Portal:Current events/2004 August 20
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August 20, 2004 (Friday)
- US Airways, struggling to avoid a second bankruptcy, asks pilots to accept a 16.5% pay cut. (CNN)
- Three individuals in the United States are arrested and charged with supporting the Palestinian militant group Hamas over a 15-year period. (Washington Times)
- Homeland Security official Asa Hutchinson apologizes for a database mix-up that causes U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy to be held up at airline gates three times, on suspicion that he is a terrorist. (Information Week)
- Maoist rebels shoot a police officer and detonate two bombs in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. (Toronto Star)
- Refugee camps in Darfur are hit by hepatitis E, a deadly virus. (AllAfrica.com)