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.
The Taliban organises multiple parades across Afghanistan, dropping flowers from helicopters in Kabul to celebrate its successful retaking of the city and ending of the war.
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.
Puntland Defense Forces have taken full control of the strategic Wangable Well, following a series of operations that forced ISIS fighters had been driven out of the Well, which for years had served as an important base for the group’s senior leaders, militants, and their families. Ceelka Wangable is located in the northern Qandaladistrict of the Bari region of Puntland.
At least 189 people are killed, dozens are injured, dozens are reported missing, and structures are damaged and destroyed in flooding across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Five people are killed, more than 100 others are injured, including at least 10 seriously, and at least 20 others are trapped in an explosion at a gunpowder plant in Shilovsky District, Ryazan Oblast, Russia.
One person is killed and about 20 others are injured, including two airlifted, in a level crossing accident when a train collides with a slurry tanker and derails between Tinglev and Sønderborg in the Region of Southern Denmark.
At least three people are killed amid fierce clashes between security forces and local militants in Somalia's capital city Mogadishu due to tensions over residential building evictions and demolitions.
At least 65 people are killed, while more than 167 others are injured, including 38 critically, and over 220 are reported missing following a massive cloudburst in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Three people are killed, including a child, and 109 others are injured, including three critically, by celebratory gunfire during Independence Day in Pakistan. Police arrest 86 suspects for their involvement and seize 68 illegal weapons.
According to the Sudanese government, at least 40 people have died of cholera in the Darfur region over the last week in the country's worst outbreak in years.
Typhoon Podul makes landfall in southern Taiwan, killing one person, injuring 112 people, leaving one missing, causing hundreds of flight cancellations, thousands of evacuations, school closures and blackouts.
Thirteen people are killed and 50 others become ill, including 21 cases of blindness or impaired vision and some critically, from methanol poisoning in Kuwait.