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Today in the World Countries

EVENTS
China issues its highest red alert heat warning for at least 138 cities and counties amid the country's longest heatwave since records began (64 days).
DEATHS
Josephine Tewson, British actress (Keeping Up Appearances; Last Of The Summer Wine,2003-10), who died at 91.

EVENTS
One in five US hospital I.C.U.s at or over 95% capacity due to Delta surge of COVID-19 pandemic, with 1,800 children hospitalized.

EVENTS
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the 1st US college to send students home and convert to online classes after 135 COVID-19 pandemic cases detected.
DEATHS
Mario De Araujo Cabral, Race Car Driver.
Savvas Theodoridis, Greek soccer goalkeeper (12 caps; Olympiacos), who died at 85.
Kobe Nunez, YouTube Star.
Boyd Grant, American college basketball coach (PCAA Coach of the Year 1978,81,82; Fresno State, Colorado State), who died from a stroke at 87.

EVENTS
Huge wildfires begin on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands prompting evacuation of 9,000 people.
Landmark power-sharing deal signed by military and civilian leaders celebrated in Khartoum, Sudan, with transitional government to take over Sept 1.
Suicide bombing at a wedding in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 63, with over 200 injured. The Islamic State claims responsibility.
Tool's 'Fear Inoculum' entered the US Hot 100 at No. 93, becoming the longest song ever to hit that chart. Running at 10:22, it outran David Bowie's 'Blackstar, ' which clocks in at 9:57. 'Fear Inoculum' dropped off the chart the following week..
BIRTHS
Cove Ferris, Instagram Star, born in United States.

EVENTS
Collision of two neutron stars witnessed for the first time first picked up by US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Ligo).
Anti-immigrant One Nation party leader Pauline Hansen is widely criticized for wearing a burqa into the Australian parliament.
Terror attack on Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain as van rams into crowds killing 16, injuring 120.
On This Day helps launch Borneo Dictionary, an online not for profit dictionary of indigenous Borneo languages with translations in English and Bahasa Malaysia.
Three Hong Kong activists, Jason Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow jailed for unlawful assembly.

EVENTS
Kenyan runner Conseslus Kipruto records an Olympic record 8:03.28 to win the men's 3,000m steeplechase gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games.
Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson wins 200m gold medal in 21.78; wraps up 100/200m Rio de Janeiro Olympics double.
American sweep in 100m women's hurdles at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics with Brianna Rollins taking gold ahead of Nia Ali & Kristi Castlin; 1st time US has swept medals in an Olympic women's track & field event.
Flood waters recede in Louisiana leaving 13 dead and damaging 4,000 homes.
German pair Laura Ludwig & Kira Walkenhorst upsets Brazilian hometown favourites Ágatha Bednarczuk & Bárbara Seixas 21–18,21–14 to win the Olympic women's beach volleyball gold in Rio de Janeiro.
DEATHS
Arthur Hiller, Canadian director (Love Story), who died at 92.
Arthur Hiller, Director.

EVENTS
Bomb blast in Bangkok at Erawan Shrine kills at least 19, injures over 100.
Discovery of 7,000 year old mass grave in Schöneck-Kilianstädten, Central Germany, published in PNAS Journal. 26 bodies bear evidence of violent conflict.
2012 Olympic 1500m champion from Turkey Asli Cakir Alptekin is stripped of her gold medal for doping by the IAAF.
World's first flower could be underwater plant Montsechia Vidalii claim US botanists (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).
BIRTHS
Lincoln Hoellein, YouTube Star, born in Logan, UT.
WEDDINGS
Irish "Boyzone" singer Ronan Keating at the age of 38 weds Australian television producer Storm Uechtritz at the age of 33 in East Lothian, Scotland.
Boyzone lead singer Ronan Keating at the age of 38 weds model Storm Uechtritz in East Lothian, Scotland.
DEATHS
Arsen Dedic, Croatian singer-songwriter and poet, who died at 77.
Yvonne Craig, American actress (Batgirl), who died at 78.

EVENTS
LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Monroe GC: Defending champion Inbee Park of South Korea beats runner-up Brittany Lincicome on 1st hole of a sudden-death playoff for her 5th major title.