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January 10 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb
blasts in Pakistan.
January 11 – The French military begins a five-month intervention into the
Northern Mali conflict, targeting the militant Islamist Ansar Dine group.[2][3]
January 16–20 – Thirty-nine international workers and one security guard die in
a hostage crisis at a natural gas facility near In Aménas, Algeria.[4][5][6][7]
January 27 – An estimated 233 people die in a nightclub fire at the Kiss
nightclub in the Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. [8]
February
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April
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April 2 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Arms Trade Treaty to
regulate the international trade of conventional weapons.[24]
April 15 – Two Chechnya-born Islamist brothers (one of whom was a United States
citizen) explode two bombs at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, in the
United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others.[25][26]
April 24 – The 2013 Savar building collapse, one of the worst industrial
disasters in the world, kills 1,134 people in Bangladesh.[27][28]
April 30 – Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following
the abdication of Beatrix.[29]
May
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August
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August 14 – Following the military coup in Egypt, two anti-coup camps are
raided by the security forces, leaving 2,696 dead.[45] The raids were described by
Human Rights Watch as "one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a
single day in recent history".[46]
August 21 – 1,429 are killed in the Ghouta chemical attack during the Syrian
Civil War.[47]
August 29 – The United Kingdom Parliament votes against UK military attacks on
Syria.[48]
September
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September 7
2013 Australian federal election: The Liberal/National Coalition led by
Tony Abbott defeats the Labor Government led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.[49]
Abbott would be sworn in on September 18th.[50]
The International Olympic Committee awards Tokyo the right to host the 2020
Summer Olympics.[51]
September 21 – al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall
in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 62 civilians and wounding over 170.[52]
October
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October 10 – Delegates from some 140 countries and territories sign the
Minamata Treaty, a UNEP treaty designed to protect human health and the environment
from emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds.[53]
October 18 – Saudi Arabia rejects a seat on the United Nations Security
Council, making it the first country to reject a seat on the Security Council.
Jordan takes the seat on December 6.[54]
November
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November 5 – The unmanned Mars Orbiter Mission is launched by India from its
launchpad in Sriharikota.[55]
November 8 – Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), one of the strongest tropical cyclones
on record, hits the Philippines and Vietnam, causing devastation with at least
6,241 dead.[56]
November 12 – Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a series of portraits of Lucian
Freud by the British painter Francis Bacon, sells for US$142.4 million in a New
York City auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art.[57][58]
November 15 – The Playstation 4 released[59][60][61][62][63][importance?]
November 17 – Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363
crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.
November 21 – Euromaidan pro-EU demonstrations begin in Ukraine after President
Viktor Yanukovych rejects an economic association agreement between the European
Union and Ukraine in favor of closer ties to Russia.[64]
November 24 – Iran agrees to limit their nuclear development program in
exchange for sanctions relief.[65][66]
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