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	*The ] announces the start of their ], signaling plans to step up attacks as the weather warms across ], making both travel and fighting easier.		*The ] announces the start of their ], signaling plans to step up attacks as the weather warms across ], making both travel and fighting easier.
		⚫	**The death toll of the ] in ] surpasses 190 as protests against the leadership of ] continue. (
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	*] announces that it will place ] citizen ] on trial for unspecified "crimes aimed to topple the Democratic People's Republic of Korea". ]		*] announces that it will place ] citizen ] on trial for unspecified "crimes aimed to topple the Democratic People's Republic of Korea". ]
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	*Voters in ] go to the polls for a ] with a centre-right coalition expected to regain office.		*Voters in ] go to the polls for a ] with a centre-right coalition expected to regain office.
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Current events of April 27, 2013 (2013-04-27) (Saturday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Syrian Civil War:
- The Free Syrian Army accuses the government of Iraq of conducting an airstrike against its forces in Deir ez-Zor, a town in eastern Syria. (New York Times)
A bomb explodes outside a police station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi causing extensive damage to the building but no injuries (Reuters)
Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen:
- Five Yemini soldiers and two Al-Qaeda militants are killed in fighting in the central town of Rada. while a senior intelligence officer is gunned down in a drive-by shooting in the south.

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The Taliban announces the start of their spring offensive, signaling plans to step up attacks as the weather warms across Afghanistan, making both travel and fighting easier. (AP via News24)
- The death toll of the recent spate of anti-government violence in Iraq surpasses 190 as protests against the leadership of Nouri al-Maliki continue. ((al Jazeera)

International relations

North Korea announces that it will place United States citizen Pae Jun-Ho on trial for unspecified "crimes aimed to topple the Democratic People's Republic of Korea". (al Jazeera)]

Politics and elections

Voters in Iceland go to the polls for a parliamentary election with a centre-right coalition expected to regain office. (BBC)

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