Portal:Current events/2011 September 13

September 13, 2011 (Tuesday)

Armed conflict and attacks

Investigators in Gothenburg, Sweden, now think that the four men arrested for the 2011 failed Gothenburg terrorist attack have links to the terrorist network Al-Qaida. (CBC)
Taliban insurgents attack the United States embassy, NATO headquarters and police buildings in the Afghan capital Kabul. (BBC)

Economics and business

U.S. bankruptcy court judge Mary Walrath rejects a reorganization plan submitted by Washington Mutual, holding that the Debtors erred by planning to pay senior debtholders a contract rate of interest rather than the federal judgment rate. (Wall Street Journal Online)

Disasters

12.3 million people have been displaced and 11.2 million homes affected, as well as 1.7 million acres of fertile land inundated, in the wake of the monsoonal 2011 Sindh floods in Pakistan. The death toll from the flooding currently stands at 270. (Express Tribune)
At least 11 people are killed and over 228 injured in a collision between a bus and train in the suburb of Flores in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires. (Buenos Aires Herald)
The Pagami Creek wildfire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of the U.S. state of Minnesota spreads to over 100,000 acres, with smoke drifting across the Midwest. (Lakeland Times) (Duluth News)
Pakistani Taliban gunmen opened fire on a Peshawar school bus that kills 15 people. (The Guardian)

Health

Over 5,000 people have reportedly been infected by an outbreak of dengue fever in Pakistan. (ARY News)

Politics and elections

Voters in New York's 9th congressional district go to the polls for a special election to replace former member of the United States House of Representatives Anthony Weiner with Republican Bob Turner winning a tight race with Democrat David Weprin (New York Times) (The Atlantic Monthly) (AP)
Voters in Nevada's 2nd congressional district go to the polls for a special election to replace former member of the United States House of Representatives, Senator Dean Heller, with Republican Mark Amodei defeating Democrat Kate Marshall. (New York Times) (AP)
The date of the Venezuelan presidential election is set for 7 October, 2012. (BBC)
The British House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee announces its intention to recall James Murdoch as its probe into the News International phone hacking scandal continues. (BBC)
The United Kingdom Boundaries Commission publishes proposals to redraw constituency boundaries in England and Northern Ireland to reduce the number of MPs in the House of Commons from 650 to 600 at the next general election. Proposals for Scotland and Wales will be announced later. (BBC)
Unions in the United Kingdom call on members to stage a nationwide "day of action" on 30 November in protest at changes to public sector pensions. (BBC)