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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (pictured) announces the commencement of peace talks with the rebel group FARC.
American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the Moon, dies at the age of 82.
A blast at the Paraguaná Refinery Complex in Falcón, Venezuela, kills at least 41 people and injures at least 90 others.
A jury in California rules that Samsung Electronics owes Apple Inc. more than US$1 billion for patent infringement.
Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in the 2011 Norway attacks, is sentenced to 21 years in prison, subject to extension.
Retired cyclist Lance Armstrong decides to stop contesting doping charges from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

Syrian civil war – Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...

August 29, 2012 Wikinews articles

Armed conflict and attacks

Syrian civil war
- Twelve people are killed in a twin-blast bomb attack by unknown people at the entrance of a Druze cemetery in the Jaramana district of southeast Damascus. (Reuters) (RIA Novosti)
At least one person is killed and another four injured in renewed fighting in the Indian city of Kokrajhar in the state of Assam. (BBC)
Clashes continue in Mombasa, protesting the killing of radical Muslim Kenyan cleric Aboud Rogo. The government of Kenya orders a swift investigation. (Reuters) (coastweek.com)

Arts and culture

Wong Kar-wai is to be jury president of the 2013 Berlinale film festival. (Xinhua)

Disasters

At least four Chinese fishermen die and another twelve are missing in the Korea Strait as Typhoon Bolaven hits South Korea. The Chinese meteo service issues a blue alert. (BBC) (Xinhua)
Tropical Storm Isaac is upgraded to a category 1 hurricane as the storm makes landfall along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana. (CNN)

Law and crime

An Israeli court rules that Israel was not responsible for the death of American activist Rachel Corrie at the hands of an Israeli Army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. (BBC) (The Times of Israel)
French officials open up a murder case in the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat following a 'complaint against X' by his widow. (CNN) (Le Monde)

Politics

The United States Republican Party officially nominates Mitt Romney as its candidate in the 2012 presidential election at the National Convention in Tampa Bay, Florida. (Boston Globe)

Science and technology

IBM sells a "most powerful and advanced" server. (Wall Street Journal)

August 28, 2012 Wikinews articles

Armed conflict and attacks

Blockade of the Gaza Strip: A United Nations report finds that the Gaza Strip will not be "a liveable place" by 2020 as basic infrastructure in water, health, education and sanitation "is struggling to keep pace with a growing population". (BBC)
Syrian civil war:
- Heavy combat continues in Damascus and Aleppo. (Xinhua)
- A Syrian army helicopter crashes in Damascus; rebels claim they downed it. (Reuters via ABC)
War on Terror:
- ISAF states that an Afghan National Army soldier opens fire on NATO troops, killing two, before being killed himself. (CNN)
- Ten Afghan soldiers are killed by Taliban fighters in southern Helmand province. (The Wall Street Journal)
Kenyan Islamic cleric Aboud Rogo Mohammed is shot dead by unnamed organised assailants in Mombasa, triggering protests. (BBC)

Business and economics

Leslie Buckley, a close associate of Denis O'Brien, is elected chairman of Independent News & Media. (RTE) (The Irish Times)

Disasters

Typhoon Bolaven moves past the Japanese island of Okinawa en route to the Korean Peninsula. (BBC)

Politics

The Prime Minister of Pakistan Raja Pervez Ashraf appears in the Pakistani Supreme Court over his failure to reopen investigations of corruption against President Asif Ali Zardari. (AAP via Melbourne Herald-Sun)
The Burmese President Thein Sein changes nine ministers in the cabinet, in an apparent bid to demonstrate that promised reforms are firmly on course. (BBC)
The Leuven municipal council holds a minute of silence for a deceased deminer. (De Standaard)

Sports

The 75-year old official who got a javelin in the throat at a junior athletics meeting, on Sunday in Düsseldorf, dies. (Yahoo! Eurosports) (BBC)okibashitacosupreme

Science and technology

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)

August 27, 2012 Wikinews articles

Armed conflict and attacks

Seventeen villagers including two women in Afghanistan's southern Kajaki district are beheaded by unknown organised people. (AP via The Australian)

Disasters

Thirty-six people are killed in a bus crash near Yan'an, Shaanxi province of China. (Reuters)
Tropical Storm Isaac:
- The United States National Hurricane Center issues hurricane warnings for the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. A state of emergency is in effect in these four areas. (Fox News)
- Tropical Storm Isaac has so far caused 10 direct fatalities on Hispaniola and one indirect in Puerto Rico. (Fox News)
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of El Salvador with tsunami warnings in place for Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and Mexico. (AP via Fox News)

Environment and health

An outbreak of Legionellosis (Legionnaires' disease) in Quebec City, Canada, kills 8 people and infects 104. (CBC)
Women in Togo announce that they will go on sex strike for a week, starting Monday, following the example of women in Liberia. (CNN)
Several hundred earthquakes hit Southern California, with the largest one measuring 5.5 on the Richter magnitude scale near San Diego. (CNN)

International relations

Heads of state meet at the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran, Iran, until August 31. (Oman Tribune) (Xinhua) (Radio Free Europe)

Politics and elections

Two Pussy Riot members, alleged to be the two participants in the band's Cathedral protest on February 21 who remain unarrested, 'leave' Russia. (The Guardian)
Libya Abdullah Al-Sha Mausoleum's destruction:
- The president of Libya's newly elected legislative congress, Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf, calls the prime minister to an emergency meeting, after Saturday's bulldozing of the Sidi el-Sha'ab mausoleum in Tripoli by unnamed organized assailants. (Reuters via Yahoo! News) (Wall Street Journal)
- Libyan interior minister Fawzi Abdelali resigns after harsh criticism due to the Mausoleum attack. An aide says he resigned "to defend the revolutionaries". It becomes known that deputy PM Mustafa A.G. Abushagur on Saturday, referring to Friday's desecrations, sent a tweet saying "I have asked the interior and defence ministers to intervene yesterday but did not do their duty to protect these sites." (BBC) (Google Translate)

Sports

15-year-old amateur Lydia Ko of New Zealand wins the Canadian Women's Open, becoming the youngest ever winner on the LPGA Tour and the first amateur to win on that tour since JoAnne Carner in 1969. (Vancouver Sun)

August 26, 2012 Wikinews articles

Armed conflicts and attacks

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)

Arts and culture

Neil Armstrong, the first person on the Moon, dies at age 82. (The Telegraph) (The Guardian)

Disasters

A historic drought develops in the Balkans causing severe losses to agriculture. Towns in Serbia introduce water restrictions while scorching temperatures fuel hundreds of fires. Russia stations a second fire fighting aircraft to help in Niš. (AFP via FOCUS) (RIA Novosti)
Tropical Storm Isaac causes floodings and kills at least three people in Haiti, a nation still recovering from the 2010 earthquake. The storm moves Northwest over east Cuba. (CBS) (NHC)
At least 85,000 people are displaced in Myanmar as weeks of heavy rain contribute to severe flooding in the Irrawaddy Delta. (Al Jazeera)
A gas-leak blast at the Paraguaná Refinery Complex in Amuay, in north Venezuela kills at least 39 people and injures more than 80. (AP via WVEC)

Law and crime

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)

Politics

Voters in Australia's Northern Territory elect the Country Liberal Party. (Sky News)

August 25, 2012 Wikinews articles

Sierra Leone sends lone athlete for the nation's second ever Paralympic Games

Armed conflict and attacks

Syrian civil war:
- Three people, including a 28-year-old anti-Assad sheikh, are killed in combat between pro-Assad and anti-Assad groups in the Lebanese city of Tripoli. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
- Syriaonline.sy reminds of the fate of captured Syrian TV journalist Mohammed al-Saeed. (Syria Online)
War on terror:
- Afghanistan: Insurgents kill four men including three soldiers in the Afghan Army in Paktia Province. (AP via ABC News)
- Pakistan: A drone attack conducted by the United States kills 18 alleged Taliban militants in North Waziristan. (USA Today)

Disasters

Typhoon Tembin makes landfall on Taiwan. (AP via Yahoo! News)
Tropical Storm Isaac hits the island of Hispaniola containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic. A hurricane watch threat level is set for Haiti. (BBC) (NHC)
Heavy monsoon rain and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan. (Daily Times)
The newly-built Yangmingtan Bridge in Harbin City in China collapses, killing three and injuring five people. (BBC)

International relations

The House of Representatives of Japan passes a resolution criticising the President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak's recent visit to the disputed Liancourt Rocks. (Kyodo News)

Law and crime

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)
A U.S. court maintains that Joel Tenenbaum, who shared 30 MP3 files through the defunct Kazaa network, has to pay a fine of US$675,000. (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)

Politics and elections

Mir-Hossein Mousavi, leader of the Iranian opposition and former Prime Minister, returns home from a hospital after a heart attack. (Tabnak)

Sports

The United States Anti-Doping Agency says it will ban former professional road racing cyclist Lance Armstrong for life and recommend he be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles. (The Washington Post)

August 24, 2012 Wikinews articles

Papua New Guinea represented by two Paralympians in London

Disasters

Tropical Storm Isaac (2012): The U.S. National Hurricane Center lowers its previous hurricane warning threat level for Hispaniola island in the Caribbean Sea to a storm warning and hurricane watch in its 23.00 PM bulletin. (NHC)
Typhoon Tembin (2012): Taiwanese authorities evacuate almost 5,000 people ahead of the typhoon. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
At least 30 people are killed as a result of heavy monsoon rain in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. (BBC)
A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing four people and injuring 28 others. (BBC) (STA)

Environment and health

A new, seemingly chronic but non-contagious, immunodeficiency disease is diagnosed since 2004, affecting mainly people of Asian genotype aged around 50. Most patients create interferon-gamma-blocking autoantibodies more frequently. Genetic factors are suspected but it would not "run in families". Also, something in the environment may trigger the disease. (The Washington Post) (The Voice of Russia)
The Waddenvereniging in the Netherlands expects the human-friendly starry smooth-hound shark to return to the Wadden Sea in a few years, after specimina were marked in the Oosterschelde and in another Zeeland part of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. (HLN) (Waddenvereniging, in Dutch)
Israel's President Shimon Peres stresses that circumcision is "at the core of Jewish identity", in a letter on a controversy in Germany over circumcision. (AFP via Yahoo! News)

International relations

Baltasar Garzón promises he has a surprise in the case against his client Julian Assange. The Swedish prosecutor refuses to travel to London. (De Standaard, in Dutch) (MSN Malaysia)
Russia says that it is working closely with the Syrian government to establish guarantees that Assad won't move or use Syria's chemical weapons. (AP via Haaretz)
Pakistan again officially protests against the U.S. drone strikes, calling them unlawful, against international law and a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty. Pakistan states emphatically that the attacks are "unacceptable". (Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Law and crime

Former Polly Peck tycoon Asil Nadir is jailed for 10 years for stealing £29m ($46m) from the company. (BBC)
The 7th parole request of Mark David Chapman, murderer of former Beatle John Lennon, is denied. (Chicago Tribune)

Sport

American cyclist Lance Armstrong announces that he will not contest United States Anti-Doping Agency charges of doping paving the way for him to be stripped of his titles including seven Tour de France victories. (USA Today) (AP via Washington Post)

Technology

The U.S. tests helium-filled surveillance balloons on the Mexican border. The two airships float about 800 meter high and are equipped with very advanced cameras. It is said that the balloons will not watch too far into Mexican territory. (Associated Press via Google)

August 23, 2012 Wikinews articles

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Trials
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, William Balfour, 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 edit sidebar

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