Portal:Current events/2009 August 4

• Gotland governor Marianne Samuelsson is forced to resign after she was taped arguing that a local businessman should be given favourable treatment. (The Local)
• August 2009 tension in Georgia
  • Georgia's Foreign Ministry condemns Russia’s “deliberate attempts” to escalate the situation (Massenger Online).
  • Georgia urges US, EU to defuse Russia tensions (AFP via Google News).
  • EU Warns Georgia, South Ossetia against raising tension (NY Times).
  • South Ossetian separatists throw grenades into Georgian, Russian checkpoints (Rustavi2).
  • Georgia and South Ossetia accuse each other of opening fire (Civil).
• Police in Australia foil a major terror operation involving a suicide attack on a military base understood to be Holsworthy Barracks on Sydney's western outskirts. (Sky News) (The Age) (The Hindu)
• Former United States President Bill Clinton arrives in Pyongyang, North Korea to discuss the fate of two detained American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee. (BBC) (Yonhap) (Al Jazeera) (The Times)
• UBS remains cautious about its prospects after client withdrawals spurred by protracted U.S. tax litigation drags the Swiss bank into another big quarterly loss. (Reuters)
• Bangkok Airways Flight PG 266 crashes into a disused control tower at Samui Airport on the island of Ko Samui, Thailand, killing at least one person. (Bangkok Post) (BBC) (China Daily)
• An American man, John Yettaw, detained in Burma for making an uninvited visit to Aung San Suu Kyi, is taken to hospital suffering seizures. (BBC) (AFP) (CNN)

|}