Current Events Recap

1. Yemeni police fire live rounds and teargas at protestors in the city of Taiz, killing one person and injuring over 400.

2. Syrian president Assad appoints a new governor for Daraa as he struggles to please the people demonstrating in unprecedented protests against his regime.

3. Barack Obama is to run for a second term as the President of the United States.

4. 1,000 students protest at Kabul University as protests continue in Afghanistan over the burning of a Quran "found guilty" by pastor Terry Jones church in Florida.

5. Japan defends the dumping of water with low level radiation from the nuclear accidents into the Pacific Ocean after criticism from South Korea and Russia.

6. For over 50 days, the Libyan city of Misurata has been shelled by artillery, tanks, and sniper.  Water has been intentionally shut off by Muammar Gaddafi's forces.  Hundreds of thousands are at risk of death. 

7. The U.S. Senate defeated a measure that would have banned the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

8. Protests against the government continue in Colombia, Bahrain, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and the Ivory Coast.

9. Prominent religious leader Maulvi Showkat Ahmed Shah is killed when explosives attached to a bicycle are detonated outside a mosque in Srinagar, Kashmir.  The capital's shops are shut down and traffic is suspended.

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