Portal:Current events/2013 September 17

Current events of September 17, 2013 (2013-09-17) (Tuesday)

Armed conflict and attacks

• Syrian civil war:
  • The head of a United Nations war crimes tribunal states that it is investigating 14 alleged instances of chemical weapons attacks. (Al-Jazeera)
• Philippine Army troops free dozens of prisoners held hostage by the Moro National Liberation Front in the city of Zamboanga. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

• The Costa Concordia is pulled completely upright from the place where it sunk in early 2012 off the coast of Tuscany in Italy. (Courier-Mail))

International relations

• Presidents of Iran and the United States confirmed they contacted each other via letters. Both countries cut all diplomatic relations after the Iranian Hostage Crisis. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Abdul Kader Mullah, a leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party, is sentenced to death for war crimes in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. (BBC)