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International relations Médecins Sans Frontières state that Sudanese refugees are in 'humanitarian disaster' in South Sudan. (BBC) Jang Song-thaek, the uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, meets Chinese leader Hu Jintao. (AFP via Google News) Law and crime Russia: A Moscow court convicts three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and ...
(AP via USA Today) NATO says one soldier died following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan on August 17. (AP via USA Today) Four Egyptian Army soldiers are injured in a raid on militants in the Sinai Peninsula. (AP via The Washington Post) Bahraini security forces kill a 16-year-old boy during rioting in the city of Muharraq.
A solar flare from a sunspot region associated with this activity and preceding this period produced the then largest flare detected during the Space Age at about X20 (the first event to saturate spaceborne monitoring instruments, this was exceeded in 2003) but was directed away from Earth. [73] [74] Nov 2001 Geomagnetic storm of November 2001
Energy released in a solar storm led to increased aurora activity in Earth's atmosphere on Thursday and Friday.
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1798 – The Vietnamese Catholics report a Marian apparition in Quảng Trị, an event which is called Our Lady of La Vang. 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. 1808 – The Finnish War: The Battle of ...