South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol pardons Samsung former executive Lee Jae-yeong, who was on parole for bribery.
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Reuters 
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August 12
Law and crime
August 11
Politics and elections
The Zaporizhzhia military-civilian administration begins preparations for a referendum on the region's accession to Russia, which will be held on September 11.
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TV Center
Armed conflicts and attacks
Three soldiers are killed in an attack at a military base in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Two of the attackers are killed in the ensuing shootout.
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Reuters
Cleric Rahimullah Haqqani is killed by a suicide bomber at a seminary in Kabul, Afghanistan. IS-KP claims responsibility for the killing.
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The Times of Israel
Health and environment
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RNZ
International relations
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Voice of America
Law and crime
Sierra Leone declares a nationwide curfew amid anti-government protests that have killed two policemen and one civilian. The West African country is currently experiencing record inflation.
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Reuters
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A man takes several employees hostage at a bank in Beirut, Lebanon, demanding his bank savings and threatening to set himself on fire. Police officers, soldiers, and intelligence agents surround the building.
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The Guardian
A gunman wearing body armor attempts to storm the offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Following a subsequent police pursuit, he is killed in a standoff with police.
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The New York Times
August 10
Law and crime
Anti-government protests occur in Sierra Leone, calling for the removal of President Julius Maada Bio. Both protestors and policemen are killed during clashes.
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The Washington Post
Uzbekistan's embassy in Russia warns its citizens not to join Russian forces invading Ukraine, saying that those who do so will be criminally liable for mercenaryism upon returning to Uzbekistan.
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EuroWeekly News
Business and economy
Domino's Pizza closes all of its stores in Italy after its franchise holder ePizza SpA files for bankruptcy. The American restaurant chain says that it was severely impacted by COVID-19 restrictions in the country.
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BBC News
Disasters and accidents
A house explodes in Evansville, Indiana, United States, killing at least three people, one injured and damaging at least 39 nearby houses.
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CNN
Politics and elections
James Marape is re-elected unopposed as Prime Minister by the Parliament after his party Pangu Pati won the general election in July.
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The Guardian
Armed conflicts and attacks
Russian forces install air defence systems at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, according to the head of Moscow-appointed administration of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Yevhen Balytskyi.
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MSN
A Russian missile strike in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, kills at least 13 civilians and injures 11 others.
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The New York Times
Cartel gunmen in Mexico burn down dozens of stores and block streets with burning cars in the states of Jalisco and Guanajuato in response to arrests of cartel figures by the Federal Police.
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AP
August 9
Disasters and accidents
Nine people are killed by flooding caused by record-breaking rainfall in Seoul, South Korea.
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AP
Firefighters in Cuba bring a catastrophic fire at an oil terminal in Matanzas under control after it burned out of control for five consecutive days, destroying 40% of the country's main fuel storage facility and causing widespread blackouts.
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Reuters
Business and economy
Russia's Transneft says that Ukraine has suspended Russian oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline to the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia after it was unable to pay transit fees to Ukraine's pipeline operator UkrTransNafta. The Czech Republic's pipeline company says it expects supplies through the pipeline to restart within several days.
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Al Jazeera
Health and environment
The Marshall Islands confirm their first community transmission cases of COVID-19 in the capital Majuro. The government subsequently announces that the start of the school year will be delayed, and also suspends flights and boat travel to the country's outer islands.
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RNZ
Politics and elections
Sports
The Chess Olympiad in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, concludes, with Uzbek chess grandmaster Nodirbek Abdusattorov winning the open event.
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The Indian Express
Science and technology
Scientists say that they have discovered a planet orbiting the star AS 209, a newborn Jupiter-sized exoplanet via the Atacama Large Millimeter Array telescope in Chile.
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Space.com
Roscosmos launches the Iranian Space Agency's Earth observation satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Al Jazeera
Armed conflicts and attacks
Multiple explosions are reported at a Russian military air base near Novofedorivka in western Crimea. At least one person is killed and six others are injured, according to Crimean authorities.
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Sky News
Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, local head of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, and two other people are killed during a raid by Israeli soldiers in Nablus. At least 40 others are injured.
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BBC News
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Reuters
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Reuters
Four civilians and a soldier are killed, and another civilian is wounded, during three separate attacks by Boko Haram gunmen in the Far North Region, Cameroon.
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Xinhua
International relations
Russia bans the import of agricultural products from Moldova from August 15 due to "repeated detection of dangerous quarantine objects in Moldovan products entering Russia".
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Reuters