Portal:Current events/2014 August 6

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Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
  • Russia bans all United States agricultural products, European Union fruit and vegetable imports in response to Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukrainian crisis. (RT) (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
Health
Law and crime
  • Officials in Karamay in Xinjiang, western China, places a temporary ban on Islamic headscarves, clothing and those with beards from using public transport, following violence in the region. (BBC)
  • Two medical students Neil Dalton, 23 and Aidan Brunger completing their exchange from Newcastle University to a hospital in Malaysian Borneo were murdered after 4 men followed them after an argument over singing in a bar and stabbed them from behind. (Telegraph)
Science and technology