1 November 2010
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Two Afghan women charity workers shot dead. They were travelling between Lashkar Gah and Garmser, a volatile area in the Helmand River valley, when they were attacked.
- At least 12 people are killed in fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia, between pro-government forces, African Union troops and the Islamist militant al-Shabaab group.
- Photographs, diaries and footage of Gyles Mackrell's rescue of refugees from the Japanese invasion of Burma in World War II are made avaliable.
- The rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey announces it will extend a truce until elections next year.
- 58 hostage-takers, hostages and police officers are killed and 67 people wounded when Iraqi forces storm a Baghdad church to free dozens of hostages.
- Four militants, including two from Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), are killed in separate gunbattles with security forces in Kupwara and Kulgam districts of Kashmir Valley, India.
- A Turkish film wins the Best Documentary award at the Thanet International Film Festival in the United Kingdom. (Hurriyet Daily)
- The People's Republic of China begins its first census in ten years. Business and economy
- India, China helped boost Asian shares outside Japan by 1.7%. Ambac Financial Group announces that it may have to declare bankruptcy, though it is still in talks with its senior bondholders about a consensual rescheduling of its debts. Before the 2008 financial crisis, Ambac was one of the two dominant bond insurance companies.
- An examiner appointed by the Delaware Bankruptcy court said that there is no value left in the estate of defunct bank Washington Mutual for the stockholders to receive anything.
- At least 50 people drown after a ferry-boat capsizes on the Muri Ganga River in West Bengal, India.
- A large crater appeared in the early hours in the central German town of Schmalkalden.
Disputed islands:
- The President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev visits Kunashiri, one of the southern Kuril Islands that are the subject of the Kuril Islands dispute between Russia and Japan.
- The Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan describes Medvedev's visit as "deplorable".
- The Government of Canada agrees to accept Canadian Omar Khadr, detained at Guantanamo Bay for the past eight years, after he serves a year of his sentence at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
- State media in Burma warn against a boycott of the general election on Sunday, with the government threatening jail time for those encouraging a boycott.
- While attempting to open a mental healthcare facility in Dublin, Irish Health Minister Mary Harney is pelted with red paint by an opposition politician highlighting the "blood budget" which "will result in the unnecessary and avoidable deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of people over the coming years". Harney is overseeing hospital cuts of €1 billion.
*The Battle of Mogadishu (2010) began on August 23, 2010 when al-Shabaab insurgents began attacking government and African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) positions in the Somali capital. Al-Shabaab began its offensive after its spokesman said the group was declaring a "massive war" on the AMISOM force, describing its 6,000 "peacekeepers" as "invaders".
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Lashkar-e-Taiba is one of the largest and most active Islamist militant terrorist organizations in South Asia operating from Pakistan.
It was founded by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and Zafar Iqbal in Afghanistan. With its headquarters based in Muridke, near Lahore in Punjab province of Pakistan, the group operates several training camps in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
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