Portal:Current events/2013 October 28

October 28, 2013 (Monday)

Armed conflict and attacks

Two Thai police die while trying to defuse a bomb in Narathiwat province. (Bangkok Post)
An Indian Army soldier is reported killed and another injured along the Line of Control on the border with Pakistan in Kashmir. (Hindustan Times)
Islamist protests in Egypt (July 2013–present):
- Three Egyptian policemen are killed by masked men in an attack at a checkpoint in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura. (Reuters)
Syrian civil war:
- The Syrian army retakes the ancient Christian town of Sadad. (Press TV) (The Huffington Post)
Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon:
- Two people are killed in the northern city of Tripoli in fighting between supporters and opponents of the Syrian government and the Lebanese army. (Reuters)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Two rockets fired from the Gaza strip at a southern Israeli coastal city are shot down. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
Somali Civil War (2009–present):
- A suspected U.S. drone strike kills at least two Islamist Al-Shabaab insurgents and commander driving in a car south of the Somali capital Mogadishu. (Reuters) (BBC)
War in Afghanistan (2001–present):
- Australia declares its war in Afghanistan over while the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, visits Afghanistan. (Herald Sun)

Business and economy

Copper fabricator Southwire Co. drops its lawsuit against two giant Wall Street firms over a possible copper exchange-traded fund, as market and regulatory conditions make such an ETF seem decreasingly likely. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

Law and crime

Three Chinese anti-graft activists go on trial in Xinyu in west-central Jiangxi province. (Reuters)
Dr Conrad Murray is released from prison in the American city of Los Angeles for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

2013 Tunisian protests:
- Government and opposition leaders launch talks discussing a new premier. (The Daily Star)
- Ennahda party leader Rashid al-Ghannushi announces in a televised interview that the party may be willing to give up the government but not power. (Al Arabiya)
Voters in the Canadian territory of Nunavut go to the polls to select members to the territory's Legislative Assembly.^{[citation needed]}

Science

Three new species of animals are discovered (a leaf-tailed gecko, a golden-coloured skink, and a boulder-dwelling frog) in the Cape York Peninsula of the Australian state of Queensland. (news.com.au)

Television