Portal:Current events/2013 November 1
November 1, 2013 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war:
- War in North-West Pakistan:
- A U.S. drone strike kills Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban (whom the United States had a reward for $5 million) and five others. (BBC) (Reuters)
- 2013 Tiananmen Square attack:
- China's top security official blames the East Turkestan Islamic Movement for a suicide attack that killed five people at the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on Monday. (AP)
Business and economy
- Fannie Mae files a lawsuit for $800 million against nine different banks, including Citigroup and Bank of America, for manipulating the Libor benchmark interest rate. (Bloomberg via SFGate)
Disasters and accidents
- Flash floods and heavy rains sweep across central Texas, United States, killing 2 people. (AP via Fox News)
Law and crime
- 2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting: A gunman opens fire at Los Angeles International Airport, killing a US Transportation Security Administration employee, and wounding several other people. It prompts a terminal evacuation. (NBC Los Angeles) (Fox News)
- Two people, members of the far-right Greek political party Golden Dawn, are killed in a drive-by shooting, outside the offices of Golden Dawn in Neo Iraklio, Athens. (Reuters) (Kathimerini)
Science and technology
- Scientists discover three new species of marsupial Antechinus in Queensland, Australia. (News.com.Au)
- A person claiming to be a member of Anonymous takes down the website for Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times. (BBC)
- The smartphone wars are re-ignited, as Rockstar Consortium, a company owned by companies including Apple and Microsoft, starts wide-ranging legal action against Google, Samsung, and other makers of Android phones. (Reuters) (Ars Technica)