Portal:Current events/2010 August 8

August 8, 2010 (Sunday)

North Korea detains a South Korean fishing boat with four South Koreans and three Chinese on board. (BBC) (Straits Times) (Aljazeera)
At least 8 people are killed and 32 others injured during a car bomb outside a restaurant in Ramadi. (Aljazeera)
Basra explosion:
- The death toll rises to 20 and injury toll is more than 100 in Basra following yesterday's explosion, which police say was as a result of a power generator short-circuiting but other sources claim was due to a car bomb. (Aljazeeera) (Euronews)
- The death toll in Basra soon rises to 43. (BBC)
Adaisseh incident:
- United States Representative Ron Klein calls for an investigation into American military aid to Lebanon to determine whether the Lebanese soldiers involved used American-supplied military equipment or received American-funded training. (The Jerusalem Post)
The Anatolian Agency reports that two Turkish Army soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Mardin Province near the Turkish border with Syria. (Canadian Press via Google News)

Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, hospitalised after falling in the United States last month, was not released yesterday as had been initially expected due to a negative reaction to her morphine. (BBC)

Mark Papermaster, who engineered the Apple iPhone, leaves American company Apple due to the poor reception of the latest device. (Aljazeera)

127 people are killed and 2,000 missing in landslides in Gansu Province, China, due to ongoing flooding. (China Daily) (The Times of India) (Aljazeera) (BBC)
The death toll rises to 132 and injury toll is at least 400 as severe flash floods devastate Kashmir. (Press TV)
Torrential rains worsen the ongoing flood crisis across Pakistan, which has so far affected 14 million people, as rescue helicopters are forced to stay on the ground in the northwest of the country. (Aljazeera) (BBC)
There is a further cave-in at the mine near Copiapó where people have been working since Thursday to rescue 34 miners trapped underground; work is currently suspended in an incident that is rare in that part of the world. (BBC)
Several countries evacuate staff from their embassies in Moscow due to the 2010 Russian wildfires including Germany, Austria, Poland and Canada. (RIA Novosti)

President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir says the "mandate" of the United Nations, African Union and international aid organisations in Darfur is to "support government authorities" and that expulsion is the other option. (Aljazeera)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrives in Abkhazia on his first visit there since the territory declared independence two years ago. (RIA Novosti) (Xinhua) (AFP) (BBC)
Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki visits Irbil to talk with President of Kurdistan Massoud Barzani. (Aljazeera)
President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai's senior adviser says the government has commenced talks with some Taliban leaders. (Aljazeera)

President of Mexico Felipe Calderón calls for a debate on the legalization of drugs. (The Observer)
18-year-old Ebrahim Hamidi is sentenced to death for sodomy in Iran, without legal representation after human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei flees in the wake of the Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani case. (The Observer)
Saudi Arabia delays shutting off Research in Motion's BlackBerry instant messaging system allowing for test of a system allowing the Government of Saudi Arabia to monitor user data. (Bloomberg)

More than 1,000 journalists march through Mexico City in protest at the repeated killings and disappearances of their colleagues throughout Mexico. (Aljazeera)
The President of South Korea Lee Myung-Bak replaces the Prime Minister of South Korea Chung Un-chan with Kim Tae-ho as part of a Cabinet reshuffle with seven other ministers also being replaced. (AFP via Google News)
Protesters in Potosí, Bolivia, strengthen an anti-government protest starting a hunger strike and cutting rail links to Chile. (AFP via Google)
Elena Kagan is sworn in as the fourth woman to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. (New York Times)