Portal:Current events/2013 November 4

November 4, 2013 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Syria civil war:
- Colonel Abdul Jabbar Akaidi, top rebel leader and chief recipient of U.S. aid, quits his position blaming recent losses on rebel infighting. (Washington Post)
A truck carrying four people hits a land mine on a road leading to Menaka in Mali, killing all of the occupants. (AP via Miami Herald)

Arts and culture

German magazine Focus reports the 2012 discovery of Nazi plundered art worth €1 billion in Munich, including lost works by Picasso and Matisse. (Deutsche Welle)

Law and crime

A man fatally stabs three people on a bus en route between Årdal and Tyin in Norway. (NBC News)
The company Johnson & Johnson agrees to pay $2.2 billion in regards to a U.S. probe of the drug risperdal. (Reuters)
A gunman opens fire inside the Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, shooting out security cameras. Hours later, the gunman commits suicide near the mall. (CNN)
In Florida, United States, Eric Rivera Jr. is convicted of second-degree murder in the 2007 killing of NFL Washington Redskins player Sean Taylor during a burglary. (Fox News)

Politics and elections

Egyptian deposed president Mohamed Morsi's trial regarding charges of violence is postponed to 8 January 2014. (AllAfrica)

Science

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works undertakes to build a successor to the SR-71 Blackbird capable of mach 6 speed flight by 2030. (Fox News)

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