Portal:Current events
Topics in the news
- In cycling, Katarzyna Niewiadoma (pictured) wins the Tour de France Femmes.
- Doctors strike and protests occur across India after the rape and murder of a female physician in Kolkata.
- Paetongtarn Shinawatra becomes Prime Minister of Thailand after Srettha Thavisin is dismissed by the Constitutional Court.
- The World Health Organization declares the mpox epidemic to be a global health emergency.
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- 26 August 2024 Russian strikes on Ukraine
- Russian missile and drone attacks resume across Ukraine in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killing at least six people and injuring five others in Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhzhia. (The Independent) (Kyiv Independent)
- 26 August 2024 Russian strikes on Ukraine
- Ukrainian conscription crisis
- President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that Poland will cooperate with Ukraine to return "Ukrainians who violated the law, traitors, collaborators" who illegally crossed the Poland–Ukraine border in order to escape conscription in the Russo-Ukrainian War. (UNN)
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia–NATO relations
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warns the United States and other NATO members against giving Ukraine approval to use long-range missiles to target Moscow, saying the move risked triggering World War III, which would "not be confined to Europe". (Reuters)
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that Ukraine has successfully tested a domestically-produced ballistic missile for the first time. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
- The Israeli military and Shin Bet announce they have rescued Qaid Farhan Al-Qadi, a Bedouin Arab hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas during the 7 October attack on Israel, from an underground tunnel in Gaza. (BBC)
- Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
- Libyan crisis
- United States Africa Command General Michael Langley meets with top Libyan National Army officials, including its leader Khalifa Haftar, in Benghazi, Libya to help mediate an end to the political crisis. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Brazil wildfires
- Forty-eight Brazilian cities issue red alerts for prolonged heavy and hazardous smog coming from extensive wildfires, with the federal capital Brasília being covered in toxic hazardous smog for two days. (AP)
Health and environment
- 2024 Red Sea oil spill
- The Pentagon reports that the MT Sounion appears to be leaking its 150,000 ton supply of oil into the Red Sea, and was still on fire since Houthi attacks on 22 August. Efforts to salvage the tanker were repelled by Houthi threats. (Reuters)
- Climate change in Namibia
- The Namibian environment ministry announces a plan to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and to distribute the meat to people struggling to feed themselves because of a severe drought across the country. (Reuters)
International relations
- Canada–Mexico relations, Mexico–United States relations
- Mexico halts its interactions with the Canadian and American embassies in Mexico City due to claimed interference with its independence and internal affairs after both ambassadors criticized reform plans for Supreme Court justices to be instated by popular vote, partly out of fears that it would hurt United States–Mexico trade relations. (Reuters)
- Egypt–Somalia relations
- Following a defense pact signed by Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi earlier this month, Egypt deploys two C-130 aircrafts carrying military officers and equipment to Mogadishu, Somalia, as the initial phase of a significant deployment that will see up to 10,000 Egyptian soldiers stationed in Somalia. (Garowa Online)
- France–Russia relations
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov states that bilateral relations between France and Russia have "reached a nadir" following the arrest and captivity extension of Russian-born Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in Paris. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Indictments against Donald Trump
- Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (election obstruction case)
- U.S. Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith files a superseding indictment against former U.S. President Donald Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. (Politico)
- Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (election obstruction case)
- Arrest of Pavel Durov
- French prosecutors publicly accuse Telegram CEO Pavel Durov of twelve charges while in custody including violations associated with drug trafficking, child exploitation, and money laundering. (Kyiv Independent)
- German police shoot a 26-year-old man dead in Moers, Germany, after he attacked two officers with a knife on the street. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2024 French legislative election
- France's New Popular Front (NFP) party shuts down future talks with French President Emmanuel Macron to break political deadlock after Macron refused to implement a leftist-led coalition government despite the NFP receiving the second-most votes, and calls for nationwide protests against Macron's "parody of democracy". (Reuters)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- 26 August 2024 Russian strikes on Ukraine
- Massive Russian attacks are launched on cities across Ukraine, killing at least seven people. Ukrainian officials call it the largest Russian attack on Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Kyiv Independent) (Kyiv Independent 2) (Reuters)
- Poland says that a Russian Shahed drone had likely entered its airspace during the attacks on Ukraine and that searches are underway for the object as it may have landed in Polish territory around 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the Poland–Ukraine border. (The Defense Post) (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) (Reuters)
- 26 August 2024 Russian strikes on Ukraine
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Corruption in Ukraine
- Audits conducted by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense determine that between March and July, multiple Armed Forces of Ukraine units never received nearly US$4.2 million in military aid labeled as "humanitarian aid" to bypass customs fees, prompting embezzlement and illicit enrichment investigations. (Kyiv Independent)
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
- IDF launches airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Kfar Kila, Tayr Harfa, Shebaa and Aita ash-Shaab and shelling of Chamaa and Naqoura in southern Lebanon. (Anadolu Ajansi)
- A Hezbollah militant survives an Israeli drone strikes in Sidon. (Anadolu Ajansi)
- Hezbollah launches three drone strike on IDF surveillance equipment in Ramya. (Anadolu Ajansi)
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- Operation Hereof
- The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) launches an offensive against the Pakistani Army in Balochistan, Pakistan, gaining control of several key highways, including the Karachi–Quetta section of National Highway 8, and also damages a train station in Mastung. (Al Jazeera)
- At least 14 soldiers and policemen and 21 BLA gunmen are killed in ambushes and clashes on highways in Balochistan. Five civilians are also killed in Kalat. (Al Jazeera)
- Twenty-three people are killed in a mass shooting targeting Punjabis on a highway in Musakhail District. Between 30 and 40 armed men offloaded passengers from trucks and buses and shot them after checking their identities, subsequently setting fire to their vehicles. The BLA claims responsibility for the attack. (Dawn) (NPR)
- Operation Hereof
- Sudanese civil war
- Darfur campaign
- The Rapid Support Forces shell an internally displaced persons camp in North Darfur, Sudan, killing 25 people and wounding at least 40 others. (Sudan Tribune)
- Darfur campaign
- Libyan crisis
- The Benghazi-based Libyan Government of National Stability says that it is suspending production at all oil fields and oil terminals that it controls until further notice amid a dispute with the central bank in Tripoli. (France 24) (S&P Global)
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Nigeria floods
- Arbaat Dam collapse
- The Arbaat Dam collapses near Port Sudan, Sudan, amid floodwaters, killing more than 60 people, displacing around 50,000 more, and destroying 20 villages. (Al Jazeera)
- One person is killed and three others are injured in a landslide in Ketchikan, Alaska, United States. (AP)
Health and environment
- 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
- Germany announces that it will donate 100,000 doses of mpox vaccines to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African nations, as well as provide funding to the GAVI Vaccine Alliance through the World Health Organization. (DW)
International relations
- France–Russia relations, Arrest of Pavel Durov
- Russian lawmakers accuse French authorities of arresting Russian-born Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in order to acquire confidential information from Telegram users, and urge Russian users to delete all confidential information on the Telegram app. (Politico)
- President of France Emmanuel Macron makes the first official French acknowledgement of the arrest of Pavel Durov by stating that Durov's arrest had "no political motive" and also dismissed contrary accusations and claims by free speech protesters and Russia as "false information". (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Controversies surrounding Uber
- The Dutch Data Protection Authority fines Uber €290 million (US$324 million) for allegedly breaching the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation in order to collect information on its European drivers. (DW)
- The National Football League Players Association files a lawsuit against DraftKings for allegedly violating an agreement to pay licensing fees on NFL players' likeness rights after DraftKings closed its NFT trading cards business. (Reuters)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- At least five people, including three children, are killed and 13 others are injured in an overnight Ukrainian strike on Rakitnoye, Belgorod Oblast, Russia, according to Russian officials. (Al Jazeera)
- Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine accuses Belarus of building up a "significant level" of troops and weaponry, including artillery, multiple-launch rocket systems and air defense systems along the border under the guise of military exercises, and demands their immediate withdrawal. (The Kyiv Independent) (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- A British safety adviser working for Reuters is killed and two other journalists are injured in a Russian ballistic missile strike on their hotel in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Northern Ukraine skirmishes, Chernihiv strikes
- President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly presents the Ukrainian-produced Palianytsia rocket drone and loitering munition, intended to serve as the Ukrainian counterpart to the Russian ZALA Kub-BLA. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- August 2024 Lebanon strikes
- The Israel Defense Forces says that it has launched preemptive strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon ahead of an expected major missile and drone attack on Israel. (Axios) (Reuters)
- Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant declares an "emergency situation" in Israel for the next 48 hours due to the "special situation in the home front". (Times of Israel)
- August 2024 Lebanon strikes
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- At least 71 people are killed and 112 others are injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- 2024 Barsalogho massacre
- Nearly 200 people are killed and at least 140 others are injured in an attack by the al-Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin jihadist organization in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso. (Al Jazeera)
- 2024 Barsalogho massacre
- 2024 Solingen stabbing
- German police detain a 26-year-old Syrian asylum seeker with ties to the Islamic State as the suspect of the stabbing attack in Solingen, Germany, on Friday. The man is charged with three counts of murder, as well as attempted murder, dangerous bodily harm and membership of a terrorist organisation abroad. (AP)
- Two police officers are killed and three others are injured in an attack in Abuja, Nigeria. A police spokesperson says that the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria was responsible for the attack. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- Law of Ukraine "On the Protection of the Constitutional Order in the Field of Activities of Religious Organizations"
- Pope Francis condemns the Ukrainian government's ban of the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church and other Russia-linked religious groups as infringing on Ukrainian civilians' civil right to religious freedom. (Kyiv Independent)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Brazil wildfires
- At least two people are killed in wildfires in São Paulo state, Brazil. (BBC News)
- Thirteen people are killed and 20 others are injured in a mudslide near the Big Buddha in Phuket, Thailand. (Reuters)
- Twenty-two people are killed when a bus plunges into a ravine in Kahuta, Punjab, Pakistan. Separately, twelve people are killed in a bus crash on the Makran Coastal Highway in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
- At least thirteen people are killed and at least 14 others remain missing after a boat carrying Ethiopian and Yemeni migrants from Djibouti sinks off the coast of Taiz Governorate, Yemen. (Al Jazeera)
- One person is killed, one is injured, two are missing and 21 are rescued unharmed after the collapse of an ice cave in the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, in southern Iceland. (AP)
Law and crime
- Four people are injured in a mass stabbing in Engadine, New South Wales, Australia. The suspect is later taken into custody. (Reuters)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Three-phase Israel–Hamas war ceasefire proposal
- Hamas states that it will refuse any ceasefire conditions that allow Israel to continue to control the Rafah Crossing and Philadelphi Corridor, and also accuses the United States of spreading false optimism to support Democratic nominee Kamala Harris's presidential campaign instead of implementing constructive diplomatic measures. (Al Jazeera)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Israeli Defence Forces shells Ayta ash Shab, Aitaroun and Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon. (Andalou Ajansi)
- Hezbollah launches 20 rockets, drone strikes and shelling on IDF sites in northern Israel and the Golan Heights. (Andalou Ajansi)
- Three-phase Israel–Hamas war ceasefire proposal
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Governor of Belgorod Oblast Vyacheslav Gladkov says that five civilians have been killed by Ukrainian shelling in Rakitnoye, Russia. (Reuters)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2024 Solingen stabbing
- The Islamic State group claims responsibility for yesterday's mass stabbing in Solingen, Germany, that killed three people and injured eight others. (BBC News)
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- Three people, including two children, are killed and fifteen others are injured in a motorcycle bomb blast in Pishin District, Balochistan Province, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) (The Washington Post)
- Somali Civil War
- A large fire breaks out at the Elasha-Biyaha market near Mogadishu, Somalia following an IED explosion linked to Al-Shabaab. No casualties are reported. (Idil News)
- Terrorism in France
- French police arrests a man suspected of attempted arson upon a synagogue in La Grande-Motte, Occitanie, France. The incident is being treated as an anti-semitic terrorist attack. (CNN)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Brazil wildfires, 2023–2024 South American drought
- At least two people are killed at an industrial plant in Urupês after trying to control widespread wildfires impacting at least 30 cities in São Paulo state, Brazil. (Reuters)
- At least three workers are missing at the construction site of the Bangkok–Nong Khai high-speed railway in Pak Chong, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand after a tunnel collapses. (MCOT)
Health and environment
- 2024 Red Sea oil spill
- The European Union Operation Aspides task force warns of a likely significant and ongoing oil spill in the Red Sea following Houthi demolition of the Greek-flagged Sounion oil tanker carrying 150,000 tons of petroleum, with Houthi footage showing flaming oil leaking into the sea. (AP) (Financial Times)
International relations
- Foreign relations of Hungary, Hungary and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Lukoil oil transit dispute
- Hungary accuses the European Union of being behind Ukraine-placed sanctions blocking Russian oil shipments to both Hungary and Slovakia essential for their fuel security as blackmail for anti-Ukraine acts, following the European Commission's refusal to mediate sanction negotiations while asserting that there was no oil shortage. (Reuters)
- Lukoil oil transit dispute
- Russia–Ukraine relations, Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia and Ukraine complete a prisoner exchange mediated by the United Arab Emirates with 115 prisoners of war from each side. (Al Jazeera)
- Prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Law and crime
- Mexican drug war
- 2010 San Fernando massacre, 2011 San Fernando massacre
- Eleven Los Zetas gunmen are sentenced to 50 years in prison each for the 2010–2011 massacres of 122 men in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, who were taken off passing buses and forced to fight each other to death with sledgehammers. (AP)
- 2010 San Fernando massacre, 2011 San Fernando massacre
- Arrest of Pavel Durov
- The owner and founder of the Telegram and VK social networks Pavel Durov is arrested at Paris–Le Bourget Airport in France shortly after arriving from Azerbaijan, in connection with alleged illegal activity on his Telegram app. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- Kidnapping in Nigeria
- Nigerian police announce that the 20 medical students who were kidnapped in Benue State, Nigeria, last week have been found without making any ransom payments. (Al Jazeera)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukraine War
- The United States announces a new military aid package to Ukraine, including air defense missiles, munitions for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), an array of anti-armor missiles, vehicles, and other equipment. (AP)
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukraine War
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Hezbollah launches over 100 rocket strikes on Israel Defense Forces targets in Mount Meron and Al-Malkiyya that were intercepted by Iron Dome and caused wildfires. (Times of Israel)
- Seven Hezbollah militants are killed in Israeli airstrikes and shelling on Tayr Harfa and Shebaa in southern Lebanon. (Times of Israel)
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency, Turkish war crimes
- Three people, including two journalists, are killed and another journalist is injured in a Turkish drone strike on a vehicle in Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. (Al Jazeera) (Committee to Protect Journalists)
- Surovikino penal colony hostage crisis
- Four inmates linked to the Islamic State seize control of a prison in Surovikino, Volgograd Oblast, Russia, and take hostages, killing four prison staff members and injuring three others. The attackers are shot dead by responding security forces. (Azerbaijani Press Agency) (The Guardian)
- Syrian civil war
- Abu Abdul Rahman Makki, a senior leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Hurras al-Din, is killed by an airstrike in Jabal Zawiya, Idlib Governorate, Syria. (AP)
Business and economy
- Unemployment in the United States
- United States Chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell states that increased unemployment rates and labor market cooling has made it necessary for the Federal Reserve to markedly reduce interest rates in the near future. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 India–Bangladesh floods
- At least 23 people are killed and more than 4.5 million people are affected by floods caused by heavy rains in eastern Bangladesh. (Al Jazeera)
- Twenty-seven people are killed and 16 more injured when a bus carrying Indian pilgrims on the Prithvi Highway in Nepal crashes. (AP)
- Ten people are killed by landslides and flooding in Phuket, Thailand. (Bangkok Post)
Health and environment
- 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
- Gabon reports its first case of mpox in a man who traveled to Uganda. (Le Monde)
International relations
- International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia–United States relations, China–United States relations
- Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, India–Ukraine relations
- During a meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi urges Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to end the Russo-Ukrainian War, and volunteers to act as a mediator in talks between Zelenskyy and Russia. In a later national address, Zelenskyy thanked Modi but stated that it is necessary for India to respect international law as well as Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty. (Reuters)
- Poland–South Africa relations
- South Africa blocks the transfer of 50,000 purchased artillery shells to Poland out of fear that they would be sent to Ukraine for use in the Russo-Ukrainian War. (Kyiv Independent)
Law and crime
- 2023 antisemitic riots in the North Caucasus
- A court in Krasnodar, Russia, sentences five men to more than six years in prison for participating in anti-Israel riots at Uytash Airport in Makhachkala, Dagestan, in October 2023. (Reuters)
- 2024 Solingen stabbing
- Three people are killed and eight others are wounded in a mass stabbing at a public festival Solingen, NRW, Germany, during celebrations for the 650th anniversary of the city. A manhunt for the suspect and a citywide shelter-in-place emergency for residents are ongoing. (AP)
- 2024 United Kingdom riots
- The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommends that the United Kingdom implement bans and auditing of hate speech, xenophobia, and far-right rhetoric by politicians, in addition to prohibiting the strip-searching of children and addressing the over-policing of schools, following widespread destructive anti-immigration protests exacerbated by remarks made by public figures and politicians. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
- The Hellenic Coast Guard open fire against a motorboat carrying 14 migrants near the island of Symi, Greece, killing one of the passengers. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2024 United States presidential election
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces that he is ending his presidential campaign and endorses Donald Trump's campaign. However, Kennedy will remain on the ballot in some states as he has already registered his campaign there. (The Hill) (USA Today)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli incursions in Tulkarm
- An Israeli drone strike kills three Palestinians in Tulkarm in the West Bank, during a raid where IDF soldiers set fire to civilian homes and used bulldozers to destroy residential areas. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Eleven Palestinians are killed and six others are injured in an Israeli strike on a residential building in Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip. (DW)
- Israeli incursions in Tulkarm
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- A ferry carrying 30 fuel tanks sinks in the port of Kavkaz, in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, following a Ukrainian attack. (Reuters)
- The International Atomic Energy Agency announces an investigation of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant following accusations from Russia that a Ukrainian drone targeted the power plant. (Reuters)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 13 farmers in Shiroro, Niger State, Nigeria. (Barron's)
- At least eleven police officers are killed in an ambush on a convoy by armed attackers near Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan. (Sky News)
Arts and culture
- The government of Botswana presents to the public a 2,492-carat raw diamond, discovered by the Lucara diamond and mining company from the Karowe diamond mine, and said to be the second largest in the world. (AP) (The Guardian)
Business and economy
- 2024 Canada railway shutdown
- Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City lock out roughly 10,000 unionized railroad workers in Canada, leading to a railway stoppage that impacts many North American supply chains and may cost the economy of Canada C$341 million per day. (Reuters)
- In response to the railway stoppage, Canadian labour minister Steven MacKinnon refers the two disputes to binding arbitration. (CBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023–2024 South American drought
- 2024 Brazil wildfires
- Nearly 1,500 firefighters are dispatched to contain intense wildfires that are causing dense hazardous smoke to fully "engulf" Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil, with the total number of wildfires in Brazil reaching 59,000 since the start of the year. (The Guardian)
- 2024 Brazil wildfires
- Thai Flying Service Flight 209
- Nine people are killed when a Cessna 208 Caravan crashes into a mangrove forest in Chachoengsao shortly after taking off from Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP) (The Nation Thailand)
- Eleven people are killed after a boat carrying migrants capsize while trying to cross the Drina river from Serbia to Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Reuters)
- Seven people are killed and 12 others are injured after a fire at a hotel in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. (The Nation Thailand)
Health and environment
- 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
- Burundi reports 171 new mpox cases, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 572 cases. (Barron's)
- Sri Lanka reports its first two cases of mpox, but does not specify the clade the cases are from. (Dhauru)
International relations
- Belarus–China relations
- Belarus and China agree to greatly strengthen mutual trade, financial, energy, and security cooperation, which includes enhancing industrial supply chains and collaboration with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Treatment of women by the Taliban
- The Taliban bans women from singing, reciting poetry, or reading aloud in public and mandates that women must wear a veil in public under new laws approved by the Supreme Leader as part of efforts to combat "vice" and promote "virtue". (Al Arabiya)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Indonesian local election law protests, 2024 Indonesian local elections
- Thousands of people gather outside the House of Representatives in Jakarta, Indonesia, as well as in other major cities across the country, to protest attempted changes to local elections law that would benefit the ruling coalition, in defiance of two recent Constitutional Court decisions. (BBC News)
- Police fire tear gas and water cannons at protesters attempting to storm the House of Representatives, prompting the Parliament to delay and eventually cancel the vote on the proposed changes. (AP)
- 2024 Venezuelan presidential election
- The Supreme Court of Venezuela certifies the results of the 2024 presidential election, denying claims that opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia won the election. (AP)
- Human rights in Afghanistan, Afghanistan and the United Nations
- The Taliban prohibits Richard Bennett, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, from entering the country, accusing him of spreading propaganda. (DW)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
- The Ukrainian military reports that it used United States-made weapons to destroy several pontoon bridges constructed by Russia following its destruction of at least three bridges over the Seym river in Kursk Oblast. (Reuters)
- Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin states that Ukraine launched one of its largest drone attacks on the Russian capital, and claims that all drones were taken down without casualties or damage based on preliminary information. (Reuters)
- August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Pokrovsk offensive
- The Russian Ministry of Defense states it has fully captured the village of Zhelanne in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Anadolu Agency)
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledges advancements made by Russian Armed Forces on the Pokrovsk front, and announces the strengthening of regional Ukrainian positions in order to resist further advancements. (Reuters)
- Pokrovsk offensive
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger write to the United Nations Security Council to denounce Ukrainian support for rebel groups in the Sahel region of West Africa. (Reuters)
- Israel–Hamas war
- 2024 Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel
- Hamas fires two rockets from the Gaza Strip with sirens sounding in Sderot, Ibim, and Nir Am. (Middle East Monitor)
- 2024 Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war, Israel–Hezbollah conflict, Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- One injured in Hezbollah launching 50 rockets, drone strikes and shelling on IDF's Tsnobar logistics site and several other IDF sites in the Golan Heights and Zar'it in northern Israel.(Al Jazeera)
- A Syrian national and Khalil al-Muqdah, a commander in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, is killed in an Israeli airstrike in Sidon and Khiam in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera)
- One killed and two injured in an Israeli airstrikes on a Hezbollah ammunition depot, an air defense system and the villages of Abu Sash, Wadi Hamool, Aita al-Shaab, Ramiya and Talousa of the Beqaa Valley. (Al Jazeera)
- Somali Civil War
- Nine people, including five security officers and four civilians are killed and dozens are injured in an Al-Shabaab suicide car bomb attack on a security checkpoint on the Mogadishu–Afgoye highway in Somalia. (Daily Post Nigeria)
Business and economy
- Unemployment in the United States
- The United States Department of Labor issues a significant estimate correction stating that the U.S. economy added 818,000 fewer jobs between April 2023 and March 2024 than what was initially reported in July, the largest estimate revision since 2009. (AP) (CNBC)
- 2024 Canada railway shutdown
- Canada's two largest freight railroads Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National Railway announce a complete shutdown of services due to a contract dispute, shutting out its Teamsters-represented union workers. (Reuters) (AP)
- With regards to the rapid growth of the artificial intelligence market, Bloomberg alleges that technology companies are "concealing their actual carbon footprints" by invoking outdated emissions accounting rules. (Bloomberg)
Disasters and accidents
- Atchutapuram pharmaceutical factory explosion
- At least seventeen workers are killed and 41 others are injured, many from severe chemical burns, in an explosion at a pharmaceutical facility in Anakapalli, Andhra Pradesh, India. (Indian Express) (NDTV)
- Twenty-eight people are killed and 23 others are injured when a bus carrying Shia Pakistani pilgrims to the Arba'in pilgrimage in Iraq crashes and overturns in Yazd province, Iran. (Reuters)
- Four bodies are recovered from the superyacht Bayesian that sank two days ago, bringing the death toll to five. The search for the last missing person is ongoing. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
- Thailand reports its first case of mpox in a 66-year-old European man who worked in an African country affected by the ongoing epidemic. (The New York Times)
- Several suspected cases of mpox clade 1b are reported in Somerset, England, United Kingdom. (Devon Live)
- Honduras reports five suspected cases of the new mpox clade. (Prensa Libre)
Law and crime
- Hungary and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hungary–Ukraine relations
- A Hungarian law restricting or removing state support and accommodations for Ukrainian refugees not from regions directly affected by the Russian invasion comes into effect. (BBC News)
- Sanski Most school shooting
- Three staff members are killed in a mass shooting at a school in Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The perpetrator, who also worked at the school, is seriously injured after shooting himself. (AP)
- Four people, including three children, are killed in a house fire in Bradford, England, United Kingdom. Police say that the fire was started deliberately and that a suspect has been arrested under suspicion of murder. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- International reactions to the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election
- The United States drafts a punitive sanctions list of sixty Venezuelan government officials from the country's National Electoral Council, Supreme Court, and counterintelligence police agency for alleged electoral fraud. (Reuters)
- The Ukrainian parliament approves the Rome Statute treaty established by the International Criminal Court, thereby allowing the country to become a state party once the government ratifies with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. (Ukrinform)