Portal:Current events/2008 August 11

• 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.(New York Times)SI/CNN
• Taliban fighters force Pakistani troops to retreat from an outpost near the border with Afghanistan. (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)
• The war in South Ossetia between Georgian army and South Ossetian and Russian forces continues.
  • According to Ossetian and Russian sources, Georgian attacks leave 2000 dead in South Ossetia, most of which civilian population of Tskhinvali. South Ossetians 'highly unlikely to want to be part of Georgia now'. (Guardian)**Breakaway republic of Abkhazia, together with Russian forces reportedly launched an attack on Georgian forces in the Kodori Valley, the region of Abkhazia under control of Georgians, where the parralel Tbilisi-backed "Government of Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia in exile" is situated. (AFP via News.Com.Au), (Al Jazeera)

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