Portal:Current events/2007 August 12

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Bulk-carrier M/V New Flame collides with an oil tanker and runs aground near the southernmost tip of Gibraltar. [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/22/europe/EU-GEN-Spain-Gibraltar-Ship.php (International Herald Tribune)]
African Union nations pledge up to 12,000 troops for the joint United Nations-African Union mission to Darfur. [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/08/14/Darfur.peacekeepers.reut/index.html?eref=rss_world (Reuters via CNN)]
A clash between Taliban militants and Afghan security forces in Kandahar province results in nine militants dead with five police dying in a bomb. [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/13/asia/AS-GEN-Afghan-Violence.php (AP via the International Herald Tribune)]
Peru issues a map of outlining its claim to maritime territory also claimed by Chile. [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/13/content_6521418.htm (Xinhua)]
Heavy rains in Mauritania cause at least two deaths from mudslides and causes thousands of people to become homeless. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070815034546/http://voanews.com/english/2007-08-12-voa17.cfm (Voice of America)]
A gunman kills two people and wounds two others before killing himself on a Dallas, Texas freeway. [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/08/12/freeway.shootout.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us (AP via CNN)]
Former Governor of Wisconsin Tommy Thompson withdraws as a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2008 United States presidential election following his low level of support in the Ames Straw Poll. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927212741/http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=102430 (Wis Politics)]
Guatemalan authorities find 46 children believed to have been taken from the parents for illegal adoption overseas in Antigua Guatemala. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6943527.stm (BBC)]
A gunman kills three people and injures as many as ten others in a church in Neosho, Missouri. [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/08/12/church.shooting/index.html?eref=rss_topstories (CNN)]
Tiger Woods wins the 2007 PGA Championship played at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/13/2003053.htm?section=justin (AFP via ABC News Australia)]
South Africa refuses to set up a refugee camp for the influx of people fleeing Zimbabwe. [http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22234636-663,00.html (AFP via News Limited)]
People claiming to be from Turkey attack the United Nations website forcing some sections to be taken offline. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6943385.stm (BBC)]
Nouri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister of Iraq, calls for emergency talks with Iraq's political leaders to try to save his national unity government. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/13/2002935.htm (AFP via ABC News Australia)]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, replaces his Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh with Gholam-Hossein Nozari, head of the National Iranian Oil Company acting as his deputy. [https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSBLA26719820070812 (Reuters)]
Italian police uncover a secret plan to smuggle Russian weapons into Iraq. [https://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/12/ap4011324.html (AP via Forbes)]
Five hundred people are evacuated from the slopes of Mount Karangetang, an active volcano that is spewing ash and lava, on the island of Siau in Indonesia. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/12/2002833.htm (AFP via ABC News Australia)]
Denmark sends a scientific team to the Arctic to try to establish that the Lomonosov Ridge is an extension of Greenland so it can claim sovereignty over oil reserves. [http://www.onelocalnews.com/newhopecourier/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=145617 (AP via New Hope Courier)]
A Jakarta conference of Islamists sponsored by the Hizb ut-Tahrir discusses plans to reestablish a caliphate. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/12/2002815.htm (ABC News Australia)]
Fossilised remains of an ancient cypress forest estimated at 8 million years old are discovered in an open cast coal mine in Bükkábrány, Hungary. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6942733.stm (BBC)]
Gloria Arroyo, the President of the Philippines, sends the chief of the army Romeo Tolentino to Zamboanga in the southern Philippines to direct operations against militants. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6942697.stm (BBC)]

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