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August 20, 2007 (2007-08-20 ) (Monday)
Delegates from the
Russian Communist Youth Union vote 98-1 to back the pro-Kremlin, center-left party
A Just Russia in December's
State Duma elections.
(The Moscow Times)
NASA clears the
Space Shuttle Endeavour for an early landing tomorrow at
Cape Canaveral .
(Reuters)
The
United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to extend the
African Union Mission to Somalia .
(BBC)
At least 20 people have died as a result of
flooding in the
United States with further flooding likely in
Minnesota and
Wisconsin .
(New York Times)
A military
judge dismisses two charges against
Lieutenant Colonel Steven Jordan, a
United States Army officer in charge of the interrogation centre at the
Abu Ghraib prison in
Iraq . Jordan still faces several more charges including cruelty and maltreatment of detainees, disobeying a superior officer and failure to obey orders.
(Reuters via News Limited)
The thirteenth and final victim is recovered from the site of the
I-35W Mississippi River Bridge Collapse .
(AP via CNN)
An earthquake of 6.5 magnitude hits south of the
Philippines .
(The Gulf Times)
The
Grand National Assembly starts voting to select a new
President of
Turkey . The frontrunner Foreign Minister
Abdullah Gül fails to achieve a necessary two-thirds majority in the first round with 341 out of 550 but is highly likely to be elected in later rounds when a
simple majority of 50 per cent is required.
(AFP via ABC News Australia)
Atlanta Falcons
quarterback
Michael Vick agrees to a plea deal to charges of conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce in aid of unlawful activities and conspiracy to sponsor a dog in an animal fighting venture in
Richmond ,
Virginia ,
United States .
(ESPN.com)
British police have released
CCTV footage of a motorcyclist shortly before his murder on the
M40 motorway near
Leamington Spa ,
Warwickshire .
(Sky)
Muslim groups occupy Sikh Bhai Taro Singh Jee temple in
Lahore ,
Pakistan
An official of
Murray Energy Corp , the operators of the
Crandall Canyon mine in
Utah , say that six trapped miners "may never be found".
(Wikinews)
An earthquake of 5.2 magnitude hits northern
Tanzania 85 kilometres north of
Arusha .
(Reuters) [
permanent dead link ]
Mohammed Ali al-Hasani , the
Shia governor of
Iraq 's southern
Al Muthanna Governorate is killed by a roadside bomb at
Samawa .
(BBC)
The
Tasmanian
Labor Party expels
Harry Quick , the Member of the
Australian House of Representatives for
Franklin .
(ABC News Australia)
Hurricane Dean :
A summit between
US president
George W. Bush ,
Canadian prime minister
Stephen Harper ,
Mexican president
Felipe Calderón , and about 30 CEOs from the three countries begins in the resort town of
Montebello, Quebec , near
Ottawa . The talks will deal with the
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America .
Protesters representing a variety of issues hold demonstrations regarding the exclusion of civil society from the talks and the secrecy of the process; police respond with
tear gas .
(CBC News)
A
China Airlines
Boeing 737 airplane
explodes less than a minute after all passengers and crew are evacuated shortly after landing at
Naha , Japan.
(Wikinews)