Portal:Current events/2012 October 3

Current events of October 3, 2012 (2012-10-03) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war:
  • Three suicide bombings occur at the Saadallah Al-Jabiri Square in the northwestern city of Aleppo, killing at least 33 people. (The Washington Post)
  • Syrian refugees in rented houses say the Turkish police in Hatay Province faces them with the choice to either join a refugee camp or go back to Syria. (CNN)
  • Turkish armed forces bombard targets in Syria in response to Syrian Army mortar rounds hitting a Turkish border town. (Wall Street Journal)
• Several blasts strike an arms stockpile in the Hezbollah-controlled Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Riot police in Iran clash with protestors demonstrating against the collapse of the country's currency, the rial. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• Politicians in the United States begin a probe into the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Walid Faraj, a surviving witness of the attack, has not yet been interrogated. (Bloomberg) (The Independent) (Washington Post)
• Tens of thousands of India's poorest farmers march more than 300 kilometer to Delhi in a Jan Satyagraha to demand land reform under the banner of Ekta Parishad. (Zee News) (Asia One)

Science and technology

• A few days later than initially planned, ATV-3 burns up; remaining parts plunge in the Pacific Ocean. The next mission docking with ISS, the first commercial resupply mission, with SpaceX Dragon is planned to launch on 8 October at 12:35 AM GMT. Unberthing and splashdown are targeted for 28 October. Orbital Sciences plans two Cygnus dockings to the ISS; in April 2013 follows Albert Einstein ATV (ATV-4). ATV-5 is planned April 2014. (ESA) (RIA Novosti) (NASA) (Antares)