September 13, 2013


 * Armed conflicts and attacks
 * Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported as killed and about 20 civilians injured. (BBC)
 * Al-Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri calls for attacks inside United States to "bleed America economically". (Reuters)
 * A bomb in a Baghdad Sunni mosque kills at least 30 people. (AP via NZ Stuff)
 * Disasters and accidents
 * Dozens of people are feared dead after a fire at a psychiatric hospital in Russia's Novgorod Oblast. (RT)
 * Nine people are confirmed dead following massive floods in the past 24 hours in Galați County, Romania. (journalgazette)
 * At least four people are dead, 80 unaccounted for and thousands have been evacuated following heavy floods in Boulder County in the US state of Colorado. (Fox News), (9 News)
 * A World War II shell explodes in the Finnish town of Kemi in Lapland, killing one person and causing the evacuation of hundreds of residents. (Reuters via Yahoo News UK)
 * Law and crime
 * Four people are found dead in a car in Crossville, Tennessee, U.S. A man is arrested in connection with the deaths. (AP via San Francisco Chronicle)
 * An Indian court sentences four men to death for the 2012 Delhi gang rape case. (CNN)
 * Politics and elections
 * Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese will contest a month-long ballot process to determine who will be the Leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition. (Canberra Times)
 * Narendra Modi is named as the Bharatiya Janata Party leader in next year's Indian general election. (BBC)

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