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Current events of May 1, 2013 (2013-05-01) (Wednesday)

South Thailand insurgency:
- Insurgents kill six people including a two year old boy in a deadly shooting in Thailand. (ABC News)
Boston Marathon bombings:
- Boston Police state that three more individuals are implicated and arrested. (CNN)
- A report states that Dzhokhar has told detectives he was motivated by wanting to defend Islam because of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. (NBC)
Insurgency in the North Caucasus:
- A bomb detonates in a busy shopping center in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia killing 3 and injuring 2 others. (Ria Novosti)
Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- Multiple bombs detonate across Iraq killing at least 15 people. (The Daily Star)

Flash floods leave 16 people dead and 3 others missing in Saudi Arabia, with authorities urging citizens to avoid low-lying wadis. At least two others were killed in neighboring Oman in some of the heaviest rainfall in more than 25 years. (Al Arabiya)

The UN Human Rights Office says the force-feeding of hunger-strikers at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay Prison is a violation of international law. About 100 out of 166 inmates are currently refusing to eat. Of these, 23 are currently being force-fed, up from 21 yesterday. (ThinkProgress)

Coronation Street star William Roache, the world's longest-serving soap actor, is arrested at his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire. He is charged with two counts of raping a 15-year-old girl in 1967. (TVNZ),(The Guardian)
Seven Venezuela legislators are injured as a fight breaks out between the Socialist Party and the opposition over the outcome of the Venezuelan presidential election. (The Daily Beast)