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Law and crime A military court in Lebanon releases anti- Syrian government activist Shadi al-Moulawi after his arrest sparked violent clashes that killed eight people. (Al Jazeera) The trial begins in Mauritius of two hotel workers accused of murdering Irish woman Michaela McAreavey while she honeymooned on the island in 2011. (RTÉ) Politics and elections The Burmese government appeals for ...
Eduardo Castro Luque, the deputy-elect of Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, is assassinated by gunmen two days before joining office. (The Huffington Post) 2012 Sydney Islamic riots: Muslim protesters shouting anti-American slogans clash with police outside the US embassy in Sydney, Australia. (France 24) (ninemsn) (AdelaideNow) Syrian civil war : One of ...
September 6, 2012 (Thursday) edit. history. watch. Armed conflicts and attacks. Syrian civil war : Vladimir Putin urges the Western and Arab world to review their position. He asks to end the violence first, then sit around the table and only then move on to "these practical steps about the internal organisation of the country itself ".
Portal is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve.Set in the Half-Life universe, the two main games in the series, Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), center on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Syrian Civil War: Human rights investigators from the United Nations expand a secret list of people in Syria suspected of committing war crimes. Diplomat Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro urges the U.N. Security Council to bring the situation to the International Criminal Court. (Reuters) 2012 diplomatic missions attacks fallout :
Armed conflicts and attacks. 2011–2012 Syrian uprising : At least 22 civilians are shot dead across Syria by security forces under the Syrian government. ( Washington Post) A group of Gaddafi loyalists take control of part of the town of Bani Walid and fly the green flag after a battle with NTC forces left 5 dead and 20 injured.
Education The University of Virginia reinstates President Teresa Sullivan after she was ousted without a formal vote earlier this month. (My Northwest) Finance The city of Stockton, California's mediation with creditors fails, forcing the city to declare bankruptcy, making it the largest in the U.S. to do so. (Fox News) Disasters Bhutan's four-century old Wangdue Phodrang Dzong, a ridge-top ...
Politics and elections. Security escort Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott from a restaurant in Canberra after indigenous protesters surrounded the building on Australia Day in response to comments made by Abbott. (CNN) ( Sydney Morning Herald) Month. January 2012. Previous day. January 25.