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Current events of
August 19, 2011
(
2011-08-19
)
(Friday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
A
Taliban
attack on a
British Council
centre in
Kabul
,
Afghanistan
, results in the death of at least eight people.
(BBC)
(CNN)
(Reuters)
(AFP via
The Strait Times
)
Rocket attacks in southern
Israel
kill eight people.
(Ha'aretz)
Arts and culture
The
Pukkelpop
music festival
in
Belgium
is cancelled following the death of at least five people in a storm.
(The Inquisitr)
Business and economy
Hewlett-Packard
shares drop 20% on news that the company plans to split off its
personal computer
division as a separate company.
(
Wall Street Journal
)
August 2011 stock markets fall
The
Tokyo Stock Exchange
's
Nikkei Stock Average
falls by 1.9% in early trading as the
trend
of stock market falls continues.
(
Wall Street Journal
)
The
All Ordinaries Index
on the
Australian Stock Exchange
falls by 4.4% with
Asian
markets generally down.
(AAP via
The Australian
)
U.S. retailing giant
J.C. Penney
agrees with its largest shareholder,
William Ackman
, that Ackman will cap his shareholdings at 16.5 percent, while increasing his exposure through a "synthetic long position."
(Dow Jones Newswire)
Disasters
A 6.8 magnitude
earthquake
occurs off the coast of
Japan
with a
tsunami
warning issued and then retracted.
(Reuters)
(AP via
Sydney Morning Herald
)
A
Chinese scientist
is reported missing on
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
's
Muztagh Ata
glacier
after conducting research on the
Tibetan Plateau
.
(Bernama)
(
The People's Daily
)
Three people die in the city of
Pittsburgh
in the US state of
Pennsylvania
as a result of
flash flooding
.
(AP via Google)
Other
The announcement of possible wreck relocation of
Swedish
16th century warship
Mars
in the
Baltic Sea
.
(AFP via
Dawn.com
)
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