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April 29, 2014
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2014-04-29
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
:
Pro-Russian militants in the
eastern Ukrainian
city of
Luhansk
seize the regional administration's headquarters, resulting in a tense standoff with the militants and
security personnel
.
(BBC News)
Syrian Civil War
:
At least 37 people are killed and 85 others are injured in multiple explosions in the
Syrian
city of
Homs
.
(BBC News)
Business and economy
The
United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
approves three of President
Barack Obama
's nominees to the
Federal Reserve
, including the nomination of
Stanley Fischer
to be its vice chairman.
(Reuters)
International relations
Korean maritime border incidents
:
North Korea
warns
South Korea
that it will conduct live firing near the disputed maritime border.
(BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
Sinking of the MV
Sewol
:
Surveillance video footage captures the captain of MV
Sewol
Lee Joon-seok escaping the vessel and leaving behind his passengers.
(CNN)
The
President of South Korea
Park Geun-hye
apologises on national television for the government's poor handling of the incident.
(BBC News)
The death toll rises to 205, with 97 passengers still unaccounted for.
(CNN)
Law and crime
A shooting at a
FedEx
facility in
Kennesaw
,
Georgia
, United States, leaves six injured with the gunman committing suicide.
(CNN)
Venezuelan
officials announce that a former chief of the
Bolivarian Intelligence Service
, Eliecer Otaiza, was shot and killed on Saturday.
(BBC News)
American prisoner
Clayton Lockett
dies of a heart attack in
Oklahoma
after a botched execution by
lethal injection
.
(Al Jazeera)
NBA
Commissioner
Adam Silver
announces that
Los Angeles Clippers
owner
Donald Sterling
is banned from the league for life after a recording of Sterling making racist comments surfaces. Sterling is also fined the maximum allowable US$2.5 million as the NBA examines options for a forced sale.
(ABC News)
(Fox News)
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