Events in August 2008
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Aug. 1
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The International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors meeting in Vienna approves the safeguards agreement with India. |
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Nine mountaineers are killed in an avalanche near the submit of the Himalayan peak K2. |
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Georgia attacks its breakaway territory of South Ossetia. |
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Aug. 2
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Terrorism “single biggest threat” to stability and progress, says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the inaugural of the 15th SAARC Summit in Colombo. Nod for SAARC Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty. |
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Aug. 3
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The SAARC Summit adopts the Colombo Declaration titled “Partnership for growth of our people.” Leaders resolve to jointly fight terror and trans-national organised crime. |
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Aug. 4
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An attack on a border patrol in China’s Xinjiang region leaves 16 policemen dead just four days ahead of the Olympics. |
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Aug. 7
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Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom signs and adopts a Constitution that allows multi-party elections. |
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Aug. 8
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The 29th Olympic Games gets off a colourful start in the Chinese capital Beijing. |
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Georgia launches a full-scale military assault against South Ossetia and reduces to ruins the capital Tskhinvali. |
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Serial bombings rock Xinjiang region in China. Seven bombers are killed. |
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Aug. 9
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Russia foils Georiga plan for an offensive against South Ossetia. Two thousand persons were killed in attacks. Moscow takes control of regional capital Tskhinvali. |
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Aug. 10
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Georgia pulls out forces from South Ossetia under heavy Russian fire. |
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Aug. 11
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Abhinav Bindra wins the Olympic gold medal for the 10-metre air rifle event bagging for independent India its first individual Olympic gold. |
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Russia sends more troops to Abkhazia another breakaway region of Georgia. |
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Aug. 12
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Russia agrees to a peace pact brokered by France to end the Caucasus crisis and halts military operations. Georgia pulls out of Commonwealth of Independent States. |
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Aug. 13
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Ceasefire in Georgia. |
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Fourteens persons are killed as a bomb blast risk through a shopping street in the Lebanese capital Tripoli. |
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Aug. 15
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Pushpa Kamal Dahal popularly known as Prachanda, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), is elected the first Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal by a four-fifths majority. |
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Aug. 16
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signs a peace plan to end war with Georgia. |
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U.S. ace swimmer Michael Phelps ties Mark Spitz’s 1972 record of seven gold medals in a single Olympics. |
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Aug. 17
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Michael Phelps wins an unprecedented eighth gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games. |
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Aug. 18
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Pervez Musharraf resigns as Pakistan President after an eight-year rule. |
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Prachanda is sworn in first Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. |
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Russia begins troops pullout from Georgia. |
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Aug. 19
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At least 39 persons are killed in a suicide bombing in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province town of Deras Ismail Khan. |
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A car bomb attack on a police school in Algeria leaves 43 deads. |
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Aug. 20
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At least 153 people are killed after fire engulfs a Spanair flight during take off in Madrid airport. |
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The U.S. signs a deal with Warsaw to deploy 10 anti-missiles in Poland. |
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Aug. 21
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At least 65 people are killed in twin suicide bombings at the gates of Pakistan Ordnance Factory in Wah cantonment near Taxila. |
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Aug. 24
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The Beijing Olympic Games conclude after 16 glorious days. |
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Sixtyfive people are killed after a plane crashes soon after take-off from the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek. |
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Aug. 25
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The Pakistan Muslim League (N) pulls out of the Pakistan People’s Party led coalition government. |
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Lovemore Moyo of the Opposition Movement for Democratic Change takes oath as Zimbabwe Speaker. |
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Aug. 26
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Russia recognises Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states. |
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Malaysia’s Opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim wins a big victory in a by-election. |
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Aug. 27
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The Pakistan government restores eight of the 60 judges sacked by the former President Pervez Musharraf in November 2007. |
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Aug. 28
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India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations clinch a trade pact that will create a new free trade area of 1.7 billion people and cover 11 countries, in Singapore. |
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Aug. 29
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Australian police drops its probe against Indian doctor Mohammad Haneef wrongly accused of involvement in the failed U.K. car bombings. |
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Aug. 31
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Eight persons are presented the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay awards at a function in the Philippines capital Manila. |
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