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Portal:Current events/2019 August 7
August 7, 2019 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan
- 7 August 2019 Kabul bombing
- A car bombing by the Taliban kills 14 and injures over 150 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (CNN)
- 7 August 2019 Kabul bombing
Disaster and accidents
- The death toll of the heat wave in Japan rises to 57, while 18,347 others are hospitalized. (Japan Times)
Law and crime
- 2019 California stabbing rampage
- A Garden Grove, California, man stabs and kills four people and wounds two others in a two-hour crime spree at a series of Orange County locations. Both injured victims are expected to survive. The motive of the 33-year-old suspect, who was arrested at the last scene, appears to be robbery as well as "anger and hate." (CNN) (AP via KESQ-TV)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Argentine general election
- Sources from the Brazilian government reveal that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suggested U.S. President Donald Trump visit Argentina in order to back the re-election of President Mauricio Macri. (La Nación)
- Cyntoia Brown is released from prison after serving fifteen years for killing Johnny Allen in 2004. (NY Times)
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