Portal:Current events/2011 August 28

August 28, 2011 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

At least 29 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad's largest Sunni mosque including Khalid al-Fahdawi, a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq. (AP via Google News)

Arts and culture

Disasters

Hurricane Irene:
- Effects of Hurricane Irene in New York
  - The storm reaches New York City with 370,000 people having been evacuated from low-lying areas. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
- A confirmed tornado in Delaware destroys a home and damages others. (ABC News)
- At least five people died in Maryland as a result of Hurricane Irene. (International Business Times)
- The state of Vermont is badly affected by the storm with the towns of Wilmington, Brattleboro and Dover all badly flooded and at least one death. (CNN)
- Numerous covered bridges in Vermont are destroyed or damaged by flooding caused by Irene including a covered bridge in Quechee and the Bartonsville Covered Bridge near Rockingham, which was swept away by flooding. (The New York Times) (KHQ-TV) Archived June 1, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
Typhoon Nanmadol kills eight people in the Philippines and is headed for Taiwan. (Taiwan News)
Five people are killed and at least 27 injured when a tram derails in the Santa Teresa neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. (BBC)

Law and crime

The Government of the United Kingdom pledges to raise the issue of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, allegedly by a Libyan official outside the embassy in London in 1984, with the new government in Tripoli. (Press Association via Google)

Politics