Portal:Current events/2011 July 26

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July 26, 2011 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Police in Norway begin naming the victims of the 2011 Norway attacks. (BBC)

Business and economy

The
interest rates to 8% in an effort to contain inflation which is currently at 9.44%. (BBC)

Britain's
phone hacking affair. (AP via Yahoo News)^{[permanent dead link}
]

U.S. Senator
T-Mobile USA. (Reuters)

A
crashes into a mountain in the south of the country killing 78 of 81 on board. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)

International relations

Senior
six party talks on his country's nuclear weapons program. (Yonhap News)

Senegalese rapper and government critic Omar Toure is arrested. (BBC)
Sri Lankan police hunt for 20 local television actresses alleged to be part of a prostitution ring. (Xinhua)
A shootout at a prison in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, leaves 17 dead. (Fox News)
David Cecil, an unemployed truck driver, is charged with
hacking into Platform Networks's network. (Kansas City Star)(CBS News)(The Australian)

Nguyen Tan Dung is re-elected Prime Minister of Vietnam. (Government Web Portal of Vietnam)

David Wu resigns as a member of the United States House of Representatives following allegations of an unwanted sexual encounter with an 18-year-old. (New York Times)
Washington D.C. during protests calling for immigration reform. (Rollcall)

A
flying foxes, horses or humans. (AAP via News Limited)

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