Events in July 2008
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Jul. 2
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Usha Chammar of Gujarat is crowned ‘Princess of Sanitation Workers’ at the U.N. |
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Jul. 3
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The former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others being held hostage since 2003 by FARC rebels are airlifted to freedom by the army in a daredevil operation. |
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Jul. 4
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China and Taiwan begin direct flights. |
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Jul. 5
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Record-setting Japanese sailor Kenichi Horie completes a 110-day voyage from Hawaii without a port call in Nishinomiya, Japan. |
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Jul. 6
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Twenty persons, including 15 policemen are killed and many injured as a suicide bomber blows himself up some distance away from the Lal Masjid in Pakistan capital Islamabad. |
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The U.N. Development Programme is killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu. |
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Twentytwo people are killed after air strikes hit a wedding party in Afghanistan. More than a dozen civilians die in strikes in Nuristan province a day earlier. |
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Jul. 7
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Fortyone persons including senior Indian diplomat V. Venkateswara Rao and Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta are killed after a suicide bomber rams his car into the gates of the Indian Embassy in Kabul. |
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One person is killed and 40 injured in a series of seven bomb blasts in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. |
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Jul. 8
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The G8 summit in Toyako, Japan affirms to stick to the goal of cutting global greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2050. |
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Jul. 10
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Salman Rushdie wins the Best of Booker prize for his pathbreaking novel Midnight’s Children after a global vote by readers. |
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Inderjit Singh Reyat convicted in the 1988 Kanishkha bombing is granted bail by a Canadian judge after serving nearly 20 years in prison. |
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Jul. 11
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Lebanese President Michel Sleiman names Fouad Siniora as the head of a new unity government. |
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Russia and China veto sanctions on Zimbabwe’s leaders. |
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An Indian-American couple found guilty of enslaving two workers are ordered to pay $1 million in back wages by a U.S. court. |
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Jul. 13
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A summit of leaders of 43 countries belonging to the European Union and the Mediterranean region opens in Paris, France. |
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Twenty four people are killed in a suicide attack on a bazaar in southern Afghanistan. |
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Jul. 14
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The International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor calls for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir for genocide and war crimes in Darfur. |
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Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza (22) is crowned Miss Universe 2008 in a contest in the Vietnamese city of Nha Trang. |
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Jul. 15
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Asian and European stock markets plummet following erosion of investor confidence in the U.S. financial system. |
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Video grabs of the questioning of a Guantanamo detenus in February 2003 are released for the first time. |
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Jul. 16
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Israel, Hizbollah exchange prisoners. Among the freed is Samit Qantar who has spent 30 years in an Israeli prison. |
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Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s de facto opposition leader is arrested in Kuala Lumpur on charge of sexually assaulting his male aide. |
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Jul. 17
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Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim is freed on bail. |
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Human trial for vaccine against HIV is cancelled. |
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Jul. 18
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Cuba begins land reforms. |
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Jul. 19
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Nepal’s first presidential polls fail to produce clear winner paving the way for run-off. Paramanda Jha of the Madhesi Janadikhar Forum wins the vice-presidential election. |
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Pope Benedict XVI offers a historic full apology for child sex abuse by Australian priests, in a candle light vigil in Sydney. |
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Jul. 21
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Russia and China end decades-old boundary dispute and give up some of their territorial claims. |
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Nepali Congress leader Ram Baran Yadav is elected Nepal’s first President. |
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Bosnian Serb war-time President Radovan Karadzic wanted for genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnian war is held near Belgrade after 13 years on the run. |
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Jul. 22
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In the biggest such occurrence in three years, a chunk of Arctic ice cracks after separating from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic archipelago. |
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Jul. 23
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Ram Baran Yadav is sworn in Nepal President. Paramananda Jha takes oath as Vice-President. |
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Jul. 24
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Indian-origin ICC judge Navanetham Pillay is appointed the United Nations’ new Human Rights Commissioner. |
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Jul. 25
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A Boeing 747-400 flying to Melbourne makes an emergency landing in Manila after a mid-air rupture leaves a gaping hole in its fuselage. |
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A German medical team performs the world’s first transplant of two full arms on a farmer who lost both his limbs in an accident six years ago. |
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Jul. 27
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Election to the National Assembly in Vietnam passes off peacefully. |
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Seventeen people are killed and more than 150 injured after two bombs rip through a crowded street in Istanbul, Turkey. |
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Jul. 28
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At least 57 people are killed and 300 injured after suicide bombers target a Shia pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish rally in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. |
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One of Al-Qaeda’s top bombmakers, Abu Khabab al-Masri, is killed in an air strike on a house in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan. |
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Jul. 29
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The nine-day WTO talks in Geneva to salvage the Doha trade round collapses following a deadlock between the U.S. and India over proposals to protect poor farmers. |
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Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is extradited from Serbia to stand trial for war crimes at The Hague. |
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A group of Russian scientists reaches the bottom of Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest fresh water lake in Russia’s far east, for the first time ever. |
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Jul. 30
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The Phoenix spacecraft confirms presence of ice lurking below the Martian permafrost. |
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Jul. 31
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Doctor couple Prakash Amte and Mandakini Amte of India, Grace Padaca, a woman Philippines provincial Governor among the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay awardees. |
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The British House of Lords upholds the government’s decision to drop probe into charges against BAE Systems that it paid commission to win a defence deal with Saudi Arabia. |
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