August 2015

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August 2015 was the eighth month of the current common year. The month, which began on a Saturday, ended on a Monday after 31 days.

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This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from August 2015.

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  • A court in Egypt postpones a verdict in the prominent trial of two journalists with Al-Jazeera, who have been charged with aiding the Muslim Brotherhood. (Reuters)
  • Two nearby Catholic and Baptist churches in Las Cruces, New Mexico are rocked by explosions at a mailbox and a trash can (USA Today)
  • Services were held outdoors after Dustin Connor allegedly stole a computer, discharged fire extinguishers, and damaged a cross and other structures at a church in Piqua, Ohio. He was a person of interest in similar vandalism to another church in town.(Washington Times / Dayton Daily News)
  • In Melbourne, Florida, a man is jailed after he tries to rob the church during a sermon with an airsoft gun before he was subdued by the Pastor. San Francisco Chronicle / Florida Today
  • In Reedley, California, a pregnant 18 year old was shot in the left eye after passing a slow-driving SUV which suddenly pulls up alongside and opened fire in an apparent road rage incident.(Sky News)
  • On University Hill in Boulder, Colorado, police arrested James Hammack on suspicion of attempted murder. In an apparent attack on a group of four college-age men, witnesses say he yelled ""You trying to die tonight?" before rushing into the group and stabbed one man.(Daily Camera)
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  • Flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains has caused over 100 deaths in India over the past week with tens of thousands of people taking shelter in refugee camps. (BBC)
  • Twenty people are injured when two cranes overturn on several houses whilst installing a part of the Julianabrug at Alphen aan den Rijn in the Netherlands. (NL Times) (BBC)
  • At least twelve people are killed with many feared trapped in the rubble as a fifty year old building collapses in the Indian city of Thane after days of heavy rain. (NDTV) (AP)
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  • A street-corner sized sinkhole forms at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 64th Street in Sunset Park in Brooklyn, New York City, ruining the street corner, around 7:30 AM. The northbound N Broadway Local train is delayed; there is at least one disconnected pipe and gas lines are being repaired by National Grid workers; and the police have cordoned off the area. No fatalities or injuries have been reported. (Business Insider, via MSN)
  • At least 31 people are killed and about 100 injured as two express passenger trains (12 coaches of the Kamayani Express; to Varanasi from Mumbai, or Bombay) derail, partially swept off a bridge while crossing flooded tracks in India's Madhya Pradesh state. Related to this incident are monsoon rains and the end of a cyclone which have killed more than 100 in India. (NDTV), (Reuters, via MSN)
  • Several people are dead after two boats collide between Kiwa and Remba Islands on Lake Victoria. (The Nation)
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  • Masked gunmen kill 19 people and wound seven others at multiple locations of São Paulo's suburbs Thursday night. (BBC) (ABC)
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  • Following a July 15 hacking, user data of the infidelity-promoting dating website Ashley Madison is leaked with over 30 million users having their information compromised. (BBC)
  • Police in the American city of St. Louis, Missouri make nine arrests and use tear gas to disperse protesters after a killing of an armed man allegedly aiming a gun at police officers earlier in the day. (CNN)
  • 3 people are killed, 4 injured in a drive by shooting outside of a Boys & Girls Club in Rochester, New York. (WGRZ)
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  • Britain and Iran reopen embassies in each others' capitals that had been closed after Iranian protesters stormed the British embassy on November 29, 2011. (Reuters)
  • North and South Korea resume talks in the border village of Panmunjon in efforts to defuse recent tensions. (AP)
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  • According to a new study, the Sumatran Rhino is now considered extinct in the wild in Malaysia. No new wild animals have been spotted since 2007, elsewhere fewer than 100 Rhinos remain in the wild. (MSN).
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