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August 20

Armed conflicts and attacks

The USS arrives in the Middle East to relieve the USS amidst a nine-month deployment and reports of mental health challenges and supplies shortages on the aircraft carrier during the Iran war.
Source: AP external link
The Israel Defense Forces accuses Hamas of using the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis to carry out interrogations and torture Palestinians.
Source: The Jerusalem Post external link
Human Rights Watch reports that Africa Corps forces summarily killed nine civilians, including four children, in Mali last month.
Source: HRW external link

Politics and elections

The Jatiya Sangsad elects Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as the President of Bangladesh in the first contested presidential election in 35 years.
Source: Dhaka Tribune external link

Law and crime

A Chinese court sentences Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan to life imprisonment for financial fraud, bribery, and embezzlement, and fines Evergrande and its real estate arm a combined ¥15.8 billion (US$2.35 billion).
Source: AFP via CNA external link

Disasters and accidents

Four railway workers on the Tōbu Nikkō Line are killed after being struck by a Limited express train in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.
Source: The Japan Times external link

Business and economy

LSEG data shows that a vessel in France is loading wheat destined for Sudan, the first export of wheat from France to Sudan since August 2008.
Source: Baird Maritime external link

August 19

Law and crime

Former Liberian Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor is charged for drug trafficking, money laundering ‌and other offenses as part of an investigation of a transnational narcotics network.
Source: Reuters external link

Business and economy

U.S. president Donald Trump announces an economic war against Iran, along with new sanctions for countries trading with Iran.
Source: The Hill external link
The Office for National Statistics reports that inflation in the United Kingdom rose to 2.9% last month amidst the Iran war.
Source: The Guardian external link
The United States Department of the Treasury reports that the national debt of the United States surpassed $40 trillion for the first time the previous day, and is currently at $40.047 trillion.
Source: AP external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Axios reports that the U.S. military has created a new shipping lane in the Strait of Hormuz to help ships transit through the waterway, including the facilitating of 10 million barrels of oil per day.
Source: Axios external link
Qatari prime minister and foreign minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani meets with Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya and other senior leaders in Doha, Qatar, to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip and other occupied Palestinian territories.
Source: Doha News external link
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launches an investigation into troop conduct for their roles in the 2024 killing of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, her family, and 15 paramedics.
Source: AP external link
Around ten people are reported killed in an Israeli airstrike on a police station in Gaza City.
Source: Middle East Eye external link
The IDF says that the Air Force have targeted two Hamas commanders, including one who participated in the October 7 attacks, along with Hamas tunnels in the Gaza Strip.
Source: The Jerusalem Post external link
The IDF also confirms that they have killed four Nukhba force commanders from the Al-Qassam Brigades wing of Hamas in an airstrike on a cafe yesterday in Gaza City.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that a Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv killed at least 15 people and injured 40 others, damaging residential buildings, a children's hospital, and a school.
Source: BBC News external link
Nine CJNG members, including four ringleaders, are arrested during a military operation in Tinaja de Vargas y Colesio, municipality of Tanhuato and Ecuandureo. Among the detained is Heraclio Guerrero aka "Tio Lako", leader identified as behind the operation of cartel training camps and the offensive during the 2026 Jalisco operation.
Source: Democrata external link
The United Nations reports that 36 humanitarian workers and contractors in South Sudan have been killed since the start of the year, surpassing the 31 killed last year.
Source: AP external link

Disasters and accidents

Twenty-three people are killed and five others are injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the BR-373 near Ipiranga, Paraná, Brazil.
Source: UOL external link
Six passengers, including Ecuadorian intelligence head Michele Sensi-Contugi and his wife, and the pilot are killed in a helicopter crash on Mount Ololokwe in Samburu County, Kenya.
Source: NBC News external link
Nine people, including eight Bangladeshi nationals, are killed and six others are injured in a hotel fire in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Source: The Independent external link
Three people, including a child, are killed and another person is injured when an immigration department truck ran a red light during an immigration raid, colliding with two cars and crashing into pedestrians in Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Source: New Straits Times external link
Two people are killed and seven are injured when a vehicle drives into a group of Milligan University cyclists in Hampton, Tennessee, United States.
Source: CBS News external link

Health and environment

Amidst the ongoing measles outbreak in Bangladesh, health minister M. A. Muhit says that the outbreak will need 2-3 months for it to be under control.
Source: Jagonews24 external link
In a study from the Bangladesh Shishu Hospital & Institute, around 82% of children who died from measles during the outbreak in Bangladesh did not receive adequate or exclusive breastfeeding during their first 6 months of their life.
Source: The Business Standard external link
Four more children are reported to have died from measles in 24 hours, bringing the death toll in the country from the outbreak past 922.
Source: The Business Standard external link
Merck and Moderna report that their cancer vaccine candidate showed positive results in their late-stage trial in preventing a recurrence of melanoma, including in high-risk patients.
Source: CNBC external link

August 18

Politics and elections

Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema is declared the winner by the electoral commission, re-electing him to a second term.
Source: AP external link

Health and environment

The UK Health Security Agency confirms that an outbreak of salmonella in the UK has left one person dead and hundreds more ill. The outbreak is believed to be linked to imported eggs.
Source: BBC News external link

International relations

The United States imposes sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) president Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye over their alleged involvement in proceedings against officials from countries that do not recognize ICC jurisdiction.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link

Disasters and accidents

At least 100 people are killed when a gold mine collapses in Baboua, Central African Republic, at the border with Cameroon.
Source: RTÉ external link
At least eight people are killed and more than 20 others are injured after a vehicle rams into a truck in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Source: Xinhua external link
Three people are killed after an explosion at a thermal power plant in Baniyas, Syria.
Source: Xinhua external link
A second M4.7 earthquake strikes the province of Granada, in Spain. Damage and injures are reported in Granada and the surrounding area, while the Alhambra is evacuated.
Source: BBC News external link
Four people are killed and sixteen others are injured when a passenger bus crashes due to a brake failure in Kirehe District, Eastern Province, Rwanda.
Source: IGIHE external link

Business and economy

The United Arab Emirates suspends commercial exchanges, and financial transactions with Iran after Iran launched two ballistic missiles at the country.
Source: Time external link

Law and crime

A student is killed while nine other people are injured in a mass shooting at a junior secondary school building of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University in Zamboanga City, Philippines. The perpetrator, also a student, later kills himself.
Source: The Philippine Star external link
Pakistan's Supreme Court orders imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan transferred from the central jail in Rawalpindi, Punjab, to Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad for medical examinations following a petition by his lawyers concerning his health.
Source: AFP via RFI external link
Singapore begins requiring major Internet messaging platforms to restrict unsolicited contacts and social media services to verify advertisers and block suspected scam advertisements under new anti-scam rules, with penalties of up to S$1 million (US$780,000) for non-compliance.
Source: The Manila Times external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations reports that a cargo vessel has come under attack off the Omani coast in the Strait of Hormuz, leaving one dead.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
The United Arab Emirates's defence ministry detects two missiles fired from Iran towards the country, including one that fell outside territorial waters and another that fell within it.
Source: Emirates 24/7 external link
British prime minister Andy Burnham confirms that the United Kingdom will continue to militarily support Ukraine after Russia warned the UK will face "consequences" for allowing Ukraine to use British-made drones to strike targets deep inside Russian territory.
Source: BBC News external link
A Russian ballistic missile strike kills ten civilians and injures eight others in Pechenihy, Kharkiv Oblast. Several homes are completely destroyed.
Source: AP external link
A drone strike hits a bus stop near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar, killing one plant worker and injuring several others.
Source: Reuters external link
The Sudan Doctors Network reports that recent attacks in Geissan of Sudan's Blue Nile region has displaced over 5,000 people to Damazin.
Source: Sudan Horizon external link
The Rapid Support Forces launches a major crackdown in Nyala, South Darfur, its largest security and military mobilization since seizing the city in 2023.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link
At least 24 bandits are killed by a force of Nigerian Army, State Security Service, and vigilante groups during a foiled kidnapping attempt in Bakori, Katsina State, Nigeria.
Source: Daily Post external link
Fourteen kidnapping victims are rescued by the Nigerian Army in Sabuwa, Katsina State.
Source: The Punch external link
Five gunmen are killed by members of the Mexican Army after an encounter in Los Palillos locality, Los Reyes, Michoacán.
Source: in Spanish external link