Portal:Current events/2008 August 11
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August 11, 2008 (Monday)
- An air strike by the United States kills 25 Taliban militants and 8 civilians in Orūzgān Province in southern Afghanistan. (The Australian)
- The United States team wins the 4x100 men's freestyle relay setting a new world record with France and Australia finishing second and third respectively. The top five teams all broke the previous world record and Australia's Eamon Sullivan in the lead-off leg broke the record for 100m. (The New York Times) (SI via CNN)
- Taliban fighters force Pakistani troops to retreat from an outpost near the border with Afghanistan. (The New York Times)
- The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines are holding elections using for the first-time electronic voting as precedent to the Presidential elections in 2010. (ABS-CBN)
- 2008 South Ossetian War:
- According to Ossetian and Russian sources, Georgian attacks leave 2000 dead in South Ossetia, most of which civilian population of Tskhinvali. (The Guardian)
- Breakaway republic of Abkhazia launched an attack on Georgian forces in the Kodori Valley, the region of Abkhazia under control of Georgians, where the parallel Tbilisi-backed "Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia in exile" is situated. (AFP via News.Com.Au) (Al Jazeera)
- Fearing an air raid, the President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili run for cover during an interview in Gori. (CNN) (CNN via YouTube)
- Russia is attacking Georgia in a cyberwar. (Ars Technica)
- The President of the United States George W. Bush warns Russia to respect "Georgia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. (The New York Times)