Portal:Current events/2010 August 24
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown:
- 80,000 people flee the southern clashes between Al-Qaeda linked forces and government troops killed several people. (Al Jazeera)
- 80,000 people flee the southern
- Two Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb return home. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- Battle of Mogadishu (2010):
- Foreign human rights groups accuse Rwandan and Congolese rebels of gang-raping nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers' base in the village of Bunangiri, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera) (CNN) (AP) (Reuters)
- A Oruzgan province. (News Limited)
Arts and culture
- American actor Lindsay Lohan is released from a rehabilitation centre 22 days into a three month program. (ABC News)
Business and economics
- Orissa due to environmental concerns. (Times of India) (BBC)
- Cairn Energy discovers gas off the coast of Greenland, amid protests from Greenpeace demanding it halt its oil operations. (BBC) (AFP)
- Stocks on the Philippine Stock Exchange fall the day after the Manila hostage crisis. (Businessweek)
Disasters
- Agni Air Flight 101, a small plane carrying fourteen people, crashes in Nepal's Makwanpur District with no survivors expected. (Kantipur) (CNN)
- Rescue efforts start to free the men trapped following the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. (ABC News America)
Law and crime
- The Royce C. Lamberth to block an executive order by President Barack Obama to expand embryonic stem cell research. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- Samantha Cameron, wife of the British Prime Minister David Cameron, gives birth to the couple's fourth child, a girl. (Telegraph) (BBC)
- John McCain wins the Republican Party primary election to become the nominee in the US Senate election in Arizona. (Fox News)