· August, 2007

Stories about Breaking News from August, 2007

Martinique braces for Hurricane Dean

le blog de [moi] writes a post bracing for Hurricane Dean (Fr), which has just hit Martinique: “the light's hazy, the birds are quiet, the ocean's [dark] like oil, there...

18 August 2007

Kazakhstan: Elections

Sean Roberts analyses the importance of today's parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan, and finds that the real results of the poll will only be clear over the course of the next...

18 August 2007

Haiti: Preparing for the Storm

As Haiti continues to prepare for Hurricane Dean's arrival, The Livesay Haiti Weblog reports: “The newest projections are saying ‘Dean’ will hit Southern Haiti sometime Saturday afternoon. It has not...

17 August 2007

Peru: Online Earthquake Coverage

When disaster hits, many look to television or radio to get their news. However, in Peru, many look to the internet to find out the latest information. Within minutes, the disaster appeared on Wikipedia. Bloggers also provided stories about where they were, when the quake struck and others try to set the record straight regarding misinformation read online.

17 August 2007

Morocco: Journalist Jailed

A Moroccan court yesterday sentenced Mustapha Hormat Allah, a journalist for Al-Watan al-An to eight months in prison for reporting on leaked documents explaining the “state of alert” in Morocco,...

16 August 2007

Kyrgyzstan: Let the show begin

Mirsulzhan Namazaliev provides a comprehensive summary of Livejournal coverage of the opening of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Kyrgyzstan, including links to many first-hand photo reports.

16 August 2007

Barbados, Dominica: Hurricane Dean

As Tropical Storm Dean gets upgraded to a hurricane, Barbados Free Press puts out an alert to other Caribbean islands, while Steve's Dominica reports: “It's strengthening rapidly. It's due to...

16 August 2007

Peru: Earthquake Hits Lima

Juan Arellano of Globalizado [ES] writes about the breaking news of a strong earthquake that hit the country. In addition, while President Alan Garcia addresses the nation, a tsunami warning...

16 August 2007

Afghanistan: Hostage crisis

In the latest developments of the Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan, Eugene Echo reports that another female hostage was picked to be released today.

15 August 2007

Barbados: Journalist on Rape Charge

Barbados Underground reports that a former newspaper editor has been charged with rape, while Barbados Free Press wonders “whether or not Bajan blogs impacted the decision of the police and...

15 August 2007

Barbados: Tropical Storm Dean

Barbados Free Press reports that Tropical Storm Dean, currently headed towards the Lesser Antilles, could “turn nasty”, while News of St. John says that the storm track “has dropped further...

15 August 2007

Kyrgyzstan: SCO summit

Bonnie Boyd writes a comprehensive update on developments in the run-up to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit to take place in Kyrgyzstan this week. Meanwhile, Azamat is upset that he...

14 August 2007

Child killed in Egypt

Abdulrahman Mansour was horrified to report that Egyptian police brutally tortured and killed 12 year old Muhammad Mamdooh Abdulrahman who they “arrested” for petty theft.

14 August 2007