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Current events of September 10, 2010 (2010-09-10) (Friday)

5 Palestinians are wounded during 4 separate Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip in response to the fourth rocket attack on southern Israel from Gaza in the last two days. (The Jerusalem Post) (BBC)
Details of 300 cases of sexual abuse, mainly on minors, allegedly perpetrated by Belgium's Roman Catholic clergy are released by Church investigator Peter Adriaenssens. 13 are found to have committed suicide. (BBC)
An alleged suicide bomber is detained after "suicide" blast at hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark. (BBC)
A Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations plane loaded with victims of the 2010 Vladikavkaz bombing lands at Moscow's Ramenskoye Airport as the death toll reaches 17. (RIA Novosti) (RIA Novosti)
A British Army soldier from the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment dies of injuries he received in the war in Afghanistan. (BBC)

More than 50 people are injured in an oil pipeline blast in northeastern Iran. (Press TV)
Thousands of people are evacuated in Delhi over flooding fears. (BBC) (The Hindu) (The Times of India)
The death toll from the fire in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno in the U.S. state of California, reaches 4, with 50 other people injured. (ABC News America)
A large fish kill, consisting of several different fish species and other marine life, including crabs, stingrays, shrimp, starfish and a whale wash ashore in Venice, Louisiana, near Plaquemines Parish, near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and involving more species than usual with localized dead zone and low oxygen events. (NOLA.com) (WAFB) (Digital Journal)

Mexico:
- At least 71 prisoners escape from jail in the Mexican city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, across the U.S. border from McAllen, Texas. (BNO via Wire Update)
- The city of Ciudad Juárez had as many as 25 murders recorded in the past day mostly due to the Mexican Drug War. (Xinhua)