Portal:Current events/2007 August 3
- The former deputy director of Raul Iturriaga, is captured by the police after having entered in rebellion in June 2007 against the Chilean state and justice Los Angeles Times.
- The Santa Barbara County, California with hundreds of people ordered to evacuate due to wildfire. (AP via Fox News)
- 9-11 Commission. (AP via San Diego Union Tribune)
- The United States Congress allocates $250 million to rebuild the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (BBC)
- The United States Senate votes to extend the powers of intelligence agents to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists in a victory for President of the United States George W. Bush. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- Raids at the The Oakland Post, and two other people. (CNN)
- The Canadian government agrees to make available a judicial report on the treatment of Maher Arar falsely accused of terrorism. (ABC News Australia)
- Andrei Lugovoi if the United Kingdom provides it with convincing evidence of Lugovoi's involvement in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
- 50 people are feared drowned and 100 are missing after a boat capsized in Sierra Leone (Reuters via CNN)
- The e-mail. (AFP via Africaasia)
- Two Erislandi Lara, who deserted their team at the 2007 Pan American Games are found in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and will be sent back to Cuba. (CNN)
- An
- post-Kyoto agreement on greenhouse gas emissions. (Reuters)
- 2007 South Asian floods: Monsoon floods make millions homeless in India, Nepal and Bangladesh with a death toll of 145 in India and 65 in Bangladesh. (BBC/AFP via ABC News Australia)
- reservoirs. (AP via the Guardian)
- The Supreme Court of Pakistan frees Javed Hashmi, the leader of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy and Pakistan Muslim League faction leader, who was jailed in 2003 for writing a letter critical of the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf. (BBC)
- Rebel groups in Darfur hold meetings in Tanzania jointly mediated by the United Nations and the African Union to resolve disputes. (BBC)
- Eastern Orthodox churches. (AP via IHT)