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Current events of
August 24, 2011
(
2011-08-24
)
(Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2011 Battle of Tripoli
National Transitional Council
Chairman
Mustafa Abdul Jalil
announces
legislative and presidential elections
within eight months, and promises that
Muammar Gaddafi
will be tried in Libya.
(Ynetnews)
Muammar Gaddafi
vows to fight until "death or victory" despite the capture of his
Bab al-Azizia
compound in southern
Tripoli
.
(
The Telegraph
)
A former
United Nations
weapons inspector, Olli Heinonen, warns that a research centre near
Tripoli
has materials that could be used to make a nuclear
dirty bomb
.
(Reuters via the
New York Times
)
Air strikes kill 30
Al-Qaeda
linked militants near
Zinjibar
in
Yemen
's
Abyan Governorate
with eight
army
soldiers killed in fighting.
(AP via Huffington Post
)
Business and economy
Moody's
credit rating
agency downgrades
Japan
to Aa3 due to weak
economic growth
prospects and high levels of
public debt
.
(Bloomberg)
Steve Jobs
resigns as the CEO of
Apple Inc
.
Tim Cook
took over the CEO position for the company.
(Wall Street Journal)
Disasters
Hurricane Irene
Hurricane Irene strengthens to Category 3 status as it heads towards
The Bahamas
and
Turks and Caicos
and then the
East Coast of the United States
.
(News Limited via
The Herald Sun
)
.
(CNN)
Thousands of people on
Ocracoke Island
off the U.S. state of
North Carolina
are told to evacuate ahead of the arrival of the hurricane later in the week.
(AP via
The Chronicle-Herald
)
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hits near the Amazon region of Peru
(MSNBC)
(CNN)
International relations
North Korea
indicates it is ready to bring about a self-imposed moratorium on
its nuclear weapons program
.
(AP via
USA Today
)
Law and crime
Russian police
arrest a former senior police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov suspected of organising the murder of former
Kremlin
reporter
Anna Politkovskaya
in 2006.
(AFP via Google News)
Sport
In
athletics
,
Lamine Diack
of
Senegal
is elected unopposed to another term as President of the
International Association of Athletics Federations
.
(AP via Yahoo!)
Science
A
Progress
resupply vehicle destined for the
International Space Station
experiences a catastrophic engine failure and fails to reach orbit impacting in the
Altai Republic
.
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