Portal:Current events/2014 August 6

• Syrian Civil War
  • Saudi Arabia grants Lebanon US$1 billion to help the country in its conflict with self-declared jihadist fighters on the border with Syria. (Al Jazeera)
• Iraqi insurgency (2011–present)
  • Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria clash with Iraq's Kurdish minority in the north of the country. (Reuters)
  • Iraq government television reports that an Iraqi Air Force strike has killed 60 militants. (AP via Yahoo! News)
  • At least 51 people are killed in a series of car bombings in Baghdad. (AP via Modesto Bee)

• Russia bans all United States agricultural products, European Union fruit and vegetable imports in response to Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukrainian crisis. (RT) (BBC News)

• American electronics company Apple Inc. and Korean company Samsung Electronics agree to end their patent litigation outside the United States. (IDG via Network World)

• 2014 Ludian earthquake
  • The death toll from the earthquake in China's Yunnan province rises to 589 with nine people still missing. (CNN)
• 2014 Pacific hurricane season
  • The US island state of Hawaii prepares for the potential impact of Hurricane Iselle on Thursday and Tropical Storm Julio on Sunday. (AP)

• 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak
  • The World Health Organisation reports that 932 have died from the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus with a man reportedly dying of the disease in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia after a business trip to Sierra Leone. (CNN)

• Officials in Karamay in Xinjiang, western China, places a temporary ban on Islamic headscarves, clothing and those with beards from using public transport, following violence in the region. (BBC News)
• Two medical students Neil Dalton, 23 and Aidan Brunger completing their exchange from Newcastle University to a hospital in Malaysian Borneo were murdered after four men followed them after an argument over singing in a bar and stabbed them from behind. (The Telegraph)

• Europe's Rosetta space probe reaches the distant 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko to orbit it and eventually land. (BBC News)