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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 bomb attacks across Iraq kill 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 that the force-feeding of hunger-strikers at the U.S. Guantánamo Bay Prison is a violation of international law. (ThinkProgress)
Several British overseas territories, including Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, sign agreements to share tax information with UK and other EU members. (BBC)

A May Day protest in Seattle escalated into violence, causing injuries to eight police officers, and damage to storefront property. 17 people were arrested. (Seattle Pi) (CNN)
Coronation Street star William Roache, the world's longest-serving soap actor, is arrested and charged with two counts of raping a 15-year-old girl in 1967. (TVNZ),(The Guardian)
Seven Venezuelan legislators are injured as a fight breaks out between the Socialist Party and the opposition over the outcome of the last month's presidential election. (The Daily Beast)

IBM releases A Boy and His Atom, the smallest movie ever made, which was created by manipulating individual carbon monoxide molecules with a scanning tunneling microscope. (BBC)
A group of researchers announce the creation of a digital camera that can mimic the compound eyes of insects. (CNN)
The discovery of a tiny prehistoric bird, Eocypselus rowei, may help explain the origins of hummingbirds. (Science World Report)