13 July 2013 Current Affairs
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- The African Union – United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur confirms that seven peacekeepers were killed and 17 injured in a patrol while returning to their base in Manawashi near Nyala, the capital of Sudan’s South Darfur state. (France 24)
- Arts and culture
- Cory Monteith, an actor on the American TV series Glee, is found dead in the Canadian city of Vancouver. (Canada.com)
- Disasters and accidents
- 9 people are feared dead and 88 are rescued by Australian authorities after a boat carrying asylum seekers capsizes north of Christmas Island.(The Australian)
- At least ten people are killed in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state after a bus accident. (AP via New Straits Times)
- Eighteen people are killed and at least 40 injured after a gravel truck smashes into a bus near Podolsk, Russia. (Rappler)
- Law and crime
- George Zimmerman is found not guilty in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. (Yahoo News), (AP via CBC), (USA Today)
- Politics and elections
- The Bhutanese People’s Democratic Party led by Tshering Tobgay wins 32 out of 47 seats in the National Assembly election. (Yahoo News)
