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October 19, 2013 (Saturday)

Syrian Civil War:
- A suicide bomber kills 16 Syrian Army soldiers at a checkpoint near Damascus. (Wall Street Journal)
War in Somalia (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)

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)

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)

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 ;Armed conflict and attacks
 *[[Syrian Civil War]]:
-**A [[suicide bomber]] kills 16 [[Syrian Army]] soldiers at a checkpoint near [[Damascus]]. [http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-358722/ (Wall Street Jornal)]
+**A [[suicide bomber]] kills 16 [[Syrian Army]] soldiers at a checkpoint near [[Damascus]]. [http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-358722/ (Wall Street Journal)]
 *[[War in Somalia (2009–present)]]:
 **16 people are killed and 30 wounded by a suicide bomber in an attack in a crowded restaurant in the central [[Somalia|Somali]] town of [[Beledweyne]]. [http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/19/uk-somalia-bomb-idUKBRE99I02V20131019 (Reuters)]