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This article covers breaking news and events in August 2014.

Daily events

Friday 1st August 2014

• Kaohsiung / Taiwan : At least 26 people were killed in severe gas explosions in the streets of Qianzhen district . More than 270 people are injured and over 1,100 residents have been asked to leave their homes. Numerous houses and cars were destroyed or seriously damaged by the pressure waves.
• Moscow / Russia : The Russian government bans the import of vegetables and fruit, especially apples, from Poland .
• Rafah / Palestinian Autonomous Territories : According to the spokesman for the Palestinian rescue forces, Aschraf al-Kudra, more than 62 residents are killed and another 350 injured in an Israeli artillery attack. Since July 8, 2014, over 1,500 Palestinians and 66 Israelis, including 63 soldiers, have died in the clashes between the Israeli Defense Forces and the Sunni - Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas .
• Tores / Ukraine : Around 70 experts from Australia and the Netherlands have reached the crash site of the passenger plane of flight MH17 and recovered further remains of the victims. Assistance is also provided by observers investigating the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

Saturday 2nd August 2014

• Arsal / Lebanon : After a Syrian rebel leader is arrested, an uprising begins in Arsal . It was not until August 9 that the Lebanese security forces regained full control of the city.
• Kunshan / China : At least 75 people die and 185 are injured in an explosion in a metalworking factory .
• Mankha / Nepal : A landslide buries numerous houses and dams the Sunkoshi River . As a result, upstream areas in Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar have to be evacuated. At least ten people are killed, around a hundred are missing.
• Mannheim / Germany : When a freight train collides with a EuroCity in front of Mannheim main station , 35 passengers and crew members are injured, four of them seriously.

Sunday 3rd August 2014

• Ludian / China : At least 398 people die and around 1,800 are injured in an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 M _w in the province of Yunnan .
• Sinjar / Iraq : The Islamic State perpetrates genocide against the Yazidis .

Monday 4th August 2014

CDC : Regional distribution of confirmed and suspected cases of illness during the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa 2014

• Conakry / Guinea : In connection with the spread of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the World Bank has promised the affected states Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone emergency aid of up to 200 million US dollars.
• Lisbon / Portugal : On August 4, 2014, it became known that the bad loans of Banco Espírito Santo are to be outsourced to a bad bank . The rest of the profitable part of the bank has been trading as Novo Banco since that day. This receives 4.9 billion euros in financial aid from the Portuguese state . There will no longer be a listing on the stock exchange. From a legal point of view, however, the bank continues to operate as Banco Espírito Santo.

Tuesday 5th August 2014

• Gaza / Palestinian Territories : During the Gaza conflict, the Israeli armed forces withdrew their ground troops from the Gaza Strip as part of Operation Protective Edge . A three-day ceasefire was reached between Israel and the Palestinian organization Hamas . A permanent armistice is to be reached with the mediation of Egypt . In the fighting since July 8, 2014, 1,875 Palestinians and 67 Israelis have been killed.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : During a visit by a high-ranking delegation to the grounds of the Marshal Fahim National Defense University, a training facility of the Afghan National Army on the outskirts of Kabul, an Afghan soldier opens fire on the group of visitors with a machine gun in Camp Kargha. US Major General Harold J. Greene is fatally wounded in the attack. The German Brigadier General Michael Bartscher and the Afghan General Ghulam Sakhi as well as another 15 US soldiers are wounded.
• Munich / Germany : The case against Bernie Ecclestone for bribery is the Munich District Court I of § 153a Code of Criminal Procedure (around 74.65 million euros) against the payment of a cash circulation in the amount of 100 million US dollars set .

Wednesday August 6, 2014

• Milwaukee / United States : The IT security company Hold Security reveals that a Russian hacker group from the Novosibirsk area illegally obtained around 1.2 billion user names and passwords.

Thursday 7th August 2014

Areas controlled by IS in Syria and Iraq (dark gray)

• Freetown / Sierra Leone : President Ernest Koroma orders several hundred soldiers to be sent to the border regions because of the Ebola epidemic - also to monitor compliance with quarantine regulations in hospitals. Between 1700 and 4 August reported and confirmed cases in West Africa, more than 930 people died, most of them in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea .
• Monrovia / Liberia : President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf declares a state of emergency for the capital for 90 days under Article 86 of the Constitution because of the Ebola epidemic . Police officers and soldiers seal off all access roads.
• Moscow / Russia : Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a year-long import ban on numerous goods and foods from the EU , the USA and Canada .
• Mosul / Iraq : Fighters from the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) conquered Baghdida (Karakosch), Tilkaif (Tel Kaif), Bartella and Karamlesch to the southeast of Mosul . Over 200,000 Christians from the Chaldean Catholic Church , the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch and the Assyrian Church of the East are on the run. In addition, the IS fighters are around 40 km from Erbil , the seat of the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan . Tens of thousands of Yazidis are persecuted and around 800 have fled to the Turkish border town of Silopi . The United Nations Security Council holds an emergency meeting at the request of France .
• Novosibirsk / Russia : A march for federalism in Siberia planned by artists is banned by the Russian government. In the event of media coverage of the planned action, censorship and the shutdown of websites will be announced.
• Phnom Penh / Cambodia : In a trial on the crimes of the Khmer Rouge has the Khmer Rouge Tribunal functionaries Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea , among other things because of crimes against humanity, sentenced to life imprisonment.

Friday 8th August 2014

• Mosul / Iraq : Following a decision by US President Barack Obama , the US Air Force is flying targeted attacks on ISIS positions in northern Iraq and is providing aid to people who have fled to the mountains.

Saturday 9th August 2014

• Cairo / Egypt : The national administrative court liquidates the Party for Freedom and Justice for violations of party law. The party was the political arm of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood .

Sunday 10th August 2014

Recep T. Erdoğan

• Ankara / Turkey : For the first time, the President of the Republic of Turkey is not elected by parliament, but by a general election . For the co-founder of the Justice and Recovery Party, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , 51.8% of the electorate voted.
• Tehran / Iran : In Tehran, a turboprop passenger plane operated by the Iranian Sepahan Airlines crashed shortly after take-off. 10 out of 48 passengers survived. The machine was on a domestic flight.

Tuesday August 12, 2014

• Seoul / South Korea : The mathematicians Maryam Mirzakhani (Iran), Manjul Bhargava (Canada), Artur Avila (Brazil) and Martin Hairer (Austria) are awarded the Fields Medal at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians .

Wednesday August 13, 2014

• Paris / France : France wants to deliver weapons to the Kurds in northern Iraq today to support them in the fight against the terrorist group IS. By order of President Hollande, the delivery of weapons will begin in the next few hours, the "Elysée Palace" announced in a written declaration. The action was coordinated with the government in Baghdad. The reason given is that there was an urgent request from the Kurds for support.

Thursday August 14, 2014

• Baghdad / Iraq : The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has announced his resignation.
• Berlin / Germany : The German Federal Statistical Office announces that, for the first time since 1950, the German state as a whole (federal government, federal states, municipalities and social security) reduced debts in 2013. Debt has increased every year for the past 63 years. At the end of 2013, the total debt of the German state was around EUR 2.038 trillion.
• Kiev / Ukraine : For the first time, British journalists report that around 23 military vehicles of the Russian military have crossed the eastern Ukrainian border.
• Seoul / South Korea : Pope Francis has arrived in South Korea for his first stay abroad. The occasion of his five-day apostolic trip is the sixth Asian Youth Day in Taejon and the tribute to Korean martyrs . North Korea launched short-range missiles into the Sea of ​​Japan just before landing .

Friday 15th August 2014

• Kocho / Iraq : The Islamic State carries out a massacre of the Yazidis in Kocho . IS is killing the men from the village and kidnapping the women and children.
• Berlin / Germany : A response from the Federal Ministry of the Interior to the MP Andrej Hunko ( Die Linke ) shows that work on the so-called Federal Trojan has been completed. A solution for source telecommunication monitoring is "currently in the implementation phase after completion of the architecture work".
• Hildesheim / Germany : Hildesheim Cathedral reopened after four and a half years of renovation.

Saturday August 16, 2014

• Nanjing / China : The second Summer Youth Olympic Games will be opened in Nanjing, China, by the President of the International Olympic Committee , Thomas Bach .

Sunday 17th August 2014

European Athletics Championships logo

• Monrovia / Liberia : With a flight from the account of the Ebola fever under quarantine standing district West Point least 17 escaped ill people. Meanwhile, 1,145 infected people in West Africa have not survived the virus.
• Mosul / Iraq : Kurdish troops succeed in recapturing large parts of the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq from the Islamic State Organization and bringing them under their control.
• N'Djamena / Chad : Chadian troops rescue 85 Nigerian hostages from the Boko Haram who were dragged across Lake Chad on motorboats and taken across the border to Chad.
• Sumbawa Besar / Indonesia : After the sinking of a boat off the island of Sumbawa , two western tourists are still missing and 23 other people have been rescued.
• Timbuktu / Mali : Two Burkinabe UN soldiers are killed and seven others injured in a suicide attack on UN peacekeepers 50 kilometers east of Timbuktu .
• Zurich / Switzerland : The most successful nation at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich's Letzigrund Stadium was the United Kingdom with 23 medals, including twelve gold medals. The most successful athletes with two titles each were the Dutch sprinter Dafne Schippers and the British long-distance runner Mo Farah .

Monday 18th August 2014

• Hebron / Palestinian Territories : The Israeli military destroys the homes of the alleged murderers of Israeli youths abducted in June.
• Kathmandu / Nepal : Floods and landslides caused by heavy rain kill over 160 people in Nepal and northern India .

Tuesday 19th August 2014

• Al-Ba'aj / Iraq : The 'Islamic State' publishes in an internet video the beheading of the US journalist James Foley , who was believed to have been killed in the desert areas in northwestern Iraq. This video announces further kidnappings and killings if the United States continues to attack militia positions.
• Gaza / Palestinian Territories : Hours before the end of a truce bombard the Qassam Brigades of Hamas Israel with rockets. Israel responded with retaliatory attacks.

Wednesday August 20, 2014

Igor Plotnitsky

• Luhansk / Ukraine : Igor Plotnizki becomes "Prime Minister" of the self- proclaimed Luganskaya Narodnaja Respublika .

Thursday August 21, 2014

• Bangkok / Thailand : The members of parliament elect General Prayuth Chan-ocha as Prime Minister .
• Brasília / Brazil : The Socialist Party appoints environmental activist Marina Silva as a candidate for the next presidential election after President Dilma Rousseff's previous challenger , Eduardo Campos , was killed in a plane crash a few days ago.
• Luhansk / Ukraine : During fighting against units of the People's Militia , the Ukrainian Army captured two tanks that were apparently part of the Russian Army . Russia continues to deny its military presence in eastern Ukraine .

Friday 22nd August 2014

• Luhansk / Ukraine : An aid convoy of 287 trucks that has been stuck on the Russian- Ukrainian border for days crosses the border without the consent of the Ukrainian government. The targets are the strongholds of the separatists, Luhansk and Donetsk . In Kiev, there are fears not only of the transport of aid supplies but also of arms deliveries. One day later the trucks return to the Russian Federation.
• Munich / Germany : The 52nd season of the Bundesliga begins with the game between FC Bayern Munich and VfL Wolfsburg .

Saturday 23rd August 2014

• Reykjavik / Iceland : After more than 400 earthquakes and a small lava - eruption of the volcano Bárðarbunga in the area of Vatnajokull aircraft are no longer in a large radius fly around the volcano. Tourists had been evacuated from this area days earlier. Scientists fear a major outbreak.
• Tizi Ouzou / Algeria : The Cameroonian soccer player Albert Ebossé Bodjongo is seriously wounded in the head by an object thrown by a hooligan during a soccer game and later succumbs to his injuries in hospital.
• Yamoussoukro / Ivory Coast : For fear of the Ebola epidemic spreading , the Ivory Coast closes its borders with the neighboring countries Liberia and Guinea . The number of Ebola deaths has risen to 1,427.

Sunday 24th August 2014

• Berlin / Germany : The most successful nation at the 2014 European Swimming Championships was the United Kingdom with 27 medals won, including eleven gold medals.
• Maiduguri / Nigeria : In the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno , the terrorist group Boko Haram has captured the city of Gwoza and is declaring a caliphate there. The Nigerian army is preparing to retake the city.
• Maputo / Mozambique : RENAMO rebels and the ruling FRELIMO party conclude a ceasefire and thus end a two-year civil war in Mozambique. The rebels are to be integrated into the army. The RENAMO boss also wants to run for the next presidential election.
• Mbandaka / Democratic Republic of the Congo : In the province of Equateur in the Congo, which has not been affected by the Ebola epidemic, two people die of the Ebola virus . An employee of the World Health Organization was also infected with the virus for the first time.
• Montreal / Canada : The DFB team wins the U-20 Women's World Cup against Nigeria 1-0.
• Tripoli / Libya : After heavy fighting, the militia of the Fajr Libya Brigades conquered Tripoli airport , which was badly damaged and unusable for months. The elected parliament - the General National Congress - fled to the east Libyan city of Tobruk .

Monday 25th August 2014

• Ljubljana / Slovenia : The State Assembly , the Parliament of Slovenia, has elected Miro Cerar as the new Prime Minister and entrusted him with forming a government.
• Paris / France : France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls has submitted the resignation of his government. He was immediately commissioned by President François Hollande to form a new government.
• Tripoli / Libya : More than 200 people, mostly African migrants, drowned in a refugee disaster off the Libyan coast. The Libyan Navy can only save seven people and is looking for more survivors of the marine casualty.

Tuesday August 26, 2014

• Berlin / Germany : The ruling mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit announces that he will resign on December 11 , 2014 .
• Jerusalem / Israel : In the Gaza conflict, after Egyptian mediation, Israel and the Palestinians agreed on a permanent ceasefire. To this end, the blockade of the Gaza Strip is to be relaxed for the introduction of aid supplies . Over 2,100 Palestinians and 64 Israeli soldiers perished in the bloody conflict.
• Minsk / Belarus : The Ukrainian and Russian presidents, Petro Poroshenko and Vladimir Putin , met in the Belarusian capital Minsk to discuss a political dialogue and thus a way out of the Ukraine crisis .
• Vienna / Austria : The Austrian Vice Chancellor, Finance Minister and Chairman of the Austrian People's Party Michael Spindelegger has announced his resignation due to a lack of internal party support.

Wednesday August 27, 2014

• Paris / France : The public prosecutor's office starts an official investigation against Christine Lagarde on suspicion of favoring a sporting goods company. The current head of the International Monetary Fund was a minister in France at the time in question.

Thursday August 28, 2014

War in Eastern Ukraine

• Ankara / Turkey : Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ( AKP ) takes up his first term as president .
• Berlin / Germany : At the first Western Balkans Conference in Berlin, Chancellor Merkel discussed economic and political cooperation in the Balkans and membership prospects with the heads of state and government of Slovenia , Croatia , Serbia , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Montenegro , Macedonia , Kosovo and Albania for the non- EU members in this group.
• Kiev / Ukraine : The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko reports that Russian troops have advanced into the territory of Ukraine and are said to have taken over the border town of Novoasovsk . Russia officially denies this. Ukrainian armed forces are now preparing to defend the city of Mariupol . Meanwhile, the pro-Russian separatists admit that they are receiving direct aid from Russia. The approximately 3,000 to 4,000 Russians on the side of the separatists are volunteers.
• Quneitra / Syria : Fighters from the Islamist Al-Nusra Front kidnap 43 UN blue helmet soldiers on the Golan Heights , who are monitoring the ceasefire between Syria and Israel .

Friday 29th August 2014

• Dakar / Senegal : The Ebola epidemic in West Africa reaches Senegal. The local health minister confirms the first case. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has so far registered 1,552 deaths in 3,069 infected people across West Africa.
• Helsinki / Finland : Finland and Sweden plan to sign so-called host nation support agreements with NATO . This would enable military and civilian support for allied or friendly NATO forces in Finland and Sweden, which have hitherto been militarily neutral. Russia warns both countries against joining NATO.
• Moscow / Russia : The Russian Justice Ministry classifies a group of soldier mothers as foreign agents in order to make it difficult for them to access information about the army such as the whereabouts of their sons. Soldiers' mothers are considered a non-governmental organization in the Russian Federation .
• Rabaul / Papua New Guinea : The eruption of the Tavurvur volcano on the island of New Britain forces the evacuation of several villages in its vicinity and extensive flight diversions.

Saturday August 30, 2014

• Brussels / Belgium : European heads of state and government decide at an EU summit that the conservative former Prime Minister of Poland , Donald Tusk , the new EU Council President and the social democratic former Foreign Minister of Italy , Federica Mogherini , will become the new EU foreign representative .
• Granada / Spain : The 2014 World Basketball Championship begins in Spain.
• Maseru / Lesotho : Prime Minister Tom Thabane fled to South Africa after a military coup .

Sunday August 31, 2014

• Dresden / Germany : In the state elections in Saxony , the CDU under Prime Minister Tillich becomes the strongest force with almost 40%. The previous ruling party, the FDP, fails at the 5 percent hurdle. The NPD narrowly missed this, while the AfD, with the top candidate Petry , achieved almost 10% from a standstill, thus moving into a state parliament for the first time and becoming the actual election winner. The turnout is only 49.2%. The CDU wins all constituencies except Leipzig II, which Die Linke conquered.
• Hong Kong / China : The leadership of the People's Republic of China would like to use a loyal election committee to select the candidates for the next elections in Hong Kong in 2017, who will then be presented to the population for election. This means a setback for the democracy movement there. There is now a threat of new protests.
• Macau / China : The head of government of the Macau Special Administrative Region , Fernando Chui Sai-on , was confirmed in a controversial vote by the election committee for a further five-year term.
• Mogadishu / Somalia : In a military offensive, the Somali armed forces and troops of the African Union succeeded in conquering the city of Bulomarer , which was previously controlled by the radical Islamic Shabaab militia, 160 kilometers southwest of the Somali capital. Meanwhile, an attack by the Shabaab militia on the intelligence center in Mogadishu has failed.

See also

• Nekrolog August 2014 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in August
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in August

Web links

Tyrol in August 2014

Commons : August 2014  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published in August 2014  - News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Abendzeitung-Muenchen.de: Explosions in Taiwan trigger infernos with dozens of deaths ( memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), August 1, 2014.
2. ↑ Spiegel.de: Russia forbids imports of fruit and vegetables from Poland .
3. ↑ Stern.de: 62 dead reported in Israeli attacks on Gaza, August 1, 2014. ( Memento from August 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Stern.de: Investigators recover corpses at the crash site of MH17, August 1, 2014. ( Memento from August 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Lebanon is being drawn more and more into the Syrian war. Reuters , August 4, 2014, accessed August 31, 2014 . 
6. ^ Donaukurier.de: 75 dead after explosion in factory in China ( Memento from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), August 4, 2014.
7. ↑ SRF.ch: Flood Warning in India after landslide in Nepal , August 4, 2014.
8. ^ Accident in Mannheim: engine driver disregards stop signals. Focus , August 6, 2014, accessed August 31, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Abendblatt.de: aftershocks make search for victims more difficult - already 400 dead , August 4, 2014.
10. ^ Protest march in Berlin: On August 3rd, the Yazidis commemorate the expulsion. August 2, 2018, accessed July 26, 2019 . 
11. ↑ FAZ.net : Fight against Ebola, World Bank grants 200 million dollars , accessed on August 6, 2014.
12. ↑ Spiegel.de : Banco Espirito Santo, Portugal saves Bes with 4.9 billion euros , accessed on August 4, 2014.
13. ^ Süddeutsche.de: Israel withdraws all soldiers from the Gaza Strip , August 5, 2014.
14. ↑ UPI.com: Pentagon identifies US Army general killed by Afghan gunman in Kabul , August 5, 2014.
15. ↑ Tagesspiegel.de: US general killed in attack in Kabul , August 5, 2014.
16. ^ Dan Lamothe: "New details emerge about death of Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, killed in Afghanistan" WP of August 6, 2014, viewed on August 6, 2014.
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18. ↑ Network crime, gigantic password theft revealed FAZ.net, accessed on August 6, 2014.
19. ↑ Experts react cautiously to serum against Ebola Hamburger Abendblatt, August 7, 2014.
20. ↑ Sierra Leone: Ebola - the country declares a state of emergency, Vatican Radio, August 7, 2014.
21. ^ Zeit Online: Liberia declares a state of emergency because of Ebola disease , August 7, 2014.
22. ^ Liberian Observer: President Sirleaf Declares State Of Emergency , August 6, 2014.
23. ↑ Spiegel.de: Russia publishes list of import bans from the EU and USA , accessed on August 11, 2014.
24. ↑ FAZ.net: Iraq - mass exodus from terror of the Islamic State , August 7, 2014.
25. ↑ Julia Smirnova: Moscow's great fear of dissenters. Die Welt , August 7, 2014, accessed on August 28, 2014 . 
26. ^ New York Times: Decades after Khmer rouges rule 2 senior leaders are convicted in Cambodia .
27. ↑ Zeit.de : Iraq, US Air Force attacks terrorist militia IS again , accessed on August 11, 2014.
28. ↑ Egypt: Court bans Muslim Brotherhood party . Time online . August 9, 2014. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
29. ↑ Sueddeutsche.de: Fear of Erdoğan's new power , accessed on August 11, 2014.
30. ↑ Welt.de : Airplane crashes after take-off, dozen dead , accessed on August 11, 2014.
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33. ↑ WAZ.de:Iraks Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is apparently resigning
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35. ↑ FAZ.net:Border crossing, Russian military vehicles are said to have advanced into the Ukraine
36. ↑ Francis in Seoul: North Korea irritates with rocket test before the Pope's visit , message from August 14, 2014, accessed on August 15, 2014.
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38. ↑ mbö / dpa: Bundestrojaner: BKA completes its first own Trojan. Spiegel Online , August 15, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 . 
39. ↑ Patrick Johnston, Tim Collings: Second Youth Games open in wet Nanjing. Reuters , August 16, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
40. ^ Ebola crisis: Confusion as patients vanish in Liberia. BBC , August 17, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
41. ^ Kurdish forces 'break IS hold on Mosul dam'. BBC, August 17, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
42. ↑ Aminu Abubakar: Chadian troops rescue 85 Nigerian hostages from Boko Haram. CNN , August 17, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
43. ↑ More found, two missing after Indonesia tourist boat sinks. BBC, August 18, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
44. ^ Two UN peacekeepers killed in attack in northern Mali. BBC, August 17, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
45. ↑ Ben Hartman: IDF destroys homes of the suspected murderers of the three kidnapped Jewish teens. The Jerusalem Post , August 18, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
46. ^ Nepal and India floods leave many dead. BBC , August 18, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
47. ↑ James Foley beheaded: ISIS claims to have killed US journalist. The Daily Telegraph , August 20, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
48. ↑ Frederik Pleitgen, Jethro Mullen, Laura Smith-Spark: 29 rockets in 20 minutes: Israel, Hamas ceasefire breaks down. CNN , August 20, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
49. ^ Thai army chief chosen as prime minister. Sky News Australia, August 21, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
50. ↑ Marina Silva chosen to run for president in Brazil. BBC , August 21, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
51. ↑ Ukrainian army captures Russian tanks near Luhansk . Time online . August 21, 2014. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
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53. ↑ OSCE report: Russian convoy has left Ukraine. Spiegel Online, August 23, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
54. ↑ Fears of a volcanic eruption: tourists evacuated in Iceland. Spiegel Online , August 20, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
55. ↑ Impending volcanic eruption: Iceland issues red alert. Spiegel Online, August 23, 2014, accessed on August 24, 2014 . 
56. ↑ Fight against Ebola: Ivory Coast closes borders. Spiegel Online, August 23, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
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58. ^ Ceasefire for Mozambique. Deutsche Welle , August 25, 2014, accessed on August 29, 2014 . 
59. ↑ Ebola epidemic reaches the Congo. Zeit Online, August 24, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
60. ↑ Martin Gehlen: Libya is cut off from the outside world. Zeit Online, August 24, 2014, accessed August 24, 2014 . 
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62. ^ FAZ.net: France's new government, Hollande makes confidante to Minister of Economic Affairs, accessed on August 26, 2014
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64. ↑ Wowereit resigns - the fight for a successor begins immediately. Westdeutsche Zeitung , August 26, 2014, accessed on August 28, 2014 . 
65. ↑ Israel and Palestinians agree on a permanent ceasefire. Zeit Online , August 26, 2014, accessed August 26, 2014 . 
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68. ↑ Public prosecutor officially investigates IMF boss Lagarde. Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten , August 27, 2014, accessed on October 10, 2016 . 
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71. ↑ Poroshenko speaks of the Russian invasion. Zeit Online , August 28, 2014, accessed August 28, 2014 . 
72. ↑ Separatist leader declares fighting Russians to be recreational soldiers. Zeit Online, August 28, 2014, accessed August 28, 2014 . 
73. ↑ 43 blue helmet soldiers abducted on the Golan. Zeit Online, August 28, 2014, accessed August 28, 2014 . 
74. ↑ Ebola has reached Senegal. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 29, 2014, accessed on August 29, 2014 . 
75. ↑ Christoph Hasselbach: Finland and Sweden are moving closer to NATO. Deutsche Welle , August 29, 2014, accessed on August 31, 2014 . 
76. ↑ Ukraine crisis: Russia regards soldiers' mothers as "foreign agents". Spiegel Online , August 29, 2014, accessed August 31, 2014 . 
77. ↑ Volcano in Papua New Guinea spewing ash and rocks. Zeit Online , August 29, 2014, accessed August 29, 2014 . 
78. ↑ Tusk becomes EU Council President, Mogherini Foreign Representative. Zeit Online , August 30, 2014, accessed August 31, 2014 . 
79. ↑ Basketball World Cup starts: Team USA without LeBron and Co., Spain sees its chance. Focus , August 30, 2014, accessed August 31, 2014 . 
80. ^ Army coup in Lesotho against elected government. Zeit Online, August 30, 2014, accessed August 30, 2014 . 
81. ^ State elections in Saxony: All results. Spiegel Online , August 31, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 . 
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83. ↑ NPD just fails. Zeit Online , August 31, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 . 
84. ^ Fabian Reinbold: AfD success in Saxony: Come to stay. Spiegel Online, August 31, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 . 
85. ↑ Setback for democracy movement: Beijing does not allow Hong Kong free elections. Spiegel Online, August 31, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 . 
86. ↑ Prime Minister Chui confirmed in office in Macau. Deutsche Welle , August 31, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 . 
87. ↑ Somali troops conquered the Islamist stronghold. (No longer available online.) Südtirol News, August 31, 2014, archived from the original on September 1, 2014 ; accessed on September 2, 2014 .