Portal:Current events/2005 August 14

August 14, 2005 (Sunday)

• In Boom, Belgium, the festival of Tomorrowland (festival) has been inagurated.
• Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been sworn in as Kyrgyzstan's new president after winning nearly 90 percent of the vote last month in an election to find a successor to President Askar Akayev, who was ousted during protests in March.(Reuters)
• Thirty bodies are found in a mass grave south of Baghdad after the interrogation of Iraqi insurgents captured in a raid yesterday. (Newsday; AP)
• Time magazine cites United States military intelligence documents that an Iranian-backed Iraqi insurgent network, led by Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani, had introduced a bomb design based on Iranian-backed Lebanese militia Hizbollah plans in last eight months. (Reuters)
• U.S. forces in Iraq raid a warehouse in Mosul. They uncover a suspected chemical weapons factory. (Boston Globe)
• Helios Airways Flight 522 en route from Larnaca, Cyprus via Athens, Greece to Prague, Czech Republic crashes near Athens, with at least 121 onboard. Observations from Greek fighter aircraft indicate a decompression problem. (BBC)
• Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda has been charged with sedition after a radio debate speculating on the death of Sudan's vice-president John Garang.(BBC)
• Liberian football hero George Weah has been given the go-ahead to contest the country's presidency. Liberia's election commission dismissed a complaint that his French citizenship barred him from standing.(BBC)