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The
Rio-Antirio bridge, the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, is completed in Greece
.

The
al-Jazeera closed for a month, claiming that its coverage incited "violence and hatred
".

Henri Cartier-Bresson, world-renowned 20th century photographer, dies at age 95 in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region of France.

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 *<!--August 7--> The '''[[Rio-Antirio bridge]]''', the longest [[cable-stayed bridge]] in the world, is completed in [[Greece]].
-*<!--August 7--> At the '''[[Asian Cup 2004]]''' [[soccer]] finals, [[Japan]] defeats [[People's Republic of China|China]] 3&ndash;1; subsequently, a riot broke out in [[Beijing]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3541380.stm (BBC)]
+*<!--August 7--> At the '''[[Asian Cup 2004]]''' [[soccer]] finals, [[Japan]] defeats [[People's Republic of China|China]] 3&ndash;1; subsequently, a riot broke out in [[Beijing]].
 *<!--August 7--> The [[Iyad Allawi|Allawi]] government in [[Iraq]] orders the [[Baghdad]] office of '''[[al-Jazeera]]''' closed for a month, claiming that its coverage incited "[[violence]] and [[hatred]]".
 *<!--August 6-->More than 1900 people have been killed in [[flood]]ing in [[South Asia]], mostly in parts of [[India]], and in '''[[Bangladesh]]''' where floods have covered 60 percent of the country and 20 million people require [[food aid]].