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2025 August 21

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • At least 70 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes, including eight people in a house in Sabra suburb in Gaza City. (Reuters)
      • An Israeli military database indicates that 83% of deaths in Gaza have been civilians. The Israeli military initially confirmed the database to the media but later disputed it without clarifying their retraction in response to questions from The Guardian. (The Guardian)
  • Palestinian political violence
    • A Palestinian gunman shoots an Israeli settler who was engaging in shepherding activities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Colombian conflict
  • 2025 August FARC attacks
    • At least six people are killed and more than 60 others are injured in a terrorist car bombing targeting the Marco Fidel Suárez Air Base on a busy street in Cali, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia. (BBC News) (BNO News)
    • At least 12 Colombian police officers are killed and three others are injured when FARC dissidents shoot down a helicopter during an anti-narcotics operation in Amalfi, Antioquia Department, Colombia. (Euronews) (BNO News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Russian Armed Forces conduct a combined attack overnight, launching at least 570 drones and 40 hypersonic, ballistic, and cruise missiles across Ukraine, with two cruise missiles striking an American electronics factory in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, injuring over a dozen people. (NPR) (DW)
• War on drugs, United States–Venezuela relations
  • U.S. president Donald Trump deploys three guided-missile destroyers off the coast of Venezuela after the U.S. government authorized military operations against Latin American drug cartels, prompting an escalation of tensions between the United States and Venezuela. (CBS News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pakistan floods
  • At least 21 people are killed in flooding caused by heavy monsoons in Pakistan, including eleven in Gilgit-Baltistan and ten in Karachi, as the death toll for the flooding season increases to over 400. (Al Jazeera)
• At least 47 people and 300 cattle are killed, 70 others are injured and over 56,000 are displaced during flooding in Niger. (Africanews)
• At least 15 people are killed and ten others are injured in a landslide in Manéah, Kindia Region, Guinea. (Barron’s)
• Six people are killed in an accident in a confined space at a dairy farm in Weld County, Colorado, United States. (ABC News)
• At least five people are killed and 34 others are injured, including one critically, in an explosion at a fireworks storage facility in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. (Geo News) (Dawn)

Law and crime

• Shakahola Forest incident
  • Five bodies and ten body parts are recovered and 27 suspected mass graves are discovered at the site of the Good News International Ministries religious cult mass-murder suicide at the Shakahola Forest in Kenya, where over 400 bodies were recovered two years ago. (CTV News)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage
  • Italian police arrest a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the months that followed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (CNN) (DW)

Politics and elections

• Polish president Karol Nawrocki vetoes a bill to combine an extension of household energy price freezes with relaxed regulations on building onshore wind farms, arguing that linking the two measures in one law was unacceptable. (Reuters)

2025 August 20

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis (2023-present)
  • Syrian civil war
    • US intervention in the Syrian civil war
      • American special forces carry out a raid in Northern Syria and kills an ISIS leader with the reported assistance of Syrian government forces. The slain ISIS leader was purportedly in succession to succeed as the caliph of ISIS’s Syrian branch. (Fox News)
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli invasion of Gaza
      • Israeli defense minister Israel Katz approves a planned ground invasion to seize control of Gaza City. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Russian MLRS rocket strike on a market in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, kills three people and injures four others, according to Governor Vadym Filashkin. (Reuters)
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Shortly after midnight, a Russian military drone explodes when crashing in Osiny, Puławy County, Poland. (Euronews) (TVN24 in Polish)
• Mexican drug war
  • The Guatemalan Immigration Institute grants temporary humanitarian status to 161 Mexican nationals, including 92 adults and 69 children from Chiapas, allowing them to remain legally in Guatemala after fleeing cartel-related violence in the border municipality of Frontera Comalapa. (Anadolu Agency)

Disasters and accidents

• At least two people are killed and two others are injured in a rockfall on the Égratz Viaduct in Chamonix, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. (Le Dauphiné libéré in French)
• One person is killed and 19 others are injured, including three seriously, after a migrant shipwreck is found drifting off the southern coast of Mallorca, Spain. (Euronews)

International relations

• China–India relations
  • India and China agree to resume direct flights suspended since 2020, reopen designated border trade points and boost investment in their economies following talks in New Delhi between Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and Indian officials, including Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. (Reuters)
• International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan–United Kingdom relations
  • The United Kingdom imposes sanctions on eight individuals and entities accused of helping Russia evade Western sanctions through financial and cryptocurrency networks, including Kyrgyz firms linked to the ruble-pegged stablecoin A7A5. Kyrgyz president Sadyr Japarov has appealed to the UK regarding the sanctions. (Reuters)
• United States and the International Criminal Court
  • The United States Department of State imposes sanctions on International Criminal Court judges Nicolas Guillou and Kimberly Prost and deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem and Mame Mandiaye Niang over their involvement in cases concerning Israel and the United States. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 New Zealand espionage case
  • A New Zealand court-martial sentences a soldier to two years in military prison and orders his discharge after he pleads guilty to attempted espionage, possession of banned material, and unauthorized access to a military computer system, marking the country’s first conviction for spying. (AP)
• A man is detained on suspicion of murder after four bodies were found in the Seine river in Choisy-le-Roi, Île-de-France, France. (BBC News)
• Mexico City mayor Clara Brugada announces the arrest of 13 people, including three alleged gunmen, in connection with the May shooting that killed her personal secretary and an adviser. (Al Jazeera)
• At least 19 people are hospitalized following a clash between Club Universidad de Chile and Club Atlético Independiente fans during a round of 16 match of the 2025 Copa Sudamericana (BBC) (Marca)

Politics and elections

• Chinese leader Xi Jinping visits Lhasa, Tibet, for the second time during his general secretaryship to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region. (AP) (Reuters)

2025 August 19

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Israeli forces kill Jihad Kamal Salem Najjar, a member of the Hamas military wing who was responsible for abducting the Bibas family in Nir Oz during the October 7 attacks. (The New York Times) (The Jerusalem Post)
  • Hamas positively receives an Egyptian–Qatari-mediated 60-day ceasefire proposal, which is rejected by Israeli defense minister Israel Katz with national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir warning of a “tragedy” if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives in. (The New York Times)
  • At least 25 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, including in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis. (The Times of Israel)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russian forces launch 270 drones and ten missiles at critical infrastructure in Poltava and Chernihiv Oblasts, Ukraine. (Kyiv Post)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • At least 27 people are killed and several others are injured in a mass shooting by bandits at a mosque in Unguwan Mantau community, Katsina State, Nigeria. (Reuters)
• Mexican drug war
  • Six severed heads are discovered on a road that links the states of Puebla and Tlaxcala in Mexico. The La Barredora cartel is suspected to be behind the attack. (BBC News)
• Sudanese civil war, Gaza war
  • The United Nations reports that a record 383 aid workers were killed in the 2024 calendar year, up by 31% from 2023, including 181 who were killed in Gaza and 60 in Sudan. There have already been 265 aid workers killed so far this year. (DW)

Business and economy

• 2025 Air Canada flight attendants strike
  • Air Canada announces it will gradually restart operations tonight after it reached a tentative agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents the airline’s over 10,000 flight attendants. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Afghan deportation from Iran
  • 2025 Herat road crash
    • At least 79 people are killed, including 19 children, and three others are injured when an overcrowded passenger bus carrying migrants deported from Iran veers off a road and collides with a motorcycle and a truck before catching fire in Guzara District, Herat Province, Afghanistan. (BBC News) (The Washington Post)
• Four people are killed and nearly a dozen others are injured in a fire at a warehouse in Los Guayos Municipality, Carabobo, Venezuela. (Cedar News)

Law and crime

• The Colombian Supreme Court of Justice overturns a lower court order placing former president Álvaro Uribe under house arrest while he appeals convictions for bribery and abuse of process, ruling that the measure will not apply until the appeal is resolved. (Reuters)
• The Peruvian Constitutional Court orders the suspension of all investigations into President Dina Boluarte, including probes into protest-related deaths, alleged illicit enrichment, and temporary absence from office, until her term ends in July 2026. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Constitutional crisis in Somalia
  • Former Somali presidents Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed denounce the administration of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud for its management of public land in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, accusing it of violating constitutional safeguards and forcibly displacing impoverished families. (Hiiraan Online)
• Eemeli Peltonen, a 30-year-old Finnish member of parliament, dies by suicide inside the Parliament House in Helsinki. (Yle)

2025 August 18

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia is suspended after a Ukrainian drone attack on the Druzhba pipeline in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó confirms the suspension. (Reuters)
  • Kharkiv strikes, Zaporizhzhia strikes
    • Russian missile strikes kill at least seven people in Kharkiv and three in Zaporizhzhia. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 European and Mediterranean wildfires
  • Spain deploys 500 army troops to help fight raging wildfires in the country as the death toll rises to four following the death of a firefighter in Castile and León. (BBC News)
• The death toll from a fire and explosion at a gunpowder plant last week in Shilovsky District, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, rises to 24 with at least another 157 people injured. The government declares a day of mourning. (CBS News)

International relations

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • August 2025 European-White House crisis meeting
      • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and several other European leaders meet with U.S. president Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C. to discuss pathways to peace negotiations for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
• Norway–Russia relations, Violations of non-combatant airspaces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Norway reports that Russia has violated its airspace over the Barents Sea for the third time this year. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Crime in Norway, Monarchy of Norway
  • Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, is charged with 32 offences including rape and domestic violence. If found guilty, he may be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. (France 24)
• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Two people are killed, including the gunman, and three others are injured in a mass shooting in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, United States. (AP)
• Australian Federal Court judge Michael Lee fines national airline Qantas AU$90 million (US$59 million) for unlawfully outsourcing 1,820 ground staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the AU$120 million (US$78 million) compensation the airline has already agreed to pay its former employees. (AP)

Politics and elections

• By-elections to the 45th Canadian Parliament
  • 2025 Battle River—Crowfoot federal by-election
    • Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre is elected in a by-election in Battle River—Crowfoot, and returns to the House of Commons and his role as opposition leader after previously losing re-election during the 2025 Canadian federal election in Carleton. The seat was vacated by Conservative MP Damien Kurek to specifically give Poilievre an opportunity to return to Parliament. (The Globe and Mail)

2025 August 17

Arts and culture

• Officials announce that the Gathering of Nations event in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, will host its final pow-wow in 2026. (AP)

Business and economy

• 2025 Air Canada flight attendants strike
  • Air Canada suspends its plan to resume flights after cabin crew continued a strike despite a Canada Industrial Relations Board order and government-imposed arbitration, leaving operations halted and affecting more than 700 flights and about 130,000 daily passengers. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Sulawesi earthquake
  • One person is killed and 29 people are injured when a Mw 5.8 undersea earthquake strikes near Poso, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. (AP) (Jawa Pos)
• More than 40 people are reported missing and ten others are rescued when a boat carrying 50 people to a popular market capsizes on the Sokoto River near Goronyo, Sokoto State, Nigeria. (Reuters) (AP)
• At least seven people are killed and five others are injured when a cloudburst causes flash flooding and landslides in Kathua district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (Hindustan Times) (Daily Excelsior)

Law and crime

• 2025 Crown Heights nightclub shooting
  • Three people are killed and nine others are injured in a mass shooting at a nightclub in the Crown Heights neighborhood of New York City, United States. (Minnesota Star Tribune)
• Ecuadorian conflict
  • At least seven people are killed in a mass shooting at a billiard hall in Santo Domingo, Ecuador. (France 24)

Politics and elections

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Israeli hostage deal protests
      • A general strike and mass protests calling for a hostage deal and ceasefire to end the Gaza war occur across Israel, involving approximately 2.5 million protesters across the country and 300,000 at the protest held in Hostages Square, Tel Aviv. At least 32 protesters are arrested. (Haaretz) (CBS News)
• 2025 Bolivian general election
  • Bolivians vote to elect a president, vice president, 130 members of the Chamber of Deputies, and 36 members of the Chamber of Senators. Preliminary results indicate a run-off between Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira and former president Jorge Quiroga, ending the Movimiento al Socialismo’s 20-year political dominance. (Reuters) (AP)

Sports

• Horse racing in Great Britain
  • The British Horseracing Authority announces a one-day strike on September 10 to protest a proposed increase in betting taxes from 15% to 21%. This is the first time the sport has ever voluntarily refused to race in modern history. (AP) (BBC Sport)

2025 August 16

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
    • At least 30 people are killed by suspected Islamic State-aligned Allied Democratic Forces rebels in Bapere, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)

Business and economy

• 2025 Air Canada flight attendants strike
  • Canadian jobs minister Patty Hajdu orders binding arbitration between Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Erin intensifies to Category 5 strength while affecting several Caribbean islands. (NBC News)
• 2025 Pakistan floods
  • The death toll from yesterday’s floods in Pakistan increases to at least 321. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Air Kasaï Antonov An-2 crash
  • Seven people are killed when an Air Kasaï Antonov An-2 aircraft crashes while being ferried near Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (ASN) (Aviation24)
• At least one person is killed and four others are injured, including two seriously, when a Mil Mi-8 military helicopter makes a hard landing during a rescue operation on Jengish Chokusu in Kyrgyzstan. (ASN)
• At least ten people are killed while two others are reported missing following a flash flood that hits a campsite in Urad Rear Banner, Inner Mongolia, China. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Three people are killed, including the perpetrator, and another is injured in a mass shooting near a bar in Forio, Campania, Italy. (Leggo)

2025 August 15

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
  • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
    • Puntland Defense Forces take full control of the strategic Wangable Well in the northern Qandala district, Bari region, Puntland from ISIS, which had served as a base for the group’s senior leaders, militants, and their families. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pakistan floods
  • Five people are killed when a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in bad weather while carrying relief goods to rain-affected areas of Bajaur District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Times of India)
  • At least 189 people are killed, dozens are injured, dozens are reported missing, and structures are damaged and destroyed in flooding across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (Dawn) (Euronews)
• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • The first hurricane of the 2025 season, Hurricane Erin, forms near the Leeward Islands. (CBS News)
• Eighteen people are killed and nine others are injured when a bus plunges into a valley in Algiers, Algeria. (Bahrain News Agency)
• Eleven people are killed and 130 others are injured in an explosion and fire at a gunpowder plant in Shilovsky District, Ryazan Oblast, Russia. (CTV News) (The Kyiv Independent)
• A bus collides with a stationary truck in Bardhaman, West Bengal, India, killing ten people and injuring 35 others. (Hindustan Times)
• One person is killed and 27 others are injured, including two airlifted, when a train collides with a slurry tanker on a level crossing and derails between Tinglev and Sønderborg in the Region of Southern Denmark. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• The leaders of Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico announce the establishment of a tri-national nature reserve to preserve the Maya Forest. It will be the second-largest nature reserve in Latin America behind the Amazon rainforest. (AP)

International relations

• Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2025 Russia–United States Summit
    • Russian president Vladimir Putin travels to Alaska to meet with United States president Donald Trump to discuss pathways to bring an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was not invited to the summit. (CNN)
• Guinea-Bissau–Portugal relations
  • Guinea-Bissau expels representatives of Portuguese news agency Lusa and public broadcaster RTP from the country. Portugal summons the Guinea-Bissauan ambassador over the move. (TRT World)

Law and crime

• Crime in Sweden
  • One person is killed and another is injured in a shooting outside a mosque in Örebro, Närke, Sweden. The suspect fled the scene and is at large. (Euronews)

Politics and elections

• Gwangbokjeol, 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • South Korean president Lee Jae Myung holds a “de facto” inauguration ceremony, known as the “People’s Mandate Ceremony”, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japan at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, where he receives letters of appointment from 80 selected individuals. Lee took office on June 4 after winning the 21st presidential election without an official inauguration ceremony. (Anadolu Ajansı)

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