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August 22

Law and crime

The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency reports that authorities in Kiribati, Palau, and Papua New Guinea have detained four Chinese and Indonesian fishing vessels for alleged illegal fishing or licence violations during a regional enforcement operation across the Pacific Ocean.
Source: Daily Tribune external link

August 21

Law and crime

A person is killed and three other people are injured in a mass stabbing, carried out with a sword, at a high school in Fagersta, Sweden. The perpetrator is arrested at the scene.
Source: Reuters external link
Japan executes a 58-year-old man for a 2009 arson attack that killed five people at a pachinko parlor in Osaka. It is the first execution under the premiership of Sanae Takaichi.
Source: The Japan Times external link
Turkey justice minister Akın Gürlek announces that Turkey has issued an Interpol arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his role in attacks on activists seeking to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Source: France 24 external link
The Hong Kong Court of First Instance convicts Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung of incitement to subversion over their leadership of a group that organized annual Tiananmen crackdown vigils. They face up to 10 years in prison.
Source: AFP via RFI external link

Disasters and accidents

Three people are killed and six more wounded in an explosion at a house in the Ain al-Qasab village of Idlib, Syria.
Source: Middle East Eye external link

Arts and culture

The annual Ashenda festival in Mekelle, Tigray Region, Ethiopia, is cancelled over drone strike fears.
Source: Binance external link
reaches US$1.35 billion at the worldwide box office to become the highest-grossing R-rated film, surpassing .
Source: The Guardian external link

Business and economy

The Panama Canal announces it will limit the number of ships allowed to cross the passage over the next month due to El Niño causing droughts in the region.
Source: DW external link

Health and environment

India's Supreme Court orders states to protect elephant corridors, identify and remove obstructions, and prohibit groups from using fire to drive wild elephants away amid increasing habitat loss and human-elephant conflict.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Pakistani forces raid multiple hideouts and kill 49 militants allegedly belonging to the Pakistani Taliban and the Balochistan Liberation Army in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Source: AP external link
Resistance fighters and a local activist say Myanmar’s military deployed hundreds of troops around the proposed Dawei Special Economic Zone in the Tanintharyi Region, burning villages and pushing resistance groups back as the government seeks to revive the project.
Source: Reuters external link

August 20

International relations

The U.S. Treasury Department issues sanctions on 15 people allegedly involved in a drug trafficking network shipping thousands of kilograms of cocaine from Ecuador through Mexico to the United States.
Source: AP external link

Law and crime

Argentina deports a Mexican Rear Admiral accused of leading a fuel-smuggling network inside the Mexican Navy to Mexico after the Mexican government withdraws its extradition request. He is taken to the Altiplano maximum-security prison, where his brother and alleged co-leader, Vice Admiral Manuel Roberto Farías Laguna, is also imprisoned.
Source: in Spanish external link
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

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. Alamgir will take office tomorrow.
Source: Dhaka Tribune external link
Cameroon President Paul Biya returns to the country following a two-and-a-half month absence.
Source: Africanews external link
Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi says the integration of Kurdish military, security, and administrative institutions into the Syrian state is complete following an agreement reached with president Ahmed al-Sharaa in January.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link

Business and economy

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

Sports

In American football, the National Football League fines the Dallas Cowboys and the New Orleans Saints $500,000 each after they started a brawl after a joint practice session at the Cowboys' facility in Oxnard, California, United States.
Source: AP external link

Disasters and accidents

Eight people are killed when a Cessna 441 Conquest II aircraft crashes at the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site in Western Alaska, United States.
Source: KTUU-TV external link
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
Mauritania's coast guard rescues more than 300 migrants, including 40 children, from an overcrowded boat off the country's coast after finding them in distress.
Source: L'Orient–Le Jour external link
Five people are reported missing and eight others are injured after a fire at a restaurant with apartments in Thusis, Grisons, Switzerland.
Source: BBC News external link

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 among the crew and supply shortages on the aircraft carrier during the Iran war.
Source: The Guardian external link
Data from Kpler shows that seven ships have passed through the Strait of Hormuz, with four entering and three exiting the waterway.
Source: Reuters 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
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North led by Abdelaziz al-Hilu regains control of Kauda, South Kordofan, following two days of clashes with Otoro fighters.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link

Health and environment

The World Health Organization says that the Democratic Republic of the Congo will receive 70,000 doses of the Ebola vaccine candidate developed by Merck to combat the Ebola outbreak in the country.
Source: Africanews external link

August 19

Science and technology

A U.S.-led research team grows human brain organoids for seven years, the longest reported period, and finds that their cells continue maturing in patterns similar to normal brain development.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link

Law and crime

Former Liberian vice president Jewel 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

Disasters and accidents

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
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
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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

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

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 surpassed $40 trillion for the first time the previous day, and is currently at $40.047 trillion.
Source: AP external link