August 14, 2005

[edit] August 14, 2005 (Sunday)

Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been sworn in as Kyrgyzstan's new president after winning nearly 90 percent of the vote last month in an election to find a successor to President Askar Akayev, who was ousted during protests in March.(Reuters)
Thirty bodies are found in a mass grave south of Baghdad after the interrogation of Iraqi insurgents captured in a raid yesterday. (Newsday; AP)
Time magazine cites United States military intelligence documents that an Iranian-backed Iraqi insurgent network, led by Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani, had introduced a bomb design based on Iranian-backed Lebanese militia Hizbollah plans in last eight months. (Reuters)
U.S. forces in Iraq raid a warehouse in Mosul. They uncover a suspected chemical weapons factory. (Boston Globe)
Helios Airways Flight 522 en route from Larnaca, Cyprus via Athens, Greece to Prague, Czech Republic crashes near Athens, with at least 121 onboard. Observations from Greek fighter aircraft indicate a decompression problem. (BBC)
Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda has been charged with sedition after a radio debate speculating on the death of Sudan's vice-president John Garang.(BBC)
Liberian football hero George Weah has been given the go-ahead to contest the country's presidency. Liberia's election commission dismissed a complaint that his French citizenship barred him from standing.(BBC)