Portal:Current events/2010 August 7

Current events of August 7, 2010 (2010-08-07) (Saturday)

Armed Conflicts and Attacks

• Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah announces Monday as the day he will present evidence reputed to implicate Israel in the 2005 car bomb assassination of then Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafiq Hariri. (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Disasters

• Pakistan issues a red alert as the worst floods in its history move south towards Sindh, with hundreds of thousands of people being evacuated, at least 10,000 cows killed and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani appealing on television for help from the international community. (BBC)
• At least 16 miners are killed during a fire at a gold mine in Zhaoyuan, Shandong, in China. 23 others are still trapped inside. (Aljazeera) (Xinhua)
• Efforts intensify to rescue at least 34 people trapped in a mine near Copiapó, Chile, in the Atacama Desert. (Aljazeera)

International relations

• A poll of six countries, taken by the Brookings Institution, an American think tank, indicates that the popularity of the President of the United States Barack Obama has dropped significantly in the Arab World since "A New Beginning". (The Irish Times)

Law and crime

• A Turkish court annuls an arrest warrant issued against 102 military officers over an alleged coup plot in 2003. (Aljazeera)
• An appeals court in Iran upholds a five year jail sentence against the owner of Mehdi Karroubi's opposition website. (IOL)

Politics and elections

• President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo is diagnosed with lymphoma. (Aljazeera) (BBC) (Buenos Aires Herald)
• Juan Manuel Santos is sworn in office as 59th President of Colombia, succeeding Álvaro Uribe Vélez (CNN)

Sport

• New Zealand's All Blacks defeat the Australian Wallabies 20-10 to win the Bledisloe Cup and Tri Nations. (Radio New Zealand)