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Portal:Current events/2012 August 25

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • Syrian civil war
  • At least 330 people are killed in Syria, marking the highest single-day death toll in the uprising according to the opposition. [http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/25/world/meast/syria-civil-war/index.html (CNN)]
  • According to activists, at least 79 dead bodies are found in Daraa. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/25/us-syria-crisis-killings-idUSBRE87O08J20120825 (Reuters)]
  • Syrian opposition forces free one of eleven Lebanese Shiite pilgrims abducted three months ago in Syria; according to rebels, at Turkey's request. [http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/24/2966388/syrian-regime-airstrikes-kill.html (AP via The Miami Herald)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/25/syria-conflict-kidnapped-lebanese_n_1829970.html (Huffington Post)]
  • Libya: Unnamed organized assailants bulldoze a Sufi mosque with graves, in broad daylight in the centre of the Libyan capital Tripoli. It is the second such razing of a Sufi site in two days. De facto head of state Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf tells reporters: "What is truly regrettable and suspicious is that some of those who took part in these destruction activities are supposed to be of the security forces and from the revolutionaries." [https://news.yahoo.com/fighters-bulldoze-sufi-mosque-central-tripoli-172020410.html?_esi=1 (Reuters via Yahoo! News)]

;Arts and culture

  • Neil Armstrong, the first person on the Moon, dies at age 82. [http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/first-man-on-moon-neil-armstrong-dies/story-e6freuz9-1226458177270 (The Telegraph)] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/25/neil-armstrong-man-moon-dies (The Guardian)]

;Disasters

  • A historic drought develops in the Balkans causing severe losses to agriculture. Towns in Serbia introduce water restrictions while scorching temperatures fuel hundreds of fires. Russia stations a second fire fighting aircraft to help in Niš. [http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n285801 (AFP via FOCUS)] [http://en.rian.ru/Environment/20120825/175425886.html (RIA Novosti)]
  • Tropical Storm Isaac causes floodings and kills at least three people in Haiti, a nation still recovering from the 2010 earthquake. The storm moves Northwest over east Cuba. [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_162-57500319/isaac-expected-to-become-hurricane-as-it-nears-florida/ (CBS)] [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/ (NHC)]
  • At least 85,000 people are displaced in Myanmar as weeks of heavy rain contribute to severe flooding in the Irrawaddy Delta. [http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/08/20128257504787772.html (Al Jazeera)]
  • A gas-leak blast at the Paraguaná Refinery Complex in Amuay, in north Venezuela kills at least 39 people and injures more than 80. [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_VENEZUELA_REFINERY_EXPLOSION?SITE=WVEC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT (AP via WVEC)]

;Law and crime

  • Thirty-seven Chinese nationals, arrested in Angola due to their alleged involvement in criminal acts, are extradited and due to be tried in China. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19378660 (BBC)]

;Politics

Science and technology

  • The Voyager 1 space probe becomes the first human-made object to successfully exit the Solar System and enter Interstellar space, and to an extent, becoming the first Interstellar probe, pioneering Interstellar exploration. [https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions (NASA)]

;Sports

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