Portal:Current events/2010 August 3

Current events of August 3, 2010 (2010-08-03) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2010 Adaisseh incident:
  • Three Lebanese soldiers, one Israeli soldier, and a journalist are killed, and others are wounded, in clashes along the Israel-Lebanon border. (Aljazeera) (BBC) (The Guardian) (AFP via Google News)
  • The United Nations Security Council goes into closed-door consultations. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  • Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu claims that IDF soldiers did not cross the border. (Jerusalem Post)
  • UNIFIL confirms that the IDF did not cross the border. {Jerusalem Post)
• Assassination of Raza Haider:
  • Around 46 people are killed and more than 100 others are wounded in Karachi during violent scenes that follow the assassination. (Aljazeera) (Daily Mail) (AP via The Guardian)
  • Police fill the streets of Karachi and Hyderabad is also deserted. (Reuters)
• Authorities shoot dead at least 2 people for protesting on a highway near Srinagar in Kashmir. (Aljazeera)
• At least 5 police officers are shot dead at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq. (Aljazeera)
• A battle erupts as the Taliban attacks the Kandahar Air Field, the main NATO base in southern Afghanistan. The battle lasts an hour, after which the Taliban flee. (Aljazeera)
• A car bomb explodes in Derry, injuring no one. (The Guardian) (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)

Disasters

• 2010 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa floods:
  • More than three million people are dislocated and 1,500 are now dead as Pakistan's worst floods flow to the south. (Aljazeera)
  • Rescue attempts are underway. (BBC)
  • The Warsak Dam near Peshawar, Pakistan's third-largest damn, is threatened by rising water levels. (The Guardian)
  • The United States Army sends four CH-47 Chinook helicopters and two UH-60 Blackhawks helicopters to help with the relief effort. (AFP via Google)
• Russian wildfires worsen. (BBC) (IOL)
• The family of Terry Jupp claim that the Ministry of Defence did not use "stringent procedures" during the secretive explosive experiment on an island in the Thames Estuary that led to his death. (The Guardian) (The Daily Telegraph) (BBC) (The Washington Post)

Economics

• Nearly £2 billion of savings are revealed to have been removed from the UK's nationalised Northern Rock bank. (The Guardian)

International relations

• President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari arrives in the UK upon a five-day visit as the two countries disagree over David Cameron's remarks on "the export of terror". (Aljazeera)
• Iran rejects Brazil's offer to grant political asylum to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who has been sentenced to death in Iran for adultery. (AP via The Guardian)

Law and crime

• Jackie Selebi, former chief of Interpol and South Africa's top police officer, is sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption charges. (AP via GaeaTimes) (Aljazeera) (The Guardian) (France24) (Reuters India)
• Former Rwandan administrator Dominique Ntawukulilyayo is given a 25-year sentence of imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda after being convicted of the transportation of soldiers during the Rwandan Genocide. (BBC)
• Omar Thornton kills 9 people, including himself, in a workplace incident at Hartford Distributors Inc in Manchester, Connecticut. (Xinhua)

Politics and elections

• A prostitute informs Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi's corruption inquiry that she received presents after he shared a bed with her and two others. (The Guardian)
• Kenya deploys an additional 18,000 police officers as the country heads to the polls to decide the fate of a potential new constitution. (Aljazeera)

Science and weather

• The first major Earth-directed solar eruption in a decade will generate aurorae visible in non-polar areas from early August 4th to August 5th. (Foxnews.com) (CNN)

Sport

• Angola jails 4 human rights activists - a university professor, priest, lawyer and former police officer - for alleged links to the perpetrators of the Togo national football team attack; Amnesty International and other organisations describe it as a crackdown on criticism. (BBC News)
• Steward Derek Warwick gives Michael Schumacher, who performed a dangerous maneuver against a fellow driver, a 10-place penalty in a future Grand Prix race. (Press Association via The Guardian)

Other current events

• Tokyo's "oldest woman" cannot be located, casting doubts upon her claim to the title. (BBC)