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Arrowheads excavated from Sibudu Cave in South Africa indicate the use of the bow and arrow up to 64,000 years ago.
A series of bombings across thirteen cities in Iraq kills more than fifty people.
Al-Shabaab militants storm a hotel, killing dozens of people, including parliamentarians, amid heavy fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia.
A plane crash in Heilongjiang, north-east People's Republic of China, kills 42 people.
Nine people, including the hostage-taker, are killed in a hostage crisis on board a bus (pictured) in Manila, Philippines.
Thirty-three miners are found alive but trapped, three weeks after a mine collapse near Copiapó, Chile.

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29 August 2010 (Sunday)

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Indonesian detainees riot and light a fire at the Northern Immigration Detention Centre in Darwin, Australia. (ABC News Online), (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The Sumatran volcano Sinabung prompts a red alert by erupting for the first time in over 400 years. (ABC News Online)

August 29, 2010 Wikinews articles

Mount Sinabung erupts in Sumatra, Indonesia

28 August 2010 (Saturday)

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Pakistan
- Suspected United States missiles strike two cars carrying militants in Pakistan's Kurram Valley resulting in at least four deaths. (AP via Fox News)
- A heavy exchange of gunfire erupts outside a Pakistan security forces office in Peshawar near the United States consulate. Two hostages were taken but eventually freed. (AP via MSNBC), (DNA India), (Al-Jazeera)
Suspected Taliban insurgents attack two coalition allied military bases in eastern Afghanistan; both attacks are repelled by coalition forces, killing 24 militants while taking no casualties. (BBC)

Arts and culture

American socialite Paris Hilton is released after having been arrested on Friday in Las Vegas, Nevada for cocaine possession. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Business and economy

Cuba eases property laws, allowing foreign investors to lease government land for up to 99 years. (AP) (Al Jazeera)

International relations

The International Criminal Court reports Kenya to the United Nations Security Council over a visit by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to the country. (BBC) (The Standard)
Rwanda threatens to limit cooperation with the United Nations after a report accused the country of war crimes in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AFP)
Iran answers Lebanon's call to help fund the Lebanese Army after the United States threatened to cut off funds following the 2010 Adaisseh incident.[1]
Mount Sinabung in Sumatra, Indonesia, erupts. Thousands of people evacuated.(The Jakarta Post) (Wikinews)

Law and crime

Iran says no final decision has been made on the stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who was convicted of adultery. (AFP) (Iranian Students' News Agency)

Politics

Former President of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana is sentenced in absentia to life in prison with hard labour for ordering the killing of opposition supporters. (BBC) (Reuters Africa)
A large gathering of people attend Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (USA Today)

Sport

Four members of the Pakistan national cricket team are allegedly involved in a betting scandal including captain Salman Butt fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal during their current tour of England. (Daily Mail)

August 28, 2010 Wikinews articles

27 August 2010 (Friday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Battle of Mogadishu
- The al-Shabaab rebel group in Somalia says it has called 11 truckloads of reinforcements to take over the capital Mogadishu after a week-long battle. (Al Jazeera)
- At least 43 people are killed in the violence. (Press TV)
Police in India kill Umakanta Mahato, a top Maoist guerilla wanted in connection with the Gyaneshwari Express train derailment in May. (BBC) (Times of India)
Two bombs explode in the Mexican city of Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas, outside the municipal police station and the Televisa television station. (BNO via New Kerala)
Almost 45 people are injured in clashes between stone-throwing protesters and Indian security forces in India's Kashmir Valley. (UPI)

Business and economy

Ben Bernanke, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, says the United States Federal Reserve is prepared to act against the prospects of deflation but expects economic growth to continue during the latter half of 2010 "albeit at a relatively modest pace." (New York Times)
The United States Department of Justice closes an antitrust probe into a proposed merger of United Airlines and Continental Airlines clearing the way for shareholders to vote on the proposal. (MoneyCNN)

Disasters

As many as 30 children die of lead poisoning in northern Nigeria. (BBC) (AllAfrica.com)
12 people are killed in landslides after heavy rains in northern Turkey. (Hürriyet Daily News) (BBC)
The Indus River breaches its banks near the southern Pakistan city of Thatta forcing the evacuations of hundreds of thousands of people. (ABC Online and AFP)
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes northern Iran, killing two people. (WireUpdate) (Xinhua) (Radio New Zealand)
Floods and landslides have killed at least 34 people in Nicaragua and affected 84,000 since the start of the rainy season on May 15. (AFP via Google News)

International relations

India cancels defence exchanges with China after the latter refused to grant a visa to a general from Kashmir. (BBC) (Hindustan Times) (Al Jazeera)
Sri Lanka urges Saudi Arabia to investigate the case of a Sri Lankan maid who had nails and needles pushed into her by her employers as a "punishment". Doctors later remove 24 nails and needles from her body. (Arab News) (Lanka Business Online) (BBC)
Muslims protest outside the United States embassy in Jakarta about plans by the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida to burn Korans on the 9th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. (Fox News)
France rejects criticism from the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination over its Roma removal strategy. (Xinhua)

Law and crime

A draft United Nations report says crimes by the Rwandan army and allied rebels in Democratic Republic of the Congo during the Second Congo War could be classified as genocide. (BBC) (IOL) (Reuters Africa)
Former President of the United States Jimmy Carter secures the release of US citizen Aijalon Gomes from North Korea. (BBC) (Yonhap) (Xinhua)
The President of Kenya Mwai Kibaki enacts the new constitution. (CNN) (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation)
The chief investigator of the mass killing of 72 people in Mexico's Tamaulipas state has been missing since Wednesday. (BBC)

Politics

Leaders of the Burmese junta, including Senior General Than Shwe, resign from their posts ahead of general elections in November. (BBC) (Sify India) (Bangkok Post)
Legal advice clears Governor-General of Australia Mrs. Quentin Bryce to make a decision on who will be the next Prime Minister of Australia despite family ties to Australian Labor Party powerbroker Bill Shorten. (The Australian)

Science

A team of scientists, led by Neil Hall from the University of Liverpool, releases draft sequences of the wheat genome. (BBC)
Arrowheads found in the Sibudu Cave in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa show that humans were using bow and arrows 64000 years ago. (BBC)

Weather

Hurricane Danielle strengthens to Category 4, becoming the first major hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. (MSNBC) (CNN) (CBC)

August 27, 2010 Wikinews articles

26 August 2010 (Thursday)

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Arts and culture

German HIV-positive pop singer Nadja Benaissa is found guilty of grievous bodily harm after transmitting HIV to a man who had unprotected sex with her without her telling him of her condition. (New York Times)

Business and economy

Mass protests by civil servants in South Africa continue, demanding improved pay and benefits. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters

Two Greek F-16 planes collide mid-air south of Crete; 2 out of 3 pilots are rescued. (Athens News Agency) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
2010 Pakistan floods
- Pakistan orders nearly half a million people in towns including Sujawal, Mirpur Bathoro and Daro threatened by floods to evacuate. (AFP via Google News)
- The Pakistan Taliban threatens to kidnap foreign aid workers. (The Telegraph)
South Korea offers emergency aid to North Korea for floods. (AFP via Google News)
The United States Food and Drug Administration finds that feed given to hens at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farm led to a salmonella outbreak in eggs. (CNN)

International relations

Former International Atomic Energy Agency director Olli Heinonen claims that Iran has stockpiled enough low-enriched uranium for one to two nuclear bombs. (Haaretz)
Israel asks Germany to arrest Klaas Carel Faber, a Nazi war criminal who killed 20 Jews at Westerbork concentration camp. (Haaretz)
The New York Times claims that Mohammed Zia Salehi, an official of Afghanistan's Karzai administration accused of graft is on the United States Central Intelligence Agency payroll. (The New York Times)
Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's Minister of Defense, offers military assistance to Lebanon following a request from Hezbollah. (AFP via Lebanon Daily Star)
South Korea's presidential office claims that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is visiting China for the second time this year. (Yonhap) (Wall Street Journal) (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

Russian police arrest activists from Amnesty International and remove volunteers from Greenpeace Russia and the ONE Campaign at a U2 concert in Moscow. (BBC) (RIA Novosti) (Business Week)
An independent counsel finds that the Governor of New York David Paterson gave misleading evidence about intending to pay for free tickets that he obtained to last year's baseball world series and refers the issue to the Albany District Attorney for possible prosecution for perjury. (New York Times)
Mexico asks its Latin American neighbours to help identify the 72 people found murdered in Tamaulipas. (AFP via The Age)

Politics

Solomon Islands MP Steve Laore dies, reducing newly elected Prime Minister Danny Philip's parliamentary majority to just one. (Agence France Presse)
Democratic Party of Japan powerbroker Ichirō Ozawa announces a leadership challenge to the Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan with a ballot to be held on September 14. (Reuters)

Science

Heavy rains wash red argillite sediment from old sedimentary rock into a river at Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, causing Cameron Falls to turn red. (Daily Mail)

August 26, 2010 Wikinews articles

25 August 2010 (Wednesday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Battle of Mogadishu (2010):
- Clashes continue in Mogadishu after a rebel advance on the presidential palace is repelled. (Reuters)
A military spokesperson claims that a suicide bomber was shot and killed when he tried to drive a truckload of explosives into a Mauritanian army barracks in Néma near the border with Mali. (AP via Washington Post)
A string of attacks in Iraq targeting Iraqi security forces leaves at least 56 people dead. (AP via Washington Post), (New York Times)

Arts and culture

Actor Paul Hogan is banned from leaving Australia until he settles a multi-million dollar tax bill. (The Australian)
Archaeologists working at the Umm El-Kharga Oasis, 200km south of Cairo, discover a 3,500 year old ancient Egyptian settlement. (ABC News America)

Disasters

The flight data recorder from Henan Airlines Flight 8387 is found. (BBC)
A school bus collides with a train in Cape Town, South Africa, killing at least nine pupils and injuring five others. (AP via The Globe and Mail)
At least 20 people are killed in Democratic Republic of the Congo after a Filair plane crashes near Bandundu. (BBC),(Yahoo)
Hurricane Danielle strengthens to Category 2 on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale and heads towards Bermuda. (AP via Google News)

International Relations

The former President of the United States Jimmy Carter arrives in North Korea to negotiate for the release of United States citizen Aijalon Gomes. (CNN)
Wikileaks publishes a CIA analysis claiming that the United States could be perceived as an "exporter of terrorism". (Washington Post)

Law and Crime

Mexican Naval Infantry find 72 corpses at a remote ranch in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, near the border with the US state of Texas. The victims were economic migrants from Central America and South America believed to be murdered by a drug cartel. (Reuters), (Daily Mail)
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrests two suspects in Ottawa for alleged terrorism offences. (CTV)

Politics and elections

Danny Philip, an MP from Rendova Tetepare, is elected the new Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands following the 2010 general election. Philip narrowly defeated Steve Abana with 26-23 vote total. (Solomon Times)
Craig Langdon resigns as an Australian Labor Party MP of the Victorian Legislative Assembly representing Ivanhoe. (AAP via Sydney Morning Herald)

Science

A solar system is discovered for the star HD 10180 including a possible planet 1.4 times the size of the Earth. (Christian Science Monitor) (New York Times)

August 25, 2010 Wikinews articles

24 August 2010 (Tuesday)

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Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown:
- 80,000 people flee the southern Yemeni city of Lawdar after clashes between Al-Qaeda linked forces and government troops killed several people. (Al Jazeera)
Two Catalonian aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania by Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb return home. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
Battle of Mogadishu (2010):
- Al-Shabaab militants storm the Hotel Muna, close to the Presidential palace Villa Somalia in Mogadishu, killing at least 33 people including several MPs. (euronews) (BBC) (AFP), (New York Times)
Foreign human rights groups accuse Rwandan and Congolese rebels of gang-raping nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers' base in the village of Bunangiri, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera) (CNN) (AP) (Reuters)
A lance-corporal in the Australian Army is killed in fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province. (News Limited)

Arts and culture

United States actor Lindsay Lohan is released from a rehabilitation centre 22 days into a three month program. (ABC News)

Business and economics

India rejects plans by mining group Vedanta to extract bauxite in Orissa due to environmental concerns. (Times of India) (BBC)
Cairn Energy discovers gas off the coast of Greenland, amid protests from Greenpeace demanding it halt its oil operations. (BBC) (AFP)
Stocks on the Philippine Stock Exchange fall the day after the Manila hostage crisis. (Businessweek)

Disasters

Henan Airlines Flight 8387, carrying 91 people on board, overshoots the runway and bursts into flames in Yichun City in Heilongjiang, northeastern China; at least 43 people are reported dead. (AP) (Xinhua) (BBC)
Oxfam warns of a "double disaster" following flooding compounding a recent drought and food crisis in Niger. (AFP) (BBC)
Agni Air Flight 101, a small plane carrying fourteen people, crashes in Nepal's Makwanpur District with no survivors expected. (Kantipur) (CNN)
Rescue efforts start to free the men trapped following the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. (ABC News America)

Law and crime

The United States Department of Justice states that it will appeal a decision by United States federal judge Royce C. Lamberth to block an executive order by President Barack Obama to expand embryonic stem cell research. (BBC)

Politics and elections

Samantha Cameron, wife of the British Prime Minister David Cameron, gives birth to the couple's fourth child, a girl. (Telegraph) (BBC)
John McCain wins the Republican Party primary election to become the nominee in the US Senate election in Arizona. (Fox News)

August 24, 2010 Wikinews articles

23 August 2010 (Monday)

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The Palestinian Authority has warned that it will pull out of peace talks if Israel renews the construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank. (BBC)
Two members of NATO's International Security Assistance Force are killed by improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan. (AFP via Google News)
At least 17 people, including a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, Maulana Noor Mohammed Wazir, are killed in the bombing of a mosque in Pakistan's South Waziristan region. (Economic Times of India)

Arts and culture

The Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam is knocked down by a gust of heavy wind, breaking off about a meter above ground. (NOS)
Jimena Navarrete, representing Mexico, wins Miss Universe 2010. (AP via News OK)

Business and economics

Australia's stock market and currency lose value because of the country's hung parliament. (BBC)

Disasters

Flooding in China and North Korea:
- More than 250,000 people are evacuated due to floods across China and North Korea. (Al Jazeera) (UK Press Association via Google News)
- 4 people die in floods in Dandong, China after flood waters cause the Yalu River to burst its banks. (AP via The Independent)
It is expected to take 120 days (4 months) to free the 33 miners trapped underground near Copiapó in the Atacama Desert after it is confirmed that they are all currently alive. (The Guardian)
The United Nations describes the humanitarian situation caused by the 2010 Pakistan floods as critical. (BBC)

International relations

Cambodia and Thailand resume diplomatic relations after former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra resigns his post as economic advisor to the Cambodian government. (Thai News Agency) (BBC)

Law and crime

2 tonnes of elephant ivory and five rhino horns disguised as avocados destined for Malaysia are seized in Nairobi, Kenya. (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation) (Reuters)
China considers removing the death penalty for several economic crimes. (BBC) (Xinhua) (AFP)
25 prisoners, including Islamic militants, escape from a prison in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. (BBC) (Bangkok Post) (ITAR-TASS)
A dismissed police inspector hijacks a coach belonging to Hong Thai Travel and its 25 Hong Kong tourists in Manila, the capital of the Philippines in order to demand his reinstatement. He is later shot dead by the police. At least 7 hostages are killed and 2 others severely injured.(Al Jazeera) (CNN) (Philippine Inquirer)
Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia rules against a decision by President Barack Obama allowing the expansion of embryonic stem cell research claiming it breaks US law. (Bloomberg)

Sport

Golfer Tiger Woods and his ex-wife Elin Nordegren finalise their divorce. (CBS Sports)

August 23, 2010 Wikinews articles

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Elections
Recent: August 1: São Tomé and Príncipe, Parliament 4: Kenya, Constitutional referendum 4: Solomon Islands, General 9: Rwanda, President 21: Australia, Federal Upcoming: September 5: Moldova, Constitutional referendum 12: Turkey, Constitutional referendum 16: Tuvalu, General 18: Afghanistan, Parliament 18: Slovakia, Political reform referendum 19: Guinea, President (2^nd Round) 19: Sweden, General 22: Switzerland, Federal Council (indirect) 26: Venezuela, Parliament 26: Switzerland, Referendum edit sidebar

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