August 28, 2012 (Tuesday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- Syrian civil war:
- Twelve people are killed in a twin-blast bomb attack by unknown people at the entrance of a Druze cemetery in the Jaramana district of southeast Damascus. (Reuters) (RIA Novosti)
- At least one person is killed and another four injured in renewed fighting in the Indian city of Kokrajhar in the state of Assam. (BBC)
- Clashes continue in Mombasa, protesting the killing of radical Muslim Kenyan cleric Aboud Rogo. The government of Kenya orders a swift investigation. (Reuters) (coastweek.com)
- Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos announces the start of preliminary peace talks with the FARC-EP guerrilla group. (Washington Post)
- A Muslim Sufi leader, Safi Afandi, is killed in a suicide bomb attack in the Russian republic of Dagestan. (Al Jazeera)
Arts and culture
- Wong Kar-wai is to be jury president of the 2013 Berlinale film festival. (Xinhua)
Disasters
- At least four Chinese fishermen die and another twelve are missing in the Korea Strait as Typhoon Bolaven hits South Korea. The Chinese meteo service issues a blue alert. (BBC) (Xinhua)
- Tropical Storm Isaac is upgraded to a category 1 hurricane as the storm makes landfall along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana. (CNN)
Law and crime
- An Israeli court rules that Israel is not responsible for the death of American activist Rachel Corrie at the hands of an Israeli Army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. (BBC) (The Times of Israel)
- French officials open up a murder case in the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat following a "complaint against X" by his widow. (CNN) (Le Monde)
Politics
- The United States Republican Party officially nominates Mitt Romney as its candidate in the 2012 presidential election at the National Convention in Tampa, Florida. (Boston Globe)
Science and technology
- IBM sells a "most powerful and advanced" server. (Wall Street Journal)
Sports
- A teen-aged boy proposes Novak Djokovic for marriage at a US Open training and gets some playtime in return. (Huffington Post)