On This Day: August 3rd

Worst floods hit major parts of Slovenia.

Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.

Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.

The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.

Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.

Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.

President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.