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Current events of April 24, 2013 (2013-04-24) (Wednesday)

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake strikes 25 kilometers from Jalalabad, Afghanistan leaving 33 people dead and another 115 injured. Heavy damage of buildings are reported across Nangarhar Province. (Voice of America)
An eight story commercial building collapses in Savar Upazila near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka resulting in at least 256 people dead, one thousand injured and scores more people trapped. (AP via ABC News), (Reuters via Sydney Morning Herald), (Daily Mail)
Syrian Civil War:
- The 11th century minaret of the Umayyad Great Mosque at the World Heritage Site of Aleppo is destroyed. Both warring parties blame each other. BBC AP via The Guardian

A shooting occurs in Manchester, Illinois, United States leaving 5 dead and another injured. The suspect is then killed in a gunfight with police. (Fox News)
The U.S. government wins an early round in its litigation against The Bank of New York Mellon over the latter's allegedly fraudulent practices in the trading of currencies. (Reuters)

Boston Marathon bombings:
- The FBI and the CIA admit that Russian intelligence had warned the United States´ intelligence agencies several times regarding the extremist connections of Tamerlan Tsarnaev previous to the Boston marathon bombings. (GLOBO News)

Malaysian police claim that there have been hundreds of cases of election-related violence since campaigning for the Malaysian general election got underway last weekend. (My Sinchew)
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano gives vice-secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta the mandate to form a new government. (The Guardian), (France 24)