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2025 September 08

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict
    • Gaza war
      • 2025 Gaza City offensive
        • Four Israeli soldiers are killed by Hamas on the outskirts of Gaza City in the Gaza Strip. (The Times of Israel)
    • Palestinian political violence
      • 2025 Ramot Junction shooting
        • Six people are killed and seven others are wounded in a mass shooting targeting Israelis by Palestinian assailants in Jerusalem. The two perpetrators are killed following a shootout with a soldier and a civilian. (BBC News) (CNN)
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • Five people are killed and five others injured during at least eight Israeli airstrikes between Beqaa Valley and Hermel, in Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• War in the Sahel
  • Mali war
    • Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) imposes a nationwide blockade on fuel and other goods imported from neighboring countries while besieging Malian government-held cities and towns. An unknown number of fuel trucks from Senegal and the Ivory Coast violating JNIM’s blockade have been attacked and burned by militants. (AP)
    • The Malian army conducts airstrikes in the Kayes Region against JNIM, reporting operations in Diema and Nioro du Sahel that included freeing hostages. (Reuters)
• Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
    • According to a local leader, 102 people are killed when Allied Democratic Forces rebels attack a funeral in Ntoyo, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Anadolu Agency) (Euronews)
• 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests
  • Police open fire on protesters demonstrating against a government ban on social media in Kathmandu, Nepal, killing at least 19 people and wounding over a hundred more. A curfew is declared around all government buildings, including the Rastrapati Bhawan and Federal Parliament. (CBC News) (BBC News) (Sky News)
  • Ramesh Lekhak resigns as Minister of Home Affairs in response to the police killings of protesters. (Firstpost)
  • Nepal’s Ministry of Information and Communications lifts its ban on major social media platforms following the protests. (AFP via France 24)

Business and economy

• Succession of Rupert Murdoch
  • The children of News Corp founder and former chairperson Rupert Murdoch reach a settlement over the corporation’s control, transferring all shares held by the original family trust to a new entity which gives Lachlan sole voting control, while Prudence, Elisabeth, and James exit with a reported US$3.3 billion settlement. (AFP via France 24)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlacomulco bus crash
  • A train collides with a double-decker bus at a level crossing in Atlacomulco, Mexico, killing at least ten people and injuring 41 others. (Yahoo! News Canada)

International relations

• Israel–Spain relations
  • Spain announces an indefinite ban on ships transporting fuel and planes carrying weaponry to Israel from all of its ports and airspace in response to the Gaza genocide. (Politico)
  • Spain recalls its ambassador to Israel after the Israeli government accused Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez of being “antisemitic” and barred two Spanish officials from entering Israel, with Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares calling it “slanderous accusations” against the country. (Barron’s)
• Belarus–Czech Republic relations
  • The Czech Republic expels a Belarusian diplomat accused of espionage after cooperating with Romanian and Hungarian intelligence services to dismantle a Belarusian spy network in Europe. (Reuters)
• 2025 Georgia Hyundai plant immigration raid
  • The South Korean foreign ministry charters a plane to repatriate more than 300 South Koreans who were detained during an ICE raid at a Hyundai plant in Ellabell, Georgia, United States, last Thursday. (NPR)

Law and crime

• Immigration policy of the second Trump administration
  • Deportation in the second Trump administration
    • The United States Department of Homeland Security launches “Operation Midway Blitz”, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown on undocumented immigrants in Illinois with serious criminal records, while state officials say they received no formal notice of the operation. (Reuters)
• E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations, Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump
  • The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejects President Donald Trump’s bid on the grounds of presidential immunity to overturn the civil ruling of Carroll I (2019), upholding that Trump must pay $83,300,000 to sexual abuse victim E. Jean Carroll for defamation. (The New York Times) (Reuters)
  • The US House Oversight Committee releases a “birthday book” compiled for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, which includes a note allegedly signed by President Donald Trump; the White House denies its authenticity. The book is part of a larger set of documents. (BBC)
• Frédéric Péchier case
  • French doctor Frédéric Péchier is tried for allegedly intentionally poisoning 30 people, including twelve fatally, at two clinics in Besançon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. (BBC News)
• Phillips family disappearances
  • Tom Phillips, a man who kidnapped his three children during a dispute with their mother and brought them to a remote countryside in 2021, is fatally shot by a police officer after shooting and critically injuring another officer in the head following a robbery at an agricultural supplies store in Waikato, New Zealand. All the three children are rescued. (The New Zealand Herald)
• 2025 Balçova police station shooting
  • Two police officers are killed and three other people are injured in a mass shooting at a police station in İzmir, Turkey. The 16-year-old perpetrator is arrested. (WTOP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Ivorian presidential election
  • Ivory Coast’s Constitutional Council bars former president Laurent Gbagbo and former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam from running in the upcoming presidential election, while approving five candidacies including President Alassane Ouattara and Gbagbo’s wife Simone. (Reuters)
• 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election
  • Norwegians vote to elect all 169 members of the Storting using party-list proportional representation in 19 multi-member constituencies. (Reuters)
  • The left-wing red–green coalition, led by the Labour Party, wins a majority with 87 seats, while the right-wing populist Progress Party becomes the second biggest party with 48 seats and the centre-right Conservative Party has its worst performance in 20 years, with 24 seats. (The Guardian)
• 2025 Norwegian Sámi parliamentary election
  • The Norwegian Sámi people vote to elect all 39 members of the Sámi Parliament of Norway using party-list proportional representation in seven multi-member constituencies. (NRK)
• 2024–2025 French political crisis
  • The French Bayrou government collapses after losing a vote of confidence in the National Assembly by 364 votes to 194. (BBC News)
• The Philippine Senate elects Tito Sotto as Senate president, replacing Chiz Escudero after 15 senators voted for a leadership change that also realigned majority and minority blocs. (Bloomberg News) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto reshuffles his cabinet, appointing four new ministers and one deputy minister and establishing a new department, the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah. The removal of finance minister Sri Mulyani causes a sharp drop in the country’s main stock market index as well as the rupiah. (Tempo) (Reuters)
• Ugandan police detain the deputy spokesperson of the opposition party National Unity Platform (NUP) outside a court in Kampala where he was attending a bail hearing for party members held on charges the NUP describes as politically motivated. (Reuters)

2025 September 07

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • The al-Ruya Tower high-rise apartment building is hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Palestine. (Al Jazeera)
      • At least 65 people are killed and several others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on a school, refugee tents, and houses in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Two people are injured, flights are halted and the airspace is closed after multiple Houthi-launched drone attacks, including some intercepted and at least one on the passenger hall of Ramon Airport near Eilat in Southern District, Israel. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kyiv strikes
    • At least four people are killed, including an infant, and eleven others are injured in drone and missile attacks on Pecherskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi districts in Kyiv, Ukraine. Among the buildings hit is the main government building. (BBC News) (AP)
• Colombian conflict
  • Forty-five Colombian soldiers are kidnapped by a mob in Cauca Department, Colombia, while conducting anti-drug cartel operations. The military says the soldiers are being held hostage by local villagers who are demanding the return of a killed insurgent’s body which was transferred to a morgue in Popayán in return for their release. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Saints canonized by Pope Leo XIV
  • Pope Leo XIV canonizes English-Italian teenager Carlo Acutis in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City, making Acutis the first millennial saint. (Reuters)
  • The pope also canonizes Pier Giorgio Frassati, an Italian member of the Lay Dominicans and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul who was known for his dedication to social justice. (Vatican News)

Disasters and accidents

• Five people are killed, one person is seriously injured, and another is reported missing when a migrant boat collides with a Turkish Coast Guard vessel off the coast of Badavut, Ayvalık, Balıkesir Province, Turkey. (MSN)
• At least four people are killed and 84 others are injured when a building hosting a religious gathering collapses in Bogor Regency, West Java, Java, Indonesia. (South China Morning Post)
• Around 80 people are injured, including up to 20 seriously, in a mass crash at the RiderMan bicycle race in Bad Dürrheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (MSN)

Law and crime

• Leongatha mushroom murders
  • Erin Patterson is sentenced to life in prison plus an extra 25 years without parole for 33 years for the 2023 poisoning of four relatives with Beef Wellingtons laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms, killing three and injuring the other in Leongatha, Victoria, Australia. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Buenos Aires provincial elections
  • The La Libertad Avanza party of President Javier Milei suffers heavy losses in local elections in Argentina’s most populous province. (DW)
• Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba announces his intention to resign from office after his party lost seats in the House of Councillors election in July. (Reuters)
• Guyanese president Irfaan Ali is sworn in for a second term in office after winning last week’s election. (AP)
• Romania’s coalition government survives four no-confidence votes, enabling it to advance tax increases and spending cuts aimed at reducing the European Union’s highest budget deficit and securing recovery funds, despite threats of public sector strikes. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• September 2025 lunar eclipse
  • A total lunar eclipse, visible in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica, occurs. (EclipseWise) (BBC News)
• Microsoft Azure services are disrupted by cuts to undersea cables in the Red Sea while internet access is also disrupted in parts of Asia and the Middle East. (BBC News) (ABC News)

Sports

• 2025 US Open
  • In tennis, Carlos Alcaraz defeats defending champion and his rival Jannik Sinner in the men’s singles final, 6–2, 3–6, 6–1, 6–4, to win his second US Open title and sixth major title overall. (BBC Sport)

2025 September 06

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • At least one person is killed and two others are injured in an improvised explosive device bombing during a cricket match in Bajaur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Dawn)

Arts and culture

• 82nd Venice International Film Festival
  • The 2025 Venice Film Festival closes with Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother winning the Golden Lion. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pakistan floods
  • Five people are killed when a rescue boat capsizes in the Chenab River while evacuating people from flooding in the Jalalpur Pirwala area of Multan District, Punjab, Pakistan, with search operations still ongoing. (Dawn)
• Six people are killed after a cable wire of a ropeway meant for material transport at the Kalika Mata Temple snaps, causing the cable car to crash to the ground in Pavagadh, India. (The Indian Express)
• At least three people are killed, nine are injured, including six seriously, and others are reported missing when an under-construction bridge collapses in Karbala Governorate, Iraq. (Al Arabiya) (Shafaq News)

International relations

• Immigration policy of the second Trump administration
  • Deportation in the second Trump administration
    • South Sudan repatriates a Mexican national who had been deported from the United States, after receiving assurances from Mexico that he would not face torture or unfair prosecution. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Gaza war protests in the United Kingdom
  • Around 890 people are arrested at a demonstration against the ban on the group Palestine Action in London, England. (BBC News)
• A Chilean court releases American pilot influencer Ethan Guo from detention in Antarctica after landing a plane without authorization, while ordering him to pay US$30,000 in penalties and leave the country under a three-year entry ban. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 Formula One World Championship
  • 2025 Italian Grand Prix
    • In auto racing, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen secures pole position for the Italian Grand Prix at the Monza Circuit with a lap of 1:18.792, setting the fastest Formula One lap in history, surpassing Lewis Hamilton’s record of 1:18.887 at the same circuit in 2020. (The Guardian)
• 2025 US Open
  • In wheelchair tennis, Tokito Oda defeats Gustavo Fernández in the men’s singles final to complete the career Golden Slam in the event. (IOC)
  • In tennis, Aryna Sabalenka defeats Amanda Anisimova 6–3, 7–6(7–3) in the women’s singles final to win her second consecutive US Open title. (USA Today)
  • Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos defeat Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury 3–6, 7–6(7–4), 7–5 in the men’s doubles final to win the US Open, becoming the first pair to win the French Open and the US Open in the same season since 2009. (US Open)
  • Erin Routliffe and Gabriela Dabrowski defeat Taylor Townsend and Kateřina Siniaková 6–4, 6–4 in the women’s doubles final to win their second US Open title together. (WTA)

2025 September 05

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas releases a video showing a speech by two Israeli hostages in Gaza kidnapped during the Nova music festival massacre in 2023. (Reuters) (The Jerusalem Post)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • The United Nations Human Rights Office reports that M23 rebels, the Congolese armed forces, and other groups in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have committed serious abuses, including killings, torture, sexual violence, and child recruitment, some of which may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. (Reuters)
• War on drugs, United States–Venezuela relations
  • The Trump administration deploys ten F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to take part in military action against drug cartels in Venezuela and Latin America. (The Guardian)
  • Venezuelan Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly over the USS Jason Dunham in international waters for a second time in 24 hours as tensions mount between the United States and Venezuela. (CBS News)
  • Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro accuses the U.S. of seeking a regime change in Venezuela under the guise of combating cartels. (Reuters)
  • Caribbean Airlines halts all flights between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela for the entire month of September due to the military situation in the region. (Guyana Times)
• Anglophone Crisis
  • A roadside bomb kills seven Cameroonian soldiers in the Southwest Region. An English-speaking separatist group claims responsibility for the bombing. (ABC News)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • At least 63 people are killed, including seven soldiers, and others are reported missing in attacks by Boko Haram jihadists in Darul Jamal, Borno State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
• Kidnapping in Nigeria
  • Eight security officials are killed, four others are seriously injured, and five Chinese workers are kidnapped, with four rescued afterwards, in an attack on a Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps convoy in Edo State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
• Terrorism in India
  • Lashkar-e-Jihadi warns police that multiple terrorist attacks involving 34 explosive-laden vehicles and 14 terrorists are being planned for the Ganesh Chaturthi finale on Saturday in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, causing security to be tightened. (The Times of India)

Disasters and accidents

• A bus carrying tourists plunges down a hill in Uva Province, Sri Lanka, killing at least 15 people and injuring 15 others. (Indian Express)
• Eleven people are reported missing, including children and an infant, and three others are rescued when a hippopotamus capsizes a boat on the Sassandra River near Buyo in Ivory Coast. (CBS News)
• A man is killed in a shark attack off Long Reef beach in New South Wales, Australia. The species of shark is currently unknown but it is believed to be a large shark due to the injuries recorded. (The Guardian)

Health and environment

• 2023–2025 mpox epidemic
  • World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declares that mpox is no longer a public health emergency of international concern, citing a consistent decline in cases in Africa. (Reuters)
• Portugal records its hottest and driest summer since measurements began in 1931, with an average maximum temperature of 30.78 °C (87.40 °F) and only 24% of normal rainfall, conditions that contributed to recent wildfires. (AFP via NDTV)

International relations

• China–Pakistan relations, China–Pakistan Economic Corridor
  • During a state visit to Beijing, Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif announces new US$8.5 billion investment agreements with China, including $7 billion in a memorandum of understanding and $1.5 billion in joint ventures between the two countries. (AP)
• Finland–Latvia relations, Belarus–European Union border crisis
  • Finland accepts Latvia’s request to deploy border guards at the Belarus–Latvia border to help manage increased migration from Belarus, with Estonia and Lithuania also providing support. (Reuters)
• Finland–Palestine relations, Diplomatic impact of the Gaza war
  • Finland joins the New York Declaration calling for the end of the Gaza war and advancing a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• The European Commission fines Google €2.95 billion (US$3.47 billion) for allegedly abusing its position as the leading search engine to commit anti-trust violations in the advertising technology space. (DW)
• A Swedish district court acquits former national security adviser Henrik Landerholm of severe negligence after he left classified documents in an unlocked hotel safe, ruling that his actions did not meet the threshold required for conviction. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 British cabinet reshuffle
  • Angela Rayner resigns as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leaves her other government posts amid a scandal over a tax underpayment on a property she owns in Hove, East Sussex. (Sky News)
  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer conducts a cabinet reshuffle and appoints foreign secretary David Lammy as the new deputy PM and Secretary of State for Justice Shabana Mahmood as the new home secretary. (BBC News)
• 2025 Georgian local elections
  • Georgian president Mikheil Kavelashvili pardons opposition politicians Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze, allowing them to run in the upcoming elections after serving prison sentences for refusing to testify before parliament. (Reuters)
• 2025 Samoan general election
  • Official results show that the FAST party led by Laʻauli Leuatea Schmidt wins the election by a landslide, securing 30 out of the 50 Legislative Assembly seats. (Al Jazeera) (The New Zealand Herald)
• 2025 Thai political crisis
  • The House of Representatives of Thailand elects Anutin Charnvirakul, leader of the conservative opposition Bhumjaithai Party, as the country’s prime minister, replacing Paetongtarn Shinawatra. (Al Jazeera)
• Executive orders in the second Trump presidency
  • U.S. president Donald Trump signs an executive order unofficially renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War. (BBC News)

Science and technology

• AI boom
  • European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
    • The Jupiter supercomputer, capable of at least one quintillion calculations per second with 24,000 Nvidia chips, is inaugurated in Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, marking Europe’s first system considered internationally competitive in training artificial intelligence models. On a partial system test, Jupiter has achieved a preliminary 793.4 Petaflop/s, placing it 4th in the Top 500 behind El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora at the US Department of Energy. (AFP via France 24) (Top 500)

2025 September 04

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 75 Palestinians are killed, including 44 who are killed in Gaza City, during Israel’s military assault. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Afghanistan earthquake
  • Hundreds of deceased people are found under the rubble of collapsed houses after the August 31 earthquake in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bringing the death toll to 2,205. (AP)
• Seventeen people are injured and 15 others are hospitalized when a double-decker bus crashes near Victoria station in London, England. (AP)

Health and environment

• Vaccination policy of the United States
  • Make America Healthy Again
    • The U.S. state of Florida announces it will formally eliminate all vaccination mandates, including school and childhood mandates for chickenpox, measles, and polio. (DW) (AP)
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo declares a new Ebola outbreak in Kasaï Province with 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, confirmed as the Zaire strain. (Reuters)

International relations

• Algeria–Mali relations
  • The Malian transitional government files a lawsuit against Algeria at the International Court of Justice and accuses Algeria of destroying a Malian military drone near Tinzaouaten, Kidal region, to allegedly hinder Mali’s campaign against armed rebels in the Mali War. (AP)
• Belarus–Poland relations
  • Belarus detains a Polish national and a Belarusian citizen on charges of espionage after authorities allege they possessed documents on Zapad 2025. (Reuters)
• Ecuador–United States relations, War on drugs
  • The United States designates Ecuadorian drug cartels Los Choneros and Los Lobos as terrorist organizations. U.S. secretary of state Marco Rubio also says that the U.S. will support the Ecuadorian Navy by providing $6 million in drones and $13 million for general security in the fight against these gangs. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Chromebook procurement scandal
  • Former Indonesian education minister and Gojek co-founder Nadiem Makarim is detained after prosecutors name him as a suspect in a corruption case over the alleged unauthorized procurement of Chromebook laptops that resulted in state losses estimated at Rp 1.98 trillion (US$121.85 million). (Reuters)
• Robodebt scheme
  • Australia agrees to pay an additional A$475 million (US$309M) in compensation to victims of the unlawful “Robodebt” welfare debt recovery scheme, bringing total repayments and compensation to A$2.4 billion (US$1.6 bn) in what would be the country’s largest class action settlement if approved by the courts. (Reuters)
• 2025 Hollow Water First Nation stabbings
  • Two people are killed, including the suspect, and eight others are injured in a stabbing spree in Hollow Water First Nation, Manitoba, Canada. (CBC)
• A Hong Kong jury convicts three people and acquits five others over 2020 bomb plots targeting hospitals and trains during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding them guilty of conspiracy to cause explosions but not of terrorism charges under the UN anti-terrorism law. (Reuters)
• Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra leaves Thailand after a court ruling that placed him at risk for arrest. Police indicate that he was allowed to leave the country as there is no active warrant for his arrest. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Jamaican general election
  • Jamaica’s Labour Party wins the general election with 34 seats in the House of Representatives against 29 for the People’s National Party, securing a third term for Prime Minister Andrew Holness amid a voter turnout of 39.5%. (Reuters)
• Censorship in Nepal
  • Nepal orders its telecommunications authority to block access to unregistered social media platforms after companies failed to meet government requirements to register locally and designate compliance representatives. (Reuters)
• Argentina’s Congress overturns President Javier Milei’s veto of a bill expanding spending and protections for people with disabilities, marking the first such reversal of his presidency. (Reuters)

2025 September 03

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • More than 70 Palestinians are killed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • The Houthis launch a ballistic missile at Israel, which is intercepted. (Reuters)
• War in the Sahel
  • Boko Haram insurgency
    • Nigeria’s air force kills more than 15 Islamist fighters in an airstrike on hideouts in Borno’s Sambisa forest, while troops separately kill 13 Boko Haram militants after repelling an ambush on a military convoy along the Gubio–Damasak road. (Reuters)
  • Mali War
    • Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin spokesman Abou Houfeiza al-Bambari announces a blockade on all fuel trucks that enter Mali. (TRAC Terrorism)
• Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
  • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
    • Puntland forces kill at least 15 ISIS fighters and capture key militant positions, including Ceelasha Burti-Cise and Af-ka Dharimood in the Baallade Valley, following a series of intense military operations in the broader Cal Miskaad Mountains of the Bari region, Puntland. (AllAfrica)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia fires more than 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine overnight, targeting mostly western and central Ukraine and wounding at least five people, in response to the attacks, Poland scrambles its fighter jets and places ground-based air defenses and radar systems on maximum readiness. (Newsweek) (AP)

Arts and culture

• The Nazi-looted painting Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi is handed over to the Argentine justice system after being discovered on display in a private house in Mar del Plata, Argentina. (NOS)

Business and economy

• 2025 United States–India diplomatic and trade crisis, Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • India approves cutting taxes on hundreds of consumer goods in response to new U.S. tariffs imposed on India last month. The overhaul cuts the consumption tax from a four-tier structure to a two-rate structure. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Punjab, India floods
  • At least 30 people are killed in flash floods caused by cloudbursts, landslides, and waterlogging across north India, including in Punjab, Odisha, and Jammu and Kashmir. Casualty numbers are expected to increase. (DW) (Reuters)
• Ascensor da Glória derailment
  • Sixteen people are killed and 22 others are injured when the Ascensor da Glória funicular crashes into a building in Lisbon, Portugal. The Portuguese government declares a day of mourning for the following day in remembrance of those deceased. (Reuters) (BBC News) (NPR)
• Seven migrants are found dead on beaches after several boats from Algeria sink off the coast of Andalusia, Spain, as authorities rescue 26 people from one vessel and 38 from another and continue searching for additional victims. (AFP via Dawn)
• One person is killed, another is injured, and five others are reported missing during an accident on a Hanwha Ocean floating production storage and offloading ship at a shipyard in South Korea. (Upstream)
• A rescue team locates the burnt remains of the EastIndo passenger MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 helicopter that went missing on Monday in Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the island of Borneo and recovers one body. (AP)

International relations

• 2025 China Victory Day Parade
  • China holds a military parade in Beijing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The event is attended by the leaders of about two dozen countries. (AP)
• Czech Republic–Germany relations
  • Czech defence minister Jana Černochová announces that the Czech government signed a deal to pay Kč34 billion (US$1.6 billion) for 44 Leopard 2A8 tanks from Germany as part of its efforts to modernize the Armed Forces. (AP)

Law and crime

• Odebrecht case
  • A Peruvian court sentences former president Alejandro Toledo to 13 years and four months in prison for laundering S/18 million (US$5.1 million) in bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht through offshore accounts to purchase and refinance properties in Lima, with the sentence to run concurrently with his earlier conviction for accepting S/124 million ($35 million) in kickbacks. (Reuters)
• Three people are killed and the perpetrator is injured in a mass stabbing in a pizza restaurant in Gwanak District, Seoul, South Korea. (The Japan Times)
• A Moroccan court sentences human rights activist Ibtissame Lachgar to 30 months in prison and a fine of DH50,000 (US$5,510) for blasphemy, with her lawyers stating they will appeal. (AFP via France 24)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Jamaican general election
  • Jamaicans vote to elect the 63 members of the Parliament using first-past-the-post voting. The two leading parties are the ruling Jamaica Labour Party and the opposition People’s National Party. (Caribbean Life)
• 2025 Saint Helena general election
  • Residents of Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory, vote for the twelve members of the Legislative Council using plurality block voting. (MercoPress)
• 2025 Thai political crisis, 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
  • The ruling Pheu Thai Party of the acting government of Thailand moves to dissolve the parliament, setting up for a new election, after Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was dismissed from office due to her phone call leak with Cambodia. (DW)

Science and technology

• Composition of Mars
  • Scientists report that Mars has a solid inner core of iron and nickel about 613 kilometers in radius, surrounded by a liquid outer core, based on seismic data from NASA’s InSight lander. (AP)

2025 September 02

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War on drugs, United States–Venezuela relations
  • 2025 United States war on cartels
    • 2025 United States strike on a Southern Caribbean boat
      • The United States military conducts a precision strike and sinks a Venezuelan boat reportedly used by Tren de Aragua for smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people. The Trump administration reports it currently has no plans of attacking the Venezuelan government. (CBS News) (USA Today)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 105 Palestinians are killed during Israeli airstrikes and shootings across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • At least 14 people are killed and dozens of others are injured, including seven critically, in a suicide bombing at a political rally in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Digital Journal)
  • An attack near the Iran–Pakistan border in Balochistan, Pakistan, kills five people. (AFP via France 24)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Six soldiers and six militants are killed in a suicide attack on a paramilitary base in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Hindu)

Business and economy

• Economy of Brazil
  • Brazil’s Federal Senate approves a constitutional amendment that phases in court-ordered debt payments to fiscal target calculations beginning in 2027, initially counting 10% of the total and gradually reaching full inclusion over up to ten years. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 60 people are killed and dozens rescued after an overloaded boat carrying more than 100 passengers strikes a submerged tree stump and capsizes on the Niger River near Borgu, Niger State, Nigeria, with search operations continuing for missing persons. (Reuters)

International relations

• Belgium–Palestine relations, Belgium–Israel relations, International recognition of Palestine
  • Belgian foreign minister Maxime Prévot announces that Belgium will conditionally recognize a Palestinian state at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly session upon the release of hostages and removal of Hamas, and impose sanctions on Israel, including bans on products from Israeli settlements and restrictions on certain public contracts. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Catholic Church sexual abuse cases
  • A Bolivian court sentences two Spanish Jesuit priests to a year in prison for failing to report child sexual abuse by a fellow priest, whose posthumous diary revealed he abused at least 85 minors between 1972 and 2000. (Reuters)
• Prosecution of Syrian civil war criminals
  • French judges issue arrest warrants for seven former senior Ba’athist Syrian officials, including former president Bashar al-Assad, on charges of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity for a 2012 rocket attack on a media center in Homs that killed journalists Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik and injured others. (Reuters)
• Five people are injured, including one critically and two seriously, in a mass stabbing attack at a hotel and a nearby street in Marseille, France. The perpetrator, a 35-year-old Tunisian, is fatally shot by police. (Le Monde)
• An Argentine court places the daughter of Nazi adviser Friedrich Kadgien and her husband under house arrest and accuses them of stealing the painting Portrait of a Lady, which had been missing since 1945. (AP)

Politics and elections

• A Turkish court annuls the Istanbul provincial congress of the Republican People’s Party over alleged procedural violations, dismissing local leaders including the Istanbul chair, and appoints an interim committee to oversee the branch. (AP) (Reuters)

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