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Current events of August 24, 2011 (2011-08-24) (Wednesday)

2011 Battle of Tripoli
- Muammar Gaddafi vows to fight until "death or victory" despite the capture of his Bab Al-Aziziya compound in southern Tripoli. (The Telegraph)
- A former United Nations weapons inspector warns that a research centre near Tripoli has materials that could be used to make a nuclear dirty bomb. (Reuters via the New York Times)
Air strikes kill 30 Al-Qaeda linked militants near Zinjibar in Yemen's Abyan Governorate with eight army soldiers killed in fighting. (AP via Huffington Post)

Moody's credit rating agency downgrades Japan to Aa3 due to weak economic growth prospects and high levels of public debt. (Bloomberg)

Hurricane Irene
- Hurricane Irene strengthens to Category 2 status as it heads towards The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos and then the East Coast of the United States. (News Limited via The Herald Sun). (CNN)
- Thousands of people on Ocracoke Island off the US state of North Carolina are told to evacuate ahead of the arrival of the hurricane later in the week. (AP via The Chronicle-Herald)

Russian police arrest a former senior police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov suspected of organising the murder of former Kremlin reporter Anna Politkovskaya in 2006. (AFP via Google News)