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- A church fire in Giza, Egypt, kills 41 people, including at least 18 children.
- Salman Rushdie (pictured), author of The Satanic Verses, is critically injured after a stabbing at a speech in the United States.
- A mass fish kill occurs in the river Oder in Poland and Germany.
- A mass shooting in Cetinje, Montenegro, leaves 11 people dead and 6 others injured.
August 18, 2022 (Thursday)
August 17, 2022 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Northeastern Ukraine campaign
- Battle of Kharkiv (2022)
- A Russian missile hits a dormitory in Kharkiv, killing seven civilians and injuring 16 others, according to the city's mayor and top military administrator. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- Battle of Kharkiv (2022)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Russia launches missile strikes on Odesa and Mykolaiv in Southern Ukraine in response to sabotage bombings of military facilities in Crimea. (MSN)
- Northeastern Ukraine campaign
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Afghanistan conflict
- Ten people are killed and 27 others are injured after a bomb explodes in a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)
Business and economy
- 2021–2022 inflation surge
- Inflation in the United Kingdom increases to 10.1%, the highest level since February 1982, due to increasing fuel and food prices. (The Guardian)
Disasters and accidents
- Twenty-six people are killed by wildfires in Algeria, mostly in the city of El Taref. (BBC News)
- Twenty-three people are killed after a bus overturns on a highway in Khouribga, Morocco. (Arab News)
International relations
Law and crime
- Police in Tokyo, Japan, arrest a former member of the 2020 Summer Olympics organising committee after prosecutors accused him of graft and bribery. (Reuters)
- The High Court of Australia rules that Google is not liable for defamatory material within hyperlinks that it serves as part of its search results. (Axios)
Science and technology
- Archaeologists discover one of the largest megalithic sites in Europe on a farm in southern Spain. The site dates back 7,000 years and contains more than 500 standing stones. (The Times)
August 16, 2022 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- An explosion occurs at an ammunition depot in northern Crimea, forcing the evacuation of civilians. Observers suggest that the depot may have been hit by Ukrainian forces. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Syrian civil war
- Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war
- 2022 Jarqli airstrikes
- Turkish airstrikes on a military base in Aleppo Governorate kill at least 16 Syrian soldiers. (Al Mayadeen)
- 2022 Jarqli airstrikes
- Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war
- South Thailand insurgency
- A ranger is killed while seven policemen and two civilians are injured as two bombs explode at a rubber plantation in Narathiwat, Thailand. (The Sun)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Two policemen are killed when gunmen open fire on them as they are escorting polio workers in Gomal, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Twenty people are killed and six others are injured when a passenger bus collides with a tanker truck in Jalalpur Pirwala, Punjab, Pakistan. (Xinhua News Agency)
- Six people are killed and several others are injured when a bus falls into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir, India. (Reuters)
- One person is killed and nine others are injured when a test car crashes into traffic in Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (AP)
- A Sudanese official reports that 66 people have been killed and 24,000 homes and buildings have been damaged since flooding began in June. (ABC News)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- U.S. First Lady Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19. (NPR)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Politics and elections
- The prime minister of Vanuatu Bob Loughman asks for the dissolution of parliament as he faces a vote of no-confidence. (RNZ Pacific)
August 15, 2022 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Mali War
- Operation Barkhane
- France formally ends its military intervention in Mali after withdrawing its last remaining troops from a military base in Gao. The base was handed over to Malian Armed Forces before the French forces crossed into neighbouring Niger. (Ecofin Agency)
- Four Russian Wagner Group paramilitaries are killed during an ambush by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin militants in Bandiagara. (Africanews)
- Operation Barkhane
- War in Afghanistan
- Fall of Kabul
- The Taliban stages a Victory Day parade on the first anniversary of the capture of Kabul. (CBS News)
- Fall of Kabul
- Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during the Syrian civil war
- Israel launches a series of airstrikes on Damascus and Tartus, Syria, killing three soldiers and injuring three others. (Al Jazeera)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United Kingdom
- The United Kingdom approves a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine aimed at targeting the Omicron variant and other variants of SARS-CoV-2, becoming the first country to do so. (EuroWeekly News)
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United Kingdom
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
International relations
- Liberia–United States relations
- The United States imposes sanctions on three senior members of the cabinet of Liberian president George Weah, accusing them of corruption. (AP)
- Prime minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern announces the deployment of 120 New Zealand troops to the United Kingdom to train Ukrainian forces. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2021 Myanmar coup d'état
- The military junta court sentences former state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi to six years in prison for corruption. (France 24)
- A lawsuit is filed against the Central Intelligence Agency and its former director Mike Pompeo, accusing the agency of spying on lawyers and journalists who met with Julian Assange. (Axios)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Kenyan general election
- The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission declares William Ruto as the winner of the election. (AP)
Sports
- FIFA suspends the All India Football Federation for violating its statutes on third-party interference. India is stripped of its hosting rights for international football tournaments, including the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup scheduled for October 2022. (Deutsche Welle)
August 14, 2022 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- A Palestinian gunman opens fire inside a bus in Jerusalem's Old City, injuring eight people, two of them critically. Israeli police later raid the Silwan neighborhood, where the suspect lived, and arrest him. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
- Five people are killed and 26 others are injured by an explosion in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The government blames organized crime groups. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Giza church fire
- At least 41 people are killed and 45 others are injured in a fire at the Saint Mercurius Coptic Orthodox church in Giza, Egypt. (BBC News)
- 2022 European and Mediterranean wildfires
- More than 1,500 people are evacuated from Zaragoza, Spain, due to wildfires. (EMEA Tribune)
- 2022 Yerevan explosion
- Six people are killed, 60 others injured and 18 more are missing in an explosion at a fireworks storage area of a mall in Yerevan, Armenia. The city's mayor stated that there were people trapped under rubble. (Al Jazeera)
- Seven people are killed by flooding caused by heavy rainfall in Pengzhou, Sichuan, China. (AP)
August 13, 2022 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia says that it has captured the village of Pisky, in Donetsk Oblast, while Ukrainian forces say that they have destroyed a bridge in Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast. (AP)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Pacific typhoon season
- Tropical Storm Meari makes landfall in central Japan, causing heavy rain and high winds. 72,000 people are evacuated from the city of Shizuoka. (Bloomberg News)
- 2022 Oder environmental disaster
- The German environment ministry says that an unknown, highly toxic substance is responsible for the mass die-off of wildlife in the Oder river. High levels of mercury have also been found in the river. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says that the river will take years to "return to normal". (CNN)
- One person is killed and 40 others are injured when a stage at a music festival in Cullera, Valencia, Spain, collapses due to high winds caused by a nearby heat burst. (Reuters)
- Flooding in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, kills two people and also damages The Linq hotel. (CBS News)
Law and crime
- Treatment of women by the Taliban
- The Taliban violently disperse a demonstration by women's rights activists who were marching to the education ministry in Kabul to demand broader rights, by chasing and beating women and firing gunshots into the air. (Al Jazeera)
- One person is killed and 17 others are injured after a driver plows his car into a fundraiser for victims of a house fire that killed ten people earlier in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania, United States. The perpetrator then kills his mother in a nearby town before being arrested. (The New York Times)
Sports
- Romanian swimmer David Popovici breaks the 13-year-old world record for the 100m freestyle with a time of 46.86. (SwimSwam)
August 12, 2022 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 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 News)
- 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. (KGTV)
- 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)
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)
- Three people are killed and 17 are missing after an overloaded boat capsizes in Uttar Pradesh, India. (Reuters)
- Nine people are killed and 18 others injured after a microbus overturn in Minya, Egypt. (AP)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Micronesia
- Incumbent Vice President Yosiwo George dies from COVID-19 at the age of 81. (Pacific Daily News)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Micronesia
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 a woman and 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 being guilty of. (AP)
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