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Topics in the news
- Floods in Pakistan kill more than 1,000 people and over 700,000 livestock.
- Incumbent president João Lourenço (pictured) and his party, the MPLA, are declared winners of the Angolan general election.
- William Ruto is elected President of Kenya.
- In Giza, Egypt, a church fire spreads to a nursery killing 41 people, including at least 18 children.
August 29, 2022
(Monday)
August 28, 2022
(Sunday)
Disasters and accidents
- In Mongolia, the National Emergency Management Agency says that wildfires have burnt more than 1 million hectares of land so far this year, mainly due to negligence. (Xinhua)
- Six people are killed and seven others are injured after a truck crashes into a community barbecue in Nieuw-Beijerland, South Holland, The Netherlands. (AP)
International relations
- Colombia–Venezuela relations
- Colombia and Venezuela restore diplomatic relations after three years. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- Two Colombian journalists are killed and another person is injured after two motorcycle-riding assailants shot them in Fundación, Magdalena. (WION)
August 27, 2022
(Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Libyan crisis, aftermath of the Second Libyan Civil War
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- Six people are killed and two others are injured when militants attack a gold mine in Boungou, Bilanga Department, Gnagna Province, Burkina Faso. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Hungary–Russia relations, Nuclear power in Hungary
- Minister of Foreign Affairs Péter Szijjártó announces Russian nuclear energy provider Rosatom will begin construction of two new nuclear reactors to expand the Paks Nuclear Power Plant. (BBC News)
International relations
- Kosovo–Serbia relations
- Kosovan prime minister Albin Kurti and Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić agree on a freedom of movement arrangement between Kosovo and Serbia. (The Manila Times)
Law and crime
- Indictment and arrest of Julian Assange, Censorship in the United States
- Lawyers for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange file an appeal against his extradition to the U.S., after UK Home Secretary Priti Patel approved his extradition from the United Kingdom. (The Guardian)
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet meets with Assange’s lawyers and his wife in Geneva, Switzerland. (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- Hunter Biden laptop controversy, Censorship in the United States
- In an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reveals that Facebook restricted posts about the Hunter Biden laptop controversy during the 2020 United States presidential election after receiving misinformation warnings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (BBC News)
Sports
- 2022–23 Premier League
- English football club Liverpool defeats Bournemouth 9–0 at Anfield, Liverpool, to equal the joint-largest winning margin in Premier League history. (BBC Sport)
August 26, 2022
(Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Ukraine's state nuclear company, Energoatom, says that the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has resumed supplying electricity to Ukraine's power grid after being disconnected yesterday from it for the first time in history. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- A traffic police deputy chief is killed by a bombing in the Russian-occupied city of Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Russian authorities accuse the Ukrainian forces of the attack. (Reuters)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Tigray War
- Ethiopian forces reportedly airstrike a kindergarten playground in Mekelle, Tigray Region, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 13 others. (CTV News) (Reuters)
International relations
- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijan–Russia relations
- Russian peacekeepers withdraw from the city of Lachin and the villages of Zabukh and Sus, thereby returning the Lachin corridor to Azerbaijan. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- Police arrest over 40 protestors for vandalism during a Just Stop Oil protest and blockade in London, United Kingdom. (The Telegraph)
- A vehicle rams into a crowd of people in central Brussels, Belgium, injuring six people. The driver flees the scene but is subsequently arrested in Antwerp. A motive is still unclear, but terrorism is not being ruled out. (Brussels Times) (Euronews)
August 25, 2022
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Ukraine says that the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been completely disconnected from its power grid after shelling near the Russian-occupied plant caused several fires. Security systems at the plant were activated shortly after the power failure, according to a local official. (NBC News)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war
- The United States conducts airstrikes against Iranian-backed militia groups in Syria for a second day. (The Wall Street Journal)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
- North Korea reports four new "fever" cases in Ryanggang Province and places the province under lockdown. (Al Arabiya)
- COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
Law and crime
- Assassination of Shinzo Abe
- Itaru Nakamura, chief of the Japanese national police agency, resigns, taking responsibility for the failures in former prime minister Shinzo Abe's security that resulted in his assassination in Nara on July 8. (CBC)
- Four people, including a police constable, are killed in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, United States. (ABC News)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Angolan general election
- The electoral commission announces that President João Lourenço's MPLA has won the general election. (Reuters)
August 24, 2022
(Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- The Russian-appointed head of Mykhailivka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ivan Sushko, is assassinated in a car bombing. (Euro Weekly News)
- Chaplyne railway station attack
- At least 25 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured in a Russian rocket attack on a passenger train in Chaplyne, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. (The Guardian) (Reuters)
- Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- The United States announces a security package of nearly $3 billion from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. (CBS News)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war, Russia–United States relations
- U.S. President Joe Biden orders airstrikes against claimed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Russia-linked groups in Syria in response to a August 15 rocket attack near the U.S. military base in al-Tanf, Syria, which houses the Maghaweir al-Thowra rebel group, and an airstrike by the Russian military in an area held by the Syrian opposition. The U.S. strikes targeted eleven bunkers in Deir ez-Zor used to store weapons, according to the United States Central Command. (CNN) (Reuters)
- A spokesperson for the Iranian foreign ministry denies that Iran has any link to targets hit by U.S. in Syria and condemns the strike as "a violation of Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity". (Reuters) (Middle East Eye)
- Mexican drug war
- Tigray War
- Fighting resumes between the Ethiopian military and the Tigray Defense Forces in the Tigray Region. Both sides blame each other for breaking the ceasefire. (The Guardian)
Business and economy
- Hydrail
- Germany and French rail transport manufacturer Alstom inaugurate the world's first fleet of hydrogen fuel-powered trains in Lower Saxony. The 14 hydrogen trains will replace a fleet of diesel locomotives on 100 kilometres (62 mi) of track in the German state. (Al Jazeera)
Health and environment
- Tuvalu declares a drought and a shortage of drinking water on the islands of Nanumea, Nui, and Niutao. (RNZ)
Law and crime
- Censorship in Russia
- Police arrest Kremlin critic Yevgeny Roizman, the former mayor of Yekaterinburg, for "discrediting the Russian army" by criticizing the invasion of Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)
- Aftermath of the 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash
- A United States grand jury awards former professional basketball player Kobe Bryant's widow, Vanessa Bryant, $16 million against the Los Angeles County sheriff's and fire departments for releasing graphic photographs of the former player, their 13-year-old daughter, and the other victims of the helicopter crash. Another victim's widow receives $15 million. (The Manila Times)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Angolan general election
- Angolans vote to elect their president in a tight race between incumbent leftist candidate João Lourenço and center-right candidate Adalberto Costa Júnior. (MSN)
- The Constitutional Court of Thailand temporarily suspends Prayut Chan-o-cha's premiership due to a case filed by Pheu Thai Party lawmakers over whether the eight-year term limit for premiership should also include Prayut's time as the leader of National Council for Peace and Order. Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan will take over the premiership while the case is being heard. (Reuters)
August 23, 2022
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Donbas
- Ukrainian forces reportedly shell the administration headquarters of the Donetsk People's Republic in separatist-held Donetsk, killing three people, according to pro-Russian officials. (Reuters)
- Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Slovakia announces that it will send an additional 30 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles and ammunition to Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Battle of Donbas
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Libyan Crisis
- According to the Libyan National Army, a United States-manufactured MQ-9 Reaper drone was shot down with a surface-to-air missile, crashing near Benina International Airport in Benghazi, Libya. (Eurasian Times) (Mehr News Agency)
Health and environment
- Holocene extinction
- The dugong is declared extinct in China after scientists report no verified sightings of the large marine mammal since 2000. However, dugongs still exist in the wild in parts of Southeast Asia and Australasia. (BBC News)
- South Korea registers a population decrease for the second consecutive year, due to having the world's lowest birth rate. (Xinhua)
Law and crime
- 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal
- The Federal Court of Malaysia upholds the corruption conviction and 12-year prison term of former prime minister Najib Razak in connection with the embezzlement of sovereign wealth funds from 1Malaysia Development Berhad. Najib is the first former Malaysian prime minister to be imprisoned. (NPR)
- Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot
- Two men are found guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction for use in the foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. One of the men is also convicted of an explosives charge. (AP)
- Brazilian police conduct eight raids on pro-Bolsonaro businessmen accused of discussing the possibility of a coup d'état if incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro loses the upcoming presidential election. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Scott Morrison ministerial positions controversy
- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces an official inquiry into his predecessor Scott Morrison's secret swearing of himself into various ministerial positions during his second ministry. (The Guardian)
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