Portal:Current events/2007 August 12

• Five hundred people are evacuated from the slopes of Mount Karangetang, an active volcano that is spewing ash and lava, on the island of Siau in Indonesia. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
• Denmark sends a scientific team to the Arctic to try to establish that the Lomonosov Ridge is an extension of Greenland so it can claim sovereignty over oil reserves. (AP via New Hope Courier
• A Jakarta conference of Islamists sponsored by the Hizb ut-Tahrir discusses plans to reestablish a caliphate. (ABC News Australia)
• Fossilised remains of an ancient cypress forest estimated at 8 million years old are discovered in an open cast coal mine in Bukkabrany, Hungary. (BBC)
• Gloria Arroyo, the President of the Philippines, sends the chief of the army Romeo Tolentino to Zamboango in the southern Philippines to direct operations against militants. (BBC)

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