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Current events of
August 11, 2011
(
2011-08-11
)
(Thursday)
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Armed conflict and attacks
Karen Drambjan
, a left-wing
Estonian
lawyer, storms the
Defense Ministry
in
Tallinn
and takes two hostages, but is killed when special police forces storm the building.
(RT)
At least five people including four
police officers
are killed after a bomb explodes near a police van in the
Pakistani
city of
Peshawar
.
(BBC)
Business and economy
August 2011 stock markets fall
and rebound
Stock markets
in
Asia
and
Australia
fall on the back of a sharp decline in Wednesday's trading on the
New York Stock Exchange
.
(MarketWatch)
(MarketWatch)
The
Dow Jones Industrial Average
gains 423.37 points, the fourth-straight day U.S. stocks have changed by over 400 points. The market dropped on Monday and Wednesday, and registered increases Tuesday and today.
(
Hartford Courant
)
Disasters
The
City Council
in the
New Zealand
city of
Christchurch
announces plans to rebuild its
central business district
after the recent
earthquake
.
(TV New Zealand)
International relations
Final approval is given for the building of 1,600
Israeli
settler homes in
disputed
East Jerusalem
by Israeli Interior Minister
Eli Yishai
despite a diplomatic rebuke Tuesday from the
United States
over earlier construction plans.
(BBC)
(Toronto Globe and Mail)
Law and crime
Umar Patek
, a key suspect in the
2002 Bali bombings
, faces trial on
terrorism
charges in
Jakarta
after being extradicted from
Pakistan
to
Indonesia
.
(AP via News Limited)
Politics and elections
The
Parliament of the United Kingdom
comes back from its summer break to debate the
2011 England riots
.
(AFP via
Sydney Morning Herald
)
The
Philippine Senate
Electoral Tribunal
proclaims
Aquilino Pimentel III
as the winner of the
2007 election
days after
Juan Miguel Zubiri
resigned due to alleged electoral fraud.
(BBC News)
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