Portal:Current events/2011 February 10

Summary

Armed conflicts and attacks
  • 2011 Egyptian protests:
    • Protests against the Mubarak regime go on nationwide for a seventeenth consecutive day. (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera)
    • Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refuses to resign in an address to the nation. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
  • At least 16 people have been killed the Southern Sudanese state of Jonglei, breaking a ceasefire agreed last month. (Al Jazeera)
  • A suicide bomber attacks a Pakistan Army recruitment centre in northwestern Pakistan causing at least 27 deaths and 40 injuries. (Reuters) (AP via Courier Mail) (BBC) (Sify)
  • The FARC organisation releases the first of five hostages promised this week as a gesture of peace to the government in Colombia. (BBC)
  • Israeli forces remove Palestinian tents near Nablus of which 8 were reportedly used as homes.(Jerusalem Post)(Arab News)

Arts and culture

Disasters
  • Eight people are killed in a warehouse fire in Perm, Russia. (Itar Tass) (AFP via Google News)
  • A Manx2 flight from Belfast to Cork crashes on landing, killing six and injuring at least another six. It is the deadliest in Irish aviation since 1968. (The Guardian) (RTÉ) (CBC News)
  • Three people are dead, and two others are missing after a natural gas line rupture and explosion in the city of Allentown, Pennsylvania. (CNN)
  • A snowstorm hits the Southeastern United States and Tennessee Valley with warnings in place across ten states. (CNN)

International relations

Law and crime

Politics and elections

Sport