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Current events of April 25, 2013 (2013-04-25) (Thursday)

The FBI and the CIA admits 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)
The United Nations Security Council votes to send a peacekeeping force to Mali to replace French and African forces battling Islamist guerillas. (AAP via News Limited)
The United States Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel claims that US intelligence has concluded with "with some degree of varying confidence" that the Government of Syria has used sarin gas during the past two years in the civil war. (CBS News)

The George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas is dedicated. The complex will be opened to the public on May 1. (CBS News)
Bill Clinton renamed his Twitter account from @PrezBillyJeff to @billclinton. (The Daily Beast)