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The International Olympic Committee bans Iraq's team from competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics because of interference by the government in the national-level committee. Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member. India's United Progressive Alliance-led government (Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pictured) survives a confidence vote, held after the Left Front withdraws its support over the Indo-US nuclear deal. The first trial of a Guantanamo Bay detention camp inmate begins with Salim Hamdan, the former driver and bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, pleading not guilty to charges of conspiracy and supporting terrorism. Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić is arrested by security forces in Serbia on war crimes charges, including genocide, after a 12-year manhunt.
Barack Obama, the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party in the United States presidential election, 2008 speaks to 200,000 people in Berlin's Tiergarten. (New Zealand Herald) Three former aides to former Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer and the former head of the New York State Police are charged with ethics violations over improper use of travel records of former Republican New York Senate majority leader Joseph Bruno. (AP via Google News) Max Mosley, head of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, wins his privacy case against the News of the World, after the paper alleged he took part in a Nazi-themed BDSM orgy. (The Guardian) (BBC News) Voters in Glasgow East go to the polls for the Glasgow East by-election, 2008 with the Scottish National Party (SNP) claiming a historic victory over the Scottish Labour Party candidate after a massive swing in favour of the SNP. (Press Association via Google News), (The Telegraph) A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 hits off the coast of Honshu, Japan with reports of landslides, injuries and disruption to transport and power supplies. (BBC News) 2008 Beijing Olympics:
Iranian weightlifter Hossein Rezazadeh pulls out of Olympics upon recommendation of the national team's medical commission. (AFP) The International Olympic Committee bans Iraq from participating in the 2008 Summer Olympics because the Government of Iraq seized control of Iraq's Olympic Committee. (Bloomberg)
Prime Minister of Nepal Girija Prasad Koirala submits his resignation to the new President Ram Baran Yadav to pave the way for the forming of new government. (Zee News) Militants who formed the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta announce that unless the Nigerian Army withdraws from the area and their development demands are met, they will shut down oil and gas production from Bonny Island. (AP via Google News) The European Union suspends payments to two Bulgarian agencies due to concerns over corruption and organized crime. (BBC News) Cape Verde officially joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member. (WTO News) Hurricane Dolly makes landfall on South Padre Island, Texas, with sustained winds of 95 mph (150 km/h). (CNN) (NHC)
2008 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Dolly strengthens to Hurricane Dolly in the Gulf of Mexico as it nears the coast of Texas. (Bloomberg) The United Progressive Alliance led government in India survives a crucial no-confidence vote based on disagreements between Indian National Congress and Left Front over the Indo-US nuclear deal. (CNN) (The Times) In an incident similar to the one that occurred on July 2, a Palestinian man drives a backhoe into two vehicles in Jerusalem, injuring 16, before being shot dead. (The Guardian) Based on initial clinical trials, the drug abiraterone is hailed as a potentially historic advance in the treatment of prostate cancer. (BBC News)
The Congress of France (the National Assembly and the Senate meeting together) passes a bill that would make major changes to the Constitution of France, with a margin of only one vote; this bill is designed to strengthen Parliament, while establishing a two-term presidential term limit and allowing the President to speak before Parliament. (BBC News) Russia and China sign a pact demarcating their 4,300-kilometer border, bringing an end to more than 40 years of negotiations. (BBC News) Fugitive Radovan Karadžić, indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, is arrested in Serbia. (BBC News) The United States Food and Drug Administration finds the same salmonella strain responsible for the 2008 United States salmonellosis outbreak in Mexican-grown jalapeño peppers. (AP via Google News) The first terrorism trial of a Guantanamo Bay inmate begins with Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former driver and bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, pleading not guilty. (CBC) Yahoo! reaches a deal with Carl Icahn giving him three seats on its board of directors. (Bloomberg) Zimbabwe:
Zimbabwe introduces a new 100-billion-dollar bank note as the annual inflation rate hits 2.2 million percent. (BBC News) (The Guardian) Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, and Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change sign an agreement to start talks on a powersharing arrangement in Zimbabwe. (AP via Google News)
Nepal's presidential election concludes with Ram Baran Yadav winning with a majority. (China Daily) At least three people die and 14 are injured in deliberate explosions on buses in the city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province in the People's Republic of China. (Reuters) A United States Air Force B-52 bomber crashes near Guam in the western Pacific Ocean. (AP via MSNBC) Pope Benedict XVI holds a special mass in Sydney for victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic Church clergy. (Al-Jazeera)Golfer Pádraig Harrington of Ireland wins his second successive Open Championship (British Open). (AP via Google News) The Dark Knight sets a new record for box office receipts for an opening weekend in the United States with US$158.4 million earned between Friday and Sunday. (Entertainment Weekly) The Colombian diaspora celebrates Colombia's Independence Day with concerts and marches against violence, kidnapping and the FARC in Bogotá, Leticia, the country's other 1,119 cities and municipalities, and events in cities around the world including Paris (attended by Ingrid Betancourt), London, Washington, New York City and Miami. (BBC News) (El Tiempo) At least 13 Afghan police and civilians are killed in an airstrike by NATO forces two weeks after an airstrike killed 52 civilians at a wedding. (BBC News) Beijing introduces traffic restrictions and factory closures in an effort to reduce air pollution for the 2008 Summer Olympics. (Reuters) 500,000 people attend the closing mass of World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney, Australia, celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, who announces Madrid as the host city for the next World Youth Day in 2011. (Sydney Morning Herald) 1,600,000 people attend the Loveparade in Dortmund, Germany. (AFP via Google News)
In Jammu and Kashmir 10 Indian army soldiers are killed in land mine attack claimed by Hizbul Mujahideen (Times of India) Iran advises a high-level meeting between it, the United States and European Union in Geneva over its nuclear program saying that it will not suspend production of enriched uranium. (Radio Netherlands) 2008 Cambodian-Thai stand-off: Some 500 Thai and 1,000 Cambodian troops have massed near Prasat Preah Vihear temple on the border between the two countries, increasing their presence on the fifth day of the tense stand-off. (France 24) Nineteen people are killed, 43 injured and several are missing after a bus crash in Khare Khola, Nepal 100 miles west of Kathmandu. (AP via Google) Pope Benedict XVI apologizes to victims of abuse by Roman Catholic Church clergy in Australia during a mass in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney for World Youth Day 2008. (BBC)
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July 25: Minimum wage in United States increases to $6.55 July 24: Marathon runner addresses Toronto, bringing attention to autism July 24: Amy Winehouse wax model unveiled July 24: Iraq banned from participating in Beijing Olympics July 24: Turkish planes bomb PKK targets in northern Iraq July 24: UK opposition leader David Cameron's bicycle was stolen July 24: Palestinian official newspapers: Israel uses super rats against Jerusalem Arabs July 24: African AIDS prevalence may be physiological July 24: Released video: Israeli soldier shoot bound man at short range July 24: Two large earthquakes rattle Japan, Russia July 24: Bus crash in Victoria, Australia injures twenty, some critical July 23: Trio found with €440 million of cocaine receive a total of 85 years imprisonment July 23: China to establish protest zones for Olympics July 23: Chinese police offer 300,000 yuan reward in double bus bombings July 23: Nationalised UK bank Northern Rock appoints new chief executive July 23: Rhode Island man arrested with record blood-alcohol reading July 23: Tropical Storm Dolly kills seventeen in Guatemala July 23: Second Arab-Israeli bulldozer attack in July 2008 July 22: Paramedics protest outside New South Wales parliament July 22: US military confirms three deaths after B-52 crash off Guam
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