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Current events of
July 17, 2008
(
2008-07-17
)
(Thursday)
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2008 Pacific typhoon season
:
Typhoon Kalmaegi (Helen)
strikes
Taiwan
, resulting in at least one fatality, eight people missing and four people injured.
(AFP via Google News)
The
European Court of Human Rights
has ruled that an ethnic
Tamil
man denied
asylum
in
Britain
could not be sent back to his native
Sri Lanka
because he would be at risk of torture there.
(
The Daily Mirror
)
The
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
lifts a warning on
tomatoes
following a recent
salmonellosis outbreak
.
(Reuters)
Kuwait
names Ali al-Momen as its first
ambassador
to
Iraq
since the
Gulf War
.
(AFP via Google News)
Pope Benedict XVI
speaks to 150,000
pilgrims
in
Sydney
for
World Youth Day 2008
.
(
The Age
)
The
Chinese
National People's Congress
holds a press conference and releases mid-year financial statistics on the nation's
gross domestic product
.
(Phoenix TV)
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