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Current events of August 13, 2010 (2010-08-13) (Friday)

The lawyer of Omar Khadr, the youngest Guantánamo Bay inmate, faints in court and is rushed to hospital. (Aljazeera)
The Pentagon alleges it is "hard to believe" anything Wikileaks says and warns it would be the "height of irresponsibility" if it were to publish documents on the War in Afghanistan that the United States government have been trying to keep secret. (Aljazeera)
France condemns a YouTube video of a senior soldier threatening a Togolese journalist in Lomé. (BBC)

Arts and culture

An anthropological linguist from the University of Cambridge departs for the Arctic where he is to spend a year living and documenting endangered Inughuit culture and language. (The Guardian)

Science

Peru's health ministry is deployed into the Amazon to battle the vampire bats blamed for the deaths of four children from rabies. (BBC)