Portal:Current events/2010 September 10

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

Armed conflicts and incidents

• 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)

Disasters

• 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 in Tamaulipas state across the US border from McAllen, Texas. (BNO via Wire Update)
  • The city of Ciudad Juarez 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)