Subject: Morning Brief: Damascus bombing kills 13 after prime minister survives attack
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FP Passport Morning Brief
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Damascus bombing kills 13 after prime minister survives attack
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*Top news*: A car bomb exploded [1] in the center of the Syrian capital,  
Damascus, on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding another 70. The  
attack, near the rear entrance of a building in Marjeh Square used by the  
Ministry of Interior, comes just one day after a similar blast [2] nearly  
killed Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi in the Mezzeh district of  
southwest Damascus.

The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency as well as several opposition sources  
confirmed [3] Monday that the prime minister was unharmed, but the blast  
killed five other people in al-Halqi's convoy. No one has yet claimed  
responsibility for either attack, but the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front  
has claimed responsibility for similar bombings in the past.

*China:* Chinese authorities detained [4] 19 people in a heavily ethnic  
Uighur part of Xinjiang, following clashes between residents and police last  
week that left 21 people dead. The Chinese government has called the  
violence, the deadliest in Xinjiang since 2009, a "terrorist attack," though  
the exiled World Uyghur Congress disputes that claim. 

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Middle East

 * Israel killed [5] what it called "a key terror figure" Tuesday in an
   airstrike in Gaza, only hours after an Israeli was stabbed to death in the
   West Bank.
 * Libya's parliament postponed [6] its next session after heavily armed
   protesters surrounded the foreign ministry building.
 * A series of car bombs exploded [7] across Iraq on Monday, leaving at least
   23 people dead in mainly Shi'ite areas.

Africa

 * Guinea-Bissau's interim president, Manuel Serifo Mhamadjo, said [8] Monday
   that elections will be held before the end of the year.
 * Botswana's President Ian Khama received stitches in his face Monday after
   being wounded [9] by a cheetah.
 * Britain announced [10] Tuesday that it will end direct aid to South Africa
   by the year 2015.

Asia

 * Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is in the midst of a new
   disaster [11] caused by a flood of radioactive wastewater.
 * A U.S.-operated cargo plane crashed [12] in Afghanistan Monday, killing
   all seven crew members.
 * Bangladesh on Monday defended [13] its decision to turn down foreign
   assistance after last week's factory collapse that killed at least 382
   people.

Americas

 * A court in Bolivia ruled [14] Monday that Evo Morales is eligible to seek
   re-election to a third term as president.
 * Chilean businessman Laurence Golborne, an independent who was backed by
   the center-right UDI party, quit [15] Chile's presidential race on Monday
   over a billing scandal.
 * A Venezuelan court on Monday charged [16] retired Gen. Antonio Rivero, a
   member of the opposition Popular Will movement, with inciting
   post-election violence.

Europe

 * Cyprus's parliament is expected to approve [17] the terms of an EU bailout
   deal on Tuesday by a narrow majority. 
 * A French soldier was killed [18] in Mali on Monday, bringing the death
   toll to six French troops during the intervention to expel Islamist
   militants from the country's north. 
 * Spain's economy shrank [19] in the first quarter of 2013, marking the
   seventh straight quarter that it has done so.  

/-By Ty McCormick
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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/world/middleeast/bomb-in-central-damascus.html?hp
[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/29/world/meast/syria-civil-war/?hpt=hp_t2
[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/30/us-syria-crisis-bomb-idUSBRE93S06620130430
[4] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/30/us-china-xinjiang-idUSBRE93T02S20130430
[5] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/world/middleeast/israeli-airstrike-kills-palestinian-in-gaza.html?ref=world
[6] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/29/us-libya-militia-idUSBRE93S0V020130429
[7] http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/04/29/world/middleeast/29reuters-iraq-violence.html?ref=world&_r=0
[8] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/guinea-bissau-interim-president-says-elections-to-be-this-year/2013/04/29/0b6fb1be-b0f3-11e2-9fb1-62de9581c946_story.html
[9] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22336542
[10] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22348326
[11] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/asia/radioactive-water-imperils-fukushima-plant.html?hp&_r=0
[12] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/29/us-afghanistan-crash-idUSBRE93S0SK20130429
[13] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22347672
[14] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/30/us-bolivia-morales-idUSBRE93T00020130430
[15] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/30/us-chile-election-idUSBRE93T00T20130430
[16] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/29/us-venezuela-opposition-idUSBRE93S0UL20130429
[17] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/29/us-cyprus-parliament-bailout-idUSBRE93S12M20130429
[18] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/29/us-france-mali-idUSBRE93S0QS20130429
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