< Portal:Current events
August 13, 2013 (Tuesday)
Arts and culture
- Footage of the isolated and previously unseen Kawahiva tribe is recorded for the first time in the Amazon rainforest, in Brazil. (GloboNews)
- Frank DeAngelis, the longtime Columbine High School principal who led the school through the April 1999 Columbine High School massacre announces he will retire at the end of the 2013-14 school year. (MSN)
Attacks and conflicts
- Sinai insurgency: Israel intercepts and destroys a Grad rocket fired by Mujahideen Shura Council al-Qaeda members from Egyptian territory at the Red Sea town of Eilat. (Daily Telegraph)
Law and crime
- American politician and former House Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. is sentenced to 30 months in prison for spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items, and will serve his sentence first before his wife, former Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson, who was given a one year term for tax fraud. (NBC)
Business and finance
- The United States Department of Justice and six states file an antitrust lawsuit to block the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways. (CNN)
International relations
- Israeli–Palestinian peace talks start amid controversy over Israeli settlement expansion and the release of 26 Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis. (Reuters)
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