September 29, 2013

= World =

Armed conflict and attacks

 * Islamist insurgency in Nigeria:
 * Gunmen from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram kill 42 people, mostly students, in an attack on a college in the town of Gujba, Yobe State. (The Telegraph)

Arts and culture

 * Award-winning American television series Breaking Bad airs its final episode on AMC, concluding the series after five seasons and 62 episodes. (Associated Press via NPR)

Law and crime

 * Mexican Drug War:
 * Shootings erupt over the weekend in three Mexican cities (Cuernavaca, Fresnillo, Monterrey) where drug gangs are fighting turf battles, killing at least nine people and wounding six more. (ABC News)

Disasters and accidents

 * The death toll from a building that collapsed in Mumbai, India, on September 27 rises to 60 as the rescue operation is called off. (BBC)
 * Heavy rains in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, lead to damage valued at over over 100 million rupees. (Times of India)

Politics and elections

 * Voters in Austria go to the polls for a legislative election. (BBC)

Armed conflict and attacks

 * Syrian civil war:
 * Activists fighting Syrian government forces say that at least 16 people, most of them students, were killed in an air strike from Syrian government warplanes that hit a secondary school in the rebel-held Syrian city of Raqqa. (Reuters)

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