Current events of 11 August 2007 (2007-08-11) (Saturday) edit history watch

A roadside bomb claims the life of the Governor of Ad-Diwaniyah province in Iraq Khalil Jalil Hamza and the provincial police chief Major-General Khalid Hassan. (San-Jose Mercury News) An explosion in Pasuruan in the East Java province of Indonesia causes three deaths and another three injuries. (AFP viaNews Limited) War in Afghanistan: The Taliban attacks Firebase Anaconda in Uruzgan province for the third time in a week suffering casualties. The Taliban also launches unsuccessful attacks in Helmand and Kandahar provinces. (CNN) The Taliban claims to have released two South Korean hostages but local and national officials cannot confirm the claims. (Reuters) Three by-elections for the Canadian House of Commons will be held for the ridings of Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean, Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot and Outremont on September 17. (Globe and Mail) The President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez proposes building a gas pipeline between Venezuela and the Caribbean supplying states such as Cuba. (Bloomberg) The President of Russia Vladimir Putin states that a new radar station in the village of Lekhtusi near St Petersburg is the first step in a large-scale air defense program. (Reuters) New York City is put on high alert after an al Qaeda bomb threat surfaces on Internet. Thai insurgents attack several positions held by Thai security forces at Yala Province. (Xinhua via People's Daily) The President of the United States George W. Bush hosts the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy at a casual lunch at the Bush family home in Maine. (Reuters) United States presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins the Republican Party's Ames Straw Poll in Ames, Iowa. (The Washington Post) Voters in Sierra Leone go to the polls for the first time since the end of the country's civil war in 2002. (Voice of America)