Portal:Current events/2010 October 11

October 11, 2010 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

A Telugu Desam leader is murdered in broad daylight in a restaurant near Srikantam circle in Anantapur, India. (Deccan Chronicle)
Afghanistan:
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirms holding unofficial talks with Taliban "for quite some time" in order to end the nine-year war. (AFP via Google News) (Xinhua)
- Six Taliban fighters including shadowy district governor are killed in separate operations in western Herat province. (PLA)
- Two Indians are killed in a missile attack launched by the Taliban on an Indian NGO's office in Afghanistan's Kunar province. (Deccan Chronicle)
The Indian Army says that nearly 40 militants have been killed by security forces during 25 infiltration attempts in Indian-controlled Kashmir from across the border in the last two months. (China Daily)

Arts and culture

The Hobbit is set to be most expensive movie ever. The New Zealand company, Wingnut Films, is waiting for the green light for its planned adaptation. (NZ Herald)
British pop singer George Michael is released from a Suffolk prison after serving 4 weeks for driving while under the influence of cannabis. (BBC), (Sky News)
Australian opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland dies in Switzerland after a lengthy illness. (Sydney Morning Herald) (Swissinfo.ch)

Business and economy

Disasters

18 people are killed when a bus falls into a river in Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh, India. (Deccan Chronicle) (Zeenews)
The death toll from flooding in Indonesia reaches 145 with West Papua most heavily affected. (CNN) (Straits Times) (Jakarta Post)
2010 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Paula forms near Honduras and is expected to become a hurricane by Tuesday. (AP)

International relations

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he will extend the settlement freeze if the Palestinian leadership recognizes Israel as a Jewish state. The Palestinians quickly reject the offer. (Haaretz), (AFP via Google News)
Liu Xiaobo:
- China cancels a meeting with Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs Lisbeth Berg-Hansen after the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to him. (Reuters)
- Xiaobo's lawyer confirms that his wife Liu Xia is under house arrest in Beijing. (CNN)
The United Arab Emirates closes its airspace to Canada's Defence Minister Peter MacKay over a growing dispute over aviation rights.(CBC)

Law and crime

Greek Police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas is convicted of the culpable homicide of teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos which sparked the 2008 Greek riots. (Greek reporter) (BBC)
British judge Heather Hallett opens the inquests into the 7 July 2005 London bombings. (Reuters UK)
Benigno Aquino III, the President of the Philippines, elects only for administrative, and no criminal charges to be laid in relation to the botched Manila hostage crisis in August. (Philippines Star) (Philippines Daily Enquirer)
A woman accused of sexually abusing girls at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Meyerton, South Africa, is acquitted. (AP via USA Today)
The son of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the woman sentenced to death by stoning, and two German journalists posing as tourists seeking to interview him, may have been arrested in Iran. (AFP via Herald Sun)

Politics

Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election:
- Five Kyrgyz political parties, including Ata-Zhurt, Social Democratic Party of Krygyzstan, Ar-Namys, Respublika, and Ata Meken, have passed all thresholds at the election thus can obtain parliamentary seats. (24.kg) (Xinhua)
The Bharatiya Janata Party government of India's Karnataka state wins a vote of no confidence after 16 members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly are disqualified from voting. (OneIndia) (Hindustan Times)
The government of Bolivia annuls a new coca production law which cut the number of leaves growers could sell following widespread protests. (BBC)

Science

Sport