Portal:Current events/2013 October 25

Current events of October 25, 2013 (2013-10-25) (Friday)

Armed conflict and attacks Islamist insurgency in Nigeria: Military officials report that 74 members of Boko Haram have been killed in a combined ground and aerial assault on militant camps in northeastern Borno State. (Reuters) Disasters and accidents Japan's emergency agencies declare a tsunami warning after an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 strikes off the east coast. (AP via News24) International relations In a joint statement, leaders of the European Union say that recent claims about the United States spying on European leaders, such as Germany's Angela Merkel and citizens, "could prejudice co-operation in intelligence gathering". (BBC) Science The complete nuclear genome of a Siberian boy who died 24,000 years ago suggests that about a third of the ancestry of today's Native Americans can be traced to Western Eurasia, with only two-thirds coming from Eastern Asia. (Science Magazine/AAAS)