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David Howell
- The Chess Olympiad concludes with Uzbekistan winning the open event and Ukraine winning the women's event (best individual open player David Howell pictured).
- Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, is killed by a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan.
- In association football, UEFA Women's Euro 2022 concludes with England defeating Germany in the final.
- In cycling, Annemiek van Vleuten wins the Tour de France Femmes.
August 13, 2022 (Saturday)
August 12, 2022 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
- Anglo-Indian writer Salman Rushdie is attacked at a public event in Chautauqua, New York, United States, sustaining multiple stab wounds to the neck and abdomen. The suspect is arrested by New York State Police. (Reuters) (AP)
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- Mali War
- The German defence ministry suspends its military's aerial reconnaissance and transport operations in Mali after the government of Mali denied the departure of one of their flights. (Bloomberg)
- Mali War
- Mexican drug war
- Eight people are killed and five others injured in a prison riot and shootings at a food shop and a pizzeria in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Two other premises are set on fire. (MSN) (CBS News)
- At least a dozen vehicles are burned and several streets are blocked in the state of Baja California, mainly in the cities of Tijuana, Mexicali and Ensenada. This is the fourth major incident in the last week where arson and blocked streets have been reported. (Infobae) (Proceso)
Business and economy
- Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- A Belize-flagged ship departs Chornomorsk for Turkey, becoming the first wheat export from Ukraine under a United Nations-brokered deal. (SwissInfo)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 United Kingdom heat wave
- The Environment Agency of England declares a drought across eight of its fourteen areas amid an ongoing heat wave. (The Guardian)
- 2022 Oder environmental disaster
- A mass die-off of fish occurs in the Oder river in Poland. Polish officials call it an "ecological catastrophe" with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki vowing to "punish" those responsible. The public has been warned not to enter the water amid fears of possible contamination. (Sky News)
Law and crime
- 2022 Kiribati constitutional crisis
- A High Court Judge is detained following a failed deportation attempt by the Kiribati government. (1 News)
- 2022 Cetinje shooting
- A man kills his wife and their two children at their home in Cetinje, Montenegro, before opening fire in the streets against random civilians, killing seven people and wounding six others. The perpetrator is later killed by an armed citizen. (NDTV)
- South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol pardons former Samsung executive Lee Jae-yeong, who was on parole for bribery. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Vice President of Paraguay Hugo Velázquez Moreno announces his resignation after being accused of corruption by the United States, which he denies. (AP)
August 11, 2022 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- At least ten shells hit the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant with both Russia and Ukraine blaming each other for the attack, which damaged an office building and the plant's fire station. (BBC News)
- Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Three soldiers are killed in an attack at a military base in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Two of the attackers are killed in the ensuing shootout. (Reuters)
- Islamic State–Taliban conflict
- Cleric Rahimullah Haqqani is killed by a suicide bomber at a seminary in Kabul, Afghanistan. IS-KP claims responsibility for the killing. (Al Jazeera) (The Times of Israel)
- Five people are killed and 100 others injured as security forces clashes with protesters demanding presidential election be held in November in Somaliland. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Thirty-four people are injured after two roller coaster trains collided at the Legoland Deutschland amusement park in Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany. (CNBC)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Marshall Islands
- The Marshall Islands confirms its first death from COVID-19 in a person from Majuro. (RNZ)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Marshall Islands
International relations
- Latvia–Russia relations
- The Latvian Parliament declares Russia a state sponsor of terrorism over its invasion of Ukraine. (Voice of America)
- Estonia and Latvia formally withdraw from the Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries group amid tensions with China over its human rights record and its support of Russia's war on Ukraine. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2021–2022 inflation surge
- Sierra Leone declares a nationwide curfew amid anti-government protests that have killed two policemen and one civilian. The West African country is currently experiencing record inflation. (Reuters)
- Cincinnati FBI field office attack
- A gunman wearing body armor attempts to storm the offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Following a subsequent police pursuit, he is killed in a standoff with police. (The New York Times)
- A man takes several employees hostage at a bank in Beirut, Lebanon, demanding his bank savings and threatening to set himself on fire. Police officers, soldiers, and intelligence agents surround the building. (The Guardian)
- At least eight people are killed in police raids in Curitiba, Brazil. (Infobae)
Politics and elections
- Occupied territories of Ukraine
- 2022 Russian-occupied Ukraine annexation referendums
- The Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast begins preparations for a referendum on the region's accession to Russia, which will be held on September 11. (RBK) (TV Center)
- 2022 Russian-occupied Ukraine annexation referendums
August 10, 2022 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- Russian forces install air defence systems at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, according to the head of Moscow-appointed administration of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Yevhen Balytskyi. (MSN)
- A Russian missile strike in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, kills at least 13 civilians and injures 11 others. (The New York Times)
- Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- Mexican drug war
- Cartel gunmen in Mexico burn down dozens of stores and block streets with burning cars in the states of Jalisco and Guanajuato in response to arrests of cartel figures by the Federal Police. (AP)
Business and economy
- COVID-19 recession
- Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Domino's Pizza closes all of its stores in Italy after its franchise holder ePizza SpA files for bankruptcy. The American restaurant chain says that it was severely impacted by COVID-19 restrictions in the country. (BBC News)
- Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Disasters and accidents
- A house explodes in Evansville, Indiana, United States, killing at least three people, injuring one and damaging at least 39 nearby houses. (CNN)
Law and crime
- Anti-government protests occur in Sierra Leone, calling for the removal of President Julius Maada Bio. Both protestors and policemen are killed during clashes. (The Washington Post)
- Uzbekistan's embassy in Russia warns its citizens not to join Russian forces invading Ukraine, saying that those who do so will be criminally liable for mercenaryism upon returning to Uzbekistan. (EuroWeekly News)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Papua New Guinean general election
- James Marape is re-elected unopposed as Prime Minister by the Parliament after his party Pangu Pati won the general election in July. (The Guardian)
August 9, 2022 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Ukraine summer counteroffensive
- Multiple explosions are reported at a Russian military air base near Novofedorivka in western Crimea. At least one person is killed and six others are injured, according to Crimean authorities. (Reuters) (Sky News)
- 2022 Ukraine summer counteroffensive
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, local head of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, and two other people are killed during a raid by Israeli soldiers in Nablus. At least 40 others are injured. (BBC News)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Four Pakistani soldiers are killed in a suicide bombing in Mir Ali, North Waziristan, Pakistan. (Reuters)
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- Fifteen troops are killed when their vehicle hits a roadside bomb in Bam Province, Burkina Faso. (Reuters)
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Four civilians and a soldier are killed, and another civilian is wounded, during three separate attacks by Boko Haram gunmen in the Far North Region, Cameroon. (Xinhua)
Business and economy
- 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
- Russia's Transneft says that Ukraine has suspended Russian oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline to the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia after it was unable to pay transit fees to Ukraine's pipeline operator UkrTransNafta. The Czech Republic's pipeline company says it expects supplies through the pipeline to restart within several days. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 South Korean floods
- Nine people are killed by flooding caused by record-breaking rainfall in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)
- Matanzas, Cuba oil factory explosion
- Firefighters in Cuba bring a catastrophic fire at an oil terminal in Matanzas under control after it burned out of control for five consecutive days, destroying 40% of the country's main fuel storage facility and causing widespread blackouts. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Marshall Islands
- The Marshall Islands confirm their first community transmission cases of COVID-19 in the capital Majuro. The government subsequently announces that the start of the school year will be delayed, and also suspends flights and boat travel to the country's outer islands. (RNZ)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Marshall Islands
International relations
- Moldova–Russia relations
- Russia bans the import of agricultural products from Moldova from August 15 due to "repeated detection of dangerous quarantine objects in Moldovan products entering Russia". (Reuters)
Politics and elections
Science and technology
- Discoveries of exoplanets
- Radio astronomers have discovered a newborn, Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting the star AS 209, using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array telescope in Chile. (Space.com)
- Roscosmos launches the Iranian Space Agency's Earth observation satellite Khayyam from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Al Jazeera)
Sports
- 44th Chess Olympiad
- The Chess Olympiad in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, concludes, with Uzbek chess grandmaster Nodirbek Abdusattorov winning the open event. (The Indian Express)
August 8, 2022 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Northern Chad
- The government of Chad and more than 30 rebel and opposition factions sign a peace agreement at talks in Doha, Qatar. However, the main rebel group Front for Change and Concord in Chad rejects the agreement, saying that negotiators had not listened to their demands, which included the release of political prisoners. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- The Pentagon announces that it will send Ukraine an additional $1 billion in military assistance, including tens of thousands more munitions and explosives, the largest such aid package to the country since the start of the invasion. (The Washington Post)
International relations
- Russia–United States relations
- Russia suspends New START arms inspections of its nuclear weapons in response to travel restrictions imposed by the United States and its allies. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- FBI search of Mar-a-Lago
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation executes a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the primary residence of former U.S. president Donald Trump, as part of a Justice Department investigation into Trump. (CNN)
August 7, 2022 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza–Israel conflict
- Operation Breaking Dawn
- Israel and the Islamic Jihad agree to a ceasefire agreement for the Gaza Strip. (CNN)
- Operation Breaking Dawn
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- Mali War
- Forty-two soldiers and four civilians are killed during an attack near the town of Tessit by Islamic State in the Greater Sahara gunmen. Twenty-two other soldiers are wounded, and 37 of the attackers are also killed. (Al Jazeera)
- Mali War
- Ituri conflict, 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
- Twenty people are killed when suspected Islamists attack two villages in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Senior Pakistani Taliban militant Omar Khalid Khorasani and three other militants are killed as their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Paktika Province, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Colombian presidential election
- Gustavo Petro is inaugurated as the first left-wing president of Colombia. (The Globe and Mail)
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