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6 August 2013 Current Affairs

Armed conflicts and attacks
  • 2013 India–Pakistan border incidents: Five Indian Army soldiers are killed in an attack near the Pakistan border in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. (Reuters)
  • Danish police evacuate part of central Copenhagen after a parked car is found with wires attached to it. (Reuters Trust)
  • 2013 embassy closures:
    • The United States Department of State evacuates staff from the United States Embassy in Yemen due to an al-Qaida threat. (AP via NPR)
  • Ten people are killed in a clash between rival drug cartels in Honduras. (BBC)
  • Syrian civil war:
    • Syrian rebels capture Menagh Military Airbase in Aleppo near the Turkish border. (BBC), (CNN)
    • A car bomb kills 18 people and wounds 55 in a suburb in Damascus. (USA Today)
    • A chemical attack on Adra and Houma in the Damascus Suburbs is reported. (Israel National News)
  • Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
    • 25 people are killed and 60 are wounded by car bombs near markets in Baghdad in Iraq. (Reuters)
  • Yemeni tribesman shoot down an army military helicopter killing eight soldiers. (The Times of India)
  • Four suspected Al-Qaeda militants are killed in a drone strike. (Reuters)
  • Tunisian police shoot dead an Islamist Militant on the outskirt of the capital Tunis in a raid. (Reuters) (Daily Telegraph)
Disaster and accidents
  • A gas explosion in an apartment block kills five people and injures a dozen in the Argentine city of Rosario. (USA Today)
  • A hot Air Balloon carrying an American family crashes killing one person and injures four in the Swiss town of Montbovon. (Huffington Post)
Law and crime
  • The trial of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a former United States Army Medical Corps officer and the Gunman during the Fort Hood shooting, begins. (Washington Post)
  • The first execution by lethal injection is officially implemented in Viet Nam when 27-year-old Nguyá»…n Anh Tuấn is executed in Hanoi.(Vietnamnet)
Politics and elections
  • Tunisia’s constituent assembly is suspended until the Islamist-led Government and secular opposition begin talks to resolve a Political crisis.(BBC)
  • Saudi king Abdullah appoints Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Saud as deputy Defense Minster. (Jerusalem Post)
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