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Pakistan's ruling coalition announces it will seek the impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf.
President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi (pictured) of Mauritania is deposed in a military coup d'état.
Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions die while descending K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth.
An attack on a police post near Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China leaves 16 officers dead and 16 others injured.
Over 160 people die in a stampede at a Hindu temple in Naina Devi, Himachal Pradesh, India.
The International Olympic Committee and Chinese organizers announce that some Internet restrictions have been lifted for media covering the Beijing Games.
A total solar eclipse is visible from northern Canada, Greenland, central Russia, eastern Kazakhstan, western Mongolia and China.

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August 7, 2008 (Thursday)

Salim Hamdan, Osama Bin Laden's former driver, is sentenced to 66 months in prison for war crimes. (New York Times)
The New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo reaches a $7 billion settlement with Citigroup to buy back auction rate securities from about 40,000 clients throughout the United States. (Associated Press via Google News)
The Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick is ordered to go to jail for violating the terms of his bond for an ongoing perjury trial. (NPR)
Claims for unemployment benefits in the United States rise to 455,000, the highest level since March 2002. (USA Today)
The leaders of the 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état promise to hold elections as soon as possible. (Xinhua)
Georgian-Ossetian conflict:
- Georgian and separatist South Ossetian forces have exchanged fire again near the town of Tskhinvali, wounding up to 20 people, officials say. (BBC)
- The Russian Foreign Ministry said it was concerned over Georgia's "military preparations," while a Georgian official said Russia would further undermine its role as peacekeeper if it failed to convince the South Ossetian side on talks. (Civil Georgia) (Civil Georgia)
- Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, offers an immediate ceasefire to South Ossetian authorities. (BBC)
Pakistan's ruling coalition announces it will seek the impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf.(AP)

August 6, 2008 (Wednesday)

At least nine firefighters are missing presumed dead after a Sikorsky S-61 helicopter crashes in northern California. (The Oregonian)
UNICEF releases The State of Asia-Pacific’s Children 2008. The report recommends focus on China and India, where 2.4 million preventable child deaths occur every year. (Al Jazeera)(Reuters)(The Straits Times)
An explosion on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline has halted the oil supplies through one of the biggest pipelines in the world. (Reuters, Hürriyet)
Salim Hamdan, the former driver for Osama Bin Laden is convicted of supporting terrorism in the United States in the first military war crimes trial of a terror suspect captured after the September 11, 2001 attacks. (Bloomberg)
A military coup d'état occurs in Mauritania with the Army, led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, seizing the President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef and the Interior Minister. (ABC News Australia)
An air force UH-1H helicopter crashes in Thailand, killing ten. (The Australian)
Competitions start at the Beijing Olympic Games two days ahead of the Opening Ceremony with the Women's football tournament.(CNN)
The United States FBI claims scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax scares of 2001 that killed five people and made 17 others ill. (BBC)
Leader of Malaysian opposition Anwar Ibrahim is formally charged with sodomy, which he called it to be politically motivated. BBC News

August 5, 2008 (Tuesday)

Rwanda formally accuses senior French officials, including former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and late President François Mitterrand, of involvement in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and calls for them to be put on trial. (Reuters)
U.S. President George W. Bush, on his way to Beijing to attend the Olympics, stops in South Korea and Thailand. (FOX News)
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Sichuan, China, according to the US Geological Survey. (RTÉ News) (CNN)

August 4, 2008 (Monday)

U.S. conservative political commentator Robert Novak retires after 45 years. The reason for retirement was a previously discovered brain tumour. Novak is also involved in the CIA leak scandal. (CBS News)
Eleven climbers from an international expedition are reported dead after ice fall took out the fixed ropes on part of the route on K2 mountain in the Himalayas. (AP via Yahoo! News)
A police post near Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China is attacked, leaving 16 officers dead and 16 others injured. (BBC News)

August 3, 2008 (Sunday)

162 people die in a stampede at a Hindu temple in Naina Devi in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. (AFP via Google News)
North Korea says that it will expel "unnecessary" South Korean staff from the Kumgangsan resort and threatens military action in an escalation of tension over the shooting of a South Korean tourist. (Reuters)
The third launch of privately developed SpaceX launcher Falcon 1 fails to reach orbit. (Spaceflightnow.com)
Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority launches an investigation into safety at Qantas after three emergencies in two weeks, beginning with the explosion aboard Qantas Flight 30. (ABC News)
At least 21 street cleaners are killed by a roadside bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia. (CNN)
12 people are killed when a minibus explodes in Baghdad, Iraq. (CNN)
11 climbers are feared to have died in an avalanche at K2 mountain in Pakistan. (CNN)

August 2, 2008 (Saturday)

Latvia holds a constitutional referendum on whether to allow referendums on dissolving parliament and calling early elections. Although the result was invalidated, as turnout did not meet the 50% threshold, the results (96% in favour of the change) is considered likely to press politicians to adopt a similar measure nonetheless. (AFP) (Reuters)
Two climbers from an international expedition perish after ice fall on K2 mountain in the Himalayas, and six members of the team have gone missing. (BBC News)
The International Olympic Committee strips the United States 2000 Summer Olympics 4×400 metre relay team of their gold medal after team member Antonio Pettigrew admits to doping. (Reuters)
Members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation meet to discuss trade, terrorism, and poverty. Tensions between India and Pakistan threaten to overshadow the eight-nation gathering. (AFP via Google News) (Reuters)

August 1, 2008 (Friday)

The International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously approves a safeguards agreement with India, a precondition of the nuclear deal with the United States. (Sify)
Unemployment in the United States rises to 5.7 per cent, its highest rate in more than four years. (VOA)
Vietnam's capital Hanoi absorbs the neighboring province of Ha Tay, tripling its area and doubling its population. (Thanh Nien News)
U.S. government officials conclude that elements of Pakistan's intelligence service, the Inter-Services Intelligence, aided militants in the July 7 suicide car bomb attack on India's embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The government of Pakistan denied involvement. (The New York Times) (The Wall Street Journal) (AP via The New York Times)
At least 20 people are killed after a fire breaks out on a passenger train in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India. (BBC News)
2008 Summer Olympics:
- The International Olympic Committee and the Beijing Organizing Committee reach an agreement on Internet access for the 2008 Olympic Games. (Reuters via The New York Times)
- Several restrictions remain as the International Olympic Committee and Chinese organisers BOCOG claim they have lifted all Internet restrictions for media covering the Beijing Games. (The Times) (AFP via Google News)
King Tupou V is crowned as the 23rd Monarch of Tonga. (The Times)
At least 11 people die following the collapse of a three-story girls' dormitory due to an explosion in the village of Balcilar in Konya Province in central Anatolia, Turkey. (AP via Google News)
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation holds a summit meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with terrorism high on the agenda. (BBC News)
A total solar eclipse is visible from northern Canada (Nunavut), Greenland, central Russia, eastern Kazakhstan, western Mongolia and China. (AFP via Google News)

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