August 2011

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August 2011 is the eighth month of the current year. It began on a Monday and ends after 31 days on a Wednesday. It is the current month (UTC).

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1 August 2011 (Monday)

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Armed conflict and attacks

At least 11 people, including 5 suspects, are killed and 15 others are injured on Sunday's violence in China's Xinjiang region, raising the death toll to 20 over the weekend attacks in Kashgar. (CRI) (The Guardian)
2011 Syrian uprising:
- More than 142 people are killed across the country in a continuing crackdown on protests. (Al Jazeera)
- Russia calls for an end to the "use of force" against civilians. (Lebanon Now) (The Moscow Times)
The Lebanese Armed Forces exchanged fire with the Israeli Defense Forces patrolling the border, the IDF retaliated with one Lebanese soldier being injured. (Jerusalem Post)

Business and economy

The HSBC bank announces plans to cut 5,000 jobs now and 25,000 by 2013. (Reuters)
Foxconn Technology, a computer assembler headquartered in Taiwan, plans to add one million robots to its plants over the next three years, according to a Reuters report. (Reuters)
BBC journalists stage another 24-hour strike in protest at planned redundancies. (Mail Online) (The Guardian)

Disasters

Anna Bligh, the Premier of Queensland, releases the results of an inquiry into the 2010–2011 Queensland floods which killed 35 people. (Courier Mail)
The Italian news agency Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata reports that 25 refugees have been found dead in a boat off the coast of Lampedusa. (CNN)
Tropical Storm Emily forms in the Atlantic Ocean with tropical storm warnings issued for Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Desirade, Les Saintes, Marie Galante and the Dominican Republic. (National Hurricane Centre), (NOLA.com)

International relations

North Korea agrees to further talks with the United States as part of efforts to restore Six Party talks on its nuclear weapons program. (Yonhap)
South Korea bans three Japanese lawmakers all from the Liberal Democratic Party due to an assertion of Japanese sovereignty over the Liancourt Rocks. (Mainichi Shimbun) (Yonhap)

Politics

Kevin Rudd, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and former Prime Minister of Australia, goes into hospital to have the aortic valve in his heart replaced. (Courier Mail)
2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis
- The United States House of Representatives passes legislation to raise the debt ceiling and avert the 2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis. (Reuters and AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
- More than twenty protesters are arrested after disrupting debate in the House. (Washington Post)
- Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords makes her first appearance on Capitol Hill since the 2011 Tucson shootings to cast her vote amongst applause. (BBC), (Washington Post)
The United States Senate fails to pass a bill ending the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration. (AP)

2 August 2011 (Tuesday)

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Suicide bombers attack a guesthouse used by foreigners in the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz with at least four security guards dead. (Reuters)
Syrian Army forces shell the town of Hama for a second successive day. (BBC)
Fifteen people have been wounded in a bombing of a Syrian Catholic Church in Kirkuk, Iraq. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Egypt's military police and riot police end three-week Tahrir Square sit-in. (The Washington Post) (The National) (Al-Ahram)

International relations

Four European nations the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Portugal circulate a draft United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the Government of Syria for its recent crackdown on protesters. (Bloomberg)

Law and crime

South Korean prosecutors send a summons to Park Chul, President of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, over alleged embezzlement. (Yonhap)

Politics

Peter O'Neil of Southern Highlands Province is elected Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea in a 70-24 vote, ousting acting Prime Minister Sam Abal. (ABC News)
The United States Senate is due to vote today on legislation to raise the debt ceiling and avert the 2011 US debt ceiling crisis. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)

Ongoing events
[edit] Disasters Horn of Africa famine [edit] Economic 2011 US debt ceiling crisis Global financial crisis European sovereign debt crisis Greek economic crisis [edit] Medical HIV/AIDS in Africa Haiti cholera outbreak [edit] Political Anti-austerity protests Greek protests Spanish protests Arab Spring Bahraini uprising Egyptian revolution Jordanian protests Libyan civil war Moroccan protests Syrian uprising Tunisian revolution Yemeni uprising Belgian political crisis Chilean student protests Freedom Flotilla II Kurdish protests News International phone hacking scandal [edit] Scientific Expedition 28

Recent deaths
[edit] August [edit] July 31: Clyde Holding 28: Abdul Fatah Younis 27: Richard Chavez 27: Ghulam Haider Hamidi 27: Hideki Irabu 27: Polly Platt 27: Bejaratana Rajasuda 27: John Stott 26: Margaret Olley 25: Michael Cacoyannis 25: Jeret Peterson 24: G. D. Spradlin 24: Dan Peek 23: Bill Morrissey 23: John Shalikashvili 23: Amy Winehouse 22: Linda Christian 22: Charles Taylor Manatt 20: Lucian Freud 18: Bob Stenehjem 18: James Wong 17: Juan María Bordaberry 17: John Kraaijkamp, Sr. 16: Rouhollah Dadashi 16: David Ngoombujarra 15: Cornell MacNeil 15: Googie Withers 13: Jerry Ragovoy 12: Allan Jeans 12: Ahmed Wali Karzai 12: Sherwood Schwartz 11: George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood 10: Roland Petit 9: Facundo Cabral 9: Würzel 8: Betty Ford 7: Manuel Galbán 7: Dick Williams 6: Josef Suk 6: Mani Kaul 6: John Mackey 5: Neil Dougherty 5: Armen Gilliam 5: Mika Myllylä 5: Cy Twombly 4: Otto von Habsburg 3: Anna Massey 2: Itamar Franco edit sidebar

Ongoing conflicts
[edit] Global War on Terror Terrorist incidents Operation Active Endeavour Operation Enduring Freedom War on Drugs [edit] Africa Libyan civil war Tunisian revolution Maghreb insurgency OEF - Trans Sahara Casamance conflict Niger Delta conflict Nigerian Sharia Conflict South Kordofan conflict Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Somalia: Civil war War 2009- Piracy OEF - Horn of Africa [edit] Europe Basque conflict Real IRA North Caucasus insurgency Ingushetia civil war [edit] Middle East Iraqi insurgency Iran-Jundallah conflict Fatah–Hamas conflict Arab–Israeli conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israeli–Lebanese conflict Palestinian political violence and rocket attacks Yemen: Terrorism and al-Qaeda crackdown South Yemen insurgency Shi’ite insurgency Kurdistan: Turkey–PKK conflict Iran–PJAK conflict [edit] Asia Afghanistan War Military operations Taliban insurgency Pakistan: Terrorism North-West War Balochistan conflict Drone attacks Sectarian violence India: Terrorism Jammu and Kashmir insurgency Naxalite-Maoist insurgency Northeast India insurgency Nagaland ethnic conflict Kashmir conflict Siachen conflict Korean maritime border incidents Southeast Asia: Laos insurgency Burma internal conflict Burma border clashes South Thailand insurgency Cambodian–Thai border dispute Philippines insurgency OEF - Philippines Papua conflict [edit] Americas Colombian conflict Plan Colombia FARC Mexican Drug War Mérida Initiative Peru internal conflict edit sidebar

Elections
[edit] Recent: July 1: Morocco, Constitutional referendum 3: Thailand, General 17: São Tomé and Príncipe, President (1st round) 23: Latvia, Parliamentary dissolution referendum 25: Vietnam, President (indirect) [edit] Upcoming: August 7: Cape Verde, President 7: São Tomé and Príncipe, President (2nd round) 12: Guyana, Parliament 23: Liberia, Constitutional referendum 26: Abkhazia, President 29–30: Estonia, President (indirect) edit sidebar

Trials
[edit] Recently concluded Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew Germany: John Demjanjuk Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir Netherlands: Geert Wilders United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Rod Blagojevich, Casey Anthony [edit] Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Russell Williams China: Organized crime in Chongqing France: Church of Scientology Germany: Heinrich Boere Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY) Palau: Tommy Remengesau Peru: Joran van der Sloot Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr. Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Ergenekon network United States: David Headley, Ahmed Ghailani, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Roger Clemens [edit] Upcoming Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali United States: Viktor Bout, Allen Stanford, Nidal Malik Hasan, Conrad Murray, John Edwards edit sidebar

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