A drone strike is reported on an Zawiya electrical substation in western Libya, causing a fire and power outages.
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The Hill 
August 12
Armed conflicts and attacks
The Rapid Support Forces launch eight drone and land attacks across El Obeid, North Kordofan, and intercepting them using air defenses. Two people are reported to be killed during the attacks.
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Reuters
RSF launch drone strikes across multiple cities in Sudan, including its capital Khartoum, Bahri, and Omdurman in Khartoum State and the River Nile cites of Ad-Damir, and Atbara.
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The National News
Science and technology
A total solar eclipse occurs in Greenland, Iceland and Spain, with partial eclipses visible over much of northern North America, Europe (except most of Ukraine, Greece, Bulgaria and Russia), northwestern Africa and northern Asian Russia. It is the first total eclipse observable in mainland Europe since the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999.
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EclipseWise
Politics and elections
Cook Islanders vote to elect all 24 seats of Parliament amid a cost-of-living crisis and debate regarding a past partnership agreement with China. Incumbent prime minister Mark Brown faces a challenge from Cook Islands United leader Teariki Heather.
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The Guardian
The Rapid Support Forces-appointed governor of Sudan's Kordofan region, Hamad Mohammad Hamad Khalifa, resigns and will defect.
Source:
Al-Arabiya
Law and crime
Disasters and accidents
A woman is killed and 172 other people are rescued after a ferry catches fire off the coast of Bali, Indonesia.
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AFP via RFI
August 11
Disasters and accidents
The death toll from the M7.4 earthquake in Colombia yesterday increases to over 240 people killed, 570 injured, and at least 3,000 others still missing. President Abelardo de la Espriella declares a national state of emergency.
Source:
The Guardian
At least 44 people are killed when a ferry sinks on Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe.
Source:
AFP via RFI
Search operations for the landslide from Sunday conclude in Baguio, Philippines, placing the final death toll at ten people killed. Meanwhile, the national police places the nationwide toll from the tropical cyclones and monsoons at 26.
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Philippine Daily Inquirer
At least 18 people are killed and around 30 others are injured in a two-vehicle collision in Ismailia Governorate, Egypt.
Source:
Al Ahram
Sports
Palestinian Football Association president Jibril Rajoub announces that all football and sport activities will resume in September following a three-year suspension that began after the outbreak of the Gaza war.
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Al Jazeera
Politics and elections
Former Supreme Court president András Baka is elected as Hungarian president through a supermajority and is scheduled to take office on 19 August. He ran uncontested as the Tisza Party's candidate, as neither Fidesz nor its partner KNDP nominated a candidate.
Source:
Reuters
International relations
The Syrian transitional government confirms their cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency to purge nuclear materials at a hidden facility following a report by on such plan after an agreement between Israel, Syria, and the United States. Conversely, Israel threatens to bombard the site again if the materials remain, and to prevent access to the site.
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The Jerusalem Post
Armed conflicts and attacks
Pakistani defence minister Khawaja Asif says that a deal between Iran and the United States is "close", including an arrangement over the Strait of Hormuz.
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CNBC
reports that a U.S. military helicopter has fired at the rudder of the Panama-flagged container ship after crews ignored the naval blockade re-imposed in July, contradicting British maritime management that it was hit by a missile in the Gulf of Oman.
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Reuters
The U.S. Department of Defense reports to Congress that the U.S. military strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen in 2025 killed 153 civilians and injured another 243.
Source:
The Hill
The Yemeni government reports that six people have been killed in strikes on a cargo ship by the Houthis in the Bab-el-Mandeb.
Source:
The New York Times
The Israeli Army Radio reports that the Israel Defense Forces launched a strike targeting a Hamas sniper near the Yellow Line in the Gaza Strip, its first strike on the enclave in 10 days.
Source:
The Jerusalem Post
A heavy attack on civilians by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North (SPLM-N) is reported in Geissan in Sudan's Blue Nile state, including on the main market, surrounding farms, and other shops.
Source:
Sudan Tribune
The International Organization for Migration reports that 2,300 people in the Blue Nile region has been displaced following recent clashes.
Source:
Middle East Monitor
Attacks by the RSF and SPLM-N are also reported in Qaysān on its provincial headquarters and a market.
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Sudan Tribune
Around 60 people are killed and around 50 others injured in an armed attack during a cattle raid in Tonj North County, Warrap State, South Sudan.
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Radio Tamazuj
Law and crime
The Criminal Court in Damascus, Syria, sentences deposed president Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher to death in absentia, and former Daraa political security director Atef Najib in person, and issue international arrest warrants for all for premeditated murder and crimes against humanity.
Source:
The National
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BBC News
A United States Marine Corps soldier is released from Russia after having been detained there since 2022.
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Kyiv Independent
August 10
Politics and elections
Upon petition from Rodina, the liberal Yabloko party is barred from participating in the 2026 Russian legislative election on charges of unregistered funding, a controversial copyright infringement, and extremism by the Supreme Court of Russia.
Source:
The Moscow Times
Disasters and accidents
A M7.4 earthquake strikes Chocó Department, Colombia, causing widespread and heavy damage, and leaving at least 164 people dead.
Source:
Reuters
The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Manizales is confirmed to be among the buildings damaged after one of the towers collapsed following the earthquake.
Source:
El Colombiano
A recent wildfire at the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park in East Java, Indonesia, is extinguished after 550ha (1,400 acres) were burnt. However, new hotspots are also reported near the caldera.
Source:
Reuters
The Philippine civil defense office reports that at least 16 people were killed across Luzon, including seven in Baguio, by floods, landslides and weather-related accidents after nine days of heavy monsoon rain, while three others remain missing.
Source:
AFP via RFI
Armed conflicts and attacks
The United States Central Command says that they have redirected 55 vessels linked to Iran since reinstating the blockade in July.
Source:
Middle East Eye
Iranian supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei appoints new leaders for Iran's military to replace their predecessors after they were killed during the initial Israel and U.S. airstrikes, including Ali Abdollahi as chief of staff, Kioumars Heydari as deputy commander, and Hossein Taeb as Basij commander.
Source:
Al-Monitor
Аt least 13 people are killed, including a child, and 39 others were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on an oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, Russia.
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Reuters
Fawzi al-Mansouri, head of military intelligence for the Libyan National Army, is assassinated as a bomb exploded inside his car in Benghazi, Libya.
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Al Jazeera
Law and crime
Nonthaburi Provincial Administrative Organization president Thongchai Yenprasert is killed in a shooting at a government building in Nonthaburi province, Thailand. Former parliament member Chalong Riewrang is taken into custody over corruption.
Source:
Thairath
The government of Sindh, Pakistan, announces that a judicial commission headed by a judge of the Sindh High Court would investigate businessman Mir Raza Ali's death. The decision followed a recommendation by the Sindh Assembly.
Source:
Dawn
International relations
Colombia becomes the second country to recognize the Golan Heights, a region in southwestern Syria that has been under Israeli occupation since 1967, as part of Israel's sovereignty.
Source:
The Jerusalem Post
Health and environment
The World Health Organization reports that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo started in February before its declaration, with some cases attributed to malaria and typhoid.
Source:
Al Jazeera