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Current events of
October 1, 2013
(
2013-10-01
)
(Tuesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Syrian civil war
:
A team from the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
enters
Syria
to begin work on dismantling the Assad regime's stockpile of chemical weapons.
(BBC)
Politics and elections
United States federal government shutdown of 2013
:
U.S.
President
Barack Obama
, the
White House
Office of Management and Budget
, issues a partial shutdown of government agencies after the
House
and
Senate
fail to come to an agreement on a spending bill to keep government operations running.
(NBC News)
Law and crime
A
Buddhist
mob torches more than 70
Muslim
homes and stabs a 94-year-old woman to death in
Rakhine State
,
Myanmar
.
(AP via
The Times of India
)
Bangladeshi
politician
Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury
is sentenced to death for war crimes including murder, torture, and genocide for his atrocities in the
Bangladesh Liberation War
.
(BBC)
International relations
The government of
Venezuela
expels three
United States
diplomats after accusing them of "economic sabotage".
(BBC)
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