September 5, 2013


 * Armed conflicts and attacks
 * Syrian civil war:
 * According to Turkey, almost all G20 summit leaders support operations against Syria. (Reuters)
 * Russian opposition to military intervention in Syria gains increasing international support. (The Daily Telegraph)
 * Political violence in Egypt (July 2013–present):
 * Egyptian interior minister Mohamed Ibrahim Moustafa survives an assassination attempt as his convoy traveled through the Nasr City district in Cairo. (The Guardian) (Wall Street Journal)


 * Business and economy
 * Smartphone wars: Microsoft wins a much-watched lawsuit, with a federal judge finding that Motorola had breached agreements about the licensing of its patents. (BBC)


 * Disasters and accidents
 * Sixty-eight people are injured as more than 130 vehicles are involved in a series of crashes in thick fog on the Sheppey Crossing, a major road bridge in the United Kingdom. (BBC)
 * A hunter is blamed for starting the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park. (BBC)


 * Deaths
 * Bengali writer and Social Worker Sushmita Banerjee, whose book about her escape from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan was made into the Bollywood movie Escape from Taliban, is shot by suspected Taliban militants. (BBC)
 * Rochus Misch, the last witness to Adolf Hitler’s suicide in the Führerbunker  dies at the age of 96. (Washington Post)


 * Politics and elections
 * The new Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif says Iran doesn't deny the Holocaust. "The man who was perceived to be denying it is now gone. Happy New Year," he adds. (Time)

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