Events in August 2006
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Aug. 1
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Fiftyfive persons are killed in Iraqi bombings and shootings. |
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Foreign Ministers of SAARC nations agree in principle to grant SAARC Observer status to the U.S., South Korea and the European Union at a meeting in Dhaka. |
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Aug. 2
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Israeli commandos seize five guerrillas in a helicopter raid on Baalbek and Hizbollah retaliates by launching 190 rockets into northern Israel. |
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Forty persons are killed as the “water war” in Sri Lanka spreads to Batticaloa, Mullaitivu and Mannar districts. |
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Aug. 4
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Israel attacks Christian heartland in Lebanon for the first time. The toll goes up to 600. |
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Parliament approves Viktor Yanukovych to become Ukraine’s Prime Minister. |
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Mittal Steel and Arcelor SA announce appointment of Roland Junck as Arcelor Mittal CEO after meetings in London and Luxembourg. |
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Aug. 5
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Israel arrests Palestinian Parliament Speaker Aziz Dweik from his home in Ramallah, West Bank. |
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Israel carries out 250 air raids and fires 4000 shells on Lebanon in a seven-hour assault. |
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Aug. 7
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Israeli air strikes leave 44 persons dead in the Lebanese village of Houla. |
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Aug. 8
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Thailand declares 29 provinces as bird flu disaster zones. |
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The LTTE lifts waterway blockade. |
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Surgeons in Salt Lake City separate conjoined twins Maliyah and Kendra Herrin after a 25-hour operation. |
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Aug. 10
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Typhoon Saomai, the strongest storm to hit China in 50 years leaves 98 dead. |
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Aug.11
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Britain foils plan to blow up 10 U.S. bound flights originating from the United Kingdom using liquid explosives and arrests 21 suspects. |
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Aug. 11
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At least 128 people are killed as the LTTE attempts to overrun the army’s forward defence line in the Jaffna peninsula. |
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Aug. 12
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Hizbollah attack leaves 24 Israeli soldiers dead. Tel Aviv flies commandos into the rebel heartland. |
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Aug. 13
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Israel accepts the U.N. call for a ceasefire. |
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The 16th International AIDS Conference opens in Toronto. |
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Aug. 14
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At least 61 school children are killed in an alleged aerial raid on an orphanage in Sri Lanka’s Mullaitivu district. |
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Aug. 17
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At least 60 persons die as the Tungurahua volcano in southern Ecuador erupts destroying nearby villages. |
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Lebanese troops move into south to help enforce a U.N. sanctioned ceasefire that comes into force ending the 34-day war between Israel and Hizbollah. |
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At least 100 LTTE cadre are killed in fierce fighting in the Jaffna peninsula. |
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The toll in China’s Typhoon Saomai touches 436 with Fujian province alone accounting for 241 deaths. |
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Aug. 19
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Israeli commandos mount a raid deep inside Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire. |
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Aug. 21
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The former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein goes on trial for the savage 1987-88 Anfal campaign against the Kurdish minority. |
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Fiftyeight persons die as two trains collide in Qalyoub in northern Egypt. |
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Aug. 22
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All 171 people aboard a Russian airliner are killed as the plane crashes in Ukraine soon after take off from the Black Sea resort of Anapa. |
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An international research team makes a breakthrough in the search for a SARS cure by identifying the “channel” through which the virus enters the human body. |
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Aug. 23
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Anand Satyanand is sworn in New Zealand Governor-General in the capital Wellington. |
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Aug. 24
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Pluto loses its seven decade status as the ninth and outermost planet of the solar system following a decision at an assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Prague. |
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The ASEAN agrees to resume free trade talks with India. |
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Aug. 26
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The Jhamoori Watan Party leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti (79) and 40 others are killed in a military operation in the Bhambore Hills of Kohlu in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. |
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Aug. 27
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More than 60 persons are killed in Iraq on a day of bombings and shootings. |
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Maria Esther de Capovilla (116), the world’s oldest person dies in the Ecuador capital Quito. |
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Aug. 28
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At least 81 persons are killed in a surge in bloodshed in Iraq following clashes between Shia militia and security forces. |
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Aug. 29
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Eighty persons die in fierce fighting between the military and the LTTE in Sri Lanka’s Trincomalee district. |
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Aug. 30
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Militants kill 74 Iraqis in a series of shootings and bombings, including one in a crowded Baghdad market and another at a military recruitment centre. |
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Aug. 31
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Arvind Kejriwal receives the 2006 Ramon Magsaysay award for emergent leadership at a function in Manila. |
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A team of U.S. scientists reverses advanced melanoma a form of skin cancer by manipulating the cells of white blood cells. |
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