Portal:Current events/2010 September 10

Current events of September 10, 2010 (2010-09-10) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and incidents

• A suicide bomber detained after 'suicide' blast at hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark. (BBC)
• A Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations plane loaded with victims of the 2010 Vladikavkaz bombing lands at Moscow's Ramenskoye Airport as the death toll reaches 17. (RIA Novosti), (RIA Novosti)
• A British Army soldier from the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment dies of injuries he received in the war in Afghanistan. (BBC)

Business and economy

• Mining in three provinces in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is banned by President Joseph Kabila. (BBC) (AFP)

Disasters

• Over 50 people are injured in an oil pipeline blast in northeastern Iran. (Press TV)
• The death toll from the fire in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno, California, reaches four with fifty people injured. (ABC News America)

International relations

• Yang Jiechi, the Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China, calls for Japan to immediately release a fishing boat captain captured in disputed waters in the East China Sea. (Reuters)
• Iran delays the release of United States detainee Sarah Shourd because the legal processes have not been completed. (Reuters via Fox News)
• The President of the United States Barack Obama urges the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a partial construction freeze on the West Bank. (Los Angeles Times)

Law and crime

• Mexico
  • At least 71 prisoners escape from jail in the Mexican city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, across the US border from McAllen, Texas. (BNO via Wire Update)
  • The city of Ciudad Juárez had as many as 25 murders recorded in the past day mostly due to the Mexican Drug War. (Xinhua)

Politics

• Mário Viegas Carrascalão resigns as the Deputy Prime Minister of East Timor leaving the Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão without a majority in the Parliament. (Canadian Press via Google News)