFP via The Express Tribune)
The Iranian Army announces the successful completion of three rocket tests. (The Jerusalem Post)
China and the United States agree to collaborate on resolving cybersecurity issues between the two countries. (AFP via Google News)
Russia bans 18 American diplomats from entering the country, in retaliation for similar restrictions placed on 18 Russian officials by the Magnitsky Act. (The News International)

Law and crime

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's retrial on charges of corruption and conspiracy to kill protesters during the 2011 Egyptian revolution is transferred to another court. (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera)
A man suspected of a shooting at the New River Community College in Christiansburg, Virginia, United States, is charged with multiple counts of malicious wounding and use of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and held without bail. (CNN) (AP via Yahoo! News)

Politics and elections

In Ireland, thousands of people attend an anti-austerity rally at Dublin Castle, where EU finance ministers are meeting. Opposition TDs Richard Boyd Barrett, Joan Collins and Joe Higgins address the demonstration. (The Irish Times)
In Chile, 100,000 students take to the streets to demand educational reforms. (BBC)
Salam Fayyad resigns as Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority following an ongoing dispute with the President Mahmoud Abbas. (BBC)
The National Transitional Council of the Central African Republic elects Michel Djotodia as the President confirming a position he has held since a coup last month. (Press TV)

Religion

Pope Francis appoints a panel of nine high-ranking prelates from around the world to advise him of the running of the Catholic Church and advise him on the reform of the Vatican bureaucracy. (AP via USA Today)

Sport