Portal:Current events/2012 July 29

July 29, 2012 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Syrian civil war:
- Fierce fighting continues in Syria's second city of Aleppo. (Al Jazeera)
- Jordan opens its first camp for refugees fleeing Syria. (Petra News Agency)
A security agent serving for the Italian embassy in Sana'a is kidnapped by gunmen in Yemen. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea, according to state media. (Business Week)

International relations

The Democratic Republic of the Congo accuses Rwanda of backing rebels hostile to the Congolese government. (Reuters)

Law and crime

Ten more Islamists are arrested in the United Arab Emirates as part of a crackdown on dissidents, according to activists. (Times of India)

Politics and elections

Thousands of anti-nuclear protesters form a human chain around the Japanese parliament in Tokyo. (Radio Television Hong Kong)
Thousands of people protest against plans to introduce national patriotism lessons in Hong Kong schools, calling it Chinese propaganda. (Bangkok Post)
Voters in Romania go to the polls for an impeachment referendum against the President of Romania Traian Băsescu. (BBC)

Science

New research published in this week's Nature Geoscience details a mechanism by which carbon is drawn down from the surface of the Southern Ocean to deeper water below. (France 24) (Phys.org)