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At least 17 people are killed and 141 others injured in three coordinated bomb blasts in Mumbai.
Following political pressure amid an ongoing phone hacking controversy, News Corporation abandons its bid for full ownership of BSkyB.
Ahmed Wali Karzai (pictured), Afghan politician and half-brother of President Hamid Karzai, is assassinated.
Twelve people, including the head of the Cyprus Navy, are killed in an explosion at a naval base, the worst peacetime military accident in the history of Cyprus.
The sinking of cruise ship Bulgaria on the Volga River in Tatarstan, Russia, leaves 129 people dead or missing.
The World Netball Championships conclude with Australia defeating New Zealand in the final.

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15 July 2011 (Friday)

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Business and economy

BHP Billiton buys US based petroleum company Petrohawk for $ 12 billion. (Sydney Morning Herald)

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14 July 2011 (Thursday)

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2011 Syrian uprising: Several deaths are reported as a security crackdown continues against anti-government protests in Syria. (Al Jazeera)
A suicide bombing at a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, kills four people and injures 11 including the head of the provincial religious council while they were praying for Ahmed Wali Karzai. (Reuters via The Guardian)
At least six Yemeni militants are killed following an air strike on a police station in the Abyan Governorate that the militants had overrun. (Al Jazeera)
Kurdistan Workers Party fighters ambush the Turkish Army in Diyarbakir Province, resulting in the death of 13 soldiers and five militants. (Reuters)
Mikhail Margelov, the President of Russia's special envoy on the Libyan uprising, claims that Muammar Gaddafi has a 'suicidal plan' to destroy Tripoli if the rebels seem likely to capture it. (Al-Jazeera)

Arts and culture

The poet Liao Yiwu tells the BBC of how he fled China via Vietnam and other countries and arrived in Germany after his struggles with Chinese authorities who have spent decades suppressing his work and imprisoning him. (BBC)
A rare manuscript of an unfinished Jane Austen novel has sold for £993,250 (US$1.6m) in London. The work, The Watsons, was sold at Sotheby's for three times its estimated price. (BBC)

Business and economy

Singapore's economy falls by 7.8% due to declines in manufacturing output and the services sector. (Market Watch)
Borders Group, the once-major bookstore chain now in chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States, says that its arrangement with stalking horse bidder Najafi Companies has collapsed, and it will seek a modification of bid procedures. (Reuters)

International relations

Chairman of Ireland's governing Fine Gael parliamentary party Charlie Flanagan calls for Papal Nuncio Guiseppe Leanza to be expelled from the country after the publication of a report into the sexual abuse of children by priests in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, while Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore attacks the Vatican's interference in the scandal. (RTÉ)
Japan's foreign ministry plans to boycott Korean Air services for one month in response to a demonstration flight of a Korean Air Airbus A380 over the disputed Liancourt Rocks, beginning on Monday. (MarketWatch)
India and Bangladesh commence a joint census to resolve claims over disputed border areas. (BBC)
The General Assembly of the United Nations votes to admit South Sudan as a member of the United Nations. (CNN)

Law and crime

U.S. security manufacturer Armor Holdings pays a $16 milion fine to settle bribery charges relating to the payment of a United Nations official. (BBC)
BBC reporter Urunboy Usmonov is released on bail in Tajikistan but still faces trial. (BBC) (The Guardian) (The Daily Telegraph) (Reuters)
News of the World phone hacking scandal
- News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks all agree to appear before British MPs next week to answer questions on the News of the World phone hacking affair. (BBC)
- Neil Wallis, former deputy editor of the News of the World under Andy Coulson, is arrested and questioned by police investigating the scandal. (The Guardian)
- The FBI is investigating reports that News Corporation sought to hack the phones of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. (BBC)
- In his first major interview on the phone-hacking crisis, Rupert Murdoch says his company has handled it 'extremely well' and that News Corp will recover. (BBC)
U.S. district court judge Reggie Walton declares a mistrial in the perjury trial of former baseball star Roger Clemens after prosecutors present evidence that Walton had previously ruled inadmissible. Walton will hold a hearing on September 2 to determine whether to hold a new trial. (ESPN)
At least thirty-two Chilean police and 54 demonstrators are arrested in a demonstration demanding more funds for higher education. (Antara News)

Politics and elections

The Italian Senate approves an austerity budget aimed at preventing the need for a financial bailout for Italy. (BBC)
The Welsh Conservative Party chooses Andrew RT Davies as their leader in the Welsh Assembly. (BBC)
The President of the United States, Barack Obama, gives Congressional leader 24 to 36 hours to reach an agreement on debt reduction as credit agency Standard & Poor's placing the US on a downgrade watch. (Reuters), (Washington Post), (NPR), (Marketwatch)
The Democrat Governor of Minnesota Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders reach a budget deal which will end a shutdown of the US state government within days. (Reuters)

Science

Neptune completes its first orbit of the sun since its discovery in 1846. (ABC Online)
A lost rainbow toad thought to have become extinct after its last sighting in 1924 is rediscovered in Borneo by scientists from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) and photographed for the first time. (BBC Nature)

July 14, 2011 Wikinews articles

13 July 2011 (Wednesday)

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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)
- 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)
  - Anti-Gaddafi forces reclaim 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 the debt rating of the United States. (BBC)

Disasters

Sixteen people are killed when Noar Linhas Aéreas Flight 4896 crashes in Recife, in the 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 Israeli soldiers in a community north of Nablus. (BBC)
Mexican Drug War
- Mexico's federal police capture a man who was allegedly the top hitman for the Knights Templar drug cartel. (AP via Washington Post)
- Twenty-one people are killed in the town of Ciudad Juarez in an ongoing war between the Juárez Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel. (Yahoo News)
U.S. senators call for a legal investigation into allegations that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation hacked victims of the September 11 attacks as the phone hacking scandal continues. (The Guardian)
David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, makes a statement to the House of Commons in relation to the judicial inquiry into the News of the World phone hacking affair, hours before the announcement that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation had withdrawn its bid to take full ownership of 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)
Thailand's Election Commission fails to endorse 142 prospective members of the House of Representatives including incoming Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and outgoing Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. (Bangkok Post)
Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan tells a news conference of his plans to wean the country off nuclear energy after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (Al Jazeera)
The President of the United States Barack Obama reportedly walks out of negotiations with Republican Party leaders on tackling debt and deficits as Moody's Investor Services warns of a potential loss of a AAA credit rating. (Reuters)

Science

Two studies show that antiretroviral drugs taken to treat 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)

July 13, 2011 Wikinews articles

12 July 2011 (Tuesday)

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7 people are killed and 3 others are injured by a United States drone attack in Pakistan's South Waziristan region. (Dawn)
Miners clash with police in Chile. (Euronews)
Thousands of people flee Maiduguri in Borno State after recent deadly attacks there. (BBC)
United Nations special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Juan E. Méndez suggests the United States is violating UN rules by refusing unmonitored access to imprisoned United States Army private Bradley Manning, the young serviceman the Obama administration accuses of passing classified information on secret U.S. activities to the WikiLeaks whistleblower website. (BBC) (United Nations Human Rights Council)
It is reported that the U.S. government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deployed a fake vaccine programme in Abbottabad ahead of its assassination of Osama bin Laden in an effort to obtain a DNA sample from his family. (BBC)
Arab Spring
- 2011 Egyptian revolution:
  - A large protest with as many as a million people participating is planned for the Egyptian capital Cairo over perceived lack of progress since the 2011 Egyptian revolution. (Gulf News)
  - An evening rally is held in Tahrir Square. (BBC)
  - Egypt's deputy prime minister Yehia El-Gamal resigns on the fifth day of the sit-in at Tahrir Square in Cairo. (Al Jazeera)
  - 3 former Egyptian ministers - former interior minister Habib el-Adly, former finance minister Youssef Boutros Ghali (in absentia) and former prime minister Ahmed Nazif - from the Mubarak regime are given jail sentences. (News 24)
  - Armed gunmen blow up an Egyptian natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan in the town of El-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula. (AP via MSNBC)
- 2011 Libyan civil war:
  - Muammar Gaddafi sends a delegation to Israel; they hand over digital material to Tsipi Livni.(The Jerusalem Post)
  - The National Assembly of France votes to approve continued participation in NATO operations in Libya. (AFP via France 24)
Suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen abduct two United States citizens and a Filipino relative from an island village in Zamboanga City in the Philippines. (Philstar)
War in Afghanistan:
- President of France Nicolas Sarkozy visits Afghanistan to meet with the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and commander of the International Security Assistance Force David Petraeus before visiting French troops stationed in Surobi. (Reuters via Alertnet)
- Nicolas Sarkozy announces the withdrawal of 1000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012. (Reuters)
- The Taliban claims responsibility for the death of Ahmad Wali Karzai, the brother of Hamid Karzai, and one of the most powerful people in Afghanistan. (Dawn) (BBC)

Arts and culture

A British ticket scoops the largest ever lottery prize in Europe, the £161,653,000 EuroMillions jackpot, by securing all five numbers and both Lucky Stars. (BBC)
Commentators in the Israeli press condemn as "undemocratic" the Knesset's passing of a law penalising anyone calling for a boycott of Israel or Jewish settlements in the Palestinian Territories. (BBC)
American television producer Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, dies in Los Angeles, California. (Herald Sun)

Business and economics

Ireland's debt rating is reduced to "junk" status by Moody's. (RTÉ) (BBC)
Apple's chief patent lawyer is leaving the company, Reuters reports, amidst a slew of patent-related conflicts with Google, Samsung, Nokia, others. (Reuters)
Japanese officials announce their intention to send the country's whaling fleet back to Antarctica later in the year; the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is also to return. (BBC)

Disasters

Evangelos Florakis Navy Base explosion: Thousands of people march on the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, Cyprus; police fire tear gas at the demonstrators who tie a banner to the palace gates stating "Christofias [their ruler] is a murderer and must go to jail". (BBC)
Four earthquakes ranging from 5 to 6.2 in magnitude hit the Philippines. (AFP via ABC News) (The Times of India)
Sinking of Bulgaria:
- Russian state television reports that at least 59 bodies have been recovered from the sinking of the cruise ship Bulgaria on the Volga River, with more than 200 people on board. (CNN)
- Russia observes a day of mourning after the disaster. (BBC)
The United States Coast Guard ends aerial searches for seven Americans still missing after a charter fishing boat sank in the Sea of Cortez off Mexico on July 3. (AP via MSNBC)

International relations

New Zealand refuses entry to Sri Lankan asylum seekers detained in Indonesia who claimed to be heading there. (SBS)

Law and crime

Julian Assange appears in London's High Court to begin his appeal against extradition to Sweden as his UK house arrest enters its 216th day. (ABC News) (The Guardian)
Guatemalan police arrest two men in relation to the assassination of Argentine singer Facundo Cabral as fans across the continent mourn his shooting and a tribute concert is held in his memory. (BBC) (BBC) (BBC)
A three judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect in the 2011 Tucson shooting, has the right to refuse antipsychotic medication while he appeals the treatment prescribed by prison mental health authorities. (Los Angeles Times)
U.S. actress Halle Berry is granted a restraining order against a convicted felon arrested on her Hollywood Hills property on Monday. (Los Angeles Times)
CNN reports that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has lost track of 1,400 guns involved in Operation Fast and Furious aimed at tracing the flow of weapons to Mexican drug cartels. (CNN)

Politics and elections

Voters in California's 36th congressional district go to the polls for a special election to replace former Rep. Jane Harman with Democrat Janice Hahn defeating Republican Craig Huey. (Politico) (AP via Houston Chronicle)
The UK Government states its intention to support a Labour Party motion in the House of Commons calling for the withdrawal of News Corporation's bid to take over BSkyB. (BBC)
The funeral of former U.S. First Lady Betty Ford, wife of Gerald Ford, occurs. (BBC)
In Northern Ireland, riots mark the culmination of the Belfast marching season. (Euronews)
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul announces that he will not stand again for his Texas district in 2012. (The Wall Street Journal) (Christian Science Monitor)
The Governor of the U.S. state of Arizona calls a recall election for state Senate President Russell Pearce known for his immigration legislation. (AP via The Arizona Republic)

Science

NASA astronauts on board Atlantis complete the final spacewalk of the Space Shuttle era, recouping an ammonia pump on the International Space Station (ISS). (BBC)

Sports

Former Wales rugby union international Richard Parks becomes the first person ever to complete the Explorers Grand Slam — climbing all of the Seven Summits and reaching both the North and South Poles — in a single calendar year. (ESPN Scrum)

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11 July 2011 (Monday)

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Protesters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the 2011 Syrian uprising break into the United States embassy in Damascus and try to break into the French embassy. (The Australian)
Pakistan jails a doctor who helped the US Central Intelligence Agency confirm that Osama bin Laden was living in Abbottabad. (McClatchy)

Business and economy

Sanofi announces positive results of the late-stage trial of Lemtrada, its new multiple sclerosis treatment. (Press Release)

Disasters

The death toll from a train crash in India's Uttar Pradesh state rises to 69. (Economic Times)
Captured explosives from Iran stored in a Cyprus Navy base munitions dump catches fire, when a wildfire reached the military base, causing massive explosions. (Reuters) (The Telegraph) (Los Angeles Times)
- The head of the Cyprus Navy, Andreas Ioannides and the Commander of the Evangelos Florakis Navy Base, Lambros Lambrou, are reportedly killed in the blast. (BBC News)
- Cypriot National Guard chief of staff Petros Tsalikidis and Cypriot Defense Minister Costas Papacostas both resign from office. (BBC News)
- Heavy damage is reported to the nearby Vassilikos power plant, which provides 60% of Cyprus' electricty. (BBC News)
Heavy thunderstorms with 75 mph winds, in the US city of Chicago, Illinois, cut power and disrupt transport. (Chicago Tribune)

International relations

The Israeli parliament passes a controversial law that will punish any Israeli individual or organisation boycotting West Bank settlements. (BBC)
The Republic of Korea Air Force announces that it will conduct regular midair refuelling drills with the United States Air Force commencing later this year. (Yonhap News)
Canada will boycott the United Nations Conference on Disarmament to protest against North Korea being named its chair. (CBC)

Law and crime

News International privacy breaches
- Ten members of the British royal family including the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are believed to be among the victims of the News of the World phone hacking affair. (The Guardian)
- News International publications including the News of the World and The Sunday Times are revealed to have improperly accessed private information of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown. (The Guardian)
- British Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt refers News Corporation's bid to take full control of BSkyB to the Competition Commission. (BBC)
Twenty-three people allegedly linked to the Mexican Los Zetas Cartel are indicted in the US state of Colorado for allegedly trying to smuggle marijuana in the United States. (Reuters)

Sports

Baseballer Robinson Canó of the New York Yankees wins the 2011 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby. (ESPN)

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10 July 2011 (Sunday)

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Bangladeshi police fire tear gas at Islamist activists trying to enforce a general strike in the town of Keraniganj with dozens hurt in the riots. (AP via Washington Post), (Reuters)
Three NATO service members are killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan. (AP via Washington Post)

Business and economy

News International
- The final edition of the News of the World is published in the United Kingdom. (The Guardian)
- The Government of the United Kingdom looks for ways to stop News International taking over BSkyB as evidence emerges that senior executives mounted a cover-up of the News of the World phone hacking affair. (The Independent)

Disasters

A strong earthquake of 7.1 magnitude occurs off the coast of Honshu in Japan sparking a tsunami warning. (AP via Washington Post)
A fire in a retirement home in the village of Beloye in the western Ukraine kills 16 people. (RIA Novosti)
A hundred people are injured as the Kalka Mail is derailed near the town of Fathepur Malwa in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. (IBN Live)
The cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in the Volga River near Bolgar, Russia. At least 110 of the 196 on board go down with the ship and drown, while 80 were rescued alive. (BBC Europe)

Law and crime

Twenty prisoners escape from a jail in the town of Tumaco in Colombia's Nariño Department with three people recaptured. (BBC)

Politics

The Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard announces the details of a plan to introduce a carbon tax. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Pro-Palestinian activists begin a week of protests on the West Bank. (Jerusalem Post)

Sports

In association football, Mexico wins the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup, defeating Uruguay 2–0 at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. (Official FIFA U-17 World Cup Website)

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9 July 2011 (Saturday)

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2011 Syrian uprising: Human Rights Watch issues a report claiming that Syrian Army soldiers have been issued orders to shoot protesters participating in demonstrations. (AP via MSNBC)
Argentine singer-songwriter Facundo Cabral is assassinated in an apparent ambush in Guatemala City. (BBC)

Business and economy

Inflation in China rises to its highest level in three years. (Reuters) (Xinhua)
A Milan court orders Fininvest, Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi's family company, to pay 560 million euros in damages to Compagnie Industriali Riunite in a long running legal dispute. (Dow Jones via Wall Street Journal)

International relations

South Sudan secedes from Sudan, becoming a sovereign state. (Los Angeles Times)

Politics

Malaysian police fire tear gas and arrest hundreds of people as more than 20,000 people march in the 2011 Bersih 2.0 rally demanding electoral reform in Kuala Lumpur. (Bloomberg via Business Week) (AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (BBC)

Sport

The Queensland Reds of Australia defeats the Canterbury Crusaders of New Zealand 18-13 to win the Super Rugby championship. (The Roar)
Derek Jeter, shortstop for the New York Yankees, becomes the 28th member of the 3,000 hit club in Major League Baseball history by means of a home run off David Price of the Tampa Bay Rays. (The New York Times)

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Elections
Recent: July 1: Morocco, Constitutional referendum 3: Thailand, General Upcoming: July 17: São Tomé and Príncipe, President 23: Latvia, Parliamentary dissolution referendum 25: Vietnam, President (indirect) Upcoming: August 7: Cape Verde, President 12: Guyana, Parliament 23: Liberia, Constitutional referendum 26: Abkhazia, President 29–30: Estonia, President (indirect) edit sidebar

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