Portal:Current events/2007 August 26

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Current events of August 26, 2007 (2007-08-26) (Sunday) edit history watch

Gunmen raid a farm in Putumayo in Colombia killing 9 people with authorities blaming FARC. (Associated Press in International Herald Tribune) 2007 Midwest flooding: Tornadoes hit parts of central and southeast Ohio as hundreds of thousands of people in the Midwest are without power. (AP via Fox News) A series of explosions in Mogadishu, Somalia kills three people. (AFP via ABC News Australia) The Islamist militant group Fatah al-Islam seeks to extract its wounded from the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp. (Reuters Alertnet) An Antonov plane carrying tin ore crashes in Kongolo in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Wikinews) Five Iraqi Shia, Sunni and Kurdish political parties sign a deal forming a new "Moderates Front" supporting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (BBC) The equine influenza outbreak spreads in Australia threatening the Spring Carnival including the Melbourne Cup. (Reuters via the Washington Post) Bird flu breaks out at a German farm. (Washington Post) Ludwig Scotty's government wins a landslide victory in the Nauruan parliamentary election, 2007 with René Harris as the only member of the Opposition to win a seat. (ABC News Australia) 25 August 2007 Hyderabad bombings Seven more unexploded bombs are found in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India a day after the bombings. (Reuters via News Limited) The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy blames Pakistani and Bangladeshi terrorists for the bombings. (Bloomberg) 2007 Greek fires: European Union countries send firefighters and equipment to help fight hundreds of fires.(BBC and AFP via ABC News Australia) The fires threaten Olympia, the site of the Ancient Olympic Games. (Financial Times via MSNBC) Greek authorities arrest and charge two people in connection with the fires. (CNN) The Greek Government offers a reward of €1,000,000 to help catch arsonists. (BBC)