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Current events of
August 3, 2011
(
2011-08-03
)
(Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
2011 Syrian uprising
:
Syrian forces
shell and advance
on the city of
Hama
.
(Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
South Africa
agrees to loan
Swaziland
2.5 billion
rand
(US$368 million) to ease the latter's economic crisis.
(
Mail & Guardian
)
(AFP via Google News)
The
Chinese
Dagong Global Credit Rating
downgrades the
United States
credit rating from A+ to A with a negative outlook.
(AFP via
Sydney Morning Herald
)
The plans of cable entrepreneur
John Malone
to purchase book store chain
Barnes & Noble
may have hit a snag, especially over how to value the B&N eReader, the
Nook
.
(New York Post)
Disasters
More than 26,000 people have permanently left
New Zealand
's
Canterbury Region
since the
2011 Christchurch Earthquake
in February.
(AAP via News Limited)
Ten people die as a
Bell 412 helicopter
crashes in
Indonesia
's
North Sulawesi
province.
(
Jakarta Post
)
International relations
Computer security
firm
McAfee
uncovers one of the largest series of
cyber attacks
against the
International Olympic Committee
,
Indian government
, the
United Nations
, the steel industry and defence and security firms.
(BBC)
Law and crime
The former
President of Egypt
,
Hosni Mubarak
, leaves the resort town of
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt
to return to
Cairo
for his
trial
.
(AFP via
The Melbourne Age
)
News International phone hacking scandal
:
Charity campaigner
Heather Mills
tells the BBC's
Newsnight
that a senior
Mirror Group
journalist admitted hacking voicemails left for her by Sir
Paul McCartney
while they were together.
(BBC)
Politics
Luke March, who was charged with investigating the
United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal
, resigns from the
Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
after refusing to name those under suspicion.
(BBC)
The
Iranian parliament
confirms four new ministers including
Rostam Ghasemi
as
Minister of Petroleum
.
(Tabnak)
David Wu
resigns his seat representing
Oregon's 1st congressional district
in the
United States House of Representatives
as a result of a sex scandal.
(
The Oregonian
)
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