Wikinews:2014/August
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- International team of scientists studies malaria drug resistance in Southeast Asia
- University defeat Toads in round 12 of 2014 Sunshine Coast Rugby Union season
- Leading Sierra Leone doctor dies in Ebola epidemic
- International team of scientists reports on Antarctic lead pollution
- Royal Navy evacuates UK citizens from Libya
- Australian–US team of scientists finds Atlantic warming causes Pacific climate trends
- Egyptian-mediated ceasefire between Israel and armed factions in Gaza starts
- US major general killed, 15 others wounded in insider attack in Afghanistan
- Russia stages military exercises as Ukrainian forces advance
- Australian government prepares legislation to restrict travel of Australian fighters overseas
- US President Obama authorizes airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq
- US scientists create prototype of autonomous origami-inspired robot
- Nigerian military launch counter-attack as Boko Haram insurgency believed to spread to Cameroon
- Actor and comic Robin Williams found dead at 63
- Australian physicists generate tractor beam on water
- Parts of internet break as '512k day' reached by routers
- Indian Prime Minister accuses Pakistan of waging proxy war
- Chadian soldiers rescue Nigerian Boko Haram hostages
- University defeat Maroochydore in round 14 of 2014 Sunshine Coast Rugby Union season
- Texas Governor Perry indicted on two felony counts
- Kurdish forces advance as international opposition to Islamic State grows
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza continues after another ceasefire violation
- Australian and British psychologists study errors in passport face matching
- Four arrested after building spire in Moscow painted in Ukrainian colors
- Taliban attacks in numbers amidst Afghani political stalemate
- Islamic State capture Syrian airbase
- US government to investigate paramilitary policing
- University, Noosa play for home Sunshine Coast rugby major semi in 2014
- Renegade General's forces claim responsibility for aerial attacks on Tripoli
- Candidates walk out of Afghan election audit
- US says Egypt and UAE responsible for air attacks on Tripoli