Portal:Current events/2007 August 11
August 11, 2007 (Saturday)
- A roadside bomb claims the life of the Governor of Ad-Diwaniyah province in Iraq Khalil Jalil Hamza and the provincial police chief Major-General Khalid Hassan. (San-Jose Mercury News)
- An explosion in Pasuruan in the East Java province of Indonesia causes three deaths and another three injuries. (AFP viaNews Limited)
- War in Afghanistan:
- The Taliban attacks Firebase Anaconda in Uruzgan province for the third time in a week suffering casualties. The Taliban also launches unsuccessful attacks in Helmand and Kandahar provinces. (CNN)
- The Taliban claims to have released two South Korean hostages but local and national officials cannot confirm the claims. (Reuters)
- Three by-elections for the Canadian House of Commons will be held for the ridings of Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean, Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot and Outremont on September 17. (Globe and Mail)
- The President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez proposes building a gas pipeline between Venezuela and the Caribbean supplying states such as Cuba. (Bloomberg)
- The President of Russia Vladimir Putin states that a new radar station in the village of Lekhtusi near St Petersburg is the first step in a large-scale air defense program. (Reuters)
- New York City is put on high alert after an al Qaeda bomb threat surfaces on Internet.
- Thai insurgents attack several positions held by Thai security forces at Yala Province. (Xinhua via People's Daily)
- The President of the United States George W. Bush hosts the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy at a casual lunch at the Bush family home in Maine. (Reuters)
- United States presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins the Republican Party's Ames Straw Poll in Ames, Iowa. (The Washington Post)
- Voters in Sierra Leone go to the polls for the first time since the end of the country's civil war in 2002. (Voice of America)