Portal:Current events/2007 August 26
August 26, 2007 (Sunday)
- Gunmen raid a farm in Putumayo Department in Colombia killing 9 people with authorities blaming FARC. (Associated Press in International Herald Tribune)
- 2007 Midwest flooding: Tornadoes hit parts of central and southeast Ohio as hundreds of thousands of people in the Midwest are without power. (AP via Fox News)
- A series of explosions in Mogadishu, Somalia kills three people. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- The Islamist militant group Fatah al-Islam seeks to extract its wounded from the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp. (Reuters Alertnet)
- An Antonov plane carrying tin ore crashes in Kongolo, Tanganyika District of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Wikinews)
- Five Iraqi Shia, Sunni and Kurdish political parties sign a deal forming a new "Moderates Front" supporting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (BBC)
- The equine influenza outbreak spreads in Australia threatening the Spring Carnival including the Melbourne Cup. (Reuters via the Washington Post) Archived 2012-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Bird flu breaks out at a German farm. (Washington Post)
- Ludwig Scotty's government wins a landslide victory in the Nauruan parliamentary election, 2007 with René Harris as the only member of the Opposition to win a seat. (ABC News Australia)
- 25 August 2007 Hyderabad bombings
- Seven more unexploded bombs are found in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India a day after the bombings. (Reuters via News Limited)
- The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy blames Pakistani and Bangladeshi terrorists for the bombings. (Bloomberg)
- 2007 Greek fires:
- European Union countries send firefighters and equipment to help fight hundreds of fires.(BBC and AFP via ABC News Australia)
- The fires threaten Olympia, the site of the Ancient Olympic Games. (Financial Times via MSNBC)
- Greek authorities arrest and charge two people in connection with the fires. (CNN)
- The Greek Government offers a reward of €1,000,000 to help catch arsonists. (BBC)