Portal:Current events/2012 October 5
October 5, 2012 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- The Syrian city of Homs is subjected to a sustained bombing campaign, the worst it has seen in five months. (BBC)
- Workers say a miner is killed by a police rubber bullet near Rustenburg. A National Union of Mineworkers branch leader of Lonmin is killed at his house in Marikana, South Africa. (Euronews) (Reuters)
Business and economics
- Anglo Platinum Limited—the world's biggest platinum producer—fires 12,000 people in South Africa after a strike over working conditions. The corporation has stated that the strikes have cost it 39,000 ounces in output - equivalent to 700 million rand ($82.3 million; £51 million) in revenue. (BBC)
Health and environment
- At least 47 people throughout the United States are infected with fungal meningitis from contaminated medicine, with five people dying. (CNN)
Law and crime
- The British High Court rules that Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other suspected terrorists can be immediately extradited to the United States to face trial on charges of terrorism. (BBC) (CNN)
- A torture case related to the 1950s Mau Mau uprising is allowed to proceed in a British court. (BBC)
- Los Angeles Police Department fails to obtain a search warrant when a federal judge in Texas blocks their attempt to obtain 1970's tapes of conversations between a Manson family member and his attorney. LA Police believe this evidence could help solve more than a dozen murders.(FoxNews)