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		{"date":"01-08",
			"events":[{"event":3,"lat":"53", "long":"28", "subject":"Belarus proposals for new constitution", "caption":"<b>August, Belarus: </b>President Alexander Lukashenko is expected to unveil his final proposals for constitutional change. Lukashenko touts the draft constitution as a solution to end the country’s ongoing political crisis but the opposition has consistently rejected the proposed changes as a stunt to keep him in power.  ", "picture":"Picture: Getty Images"},{"event":2,"lat":"8", "long":"7", "subject":"Nigeria to get 8m vaccine doses", "caption":"<b>August, Nigeria: </b>The populous African nation expects to receive nearly 8 million additional doses of Covid-19 vaccines, including 3.92 million Oxford/AstraZeneca shots from the COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme. An extra 3.93 million doses from either Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna will be donated by the U.S. government.  ", "picture":"Picture: Associated Press"},{"event":1,"lat":"-17", "long":"178", "subject":"Pacific Islands Forum summit", "caption":"<b>August, Fiji: </b>Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has invited Pacific Islands Forum leaders to Suva for the regional body’s annual summit. It offers him a pulpit for his urgent climate message and a chance to mend relations with the five Micronesian nations that have announced they are leaving the forum.  ", "picture":"Picture: Getty Images"},{"event":0,"lat":"30", "long":"31", "subject":"Egypt targets partial move to new capital", "caption":"<b>August, Egypt: </b>Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced in March that the transfer of government institutions to the New Administrative Capital (NAC) will start by August. The long-delayed project is part of an ongoing attempt to lure Cairenes from overflowing Cairo.  ", "picture":"Picture: Getty Images"}]},
		{"date":"03-08",
			"events":[{"event":1,"lat":"15", "long":"9", "subject":"Niger marks Independence Day", "caption":"<b>August 3, Niger: </b>The Republic of Niger gained independence from France on this date in 1960, two years after its foundation. In March, Nigerien security forces thwarted an attempted military coup two days before the newly elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, was due to be sworn into office.  ", "picture":"Picture: Getty Images"},{"event":0,"lat":"53", "long":"-127", "subject":"Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou extradition case", "caption":"<b>August 3, Canada: </b>Meng Wanzhou is set to appear in court in her U.S. extradition case. In July a Canadian judge denied Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer’s application to add a trove of documents her legal team received from HSBC as evidence in the case. The hearings are scheduled to finish by the end of the month.  ", "picture":"Picture: Getty Images"}]},
		{"date":"04-08",
			"events":[{"event":2,"lat":"34", "long":"-110", "subject":"Black Hat USA convention", "caption":"<b>August 4-5, United States: </b>The Black Hat USA convention in Las Vegas will enable cybersecurity experts to discuss vulnerabilities – including Russian-linked ransomware attacks around the world. Security experts and ethical hackers will disclose their latest findings, the most dramatic of which often become mainstream news.  ", "picture":"Picture: Getty Images"},{"event":1,"lat":"35", "long":"50", "subject":"President Raisi inaugurated in Iran", "caption":"<b>August 4, Iran: </b>The ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi will be inaugurated as president following his election victory in June. Raisi, a hardline ally of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has urged the United States to immediately return to the 2015 nuclear deal and lift sanctions that have crippled Iran’s economy.  ", "picture":"Picture: Associated Press"},{"event":0,"lat":"35", "long":"-120", "subject":"Meghan Markle turns 40", "caption":"<b>August 4, United States: </b>Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, turns 40, two months after giving birth to her daughter Lilibet Diana. Birthday greetings can be expected from Queen Elizabeth II and other senior UK royals despite raised tensions incurred by Meghan and Prince Harry’s recent TV interviews.  ", "picture":"Picture: Getty Images"}]},
		{"date":"05-08",
			"events":[{"event":0,"lat":"45", "long":"16", "subject":"Croatia marks annual Victory Day", "caption":"<b>August 5, Croatia: </b>A national holiday celebrates the day in 1995 that Croatian forces retook the city of Knin, bringing an end to the Republic of Serbian Krajina, a self-proclaimed Serb entity in Croatia. Some 200,000 Serbs, many of whose ancestors had settled the region centuries ago, were forced to relocate to Serbia.  ", "picture":"Twitter"}]},
		{"date":"08-08",
			"events":[{"event":0,"lat":"46", "long":"8", "subject":"Roger Federer turns 40", "caption":"<b>August 8, Switzerland: </b>Roger Federer turns 40 with 20 Grand Slams, a record now shared with his great rivals Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. An example of a recent phenomenon in top-flight tennis, the Swiss champion is one of many players still playing competitive tennis well into their 30s and beyond.  ", "picture":"Picture: Associated Press"}]},
		{"date":"09-08",
			"events":[{"event":2,"lat":"32", "long":"35", "subject":"Israel may greenlight new West Bank settlement", "caption":"<b>August 9, Israel: </b>The government’s Civil Administration is set to hear arguments for greenlighting a 3,412-unit West Bank settler building project known as E1. The plan is likely to complicate Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s relations with Washington and his left-wing coalition partners.  ", "picture":"Picture: Associated Press"},{"event":1,"lat":"", "long":"", "subject":"International Day of Indigenous Peoples", "caption":"<b>August 9, World: </b>Over 476 million indigenous peoples, in 90 countries, account for 6.2% of the global population according to the UN. They represent a vast diversity of unique cultures and traditions but many still live under the authority of central governments who exercise control over their lands and resources.  ", "picture":"United Nations"},{"event":0,"lat":"", "long":"", "subject":"Perseid meteor shower peaks", "caption":"<b>August 9-12, Space: </b>The Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak, with the rate of meteors reaching 60 or more per hour. The Perseids grace the night sky each summer with an astonishing number of meteors, brilliant streaks of light caused by bits of comet debris burning up in the high atmosphere.  ", "picture":"Picture: NASA/MEO"}]},
		{"date":"10-08",
			"events":[{"event":0,"lat":"-26", "long":"134", "subject":"Australia holds five-yearly census", "caption":"<b>August 10, Australia: </b>Questions on long-term health conditions, such as arthritis and diabetes, will be included in the latest population count. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will be hoping to have to fixed technology and privacy problems, when websites crashed during peak time on the last census night in 2016.  ", "picture":"Australian Bureau of Statistics"}]},
		{"date":"12-08",
			"events":[{"event":0,"lat":"-16", "long":"27", "subject":"Zambia general elections", "caption":"<b>August 12, Zambia: </b>Opinion polls suggest President Edgar Lungu will receive 44.5% of the vote with opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema getting just 30.3%. However, international observers say the polls are flawed and that Lungu’s ruling Patriotic Front party could face an uphill battle to win.  ", "picture":"Picture: Associated Press"}]},
		{"date":"17-08",
			"events":[{"event":0,"lat":"46", "long":"-120", "subject":"Microsoft ends Internet Explorer support", "caption":"<b>August 17, United States: </b>Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer 11 across its Microsoft 365 apps and services, such as Office 365, OneDrive, Outlook, and more, from this date. Microsoft will finally retire Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022, after more than 25 years.  ", "picture":"Picture: Graphic News"}]},
		{"date":"19-08",
			"events":[{"event":1,"lat":"", "long":"", "subject":"World Humanitarian Day", "caption":"<b>August 19, World: </b>World Humanitarian Day was designated by the United Nations to commemorate humanitarian workers killed and injured in the course of their work, and to honour all aid and health workers who risk their lives to provide life-saving support and protection to people most in need.  ", "picture":"United Nations "},{"event":0,"lat":"58", "long":"42", "subject":"Russia remembers 1991 coup", "caption":"<b>August 19, Russia: </b>Soviet hard-liners placed President Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest at his dacha in Crimea 30 years ago. The coup collapsed in two days, but led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union later that year. Gorbachev, now 90 and ailing, is mainly scorned in Russia as the man who lost an empire.  ", "picture":"Picture: Associated Press"}]},
		{"date":"23-08",
			"events":[{"event":0,"lat":"", "long":"", "subject":"Abolition of slave trade remembered", "caption":"<b>August 23, World: </b>The UN International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition commemorates an uprising on the island of Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti) on August 23, 1791, which played a key role in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade between Africa, Europe and the Americas.  ", "picture":"Anse Cafard Slave Memorial, Martinique"}]},
		{"date":"24-08",
			"events":[{"event":0,"lat":"36", "long":"140", "subject":"Pandemic-delayed Tokyo Paralympics", "caption":"<b>August 24-September 5, Japan: </b>The pandemic-delayed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games take place. Slovakia’s Veronika Vadovicova (pictured) aims to build on her haul of three Paralympic golds, while six athletes, from Syria, Burundi, Afghanistan and Iran, will compete for the Refugee Paralympic Team, representing global refugees.  ", "picture":"Picture: Getty Images"}]},
		{"date":"31-08",
			"events":[{"event":0,"lat":"35", "long":"69", "subject":"U.S. formally ends Afghanistan mission", "caption":"<b>August 31, United States: </b>The removal of the last 3,000 troops formally ends the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, which began 20 years ago with the 9/11 terror attacks. Confirming the date, President Joe Biden said the U.S. “did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build” and that the Afghans alone should determine their future.  ", "picture":"Picture: Associated Press, Getty Images"}]}]}]
