Portal:Current events/2008 August 25
August 25, 2008 (Monday)
- Canadian authorities report 12 people have died in the listeriosis outbreak traced to a Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto. (Montreal Gazette)
- The 2008 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party begins in Denver, Colorado. (BBC News)
- Tropical Storm Gustav forms in the Atlantic Ocean and heads for the Dominican Republic and Haiti. (AP via Minneapolis-St Paul Tribune)
- Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announces that he is withdrawing his Pakistan Muslim League (N) party from Pakistan's governing coalition. (Newsweek)
- Russia is considering arming its Baltic Fleet with nuclear warheads for the first time since the Cold War. (Alfa)
- Israel releases 199 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas as the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits the area. (AFP via Google News)
- Lovemore Moyo is elected Speaker of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe. He is the first opposition speaker since the country's independence in 1980. (BBC News)
- 2008 South Ossetia war:
- The Federation Council of Russia, the upper house of the Federal Assembly, urges the President to recognise the independence of Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. (BBC News)
- Traffic begins to return to Georgia's main east-west highway after the departure of Russian troops who had closed the road. (The Moscow Times)
- France called a summit of European Union leaders for next week to discuss the conflict in Georgia. (The Wall Street Journal)
- There is evidence that the Russian army took part in looting in Poti, Georgia. (The Times)