Current events of August 1, 2012 (2012-08-01) (Wednesday) |
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- A second Israeli who set himself on fire in protest of economic difficulties in Tel Aviv dies of his injuries in hospital. (Reuters)
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Current events of August 2, 2012 (2012-08-02) (Thursday) |
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Current events of August 3, 2012 (2012-08-03) (Friday) |
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- Woman dies at Drayton Manor after coming off stomach-churning ride called the 'Maelstrom'. She was a mother-of-two and she was apparently 'caring' and 'kind.
Current events of August 4, 2012 (2012-08-04) (Saturday) |
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- The Parliament of Afghanistan votes to dismiss the Defence and Interior Ministers over continued cross-border shelling by Pakistan. (Reuters)
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Current events of August 5, 2012 (2012-08-05) (Sunday) |
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Current events of August 6, 2012 (2012-08-06) (Monday) |
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Current events of August 7, 2012 (2012-08-07) (Tuesday) |
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- Police in Malaysia detain eight people after a toddler reportedly dies during a 20 hour exorcism ritual. (Bangkok Post)
- Investigators probing the disappearance of Tia Sharp find CCTV film of the missing girl. (BBC)
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Current events of August 8, 2012 (2012-08-08) (Wednesday) |
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- China announces plan to close one-third of the nation's 23 rare earth mines and about half of 99 smelting companies. (CNN)
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- Anthropologists find the skeleton of a young woman inside a burial in Templo Mayor, surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones. This finding is "unprecedented for the Aztec culture." (The Huffington Post)
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Current events of August 9, 2012 (2012-08-09) (Thursday) |
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Current events of August 10, 2012 (2012-08-10) (Friday) |
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- Tens of thousands of people attend the state funeral for President John Atta Mills in Accra, Ghana. (BBC)
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- Disappearance of Tia Sharp: A body is discovered in Tia Sharp's grandmother's house, and police announce that they are looking for the girl's step-grandfather. (Sky News)
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Current events of August 11, 2012 (2012-08-11) (Saturday) |
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- Syrian civil war:
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- A total of 12 decomposing bodies are found inside an abandoned vehicle in Zacatecas. (Global Post)
- At least five people are killed as suspected gang members go on rampage in drug-violence-ravaged western state of Michoacan. (Al Jazeera)
- An Afghan policeman kills ten of his colleagues at a checkpoint in southwestern Afghanistan. (AP via The Wall Street Journal)
- At least two people are killed and 18 others injured as protests held in Mumbai, India, against religious riots in Assam and Myanmar turn violent. (Al Jazeera)
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Current events of August 12, 2012 (2012-08-12) (Sunday) |
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- Syrian civil war:
- The meeting of the Arab Foreign ministers in Jeddah to tackle Syria conflict is postponed. (BBC)
- Syrian opposition reports that ten men are killed by pro-regime forces in Homs. (CNN)
- Renewed violence is reported in the Syrian cities of Aleppo, Damascus, Homs and Idlib, as Syrian state television reports the death of one of its reporters. (Al Jazeera)
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- Egyptian forces kill six suspected militants in a village near the city of el-Arīsh in northern Sinai. (BBC)
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- Qatar is to deposit US$2bn at the Egyptian Central Bank in an effort to help support an economy battered by a year and a half of political turmoil, an Egyptian presidency statement reports. (Al Jazeera)
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Current events of August 13, 2012 (2012-08-13) (Monday) |
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- Syrian civil war:
- Syrian forces kill at least 10 people at the entrance of Jdeidet Artouz district of Damascus according to opposition sources. (CNN)
- Opposition forces in eastern Syria report downing a fighter jet; the Syrian government denies this claim, stating that the plane crashed due to technical problems. (The Telegraph)
- Danny Al Baaj, Syria’s representative at the UN Human Rights Council, defects to Switzerland. (Arab News)
- WikiLeaks revelations and attack:
- WikiLeaks reveals data showing that the U.S. government has been secretly spying on the public using civilian security cameras with Trapwire. (Wired) (Daily Mail) (PC Mag)
- The Wikileaks website is targeted by a sustained online attack. (Sky News)
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- Police involved shooting in College Station, Texas results in line of duty death of Constable Brian Bachmann; gunman, as well as one civilian are also killed
- The Vatican orders Pope Benedict XVI's former butler to stand trial for his alleged involvement in leaking allegations of corruption in the Holy See. (Reuters)
- Two Egyptian journalists, critics of President Mohammed Mursi, are to be put on trial for their alleged incitement to murder Mursi and lead sectarian discord. (BBC)
- Three people are found dead in a burning car in a parking lot in Maine, in the United States. (AP via ABC)
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- Thousands of Tunisians, mostly women, protest in Tunis against attempts by the Islamist-led government to reduce women's rights. (BBC)
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Current events of August 14, 2012 (2012-08-14) (Tuesday) |
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- Kariem McFarlin, 35, of Alameda, California, is arrested and charged with residential burglary and selling stolen property from the Northern California home of the late Steve Jobs. (MSN)
- Eleven bodies of individuals stabbed to death are found in the mountainous Ile Alatau national park, near Kazakh capital Almaty. (BBC)
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- Mohamed Salem, an Egyptian lawyer, files a lawsuit over President Morsi's removal of Hussein Tantawi and Sami Anan. (Reuters)
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Current events of August 15, 2012 (2012-08-15) (Wednesday) |
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- In Damascus, an explosion at a military compound near a hotel where UN observers are staying is claimed by a Free Syrian Army brigade. (Al-Jazeera)
- In response to the Syrian civil war, the Fourth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit organized by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation begins in Makkah Al Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia, for two days. (CNN)
- According to a UN investigation report by Commissioners Pinheiro and Abuzayd, both Syrian government troops and, to a lesser extent, anti-government groups are responsible for war crimes. Government forces and shabbiha fighters are responsible for the Houla massacre. (UNHCR)
- Activists say at least 30 people are killed in the town of Azaz, Aleppo province, after the Syrian government launches airstrikes on homes in the area. (Reuters)
- Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates urge their citizens to leave Lebanon over a series of recent kidnappings involving nationals from Syria, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. (Daily Star Lebanon)
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Current events of August 16, 2012 (2012-08-16) (Thursday) |
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- Gay rights activists hack the website of the Ugandan prime minister over the government's stance towards homosexuality. (BBC)
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Current events of August 17, 2012 (2012-08-17) (Friday) |
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- An unusual spider discovered in 2010 is described as a separate family, the Trogloraptoridae. The single species will be named Trogloraptor marchingtoni, after Neil Marchington, a deputy sheriff, amateur biologist and local cave explorer who helped with the discovery. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Current events of August 18, 2012 (2012-08-18) (Saturday) |
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- Philippine Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo and two pilots are killed after a plane crash in the sea off central Masbate. (BBC)
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Current events of August 19, 2012 (2012-08-19) (Sunday) |
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- Mexican Drug War:
- A photo journalist is ambushed and killed by unknown assailants while driving a vehicle in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. (Milenio)
- Two photographers are tortured and killed execution-style in the state of Michoacán. Their bodies were found inside the trunk of a car with a bullet through their heads. (Proceso)
- Syrian civil war: At least 19 people are killed across Syria in ongoing violence on Eid-ul-Fitr holiday. President Assad makes a public appearance, praying in Damascus. Lakhdar Brahimi accepts to become the new UN envoy. (Al Jazeera) (Washington Times)
- Two explosions strike near government buildings in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, killing at least two people. These are the first bomb attacks since the end of the Libyan Civil War.(BBC)
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- Sonia Gandhi says stern action should happen against those responsible for the violence in Assam and the social media messages that drove 30,000 migrant workers out of their homes in South India. (IBN Live)
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Current events of August 20, 2012 (2012-08-20) (Monday) |
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- Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is discharged from hospital following treatment for a bladder infection. (BBC)
- American comedienne Phyllis Diller dies at the age of 95. (USA Today)
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Current events of August 21, 2012 (2012-08-21) (Tuesday) |
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- At least 20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus disease. (CNN)
- Tropical Storm Isaac forms in the Atlantic Ocean with tropical storm warnings in place for Puerto Rico, the US and British Virgin Islands, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, St Martin, St Kitts, Nevis, Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat, Anguilla, Saba, St Eustatius, St Maarten, Culebra and Vieques. (AAP via News Limited)
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Current events of August 22, 2012 (2012-08-22) (Wednesday) |
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- Syrian civil war:
- A Chinese state news commentary on recent U.S. "red line" remarks states that, once again, Western powers are digging deep for excuses to intervene militarily in another conflict-torn Middle East country. It sharply denounces the U.S.' "calculus". (Xinhua)
- Syrian forces shell two separate districts in the capital Damascus; rebels say at least 47 people are killed. Frequent fighting is reported in Aleppo and other parts of the country. The United Nations estimate that 18,000 people have been killed in the conflict. (Reuters)
- At least 48 people are killed during clashes, over grazing rights for cattle, between the Pokomo and Orma tribes in Kenya. (Deutsche Welle)
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- Technology
- It becomes known that a freight train derailment, yesterday near Baltimore, caused military fiber optic cables to be cut so much that communications were quite seriously disrupted. This in turn caused to justify further delaying the start of the big-gun suspects' trial at Guantánamo Bay by two more days, to within "likely more than a year". (Huffington Post)
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Current events of August 23, 2012 (2012-08-23) (Thursday) |
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Current events of August 24, 2012 (2012-08-24) (Friday) |
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- Two U.S. government employees are ambushed and wounded by gunshots near Huitzilac, Morelos, by Mexican Federal Police officers. Details are still unclear. (BBC News)
- A court in Oslo, Norway, deems Anders Behring Breivik sane and sentences him to 21 years' imprisonment for intentionally killing 77 people in two terror attacks in July 2011. (BBC)
- A South Korean court rules that Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics infringed each other's patents on mobile computing technology. (The Wall Street Journal)
- A jury in the U.S. state of California rules that Samsung Electronics owes Apple Inc. over US$1 billion for patent infringement. (Gizmodo)
- The High Court of Australia quashes the conviction of former Bundaberg, Queensland surgeon Jayant Patel on manslaughter charges due to a miscarriage of justice with a fresh trial to be held. (The Australian)
- A gunman shoots and kills a former coworker near the Empire State Building in New York City. Following the initial shooting, police kill the gunman, and nine other people are wounded. (CNN)
- The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in the case Sony BMG v. Tenenbaum, awards Sony BMG US$675,000 in statutory damages against Joel Tenenbaum, who shared 30 MP3 files through the defunct Kazaa network. (Decrypted Tech)
- A court in Romania, at the request of the Romanian Intelligence Service, expels 8 Palestinians suspected of being involved with Hamas and Hezbollah. (Antena 3)
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Current events of August 25, 2012 (2012-08-25) (Saturday) |
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- Syrian civil war
- At least 330 people are killed in Syria, marking the highest single-day death toll in the uprising according to the opposition. (CNN)
- According to activists, at least 79 dead bodies are found in Daraa. (Reuters)
- Syrian opposition forces free one of eleven Lebanese Shiite pilgrims abducted three months ago in Syria; according to rebels, at Turkey's request. (AP via The Miami Herald) (Huffington Post)
- Libya: Unnamed organized assailants bulldoze a Sufi mosque with graves, in broad daylight in the centre of the Libyan capital Tripoli. It is the second such razing of a Sufi site in two days. De facto head of state Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf tells reporters: "What is truly regrettable and suspicious is that some of those who took part in these destruction activities are supposed to be of the security forces and from the revolutionaries." (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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- Thirty-seven Chinese nationals, arrested in Angola due to their alleged involvement in criminal acts, are extradited and due to be tried in China. (BBC)
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Current events of August 26, 2012 (2012-08-26) (Sunday) |
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Current events of August 27, 2012 (2012-08-27) (Monday) |
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- The Mars Rover Curiosity broadcasts the first audio recording of a human voice from the surface of another planet. The message from NASA administrator Charles Bolden is beamed to Earth along with new images of the Martian surface. (The Telegraph)
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Current events of August 28, 2012 (2012-08-28) (Tuesday) |
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Current events of August 29, 2012 (2012-08-29) (Wednesday) |
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Current events of August 30, 2012 (2012-08-30) (Thursday) |
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- The Venezuelan government is to investigate an alleged massacre of indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest whom were attacked from a helicopter. (Merco Press)
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- Russian investigators find the bodies of two murdered women in an apartment in Kazan and the shout "Free! Pussy Riot" written on the wall. The perpetrator is as of yet unknown. Observers warn against radicalism and false flags. (The Guardian)
- Three journalists jailed in Eritrea for over a decade have died in prison, according to prison guards who fled the country. (IOL)
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- Sky News shows a study where it is claimed that the polygraph helps reduce crime. The device is being presented as "about 85% accurate" and sufficient legal evidence in combination with "other information". (Sky News)
- The Belgian Army assigns 16 sapping instructors to a train-the-trainer program in Katanga, DR Congo, from Saturday until year's end. (Het Laatste Nieuws)
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Current events of August 31, 2012 (2012-08-31) (Friday) |
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- A shooting at a Pathmark grocery store in Old Bridge, New Jersey, kills at least three people. (BBC)
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Political
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Environmental
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Sports
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Ongoing conflicts |
- Libya:
- Libyan factional fighting
- Islamic insurgency in the Philippines
- Kurdistan:
- Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Kurdish–Iranian conflict
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Elections |
- 1: Liechtenstein, Constitutional referendum
- 1: Mexico, General
- 1: Senegal, Parliament
- 7: East Timor, Parliament
- 7: Libya, General National Congress
- 15: Republic of the Congo, Parliament (1st round)
- 18: Cayman Islands, Electoral system referendum
- 19: India, President (indirect)
- 19: Nagorno-Karabakh, President
- 20: Samoa, O le Ao o le Malo (indirect)
- 29: Republic of the Congo, Parliament (2nd round)
- 29: Romania, Presidential impeachment referendum
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Recently concluded
- Canada: Michael Rafferty
- Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
- Germany: Breno Borges
- Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
- Russia: Pussy Riot
- Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
- South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
- Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
- Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
- United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir
- United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner
Ongoing
- Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
- Canada: Luka Magnotta
- China: Organized crime in Chongqing
- France: Church of Scientology
- Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
- Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
- Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY)
- Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
- Palau: Tommy Remengesau
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
- Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev, Pussy Riot
- Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
- Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
- Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
- Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
- United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, John Edwards, Lauryn Hill
Upcoming
- Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
- Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
- United Kingdom: Justin Lee Collins, Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce
- United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum
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