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;Armed conflicts and attacks

  • Clashes take place between protesters and Islamists in Gao, Mali, over a planned amputation of a robber and beating of a journalist covering the demonstration. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/06/us-mali-crisis-idUSBRE8750RH20120806 (Reuters)]
  • 2012 Rakhine State riots: Renewed fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya in western Burma kills three people. [http://dawn.com/2012/08/06/three-dead-in-fresh-myanmar-sectarian-unrest/ (Dawn)]
  • Mexican Drug War: Alleged members of Los Zetas, a drug cartel originally set up by former soldiers of the Mexican Army, attack several media outlets in Monterrey for publishing on a rumored split between the two principal Zetas bosses. [http://www.insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/2994-amid-rumors-of-zetas-split-press-targeted-in-monterrey (InSight Crime)]
  • Arab Spring:
  • Syrian civil war
  • A bomb explodes at the headquarters of Syrian state television in Damascus. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gGJbXkHR-vSytR1UjnKcXY9D-PoA?docId=899e7131858b49359ec0f7af8410fad7 (AP via Google News)]
  • Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab and his family defect to Jordan to join the opposition. State-run media claims he was fired, but the Free Syrian Army states this was only after he arrived in Jordan. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19146380 (BBC)]
  • Syrian rebels state that three Iranians abducted on 4 August 2012 are killed during an air attack in Damascus province by government forces, and threaten to kill the others in their custody unless the army stops its attack. [http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/06/syria-crisis-iranians-idINL6E8J6BIV20120806 (Reuters)]
  • Tunisian revolution:
  • Anti-government protesters and police clash in the capital Tunis over alleged corruption and nepotism within the government. [http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/201286981910935.html (Al Jazeera)]
  • Bahraini uprising:
  • The chief prosecutor charges 15 police officers with torturing doctors who were arrested during protests. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120807055043/http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=425424 (Now Lebanon)]
  • North Caucasus insurgency:
  • Two police officers are killed and one injured in an ambush in the Tsuntinsky District, Dagestan. [http://en.ria.ru/crime/20120806/175020664.html (RIA)]
  • Four people are confirmed dead and 3 wounded in an apparent suicide bombing at a police checkpoint in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.[http://en.ria.ru/crime/20120806/175017648.html (RIA)]
  • An attack on an army base in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, kills six people. [http://www.france24.com/en/20120806-attack-ivory-coast-army-base-kills-least-six (France 24)]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

;Arts and culture

  • Australian art critic, historian and documentary maker Robert Hughes dies in New York City. [http://www.businessday.com.au/breaking-news-national/robert-hughes-dies-in-new-york-20120807-23rbf.html (AAP via Business Day)]

;Disasters

  • New Zealand's Mount Tongariro erupts for the first time in a century, spreading volcanic ash across the central North Island and affecting airports. [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10825125 (New Zealand Herald)] [http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7426862/First-Tongariro-eruption-in-over-100-years (Stuff.co.nz)]
  • A fire at the Chevron Richmond Refinery in Richmond, California spreads thick black smoke over Contra Costa County, prompting warnings from officials to shelter in place. [http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21250598/large-fire-burning-at-chevron-refinery-richmond (Mercury News)]

;International relations

  • Sri Lanka arrests 37 Chinese fisherman for illegally fishing in Sri Lankan waters. [http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=3&art_id=125090&sid=37274813&con_type=1&d_str=20120807&fc=1 (Hong Kong Standard)]

;Law and crime

;Politics and elections

;Science

;Sport

  • 2012 Summer Olympics:
  • Nicholas Delpopolo, an American Judo fighter, is expelled from competition after testing positive for marijuana. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/nicholas-delpopolo-olympics-judo-pot-doping_n_1746758.html (The Huffington Post)]

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