04 July 2013 Current Affairs
- Arts and culture
- The Statue of Liberty opens for the first time since Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage to Liberty Island in New York harbor in late October 2012. (The Atlantic Wire)
- Disasters and accidents
- A house fire kills 6 people in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (AP via Kansas.com)
- International relations
- South Korea offers to hold talks with North Korea over reopening a joint factory complex in the North Korean town of Kaesong which shut down in April. (AP via The Hindu)
- Law and Crime
- Scotland Yard discovers new evidence and new witnesses in the Madeleine McCann case and opens a formal investigation into her disappearance. (BBC)
- Egypt arrests Mohammed Badie, the Supreme Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, for “inciting the killing of protesters”. (Wires via France 24)
- Former President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, announces his resignation from the Constitutional Council of France following a finding that he exceeded spending limits in his 2012 Presidential election campaign. (The Local)
- At least 19 people have been shot in the US city of Chicago since Wednesday with four people killed and 15 injured. (NBC Chicago)
- Politics and elections
- Campaigning gets underway in Japan for the House of Councillors election with voting to start on July 21. (Xinhua)
- Portuguese political crisis, 2013
- A series of talks between Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister to solve the question around the former’s resignation. After a third round the Prime Minister Passos Coelho is to meet with the President of the Republic Cavaco Silva.
- Former South African President Nelson Mandela is now in a “permanent vegetative state” and doctors have advised his family to turn off his life support machine. (AFP via News24) (Sky News)
- Science and technology
- A new species of lizard is found in Sergipe, Brazil. (GloboNews)
