29 July 2013 Current Affairs
- Armed conflict and attacks
- Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- A wave of twelve car bombs targeting Shiite communities in Iraq kills at least 44 people. (Reuters)
- War in North-West Pakistan:
- The Pakistani Taliban attacks a prison in the Pakistani city of Dera Ismail Khan with more than 300 prisoners freed. (Times of India)
- Disasters and accidents
- 2013 Pacific hurricane season: Tropical Storm Flossie is predicted to make a rare landfall in the US island state of Hawaii with warnings of heavy rain with the potential for flooding and landslides. (AP)
- A building explosion and collapse in Philadelphia causes injuries to at least eight people. (CNN) (MyFoxPhilly)
- Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne resulting in dozens of injuries including four serious injuries. (RT)
- Seven people have been injured following a series of explosions at a propane plant in the US town of Tavares in central Florida. (Fox News),(BBC), (AP via Vancouver Post)
- Five people died and a woman was injured in a helicopter crash, in Romania [1]
- International relations
- The New Zealand Ministry of Defence announces that it will investigate claims that it collected telephone metadata on Jon Stephenson, a freelance journalist for The McClatchy Company in Afghanistan. (AP via MyFox Phoenix)
- Law and crime
- €103 million worth of diamonds and other jewels are stolen from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, in one of Europe’s biggest jewelry heists in recent years. (AP via News24)
- FBI announces the arrests of 150 suspects, during a three-day sweep that took place in 76 cities across the United States, on charges of child sex-trafficking. (Reuters)
- Sports
- In association football, former Birmingham City and Club América striker Christian BenÃtez dies of cardiac arrest complications in a hospital in Qatar. Having won the championship in Mexico, BenÃtez signed with El Jaish SC. (Excélsior)
