Portal:Current events/2011 July 26
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July 26, 2011 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Police in Norway begin naming the victims of the 2011 Norway attacks. (BBC)
Business and economy
- The Reserve Bank of India increases interest rates to 8% in an effort to contain inflation which is currently at 9.44%. (BBC)
- Britain's Trinity Mirror reviews its editorial guidelines in light of the News of the World phone hacking affair. (AP via Yahoo News)
- U.S. Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, in a letter to the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission, demands that they block the effort of telephone giant AT&T to buy rival T-Mobile USA. (Reuters)
Disasters
- A Moroccan military transport plane crashes into a mountain in the south of the country killing 78 of 81 on board. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- Senior North Korean diplomat Kim Kye Gwan heads to the United States for discussions on reopening the six-party talks on his country's nuclear weapons program. (Yonhap News)
Law and crime
- Senegalese rapper and government critic Omar Toure is arrested. (BBC)
- Sri Lankan police hunt for 20 local television actresses alleged to be part of a prostitution ring. (Xinhua)
- A shootout at a prison in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, leaves 17 dead. (Fox News)
- David Cecil, an unemployed truck driver, is charged with hacking into Platform Networks's network. (Kansas City Star)(CBS News)(The Australian)
Politics
- Nguyễn Tấn Dũng is re-elected Prime Minister of Vietnam. (Government Web Portal of Vietnam)
- David Wu resigns as a member of the United States House of Representatives following allegations of an unwanted sexual encounter with an 18-year-old. (New York Times)
- Luis Gutiérrez, an Illinois member of the United States House of Representatives, is arrested outside the White House in Washington, D.C., during protests calling for immigration reform. (Rollcall)
Science
- A dog is discovered carrying the hendra virus in the Australian state of Queensland near the town of Beaudesert. It is the first time the virus has been detected in a species other than flying foxes, horses or humans. (AAP via News Limited)