Portal:Current events/2013 September 12

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 * Armed conflicts and attacks
 * Islamic insurgency in the Philippines:
 * The Moro National Liberation Front attacks the Philippines town of Lamitan with five people missing and two injured. (AP)
 * American born Islamist militant Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki is shot dead in a dawn raid in a shootout with his former al-Shabaab colleagues in southern Somalia. (ABC News Australia)
 * Arts and culture
 * Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, leaves the Royal Air Force to devote his energies to Royal and community work. (The Australian)
 * Business and economy
 * The People's Republic of China sets goals for use of coal as part of a comprehensive plan for reducing air pollution. (Reuters via Thomson-Reuters Trust)
 * Disasters and accidents
 * A massive fire burns parts of the boardwalk in Seaside Park, New Jersey. Numerous decades-old buildings are destroyed. (USA Today)(ABC News}
 * International relations
 * Syria applies to join the Chemical Weapons Convention which outlaws the production and use of such weapons. (BBC)
 * Religion
 * The governing body of the Church in Wales votes to allow the ordination of women bishops. (BBC)
 * Science and technology
 * NASA announces the Voyager 1 space probe has left the Solar System becoming the first man-made object to reach interstellar space. (BBC)
 * The announcement, while confirmed by external research, is still met in some quarters by skepticism. NBC News

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