| JULY 25TH KHMER-THAI WAR >The Royal Thai Armed Forces's Border Defense Command declares martial law in eight districts of the provinces of Chanthaburi and Trat on their border with Cambodia, citing "Cambodia's use of force to enter Thai territory" >The Royal Thai Air Force launches airstrikes on targets inside Cambodia, including areas near the Preah Vihear Temple and Prasat Ta Muen Thom RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian forces enter the city of Pokrovsk for the first time since the invasion began, and enter the city of Kupyansk for the first time since 2024. Fighting is underway in both cities WAR IN SOMALIA >Al-Shabaab targets two military bases operated by AUSSOM and the Somali Armed Forces near the Somali capital Mogadishu using a bomb-laden attack >Following the capture of Beled Hawo by Jubaland forces, Somali federal troops are deployed to reinforce federal government presence in Gedo >In a joint military operation, Puntland Counter-Terrorism forces and US SOF capture the financial and foreign recruitment chief of IS-Somalia, Abdiweli Mohamed Aw Yusuf "Abdiweli Walalac," and two others. The operation took place in the Laag area of rural Xumbeys in the Bari region of Puntland KIVU WAR >Wazalendo fighters launch an offensive to take the town of Luke, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo, which the March 23 Movement had taken the previous day >The Alliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo of the Wazalendo resist an attack on their positions by the M23 in the area of Showa, Masisi Territory. Residents of Luke, Showa, and Bukombo flee to escape the fighting >Two Mai-Mai militias continue to fight over the control of agricultural roads in Babila-Babombi chiefdom, Mambasa Territory, DRC. Residents of several villages flee to escape the fighting >The trial of former Congolese president and senator for life Joseph Kabila for his crimes in connection with the M23 Movement and the Congo River Alliance begins. The armed forces auditor general charges Kabila with treason, participation in an insurrectional movement, crimes against the peace and security of humanity, intentional homicide, rape, torture, deportation, and condoning crimes SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >US Central Command kills senior Islamic State leader Diaa Zoubaa Musleh Al-Hardani along with his two sons in a strike on Al-Bab, Aleppo Governorate, Syria MISC >A boat carrying Egyptian migrants and Sudanese crewmen en route to Europe capsizes off the coast of Tobruk, Cyrenaica, Libya, killing at least 15 people, injuring 10 others and leaving some missing >A school collapse caused by continuous rainfall in Piplodi, Jhalawar District, India, kills at least seven students, seriously injures around 35 others, including eight critically, and traps over 32 under debris >A gas explosion at a ten-story apartment building in Saratov, Saratov Oblast, Russia kills at least six people, including a child, injures seven others and destroys or damages over 30 apartments >Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announces India will lend a US$565 million credit line to the Maldives, gift their armed forces several heavy fighting vehicles, and launch formal talks for a free-trade agreement >The traditional chiefs of Palau and the National Congress reject a proposal by the United States to host asylum seekers and strongly advise President Surangel Whipps Jr. to also reject it >The government of Hong Kong places a HK$200,000 (US$25,500) bounty on 19 members of the overseas pro-democracy organization Hong Kong Parliament >The Supreme Court of the Philippines rules that the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte, filed by the lower house of Congress in February, is unconstitutional >Thousands of pornography websites begin implementing age verification to block content for British viewers under the age of 18, according to Ofcom |
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| JULY 26TH KHMER-THAI WAR >Cambodia's ambassador to the United Nations, Chhea Keo, calls for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire with Thailand >Twelve more deaths are reported in Cambodia while a Royal Thai Army soldier is shot dead on the border as both countries exchange artillery fire >Around 38,000 civilians in Cambodia and almost 140,000 in Thailand flee their homes as fighting intensifies >Cambodia closes its airspace over the regions in the country where the conflict is being fought >Royal Cambodian Army major general Duong Somneang is killed in an artillery strike on the frontline >The Royal Thai Navy engages Cambodian forces in the Gulf of Thailand after they launched attacks on Trat province, Thailand RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian forces launch an overnight drone and cruise missile attack on Dnipro, Ukraine, killing at least three people and damaging multiple residential buildings SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The United Nations World Food Programme says 90,000 children and women are in need of urgent treatment in Gaza BALOCHISTAN INSURGENCY >At least nine people are killed, including three attackers and a child, and 22 others are injured, including several critically, in a terrorist mass shooting and grenade attack at a courthouse in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. The Jaysh al-Adl militant group claims responsibility for the attack MISC >At least 18 people are killed and 48 others are injured when a bus overturns on a highway in the Andes mountains in Junín Department, Peru >Six people are killed and another is injured in a traffic accident on the Interstate 485 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States >At least 11 people are injured, including several critically, in a mass stabbing attack at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan, United States. A suspect is in custody |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JULY 28TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli attacks kill more than 80 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip >The Houthis release a video showing ten crewmembers of the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C, which the group attacked and sunk earlier this month, in captivity >A peace conference opens in New York City, United States, aimed at reviving the two-state solution and renewing diplomatic efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >US President Donald Trump issues a new 12-day ultimatum to Russia to end the war in Ukraine KIVU WAR >Congolese government-aligned Wazalendo militias, including Resisting Congolese Patriots and the Alliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo, clash with M23 rebels in Shoa and Shamarambo villages, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo >Wazalendo militia Collective of Movements for Change clashes with M23 rebels in the villages of Mashango and Mudugudu, Rutshuru Territory WAR IN SOMALIA >Clashes occur in Dolow, Somalia, between Jubaland forces and the Somali National Army KASHMIR INSURGENCY >The Indian military announces they have killed three militants in the Dachigam area of Jammu and Kashmir ECUADORIAN DRUG WAR >Seventeen people are killed and 14 others are injured after gunmen open fire on a bar in El Empalme, Ecuador. The shooting is believed to be linked to a conflict between local drug cartels for control of drug trafficking routes MISC >At least 30 people are killed and several others are missing due to heavy rain and flooding in Hebei and Beijing, China >Three people are killed and hundreds of others are evacuated during floods across nine counties in northeastern Romania >Two children are killed and six others are injured, including three critically, when their sailboat capsizes after being struck by a barge in Biscayne Bay, Miami Beach, Florida, United States >Six people are killed, including the perpetrator, and two others are injured in a mass shooting at Or Tor Kor Market in Bangkok, Thailand >Five people are killed, including an NYPD officer and the perpetrator, and five others are injured, including four with non-gunshot injuries, in a mass shooting at the 345 Park Avenue skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City, United States >Three people are killed and eight others are injured, including the perpetrator and an officer that sustained non-gunshot injuries, in a mass shooting at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, United States >Two people are killed and two others are injured, including the perpetrator, in a mass stabbing on business premises on Long Lane in Southwark, London, United Kingdom >Three people are killed and ten others are injured in a mass shooting in Turks and Caicos, whose authorities are deeming it the first mass shooting in recent history, due to an increase in violence spilled over from the gang war in Haiti >A court in Bogotá, Colombia, convicts former President Álvaro Uribe of witness tampering and bribery >Philippine President Bongbong Marcos orders a nationwide audit of flood control projects across the country, alongside a crackdown on corruption on these projects, in response to widespread damage caused by recent flooding resulting from Tropical Storm Wipha and the monsoon season |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JULY 29TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Houthis launch a ballistic missile targeting Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, which was intercepted by Israeli forces >Maltese prime minister Robert Abela announces that Malta will recognize the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly session in September >United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer declares that the UK will formally recognize the State of Palestine should a ceasefire not be achieved by September >The Netherlands bans far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich from the country and calls on the European Union to support a ceasefire in Gaza RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian forces launch drone strikes and cruise missile strikes across Ukraine, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens of others, including 16 inmates killed in an airstrike on a prison in Zaporizhzhia KIVU WAR >Wazalendo militia Human Rights Defense Forces and M23 rebels clash on a hill near Kazinga, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) >Zaïre-FPAC militants attack Sanduku 1, Djugu Territory, DRC, killing two civilians SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >According to the Sudan Doctors Network, 13 children have died from malnutrition in a displacement camp in the Darfur region of Sudan MISC >At least 18 people making the Kanwar Yatra pilgrimage are killed in a bus accident in Deoghar, Jharkand, India >The death toll from the flooding in Hebei and Beijing, China, increases to 34, with eight others missing >A dust explosion at a wood chip manufacturing plant in Fremont, Nebraska leaves three people missing >Lebanon convicts and sentences six people who are accused of killing a United Nations peacekeeper in Beirut in 2023 >The Internal Security Agency of Poland detains 32 people, including a Pole, a Colombian, Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, who are suspected of coordinating with Russia to engage in sabotage >Four people are killed and over 500 others are arrested in protests in Luanda, Angola, against the government's increase in fuel prices >The Pakistani Counter Terrorism Department kills three suspected militants accused of orchestrating an attack in Karachi last year |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JULY 30TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognise Palestine as an independent country in September >Sammarinese foreign and political affairs secretary Luca Beccari announces that San Marino will recognize the State of Palestine by the end of 2025 KIVU WAR >M23 rebels expel Wazalendo militia Decisive Movement for the Liberation of Congo from Kamakombe, Kabare Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo MISC >At least four South Sudanese soldiers are shot and killed by Ugandan forces, who retaliated after a Ugandan soldier was killed by South Sudanese forces on Monday during border clashes. Both countries have agreed to an immediate ceasefire >A Mw 8.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Tsunami alerts have been issued along the Pacific coast of many countries >Seven people are killed and three others are injured when a Venezuelan Air Force Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft carrying members of the Yanomami Indigenous community, medical personnel and crew crashes after a suspected technical failure in the Amazon Rainforest, Amazonas State, Venezuela >5 foreigners are killed after a truck driven by a Russian citizen collides with a driven minivan by a Ukrainian national on the A1 motorway in Slovenia >Türkiye announces it will start supplying natural gas to Syria via the Arab Gas Pipeline to help Syria generate new electricity, while Qatar will also help with the project's financing >The US Treasury Department imposes sanctions under the Magnitsky Act on Brazilian jurist Alexandre de Moraes over alleged human rights violations and suppression of freedom of expression in his oversight of former president Jair Bolsonaro >The government of Australia announces the inclusion of video-sharing site YouTube in its social media ban for teenagers starting in December, following a survey on harmful content being reported on the site >Russian federal agency Rospotrebnadzor blocks web service Speedtest after identifying alleged threats to the security of the public communications network and a segment of the Internet in Russia |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JULY 31ST RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian forces launch drones and cruise missiles on Kyiv, Ukraine, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 145 others. At least one tower block completely collapses SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Slovenian government announces a complete ban on the import, export, and transit of arms and military equipment to and from Israel KIVU WAR >M23 rebels clash with various Mai-Mai groups in several villages in the Ufamandu group, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo MYANMAR CIVIL WAR >The military junta of Myanmar formally ends the country's four-year-long state of emergency and declares a December 2025 election for the country's new head of government and legislative members US TRADE WAR >US president Donald Trump announces revised tariff rates set to start on August 1st including a new 35% tariff on Canada >South Korea and the United States reach a trade agreement which places a 15% tariff on US imports from South Korea. South Korea also promises to invest US$350 billion into American biotech, semiconductors, and shipbuilding over an unspecified time MISC >Pope Leo XIV declares Saint John Henry Newman, a 19th-century Anglican convert who became a prominent English Catholic theologian, as a Doctor of the Church >The death toll from the flooding in Beijing, China, increases to over 70 as the government discovers 31 elderly people who were trapped in a nursing home in Miyun district >US president Donald Trump signs an executive order restoring the Presidential Fitness Test in all public schools in the United States >A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan, sentences opposition leader Omar Ayub and over 200 supporters of ousted prime minister Imran Khan to over ten years in prison each for their participation in the 2023 protests >Conor McGregor loses his appeal against a civil court in the Republic of Ireland, finding that he raped Nikita Hand >Islamic terrorist Osama Krayem is found guilty at Stockholm District Court, Sweden, of involvement in a war crime in which Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh was burned alive inside a cage in Raqqa by the Islamic State on 3 January, 2015 >Italy and Vatican City agree to transform a 430-hectare (1,100-acre) field in Rome to a solar farm that will power the Vatican, with the goal of turning it into the first carbon-neutral state |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| AUGUST 1ST RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >US president Donald Trump orders the deployment of two United States Navy nuclear submarines near Russia for potential military action against Russian forces in response to statements made by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and current deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation regarding Trump's previously-stated deadline for ending the war in Ukraine SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >France temporarily suspends its programme for receiving Palestinian refugees fleeing the Gaza Strip following the deportation of a Palestinian student accused of making antisemitic social media posts NPA INSURGENCY >Eight members of the New People's Army are killed in clashes with the Philippine Army in Las Navas, Northern Samar, Philippines US TRADE WAR >US tariffs on more than 90 countries enter force following a 90-day pause to allow the countries to prepare, including a 35% tariff on some Canadian goods and a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods MISC >The Seoul Central District Court issues an arrest warrant to former interior minister Lee Sang-min for charges allegedly conspiring with former President Yoon Suk Yeol in his failed martial law attempt on December 3, 2024, becoming the second Yoon cabinet minister to be arrested after Kim Yong-hyun >At least four people are killed in a mass shooting at a bar in Anaconda, Montana, United States. A 45-year-old suspect fled the scene and remains at large >One teenager is killed and five other people are wounded, including two seriously, in a mass shooting at a nightclub in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico >Six people are killed and nine others are injured after a Mw 4.2 earthquake causes a collapse at the El Teniente copper mine near Machalí, O'Higgins Region, Chile >Former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe is sentenced to twelve years of house arrest and fined USD $840,000 for witness tampering and bribery. (France 24) >Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto pardons former trade minister Thomas Lembong and secretary general of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle Hasto Kristiyanto, two prominent opposition figures sentenced under controversial corruption charges >The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador abolishes presidential term limits, increased presidential terms from 5 to 6 years, and moves the date of the next presidential election from 2029 to 2027 |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| AUGUST 2ND SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli forces kill at least 57 people in the Gaza Strip, including 35 aid seekers >Seven people die from malnutrition in the last 24 hours due to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip according to the Gaza Health Ministry >Hamas releases a sign-of-life propaganda video showing an emaciated Israeli hostage, Evyatar David, in an underground tunnel RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Ukrainian forces launch drone attacks on Penza Oblast, Samara Oblast and Rostov Oblast in Russia, killing at least three people, according to Russian officials >Ukraine's military says it has targeted the Ryazan Refinery in Ryazan Oblast with drones causing a fire at the facility KIVU WAR >M23 rebels briefly capture Kamakombe, Kabare Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo from Wazalendo militia Decisive Movement for the Liberation of Congo >M23 rebels clash with Wazalendo militia Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland in Bwito Chiefdom, Democratic Republic of the Congo >M23 and Wazalendo militias clash in the Muzinzi subgroup, Walungu Territory MISC >Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, erupts for a second consecutive day, sending a column of volcanic materials and ash up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) into the sky. Today's eruption is one of Indonesia's largest since 2010 when Mount Merapi erupted. No casualties are reported >Five children are killed and 12 others are critically injured in a mortar shell explosion in Lakki Marwat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan >Four-term National Assembly lawmaker Jung Chung-rae is elected as the leader of the Democratic Party in South Korea during the national party convention at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, defeating his rival Park Chan-dae with 61.74% of the votes |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| AUGUST 3RD SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli forces kill at least 33 Palestinians seeking food while six more die of hunger RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >A massive fire is reported at an oil refinery in Sochi, Russia, following a Ukrainian drone attack on the facility. Smoke from the fire prompts Russian authorities to close Sochi International Airport MISC >Sixty-eight people are killed, 74 others are reported missing and 12 are injured when a boat carrying 154 Ethiopian migrants capsizes off Abyan Governorate, Yemen >Krasheninnikov, a volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, erupts for the first time since the 15th century and the first in historical records. The eruption takes place four days after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit the same region on July 30, which may have contributed to the eruption >Four workers are killed while inspecting sewage pipes after falling into a manhole filled with hydrogen sulfide in Gyōda, Saitama Prefecture, Japan >Two people are killed and three others are injured in a mass stabbing attack at a primary school in Caizichi, Leiyang, Hunan, China >Seven people are killed and eleven others are injured in a prison riot at the Social Reintegration Center in Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico. Three inmates identified as key instigators of the violence are transferred to another facility >A Tatmadaw court sentences twelve people, including five Chinese nationals, to life in prison for their involvement in trafficking Burmese women to forced marriages in China |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| AUGUST 4TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 74 Palestinians are killed by Israeli gunfire and airstrikes, including ten seeking aid, and another five Palestinians die of starvation >Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces that the Israeli government has decided to completely militarily occupy the Gaza Strip and fully eliminate Hamas, and tells Chief of the General Staff Eyal Zamir to resign KHMER-THAI WAR >Delegates from Cambodia and Thailand meet in Malaysia, the current ASEAN chair seat, to work out details for a long-term ceasefire at their border following deadly clashes that killed dozens of people and displaced over 270,000 others WAR IN SOMALIA >Puntland forces and US forces conduct a counter-terrorism operation in Sanaag region, Puntland, detaining three Islamic State militants MISC >Over 10,000 hotel owners in Europe, represented by the HOTREC union, file a joint lawsuit against Netherlands-based travel agency Booking.com seeking compensation for losses from 2004 to 2024, alleging that the booking agency prevented the hotels from offering lower prices on their own sites >Eight people are killed and two others are injured in a vehicle collision on the BR-491 highway in Guaxupé, Minas Gerais, Brazil >Three people are killed and 18 others are injured in a multiple-vehicle collision on the Autostrada A1 in Montevarchi, Province of Arezzo, Italy >The Indian and Philippine navies conduct their first joint exercise in the West Philippine Sea >Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes issues a house arrest order for former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is standing trial for allegedly plotting a coup, and bans him from receiving visits and use of a cell phone either directly or through third parties |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| AUGUST 5TH RUSSO-UKRIANE WAR >A series of Russian strikes targeting Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Odesa, and Sumy Oblasts kills at least five people and injures 13 others MISC >At least four people are killed and around 100 others are reported missing after a massive cloudburst triggers flash floods in Dharali village, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, India >Four people are killed when a civil protection surveillance Safir-43 aircraft crashes during a training mission at Jijel Ferhat Abbas Airport near Jijel, Algeria >Four people are killed when a medical transport Beechcraft Super King Air small plane crashes near Chinle Municipal Airport in Chinle, Arizona, United States >Australian defence minister Richard Marles announces that the country will purchase eleven Mogami-class frigates from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to upgrade its Navy as the New FFM >A court in Chișinău sentences the head of Moldova's autonomous Gagauzia region, Evghenia Guțul, to seven years in prison for violations related to the financing of the banned opposition Șor Party |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| AUGUST 6TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >A truck carrying humanitarian aid overturns on civilians near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens of others SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >At least 40 people are killed when an Emirati plane carrying mercenaries is shot down near Nyala, South Darfur, Sudan, according to the Sudanese Armed Forces US TRADE WAR >US president Donald Trump issues an executive order raising the total tariff on Indian imports to the United States to 50%, with an additional 25% that will take effect 21 days after August 7th due to its purchases of Russian oil MISC >One person is killed, thirteen people are injured and one person is missing after a wildfire breaks out in Aude department, France, also burning at least 16,000 hectares of land >Over 1,500 people are evacuated from a resort in Tarifa, Andalusia, Spain, after a wildfire breaks out in Campo de Gibraltar >A Ghana Air Force Z-9 helicopter crashes near Obuasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana, killing eight people, including defence minister Edward Omane Boamah, environment and science minister Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, and regional minister Samuel Sarpong >Ten persons are killed and 13 others are injured after a mini-dump truck plunges into a ravine in the municipal boundary of Lebak, Sultan Kudarat, and South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur, in the Philippines >Five people are killed and 24 others are injured when a suspension bridge deck tilts at a scenic spot in Zhaosu County, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China >Five people are injured in a mass shooting at the Fort Stewart army post near Savannah, Georgia, United States >Former South Korean first lady Kim Keon Hee appears for questioning by a special prosecutor in central Seoul. The investigation concerns allegations of stock manipulation, bribery, and interference in People Power Party nominations >Former Institute of National Remembrance chairman Karol Nawrocki is sworn in as the new president of Poland, succeeding Andrzej Duda >Former finance minister Rimantas Šadžius is appointed acting Prime Minister of Lithuania following the collapse of the Paluckas government >The Philippine Senate votes 19–4–1 to dismiss the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte, following a Supreme Court ruling that declared the complaint unconstitutional >The Italian government authorizes a construction project for a bridge over the Strait of Messina to connect Sicily with mainland Italy. The project will be the longest suspension bridge in the world by the time of its completion in 2032 or 2033 |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| AUGUST 7TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The cabinet of Lebanon approves a US proposal for disarming Hezbollah by the end of the year, along with ending Israel's military operations in the country, despite Hezbollah's rejection of this demand KIVU WAR >M23 rebels attack Wazalendo militia Decisive Movement for the Liberation of Congo positions in Kamakombe and Kasheke, Democratic Republic of the Congo MISC >Israel's Leviathan natural gas field signs the largest export agreement in the country's history, worth up to US$35 billion, to supply gas to Egypt >At least eight people are killed and several others are injured when a train and a Kenya Pipeline-owned bus collide on a level crossing in Naivasha, Nakuru County, Kenya >At least six people are killed and two others are injured when an air ambulance crashes into a residential area in Mwihoko, Kiambu County, Kenya >Five people are killed and several are injured when a malfunctioning gas cylinder explodes in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India >Two people are killed when a helicopter crashes into an unmanned barge on the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, United States >US Attorney General Pam Bondi announces a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, saying his capture and extradition to the United States is vital for national security >Two people are killed and three others are injured, including two state troopers, in a mass shooting when a man kills his neighbor and opens fire on law enforcement before being killed in Thompson Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States >A two-month long legionnaires' disease outbreak that started on July 8 in London, Ontario, Canada, ends after 70 cases and three deaths >British Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Homelessness Rushanara Ali resigns amid controversy over increasing the rent at a property she owns in east London by £700 in order to force the tenants to move >OpenAI releases ChatGPT-5 with "PhD-level intelligence" to the general public |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| AUGUST 8TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Israeli Security Cabinet approves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to capture Gaza City with the objective of defeating Hamas, while ensuring the provision of humanitarian aid to civilians outside the areas of combat >Germany announces it will halt weapon shipments to Israel that could be used in Gaza "until further notice" in light of Israel's plan to fully militarily occupy Gaza >The Israel Defense Forces begins massing troops and tanks on the border with Gaza ahead of an expected major ground offensive against Hamas KARABAKH WAR >The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan plan to sign a joint declaration at the White House in Washington, D.C., United States, committing to a peace deal facilitated by the Trump administration that would end nearly four decades of conflict between the two countries >Armenia agrees to award the U.S. exclusive special development rights in the Zangezur corridor land for 99 years. The U.S. would sublease the land to a consortium that will develop rail, oil, gas and fiber optic lines, and possibly electricity transmission, along the 27 mile (43 km) corridor. The corridor will be called the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) KIVU WAR >Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, reports that M23 rebels have killed over 319 civilians in July. Bertrand Bisimwa said M23 would investigate the claim, but that it may be a smear campaign PAKISTAN INSURGENCY >At least 33 Pakistani Taliban militants are killed in an overnight operation near the Afghanistan border in Zhob, Balochistan, Pakistan WAR ON DRUGS >US president Donald Trump signs an executive order commanding the US military and other sectors of the federal government to take action against Latin American drug cartels designated as terrorist organisations, such as Tren de Aragua and MS-13 MISC >A bus carrying mourners back home from a funeral in Kisumu, Kenya, overturns and plunges into a ditch, killing at least 21 people >Flash floods kill at least ten people and leave 33 others missing in Gansu province, China >At least 30 people are injured when a passenger train derails on the Kerman–Zarand railway path in Kerman province, Iran >The perpetrator of the Anaconda bar shooting that killed four people last week in Anaconda, Montana, United States, is arrested >The Seoul Central District Court rejects a petition bought by former interior minister Lee Sang-min regarding the arrest warrant against him over his alleged involvement in former president Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law attempt on December 3, 2024 >A police officer and the perpetrator are killed in a shooting at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, United States >The Uganda High Court denies bail to opposition figure Kizza Besigye, who faces treason charges, ruling that the 180-day period for mandatory release began when his case was transferred to a civilian court in February, leaving him 12 days short of eligibility |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| AUGUST 9TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least six Lebanese soldiers are killed in an explosion as troops were removing munitions from a Hezbollah facility near the Israeli border >A total of 474 people are arrested in London, England, during a protest in support of Palestine Action, which was proscribed as a terrorist group on July 5th MISC >Two people are killed and five others are injured in a drive-by mass shooting in the busy area of Robinson Road and Market Street in Nassau, The Bahamas >A bus and a truck collide head-on in Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 11 and injuring 45 >A fire breaks out at the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Andalusia, Spain, due to a short circuit. The roof of a chapel collapses, but the fire is extinguished with no further damage >Former Chadian prime minister Succès Masra is sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined F.CFA 1 billion (US$1,775,200) after being convicted of disseminating racist and xenophobic messages that incited violence, a verdict his legal team plans to appeal >Portugal's Constitutional Court blocks a parliamentary bill that would require most legally resident immigrants to wait two years before applying for family reunification, ruling that it violates constitutional protections for family unity |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| AUGUST 10TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Seven people are killed, including five Al Jazeera journalists and cameramen in an Israeli strike near the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >US president Donald Trump announces that he will be meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska, United States, for talks on August 15th to discuss ending the war in Ukraine HAITAN CRISIS >The Haitian government announces a three-month state of emergency in the central and western regions of Haiti aiming to curb hunger and gang violence in the regions MISC >A MW 6.1 earthquake strikes western Türkiye, killing one person, injuring 35 others, trapping several and causing at least 16 building and two mosque minaret collapses in Balıkesir Province and Manisa >Six people are killed, including four children, in a two-alarm fire at a house in Waldorf, Maryland, United States >Four people are killed and sixteen others are injured due to a vehicle collision on the BR-452 highway in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil >More than 600 pilgrims in Baghdad, Iraq, are hospitalised with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station >Eight people are killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting at a nightclub in Santa Lucía Canton, Guayas Province, Ecuador >Multiple national leaders attend celebrations of the 60th anniversary of Singaporean independence, including Bruneian sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto >In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the twin bells of Urakami Cathedral, that were destroyed, are restored in Nagasaki. The anniversary is attended by about 2,600 people, including foreign dignitaries and survivors of the bombings |
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| AUGUST 11TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announces that Australia will recognise Palestine as an independent country in September >The Norwegian Pension Fund divests from 11 Israeli companies and terminates its contracts with asset managers in Israel, following reports last week that it invested in an Israeli jet engine company that sold parts to the IDF RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian forces launch a full-scale ground assault in the direction of Dobropillia, Donetsk Oblast, with heavy clashes reported along multiple points on the front line INSURGENCY IN PAKISTAN >The United States Department of State formally designates the Balochistan Liberation Army as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) in response to the killings of civilians in Balochistan, Pakistan MISC >Tropical Storm Erin forms in the Atlantic Ocean, killing seven people and leaving others missing in São Vicente, Cape Verde >Two people are killed and another ten people are injured in an explosion at the Clairton Coke Works US Steel plant in Clairton, Pennsylvania, United States >A botulism outbreak kills two people and hospitalizes 14 others in Diamante, Calabria, Italy >Colombian senator and presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay dies after he was shot in June >Three people are killed in a shooting at a Target Corporation building in Austin, Texas, United States >US president Donald Trump places the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia under federal government-control and orders 800 National Guard troops to secure Washington, DC, allegedly in order to combat rising crime >After initiating an audit of flood control projects during his State of the Nation Address in July, Philippine president Bongbong Marcos announces the initial findings, revealing that 20% of all nationwide projects, valued at ₱100 billion (US$1.75 billion), were awarded to fifteen contractors, including firms owned by Representative Elizaldy Co and businesswoman Sarah Discaya, who ran in the 2025 Pasig elections |
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| AUGUST 12TH INSURGENCY IN PAKISTAN >The Pakistani Armed Forces launches an operation in Bajaur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, to find insurgent hideouts. Over 100,000 civilians have been internally displaced SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >At least 40 people are killed and 19 others are injured in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on a famine-stricken displacement camp in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan US TRADE WAR >China and the United States extend their trade truce another 90 days to ease world tension after the international tariffs that went into effect after being signed on April 2nd MISC >The Evergrande Group announces it will be delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on August 22nd after trading remained suspended for over 18 months following a court-ordered liquidation in January 2024, with the company owing more than US$300 billion and unable to present a viable debt restructuring plan >A wildfire destroys UNESCO Las Médulas gold-mining site in Castilla y León, Spain >Nine people are killed and seven others are injured in an explosion at a factory in Paraná state, Brazil >A van crashes into a metal fence after losing control on the Central Luzon Link Expressway near Tarlac City, Philippines, killing five and injuring nine others >3 people are killed and one is missing after flash flooding displaces over a hundred people and floods homes and businesses in and around Chattanooga, Tennessee. US Interstate 24 is shut down and dozens of rescues are made to people stranded by flood waters along the I24/HWY153 corridor and around Hamilton Place Mall >A Guatemalan court sentences six former police officers and child protection officials to prison terms of six to 25 years for homicide, mistreatment of minors, abuse of authority, and breach of duty in connection with a 2017 fire at an orphanage in San José Pinula that killed 41 girls and injured 15 others >Indian police arrest dozens of animal rights activists protesting at the India Gate in New Delhi against the Supreme Court's decision to remove over 5,000 stray dogs from the streets as New Delhi sees nearly 2,000 dog bites per day >The Seoul Central District Court issues an arrest warrant for former South Korean first lady and Yoon Suk Yeol's spouse Kim Keon Hee on three charges related to stock manipulation, allegations of accepting luxury gifts, and illegal political funding during the 2022 by-election. It is the first time in the country's history that a former presidential couple has been taken into custody |
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| AUGUST 13TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli forces launch a massive aerial bombardment of Gaza City, with 123 people killed in all of Gaza, amid reports that the Israeli Army is about to enter the city INSURGENCY IN PAKISTAN >Two children and a woman are killed by a mortar in Bajaur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, amidst fighting between the Pakistani military and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan fighters COLOMBIAN CONFLICT >Three soldiers are killed and four others are injured in a drone attack by FARC dissidents on members of the Colombian Navy and Military Forces of Colombia who were manning a checkpoint on the Naya River in south-west Colombia SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >Sudanese health authorities launch a ten-day cholera vaccination campaign in Khartoum targeting over 150,000 people to curb an outbreak that has caused more than 83,000 cases and 2,100 deaths nationwide since July 2024 MISC >Fashion retailer Claire's collapses into administration in the United Kingdom and Ireland, putting more than 2,150 jobs at risk, amid declining sales and strong competition from online shopping services >Canadian clothing company Gildan finalizes the details for its acquisition of American company Hanesbrands for US$2.2 billion >Typhoon Podul makes landfall in southern Taiwan, injuring 112 people, leaving one missing, causing hundreds of flight cancellations, thousands of evacuations, school closures and blackouts >Twenty-six people are killed and several others are missing after a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coasts of Lampedusa, Sicily, Italy >At least one person is killed and six others are injured when a hot air balloon carrying 34 people crashes near De Hoeve, Friesland, Netherlands >Australia and Vanuatu agree to implement A$500 million (US$327 million) deal over the next decade to provide funding for economic development, security cooperation, labour mobility, and climate resilience >The Uruguayan Chamber of Representatives votes 64–35 to decriminalize euthanasia. The bill moves to the Senate for approval >Peruvian president Dina Boluarte signs into law a congressional bill granting amnesty to all military, police, and other self-defense personnel accused of human rights violations committed between 1980 and 2000 >The Malaysian Federal Court rules that an addendum order allegedly allowing former prime minister Najib Razak to serve the remainder of his 1MDB-related prison sentence under house arrest exists but refers the matter to the High Court to determine its validity >In an effort to save the Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya, an activist files a lawsuit against the Ritz-Carlton, which plans to open a 20-suite safari camp there |
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| AUGUST 14TH WAR IN SOMALIA >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 MISC >At least 46 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, in aerial firing accidents during Independence Day in Pakistan. 86 suspects are arrested for involvement and 68 illegal weapons are recovered >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 >Pampanga State University officials suspend graduation ceremonies following a reported bomb threat in Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines >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 |
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| AUGUST 15TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian president Vladimir Putin travels to Alaska to meet with United States president Donald Trump to discuss pathways to bring an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was not invited and was not be present at the summit >Five people are killed, more than 100 others are injured, including 10–20 seriously, and at least 20 are trapped in an explosion at a gunpowder plant in Lesnoy, Shilovsky District, Ryazan Oblast, Russia MISC >The first hurricane of the 2025 season, Hurricane Erin, forms near the Leeward Islands >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 when a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in bad weather while carrying relief goods to rain-affected areas of Bajaur District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan >Eighteen people are killed and nine others are injured when a bus plunges into a valley in Algiers, Algeria >A bus collides with a stationary truck in Bardhaman, West Bengal, India, killing ten people and injuring 35 others >At least one person is killed and several 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, Denmark >One person is killed and another is injured in a shooting outside a mosque in Örebro, Närke, Sweden. The suspect fled the scene and is at large >Liz Murrill, the Attorney General of Louisiana, United States, files a child protection lawsuit against the Roblox Corporation, alleging it to be a “perfect place for pedophiles” >South Korean president Lee Jae Myung holds a "de facto" inauguration ceremony, known as "People's Mandate Ceremony", coinciding with the 80th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, where he receives letters of appointment from 80 selected individuals. Lee took office on June 4 after winning the 21st presidential election without an official inauguration ceremony >Former president of Peru Martín Vizcarra is arrested after a judge investigating him for corruption orders five months of preventive detention |
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| AUGUST 16TH WAR IN SOMALIA >Puntland Defense Forces take full control of the strategic Wangable Well, following a series of operations that drove Islamic State fighters 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 Qandala district of the Bari region of Puntland MISC >Canadian jobs minister Patty Hajdu orders binding arbitration between Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees after the airline's flight attendants launched a strike, leading to the suspension of hundreds of flights and disruptions affecting more than 100,000 passengers per day >Hurricane Erin intensifies to Category 5 strength while affecting several Caribbean islands >The death toll from the previous day's floods in Pakistan increases to at least 321, 307 of whom are in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa >Seven people are killed when an Air Kasaï Antonov An-2 aircraft crashes while being ferried near Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo >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 >Three people are killed, including the perpetrator, and another is injured in a mass shooting near a bar in Forio, Campania, Italy >The Taliban organises multiple parades across Afghanistan, dropping flowers from helicopters in Kabul to celebrate the 4th anniversary of its successful retaking of the city and ending of the war >The leaders of Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico announce the establishment of a tri-national nature reserve to preserve the Maya Forest. It will be the second-largest nature reserve in Latin America behind the Amazon rainforest >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 |
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| AUGUST 17TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >A general strike and mass protests calling for a hostage deal and ceasefire to end the Gaza war occur across Israel, involving approximately 2.5 million protesters across the country and 300,000 at the protest held in Hostages Square, Tel Aviv. At least 32 protestors are arrested KIVU WAR >At least 30 people are killed by Islamic State forces in Bapere, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo MYANMAR CIVIL WAR >The Tatmadaw conducts an airstrike on gemstone-mining town of Mogok, Mandalay Region, Myanmar, killing at least 21 people, including a pregnant woman MISC >Officials announce that the Gathering of Nations event in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, will host its final pow-wow in 2026 >More than 40 people are reported missing and ten others are rescued when a boat carrying 50 people to a popular market capsizes in Sokoto State, Nigeria >At least seven people are killed and five others are injured when a cloudburst causes flash flooding and landslides in Kathua district, Jammu and Kashmir, India >One person is killed and 29 people are injured when a MW 5.8 undersea earthquake strikes near Poso, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia >A fire destroys warehouses, a café and a bakery near Shcherbinka railway station in Shcherbinka, Moscow, Russia. Casualties and the cause are unknown >Three people are killed and nine others are injured in a mass shooting at a nightclub in the Crown Heights neighborhood of New York City, United States >At least seven people are killed in a mass shooting at a billiard hall in Santo Domingo, Ecuador >Bolivians vote to elect a president, vice president, 130 members of the Chamber of Deputies, and 36 members of the Chamber of Senators. Preliminary results point to a run-off between Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira and former president Jorge Quiroga >Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un, states in a KCNA article that the rumour that North Korea had removed the loudspeakers in the Korean Demilitarized Zone is false >Mali announces the arrest of two generals, other military officers, civilians, and a French national accused of plotting to destabilize the state, with authorities stating the alleged conspiracy began on August 1 and that investigations are ongoing >The British Horseracing Authority announces it will hold a one-day strike on September 10 to protest against a proposed increase in betting taxes from 15% to 21%. This is the first time the sport has ever voluntarily refused to race in modern history |
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| AUGUST 18TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia is suspended after a Ukrainian drone attack on the Druzhba pipeline in Bryansk Oblast. Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó confirms the suspension >Russian missile strikes kill at least seven people in Kharkiv and three in Zaporizhzhia >Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy travels with several other European leaders to the White House in Washington DC to meet with US president Donald Trump to discuss pathways to make a peace negotiation regarding the war MISC >Spain deploys 500 Army troops to help fight raging wildfires in the country as the death toll rises to four following the death of a firefighter in Castile and León >Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit, is charged with 32 offences including rape and domestic violence. If found guilty, he may be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison >Australian Federal Court judge Michael Lee fines national airline Qantas AU$90 million (US$59 million) for unlawfully outsourcing 1,820 ground staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the AU$120 million (US$78 million) compensation the airline has already agreed to pay its former employees |
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| AUGUST 19TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian forces launch 270 drones and ten missiles at critical infrastructure in Poltava and Chernihiv Oblasts, Ukraine SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli forces kill Jihad Kamal Salem Najjar, a member of the Hamas military wing, responsible for abducting Israeli Yarden Bibas in Nir Oz, Israel, during the October 7th attacks NIGERIAN BANDIT CONFLICT >At least 27 people are killed and several others are injured in a mass shooting by bandits at the mosque in Unguwan Mantau community, Katsina State, Nigeria MISC >The United Nations reports that a record 383 aid workers were killed in the 2024 calendar year, up by 31% from 2023, including 181 who were killed in Gaza and 60 in Sudan. There have already been 265 aid workers killed so far this year >Air Canada announces it will gradually restart operations tonight after it reached a tentative agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents the company's over 10,000 flight attendants >Two people are killed, including the gunman, and three others are wounded in a mass shooting in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, United States >73 people are killed, including 17 children, when a speeding passenger bus carrying deported migrants veers off a road and collides with a truck and motorcycle before catching fire in Guzara District, Herat Province, Afghanistan >Four people are killed and nearly a dozen others are injured in a fire at a warehouse in Los Guayos Municipality, Carabobo, Venezuela >Eemeli Peltonen, a 30-year-old Finnish member of parliament, dies by suicide inside the Parliament House in Helsinki >Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre is elected in a by-election in Battle River—Crowfoot, and returns to the House of Commons and his role as opposition leader after previously losing re-election during the 2025 Canadian federal election in Carleton. The seat was vacated by Conservative MP Damien Kurek to specifically give Poilievre an opportunity to return to Parliament |
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| AUGUST 21ST SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 70 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes, including eight people in a house in Sabra suburb in Gaza City >An alleged leaked Israeli military database indicates 83% of deaths in Gaza have been civilians >A Palestinian gunman shoots an Israeli shepherd in the Malachei HaShalom region in the West Bank RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >The Russian Armed Forces conduct a combined attack overnight, launching at least 570 drones and 40 hypersonic, ballistic, and cruise missiles across Ukraine, with two cruise missiles striking an American electronics factory in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, injuring over a dozen people >Italian police arrest a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the months that followed the Russian invasion of Ukraine >The United Kingdom imposes sanctions on eight individuals and entities accused of helping Russia evade Western sanctions through financial and cryptocurrency networks, including Kyrgyz firms linked to the ruble-pegged stablecoin A7A5. Kyrgyz president Sadyr Japarov has appealed to the UK regarding the sanctions COLOMBIAN CONFLICT >At least six people are killed and 50 others are injured in a terrorist car bombing targeting the Marco Fidel Suárez Air Base on a busy street in Cali, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia >At least ten Colombian police officers are killed and six others are injured when FARC dissidents shoot down a helicopter during an anti-narcotics operation in Amalfi, Antioquia Department, Colombia SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >An American special forces raid in Northern Syria kills an Islamic State leader with the reported assistance of Syrian government forces. The slain IS leader was purportedly in succession to succeed as the caliph of the Islamic State's Syrian branch MISC >United States president Donald Trump deploys warships to the coast of Venezuela after the US government authorized military operations against drug cartels, prompting an escalation of tensions between the United States and Venezuela >At least 21 people are killed in flooding caused by heavy monsoons in Pakistan, including eleven in Gilgit-Baltistan and ten in Karachi, as the death toll for the flooding season increases to over 400 >At least 47 people and 300 cattle are killed, 70 others are injured and over 56,000 are displaced during flooding in Niger >At least fifteen people are killed and ten others are injured in a landslide in Manéah near Conakry, Guinea >Six people are killed in an accident in a confined space at a dairy farm in Weld County, Colorado, United States >At least four people are killed and 34 others are injured, including one critically, in an explosion at a fireworks storage facility in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan >One person is killed and 19 others are injured, including three seriously, after a migrant shipwreck is found drifting off the southern coast of Mallorca, Spain >Polish president Karol Nawrocki vetoes a bill to combine an extension of household energy price freezes with relaxed regulations on building onshore wind farms, arguing that linking the two measures in one law was unacceptable >Chinese leader Xi Jinping visits Lhasa, Tibet, for the second time during his general secretaryship to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region |
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| AUGUST 22ND SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification officially declares a famine in Gaza Governorate in the Gaza Strip, while conditions in the North Gaza Governorate are estimated to be as severe or worse. The Office for Human Rights states that the famine is the direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government, while the Israeli government disputes the report and its methodology >A Houthi ballistic missile breaks up and a Houthi drone is intercepted over southern Israel >Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp resigns from the current cabinet after failing to come to an agreement with coalition partners People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and Farmer–Citizen Movement over implementing additional sanctions against Israel SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >Three people are killed, including both attackers, in an Islamic State suicide bombing and shooting at a checkpoint in Deir ez-Zor, Syria MISC >A part of the under construction Jianzha Yellow River Bridge collapses into the Yellow River on the border of Jainca County, Qinghai, China, killing twelve people and leaving four others missing >Multiple people are killed, including at least one child, over 50 others are injured, including several airlifted, and many people are ejected and trapped when a tour bus loses control and overturns on Interstate 90 West in Pembroke, Genesee County, New York, United States >Five bodies and ten body parts are recovered and 27 suspected mass graves are discovered at the site of the Good News International Ministries religious cult mass-murder suicide at the Shakahola Forest in Kenya, where over 400 bodies were recovered two years ago >Illegally deported Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia is released from jail in Cookville, Putnam County, Tennessee, United States, to reunite with family while awaiting trial on people smuggling charges |
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| AUGUST 23RD RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >More than 90 Russian troops are killed and five others are captured by the Bratstvo Battalion while advancing in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine >A naval drone operated by Ukrainian military intelligence explodes after losing connection with its control center and is seized by military divers after crashing in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, killing five people >Three Russian soldiers who were involved with the Bucha massacre in 2022 are killed and two others are injured in an explosion at a house in Kalynovo, Lugansk People's Republic, Russia WEST AFRICAN INSURGENCY >More than 35 Boko Haram fighters are killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force during an attempted ground assault on troops near the Cameroon–Nigeria border in North West Nigeria BALOCHISTAN INSURGENCY >Five police officers are killed in a mass shooting by unknown gunmen while patrolling on a highway in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran MISC >At least six students are killed and 24 others are injured in drownings on a school trip to the Abu Talat beach in Alexandria, Egypt >At least four people are killed and four others are injured in an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in San Miguel Zacaola, Santo Tomás Hueyotlipan, Mexico >Indian police arrest a man who recently alleged that he had been coerced into burying hundreds of bodies of women who were raped before being murdered from 1995 to 2014 at the Dharmasthala Temple in Dharmasthala, Karnataka, India >At least five people are killed and 18 others are injured during clashes in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, after the arrest of the nephew of former president Jalal Talabani >Five people are injured, including three in life-threatening condition, in an arson attack at an Indian restaurant in Ilford, Greater London, England. No arrests have been made >The Sandiganbayan appellate court sentences Janet Lim-Napoles to 55 years in prison over the diversion of ₱7.55 million (US$133,600) in the Priority Development Assistance Fund involving Davao del Sur vice governor Marc Douglas Cagas IV >The Syrian electoral commission announces that the upcoming parliamentary election will exclude the Al-Hasakah, Raqqa, and Suwayda governorates due to security concerns, with seats for those regions left vacant until conditions allow voting >Taiwan's referendum on reopening the Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant in Pingtung fails to meet the legal threshold despite a majority voting in favor, leaving the facility closed as the government continues its shift toward renewable energy and liquefied natural gas |
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| AUGUST 24TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli forces kill four Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site near the Netzarim Corridor in the Gaza Strip >At least 64 Palestinians are killed by Israeli planes and tanks at the eastern and northern outskirts of Gaza City as Israel presses ahead with its plans to seize the city >Six people are killed and 86 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting the Houthis in Sanaa, Yemen >An estimated 300,000 people across Australia, including at least 100,000 in Melbourne, march to protest the Israeli escalation of the Gaza war and its plans to militarily seize the entirety of Gaza, while also calling for the Australian government to sanction Israel >One person is critically injured in a stabbing attack at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Brussels, Belgium. A suspect is arrested MISC >Four people are killed when an air ambulance Cessna 206 crashes into the ground and explodes in Belén de Inambú, Vaupés Department, Colombia >Sri Lanka police arrest and detain former president Ranil Wickremesinghe for allegedly misusing public funds while in office |
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| AUGUST 25TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Two Israeli airstrikes against Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Palestine, kill 22 people, including five journalists working for Reuters and AP, according to Palestinian authorities >Hassan Douhan, a journalist for newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, is fatally shot by Israeli forces in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, Palestine RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russia and Ukraine swap 146 prisoners from each side after mediation by the United Arab Emirates MEXICAN DRUG WAR >Former Mexican drug lord and Sinaloa Cartel top leader Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada pleads guilty to drug trafficking charges in the United States US TRADE WAR >Multiple postal organizations such as Japan Post and Australia Post announce a temporary suspension of shipments to the United States in response to President Donald Trump's executive order suspending the de minimis exemption MISC >The Vietnamese government closes all schools and airports in the North Central Coast and orders 600,000 people to evacuate as Typhoon Kajiki makes landfall in Hà Tĩnh province and Quảng Bình province, killing two people and injuring four others >Three people are killed and another is seriously injured when a Robinson R44 helicopter crashes into the ground during a flying lesson near Shanklin on the Isle of Wight, England >An 18-year-old Norwegian man with German background is arrested for killing a 34-year-old female welfare worker at an institution in Oslo, Norway. The Norwegian Police are treating it as terrorism with a racist and right-wing extremist motive as the perpetrator has expressed Islamophobic views >Botswana president Duma Boko declares a public health emergency after the national medical supply chain collapses, ordering the military to manage emergency distribution while the government allocates P250 million (US$18.6 million) in funding to address nationwide shortages of medical supply >Bangladeshi chief adviser Muhammad Yunus declares that the country cannot allocate additional domestic resources to support its 1.3 million Rohingya refugees and urges the international community to create a sustainable plan for their repatriation to Myanmar >A new lineage of Pre-Ceramic period humans found in 1992 at the Checua archaeological site in Nemocón, Colombia, has their remains fully genome sequenced |
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| AUGUST 26TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli forces carry out a daytime raid on Ramallah in the West Bank, wounding at least 58 Palestinians with gunfire and tear gas RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko announces that men aged 18 to 22 may now freely cross the border under martial law, reversing earlier restrictions that barred men aged 18 to 60 from leaving the country COLOMBIAN CONFLICT >Colombian defense minister Pedro Sánchez reports that at least 34 soldiers have been kidnapped by armed civilians in Guaviare after clashes with dissident factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that killed 11 fighters, including a commander, on Sunday HAITAN CRISIS >Haitian police regain control of the Téléco telecommunications hub in Port-au-Prince after it was seized by the Viv Ansanm gang, an operation that briefly disrupted air traffic and internet services MISC >France repatriates three colonial-era skulls from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris to Madagascar under a 2023 law enabling the restitution of human remains, marking the first such handover between the two countries >Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority evacuates more than 100,000 people from Punjab after India releases water from dams into the Sutlej river, raising flood risks amid heavy monsoon rains >At least three people are killed, nine others are injured and eight to ten are reported trapped when a four-story building collapses in Virar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India >Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announces the closure of the Australian embassy in Tehran, the expulsion of Iranian ambassadors from Australia, and designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization after an Australian Security Intelligence Organisation investigation links the IRGC to least two antisemitic attacks, which were a 2024 Melbourne synagogue attack and an arson attack on a North Bondi kosher restaurant >Representatives of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom fail to reach an agreement with Iran in Geneva, Switzerland, on avoiding the possible reimposition of UN sanctions under the 2015 nuclear deal's snapback mechanism, following concerns about Iran's compliance >Two police officers are shot and killed and a third is wounded in a suspected sovereign citizen terrorist attack in Porepunkah, Victoria, Australia, sending the town into lockdown. The perpetrator remains at large >Former Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe is granted bail after being arrested on allegations of misusing public funds, becoming the first former president of the country to face arrest >Miguel Uribe Londoño, the father of assassinated Colombian senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, announces his candidacy for president in the upcoming election, seeking the Democratic Centre's nomination >The Marshall Islands' parliament building in Majuro, including its library and archives, burns down in a fire >US president Donald Trump signs an executive order instructing the Department of Justice to federally prosecute flag desecration, contradicting constitutional protections by the First Amendment as affirmed with Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, the former the order acknowledges |
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| AUGUST 27TH MISC >At least 65 people are killed in flash floods and landslides in Jammu and Kashmir, India >The Japan Meteorological Agency reports that Tokyo recorded ten consecutive days of temperatures at or above 35 C (95 F), the longest streak since observations began in 1875 >Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen summons the US chargé d'affaires in Copenhagen after individuals linked to US president Donald Trump conducted covert influence activities in Greenland >Thailand announces that around 80,000 long-term Myanmar refugees living in border camps will be granted legal employment rights >One person is killed and six others are wounded in a mass shooting near Interstate 35 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States >At least two people are killed and 18 others are wounded, including at least four critically, in a mass shooting at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The suspect died by suicide at the scene >A Bolivian court grants opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho's transfer to house arrest after more than two years in pre-trial detention, allowing him to resume his duties as governor of Santa Cruz while still facing trial on charges related to the 2019 political unrest and a 2022 strike >A South African equality court finds Limpopo representative Julius Malema guilty of hate speech over remarks made at a 2022 rally, where he encouraged violence in the context of revolution >Ford recalls over 355,000 pickup trucks across the United States due to a dashboard display failure that prevents the display of warning lights and vehicle speed |
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| AUGUST 28TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Lebanese army reports that two soldiers are killed and two others are injured after an Israeli drone crashes and explodes in An-Naqoura, southern Lebanon, while they are inspecting it >The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to withdraw its peacekeeping mission in Lebanon on December 31, 2026 >Israeli airstrikes hit Sanaa, Yemen, hours after the Houthis launched a drone towards Israel which was intercepted by the Israeli military. No casualties are reported RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >The Russian Armed Forces launch nearly 600 drones and more than 30 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine, striking multiple residential areas, killing 23 people, including four children, and wounding dozens more >The United Kingdom summons Russia's ambassador to the UK, Andrey Kelin, after the British Council's office in Kyiv was heavily damaged and one employee was injured in an overnight Russian attack on Kyiv SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >At least 24 people are killed and 55 injured after Sudan's Rapid Support Forces shell residential areas of Al-Fashir, North Darfur. The city remains under siege as the last military stronghold in the region MISC >A Polish Air Force F-16 training jet crashes during rehearsals for the 2025 Radom Air Show in Radom, Poland, killing the pilot >A cholera outbreak in Bukkuyum, Zamfara State, Nigeria, kills at least eight people and infects over 200 others across eleven communities >Brazilian federal police and the taxation authority conduct nationwide raids targeting organized crime schemes in the energy sector, investigating money laundering and fraud involving more than R$10 billion (US$1.9 billion) in imports, R$52 billion (US$9.7 billion) in domestic sales, and R$46 billion (US$8.6 billion) in related financial transactions >Croatian police detain a 54-year-old military officer and his Serbian partner on suspicion of spying for Serbia, with prosecutors opening an investigation into the case >A Mobile Brigade Corps armored tactical vehicle intentionally runs over and kills a protester at an anti-government demonstration in Jakarta, Indonesia. The seven occupants of the vehicle have been detained >Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune dismisses Prime Minister Nadir Larbaoui and appoints Industry Minister Sifi Ghrieb as acting prime minister >A Colombian court sentences a 15-year-old to seven years in juvenile detention for attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the assassination of Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay in June >A Moroccan court rejects a request to provisionally release human rights activist Ibtissame Lachgar, who faces blasphemy charges for online content while experiencing serious illness |
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| AUGUST 29TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israel recovers the deceased bodies of two hostages in Gaza, one of whom is identified as Elan Weiss, who had been killed in the October 7th attacks >An ambush by the Al-Qassam Brigades in the Zeitoun neighborhood, Gaza City, leaves at least one IDF soldier dead, eleven injured, and four missing >Türkiye closes its airspace to Israeli aircraft and maintains a ban on trade and maritime traffic with Israel in response to the Gaza war >The United States Secretary of Defense blocks Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials from attending September's annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City by revoking their previously-valid travel visas RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Ukrainian spy ship Simferopol is sunk by a drone strike in the Danube river, killing two people and leaving several others missing or injured >Austrian prosecutors indict former intelligence officer Egisto Ott on charges of espionage, abuse of office, and providing sensitive information to fugitive Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek and Russian intelligence services COLOMBIAN CONFLICT >Colombia's Ombudsman's Office confirms that 33 soldiers detained for three days in a village in Guaviare after clashes with dissident FARC fighters have been released following negotiations involving officials and the United Nations MISC >A tornado outbreak in Greater Poland causes heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, and strong winds, triggering the evacuation of the office workers in the region. A tornado later forms in Gniezno >South Korean special prosecutors indict former prime minister Han Duck-soo without detention on charges of abetting the imposition of martial law on December 3, 2024, preparation of false public documents and perjury for falsely testifying that he had not been aware of the martial law declaration >Former South Korean first lady Kim Keon Hee is indicted on bribery and other charges related to a wider investigation into her and her husband, former president Yoon Suk Yeol >The English Court of Appeal rules that the government may continue housing asylum seekers in a hotel in Epping, Essex, overturning a previous order to relocate them >The Philippine Commission on Elections denies the right-wing Duterte Youth's motion for reconsideration to cancel their party-list registration and disquialifies them from holding their three seats at the House of Representatives. However, Duterte Youth may still appeal to the Supreme Court >The Thai Constitutional Court removes prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office for ethical misconduct over leaked phone calls she had with former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen |
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| AUGUST 30TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Houthis confirm the death of prime minister Ahmed al-Rahawi and an unspecified number of ministers from an Israeli airstrike two days earlier >The Colombian commerce ministry officializes a complete export ban of coal to Israel in response to atrocities in the Gaza Strip RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Former speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Andriy Parubiy is assassinated by an unknown gunman in Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. A manhunt is underway for the suspect SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >Hemedti, leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), is sworn in as head of a parallel government in Nyala, South Darfur, Sudan, where the RSF has established a presidential council and prime minister while continuing its conflict with the Sudanese army INDONESIAN UNREST >Unrest in Indonesia, following a government truck killing a 21-year-old, continues as a mob loots the houses of parliament members Ahmad Sahroni, Eko Patrio and Uya Kuya >Four people are killed amid spreading protests in Indonesia, including three government workers who were killed when rioters set fire to the Regional House of Representatives building in Makassar, South Sulawesi, and one who was attacked by a crowd MISC >Three people are killed and 103 others are injured when a train derails between Alexandria and Matrouh Governorate, Egypt >A man drives a car into a crowd outside a bar in Évreux, France, after a dispute, killing one person and injuring five others, including two critically >Nicaraguan opposition groups report that attorney Carlos Cárdenas, arrested on August 15 during police operations against government critics, has died in state custody, marking the fifth such death of a detainee since 2019 >Taiwanese foreign minister Lin Chia-lung visits the Philippines as part of a business mission. The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs later states that it did not recognize any Taiwan official as a member of the business delegation >Samoans are called in a snap election to elect the members of the Legislative Assembly |
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| AUGUST 31ST SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 88 Palestinians are killed by the Israeli military as Israel continues its heavy bombardment of Gaza >Israeli defence minister Israel Katz announces that the Israeli military killed Hamas spokesperson Abu Obaida in an airstrike on Gaza City the previous day >The Houthis raid United Nations offices in Sanaa, Yemen, and detain at least eleven UN personnel >The Global Sumud Flotilla, the largest civilian-led maritime convoy, departs from four cities in the Mediterranean and heads towards Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli blockade, carrying humanitarian aid and activist Greta Thunberg and actors Mark Ruffalo and Gustaf Skarsgård, among others SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >At least seven people are killed and 71 others are injured in shelling by the Rapid Support Forces in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan ESSEQUIBO DISPUTE >The Guyanese military report that Venezuelan gunfire targeted a patrol boat escorting election materials on the Cuyuní River in the disputed Essequibo region INDONESIAN UNREST >As unrest continues overnight, crowds of angry mobs loot the houses of Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani and parliament member Nafa Urbach >In a press conference followed by leaders of political parties, President Prabowo agrees to revoke the allowance for parliament members and put moratoriums to their foreign trips >A university student succumbs to his wounds one day after participating in a protest in Yogyakarta, one day prior, after he was allegedly assaulted by police after being separated from other protesters MISC >The original 1920s manuscripts of The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, one of Czechia's most well-known works, are rediscovered by the Czech Museum of Literature >At least 250 people are killed and 500 others are injured when a Mw 6.0 earthquake strikes Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan >Fourteen people are killed and three others are critically injured in a head-on collision between a police van and a prison bus outside of Mariental, Namibia >Armenia and Pakistan agree to establish diplomatic relations on the sidelines of the 2025 Tianjin SCO summit >Norway agrees to purchase at least five new British-made anti-submarine Type 26 frigates for the Royal Norwegian Navy in a £10 billion (US$13.5 billion) deal. The ships will be built by a consortium of companies led by BAE Systems >United States judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the District of Columbia issues an injunction halting the deportation of Guatemalan unaccompanied minors after advocacy groups filed an emergency appeal against the Trump administration's plan to repatriate them >Philippine public works secretary Manuel Bonoan resigns over the flood control controversy, while President Bongbong Marcos appoints transportation secretary Vince Dizon as Bonoan's replacement >Archaeologists discover 40 ancient tombs dating back to at least 2,300 years ago at the Mosul Dam reservoir in Dohuk Governorate in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, following lowered water levels from a drought |
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| SEPTEMBER 1ST SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The International Association of Genocide Scholars declares that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza INDONESIAN UNREST >The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence reports that 20 people are missing across Bandung and Depok, West Java, and the Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia, following the protests >Police storm into the campuses of Universitas Pasundan and Universitas Islam Bandung in West Java, firing tear gas at protesters MISC >New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon announces that holders of investor residence visas may buy or build a single home valued above NZ$5 million (US$3.55 million), following changes to the visa rules previously preventing such investments >The South Korean trade ministry reports that semiconductor exports reached a record ₩21 trillion (US$15 billion) in August, up nearly one-third from last year, contributing to total monthly exports of ₩81 trillion ($58.4 billion) >The toll from the previous day's earthquake in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, increases to at least 1,100 people killed and 3,500 others injured >Over 1,000 people are killed when a landslide destroys a village in the Marrah Mountains area of western Sudan >Two people are killed and eight Kenyan police officers are injured after two armored vehicles get in an accident in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, Haiti >An EastIndo passenger MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 helicopter goes missing with eight people on board in the Tanah Bumbu Regency, Indonesia >Five people are killed when a Gilgit-Baltistan government helicopter crashes in Thor Valley, Chilas, Diamer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan >Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announces that Australia will pay Nauru to accept foreign-born criminals who are expelled from Australia following the signing of a memorandum by Nauruan president David Adeang >The South Korean defense ministry announces that it has suspended the "Voice of Freedom" military radio broadcast to North Korea for the first time in 15 years as part of measures to reduce tensions between the two countries >An Argentine federal judge bars media outlets from publishing audio recordings made inside the presidential palace, which reportedly include conversations involving President Javier Milei's sister and chief of staff, Karina Milei, amid ongoing corruption allegations against the government >A Finnish court sentences Biafran activist Simon Ekpa to six years in prison for incitement, tax fraud, and terrorism, among other charges >Benin's ruling coalition, composed of the Progressive Union Renewal and the Republican Bloc, nominates finance minister Romuald Wadagni as their presidential candidate in the upcoming election >Guyana votes to elect a new National Assembly and president, with polls favouring a second term for incumbent Irfaan Ali of the PPP/C >The Philippine Senate Blue Ribbon Committee orders the arrest of two contractors who failed to attend hearings on alleged corruption in flood control projects, as part of its probe into incomplete or substandard works awarded under President Bongbong Marcos's infrastructure program >Ghanaian president John Mahama removes Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo from office following a committee report recommending her dismissal for misconduct, which Torkornoo denies |
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| SEPTEMBER 2ND SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Belgian foreign minister Maxime Prévot announces that Belgium will recognize a Palestinian state at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly session and impose sanctions on Israel, including bans on products from Israeli settlements and restrictions on certain public contracts INSURGENCY IN PAKISTAN >At least fourteen people are killed and dozens of others are injured, including seven critically, in a suicide bombing at a political rally in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan >An attack near the Iran–Pakistan border in Balochistan, Pakistan, kills five people >Six soldiers and six militants are killed in a suicide attack on a paramilitary base in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan WAR ON DRUGS >The United States military conducts a precision strike and sinks a Venezuelan boat reportedly used by Tren de Aragua for smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people. The Trump administration reports it currently has no plans of attacking the Venezuelan government MISC >The trial of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and other defendants enters its final verdict phase >A Bolivian court sentences two Spanish Jesuit priests to a year in prison for failing to report child sexual abuse by a fellow priest, whose posthumous diary revealed he abused at least 85 minors between 1972 and 2000 >French judges issue arrest warrants for seven former senior Ba'athist Syrian officials, including former president Bashar al-Assad, on charges of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity for a 2012 rocket attack on a media center in Homs that killed journalists Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik and injured others >At least four South Sudanese soldiers and ten militia members die in clashes near Nasir, Upper Nile, an area where earlier violence led to the detention of first vice president Riek Machar >Five people are injured, including one critically and two seriously, in a mass stabbing attack at a hotel and a nearby street in Marseille, France. The Tunisian perpetrator is fatally shot by police >An Argentine court places the daughter of Nazi adviser Friedrich Kadgien and her husband under house arrest and accuses them of stealing the painting Portrait of a Lady, which had been missing since 1945 >A Turkish court annuls the Istanbul provincial congress of the Republican People's Party (CHP) over alleged procedural violations, dismissing local leaders including the Istanbul chair, and appoints an interim committee to oversee the branch >An Indonesian diplomat attached to the embassy in Lima, Peru, is shot dead by an unknown assailant. The Peruvian foreign ministry opens an investigation into the shooting as the country sees a rise in extortion and homicide >Burkina Faso passes a law criminalizing homosexuality, providing sentences of between two and five years in prison as well as fines |
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| SEPTEMBER 3RD SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >More than 70 Palestinians are killed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip >The Houthis launch a ballistic missile at Israel, which is intercepted RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russia fires more than 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine overnight, targeting mostly western and central Ukraine and wounding at least five people >In response to the attacks, Poland scrambles its fighter jets and places ground-based air defenses and radar systems on maximum readiness WAR IN SOMALIA >Puntland forces have killed at least 15 Islamic Statefighters and captured key militant positions, including Ceelasha Burti-Cise and Af-ka Dharimood in the Baallade Valley, following a series of intense military operations in the broader Cal Miskaad Mountains of the Bari region, Puntland MISC >The Nazi-looted painting Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi is handed over to the Argentine justice system after being discovered on display in a private house in Mar del Plata, Argentina >India approves cutting taxes on hundreds of consumer goods in response to new U.S. tariffs imposed on India last month. The overhaul cuts the consumption tax from a four-tier structure to a two-rate structure >At least 30 people are killed in flash floods caused by cloudbursts, landslides, and waterlogging across north India, including in Punjab, Odisha, and Jammu and Kashmir. Casualty numbers are expected to increase >Fifteen people are killed and 18 others are injured when the Ascensor da Glória funicular crashes into a building in Lisbon, Portugal >Seven migrants are found dead on beaches after several boats from Algeria sink off the coast of Andalusia, Spain, as authorities rescue 26 people from one vessel and 38 from another and continue searching for additional victims >One person is killed, another is injured, and five others are reported missing during an accident on a Hanwha Ocean floating production storage and offloading ship at a shipyard in South Korea >A rescue team locates the burnt remains of the EastIndo passenger MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 helicopter that went missing on Monday in Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the island of Borneo and recovers one body >China holds a military parade in Beijing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The event is attended by the leaders of about two dozen countries >Czech defence minister Jana Černochová announces that the Czech government signed a deal to pay Kč34 billion (US$1.6 billion) for 44 Leopard 2A8 tanks from Germany as part of its efforts to modernize the Armed Forces >A Peruvian court sentences former president Alejandro Toledo to 13 years and four months in prison for laundering S/18 million (US$5.1 million) in bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht through offshore accounts to purchase and refinance properties in Lima, with the sentence to run concurrently with his earlier conviction for accepting S/124 million ($35 million) in kickbacks >Brazil's Federal Senate approves a constitutional amendment that phases in court-ordered debt payments to fiscal target calculations beginning in 2027, initially counting 10% of the total and gradually reaching full inclusion over up to ten years >At least 60 people are killed and dozens rescued after an overloaded boat carrying more than 100 passengers strikes a submerged tree stump and capsizes on the Niger River near Borgu, Niger State, Nigeria, with search operations continuing for missing persons >Three people are killed and the perpetrator is injured in a mass stabbing in a pizza restaurant in Gwanak District, Seoul, South Korea >A Moroccan court sentences human rights activist Ibtissame Lachgar to 30 months in prison and a fine of DH50,000 (US$5,510) for blasphemy, with her lawyers stating they will appeal >Jamaicans vote to elect the 63 members of the Parliament using first-past-the-post voting. The two leading parties are the ruling Jamaica Labour Party and the opposition People's National Party >Residents of Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory, vote for the twelve members of the Legislative Council using plurality block voting >The ruling Pheu Thai Party of the acting government of Thailand moves to dissolve the parliament, setting up for a new election, after prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was dismissed from office due to her phone call leak with Cambodia >Scientists report that Mars has a solid inner core of iron and nickel about 613 kilometers in radius, surrounded by a liquid outer core, based on seismic data from NASA's InSight lander |
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| SEPTEMBER 4TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 75 Palestinians are killed, including 44 who are killed in Gaza City, amid Israel's military assault SAHEL INSURGENCY >Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin spokesman Abou Houfeiza al-Bambari announces a blockade on all fuel trucks that enter Mali >The Malian transitional government files a lawsuit against Algeria at the International Court of Justice and accuses Algeria of destroying a Malian military drone near Tinzaouaten, Kidal region, to allegedly hinder Mali's campaign against armed rebels in the war BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY >Nigeria's air force kills more than 15 Islamist fighters in an airstrike on hideouts in Borno's Sambisa forest, while troops separately kill 13 Boko Haram militants after repelling an ambush on a military convoy along the Gubio–Damasak road WAR ON DRUGS >The United States designates Ecuadorian drug cartels Los Choneros and Los Lobos as terrorist organizations. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also says that the US will support the Ecuadorian Navy by providing $6 million in drones and $13 other million for general security in the fight against these gangs MISC >Hundreds of deceased people are found under the rubble of collapsed houses after the August 31st earthquake in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bringing the death toll to 2,205 >Seventeen people are injured and fifteen are hospitalized when a double-decker bus crashes near Victoria station in London, England >The US state of Florida announces it will formally eliminate all vaccination mandates, including school and childhood mandates for chickenpox, measles, and polio >The Democratic Republic of the Congo declares a new Ebola outbreak in Kasaï Province with 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, confirmed as the Zaire strain >Belarus detains a Polish national and a Belarusian citizen on charges of espionage after authorities allege they possessed documents on Zapad 2025 >Former Indonesian education minister and Gojek co-founder Nadiem Makarim are detained after prosecutors name him as a suspect in a corruption case over the alleged unauthorized procurement of Chromebook laptops that resulted in state losses estimated at Rp 1.98 trillion (US$121.85 million) >Australia agrees to pay an additional A$475 million (US$309M) in compensation to victims of the unlawful "Robodebt" welfare debt recovery scheme, bringing total repayments and compensation to A$2.4 billion (US$1.6 bn) in what would be the country's largest class action settlement if approved by the courts >Two people are killed, including the suspect, and eight others are injured in a stabbing spree in Hollow Water First Nation, Manitoba, Canada >A Hong Kong jury convicts three people and acquits five others over 2020 bomb plots targeting hospitals and trains during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding them guilty of conspiracy to cause explosions but not of terrorism charges under the UN anti-terrorism law >Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra leaves Thailand after a court ruling that placed him at risk for arrest. Police indicate that he was allowed to leave the country as there is no active warrant for his arrest >Jamaica's Labour Party wins the general election with 34 seats in the House of Representatives against 29 for the People's National Party, securing a third term for Prime Minister Andrew Holness amid a voter turnout of 39.5% >Nepal orders its telecommunications authority to block access to unregistered social media platforms after companies failed to meet government requirements to register locally and designate compliance representatives >Argentina's Congress overturns President Javier Milei's veto of a bill expanding spending and protections for people with disabilities, marking the first such reversal of his presidency |
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| SEPTEMBER 5TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Hamas releases a video showing a speech by two Israeli hostages in Gaza kidnapped during the Nova music festival massacre in 2023 >Finland joins the New York Declaration calling for the end of the war and advancing a two-state solution KIVU WAR >The United Nations Human Rights Office reports that M23 rebels, the Congolese armed forces, and other groups in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have committed serious abuses, including killings, torture, sexual violence, and child recruitment, some of which may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity WAR ON DRUGS >The Trump administration deploys ten F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to take part in military action against drug cartels in Venezuela and Latin America >Venezuelan Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly over the USS Jason Dunham in international waters for a second time in 24 hours as tensions mount between the United States and Venezuela >Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro accuses the US of seeking a regime change in Venezuela under the guise of combating cartels >Caribbean Airlines halts all flights between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela for the entire month of September due to the military situation in the region MISC >Lashkar-e-Jihadi warns police that multiple terrorist attacks involving 34 explosive-laden vehicles and 14 terrorists are being planned for the Ganesh Chaturthi finale on Saturday in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, causing security to be tightened >A bus carrying tourists plunges down a hill in Uva Province, Sri Lanka, killing at least 15 people and injuring 15 others >A man is killed in a shark attack off Long Reef beach in New South Wales, Australia. The species of shark is currently unknown but it is believed to be a large shark due to the injuries recorded >World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declares that mpox is no longer a public health emergency of international concern, citing a consistent decline in cases in Africa >During a state visit to Beijing, Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif announces new US$8.5 billion investment agreements with China, including $7 billion in a memorandum of understanding and $1.5 billion in joint ventures between the two countries >The European Commission fines Google €2.95 billion (US$3.47 billion) for allegedly abusing its position as the leading search engine to commit anti-trust violations in the advertising technology space >A Swedish district court acquits former national security adviser Henrik Landerholm of severe negligence after he left classified documents in an unlocked hotel safe, ruling that his actions did not meet the threshold required for conviction >Angela Rayner resigns as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leaves her other government posts amid a scandal over a tax underpayment on a property she owns in Hove, East Sussex. Prime Minister Keir Starmer conducts a cabinet reshuffle and appoints foreign secretary David Lammy as the new deputy PM and Secretary of State for Justice Shabana Mahmood as the new home secretary >Georgian president Mikheil Kavelashvili pardons opposition politicians Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze, allowing them to run in the upcoming elections after serving prison sentences for refusing to testify before parliament >Official results show that the FAST party led by Laʻauli Leuatea Schmidt wins the Samoan election by a landslide, securing 30 out of the 50 Legislative Assembly seats >The House of Representatives of Thailand elects Anutin Charnvirakul, leader of the conservative opposition Bhumjaithai Party, as the country's prime minister, replacing Paetongtarn Shinawatra >US president Donald Trump signs an executive order renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War. US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth is to be now known as the secretary of war >The Jupiter supercomputer, capable of at least one quintillion calculations per second with 24,000 Nvidia chips, is inaugurated in Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, marking Europe's first system considered internationally competitive in training artificial intelligence models. On a partial system test, Jupiter has achieved a preliminary 793.4 Petaflop/s, placing it 4th in the Top 500 behind El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora at the DOE |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| SEPTEMBER 6TH INSURGENCY IN PAKISTAN >At least one person is killed and two others are injured in an improvised explosive device bombing during a cricket match in Bajaur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan ANGLOPHONE INSURGENCY >A roadside bomb kills seven Cameroonian soldiers in the Southwest Region. An English-speaking separatist group claims responsibility for the bombing BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY >At least 63 people are killed, including seven soldiers, and others are reported missing in attacks by Boko Haram jihadists in Darul Jamal, Borno State, Nigeria NIGERIAN BANDIT CONFLICT >Eight security officials are killed, four others are seriously injured, and five Chinese workers are kidnapped, with four rescued afterwards, in an attack on a Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps convoy in Edo State, Nigeria MISC >Five people are killed when a rescue boat capsizes in the Chenab River while evacuating people from flooding in the Jalalpur Pirwala area of Multan District, Punjab, Pakistan, with search operations still ongoing >At least three people are killed, nine are injured, including six seriously, and others are reported missing when an under-construction bridge collapses in Karbala Governorate, Iraq >A woman is killed and six others are injured, including three seriously, when a car strikes pedestrians on the terrace of a pizzeria in Pirou, Normandy, France |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| SEPTEMBER 7TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 52 people are killed and several others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on a school, refugee tents, and houses in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip >The al-Ruya Tower high-rise apartment building is hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City >Two people are injured, flights are halted and the airspace is closed after multiple Houthi drone strikes, including some intercepted and at least one impact on the passenger hall of Ramon Airport near Eilat in Southern District, Israel >Microsoft Azure services are disrupted by undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East >Around 890 people are arrested at a demonstration against the ban on the group Palestine Action in London, England RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >At least four people are killed, including an infant, and eleven others are injured in drone and missile attacks on Pecherskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi districts in Kyiv, Ukraine. Among the buildings hit is the main government building MISC >Pope Leo XIV canonizes English-Italian teenager Carlo Acutis in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, making Acutis the first millennial saint >The pope also canonizes Pier Giorgio Frassati, an Italian member of the Lay Dominicans and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul who was known for his dedication to social justice >Five people are killed, one person is seriously injured, and another is reported missing when a migrant boat collides with a Turkish Coast Guard vessel off the coast of Badavut, Ayvalık, Balıkesir Province, Türkiye >Six people are killed after a cable wire of a ropeway meant for material transport at the Kalika Mata Temple snaps, causing the cable car to crash to the ground in Pavagadh, India >At least four people are killed and 84 others are injured when a building hosting a religious gathering collapses in Bogor Regency, West Java, Java, Indonesia >Around 80 people are injured, including up to 20 seriously, in a mass crash at the RiderMan bicycle race in Bad Dürrheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany >Erin Patterson is sentenced to life in prison plus an extra 25 years without parole for 33 years for the 2023 poisoning of four relatives with Beef Wellingtons laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms, killing three and injuring the other in Leongatha, Victoria, Australia >Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba announces his intention to resign from office >Guyanese president Irfaan Ali is sworn in for a second term in office, after winning last week's election >Romania's coalition government survives four no-confidence votes, enabling it to advance tax increases and spending cuts aimed at reducing the European Union's highest budget deficit and securing recovery funds, despite threats of public sector strikes >South Sudan repatriates a Mexican national who had been deported from the United States, after receiving assurances from Mexico that he would not face torture or unfair prosecution >A Chilean court releases American pilot influencer Ethan Guo from detention in Antarctica after landing a plane without authorization, while ordering him to pay US$30,000 in penalties and leave the country under a three-year entry ban >A total lunar eclipse, visible in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica, occurs |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| SEPTEMBER 8TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Four Israeli soldiers are killed by Hamas on the outskirts of Gaza City in the Gaza Strip >Six people are killed and seven others are wounded in a mass shooting targeting Israelis by Palestinian terrorists in Jerusalem. The two perpetrators are killed following a shootout with a soldier and a civilian >Spain announces an indefinite ban on ships transporting fuel and planes carrying weaponry to Israel from all of its ports and airspace in response to the Gaza genocide >Spain recalls its ambassador to Israel after the Israeli government accused Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez of being "antisemitic" and barred two Spanish officials from entering Israel, with Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares calling it "slanderous accusations" against the country WAR IN THE SAHEL >Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) imposes a nationwide blockade on fuel and other goods imported from neighboring countries while besieging Malian government-held cities and towns. An unknown number of fuel trucks from Senegal and the Ivory Coast violating JNIM's blockade have been attacked and burned by militants >The Malian army conducts airstrikes in the Kayes Region against JNIM, reporting operations in Diema and Nioro du Sahel that included freeing hostages NEPALESE PROTESTS >Police open fire on protesters demonstrating against a government ban on social media in Kathmandu, Nepal, killing at least 19 people and wounding over a hundred more. A curfew is declared around all government buildings, including the Rastrapati Bhawan and Federal Parliament >Ramesh Lekhak resigns as Minister of Home Affairs in response to the police killings of protesters >Nepal's Ministry of Information and Communications lifts its ban on major social media platforms following the protests INDONESIAN UNREST >Following the recent protests, Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto reshuffles his cabinet, appointing four new ministers and one deputy minister and establishing a new department, the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah. The removal of finance minister Sri Mulyani causes a sharp drop in the country's main stock market index as well as the rupiah MISC >A train collides with a double-decker bus at a level crossing in Atlacomulco, Mexico, killing at least ten people and injuring 41 others >Czechia expels a Belarusian diplomat accused of espionage after cooperating with Romanian and Hungarian intelligence services to dismantle a Belarusian spy network in Europe >The South Korean foreign ministry charters a plane to repatriate more than 300 South Koreans who were detained during an ICE raid at a Hyundai plant in Ellabell, Georgia, United States, last Thursday >The United States Department of Homeland Security launches "Operation Midway Blitz", an Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown on undocumented immigrants in Illinois with serious criminal records, while state officials say they received no formal notice of the operation >The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejects President Donald Trump's bid on the grounds of presidential immunity to overturn the civil ruling of Carroll I (2019), upholding that Trump must pay $83,300,000 to sexual abuse victim E. Jean Carroll for defamation >French doctor Frédéric Péchier is tried for allegedly intentionally poisoning 30 people, including twelve fatally, at two clinics in Besançon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France >Tom Phillips, a man who kidnapped his three children during a dispute with their mother and brought them to a remote countryside in 2021, is fatally shot by a police officer after shooting and critically injuring another officer in the head following a robbery at an agricultural supplies store in Waikato, New Zealand. All the three children are rescued >The children of News Corp founder and former chairperson Rupert Murdoch reach a settlement over the corporation's control, transferring all shares held by the original family trust to a new entity giving Lachlan Murdoch sole voting control, while siblings Prudence MacLeod, Elisabeth Murdoch, and James Murdoch exit with a reported US$3.3 billion settlement >Two police officers are killed and three other people are injured in a mass shooting at a police station in İzmir, Türkiye. The 16-year-old perpetrator is arrested >Ivory Coast's Constitutional Council bars former president Laurent Gbagbo and former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam from running in the upcoming presidential election, while approving five candidacies including President Alassane Ouattara and Gbagbo's wife Simone >Norwegians vote to elect all 169 members of the Storting using party-list proportional representation in 19 multi-member constituencies. The left-wing red–green coalition, led by the Labour Party, wins a majority with 87 seats, while the right-wing populist Progress Party becomes the second biggest party with 48 seats and the centre-right Conservative Party has its worst performance in 20 years, with 24 seats >The Norwegian Sámi people vote to elect all 39 members of the Sámi Parliament of Norway using party-list proportional representation in seven multi-member constituencies >The Philippine Senate elects Tito Sotto as Senate president, replacing Chiz Escudero after 15 senators voted for a leadership change that also realigned majority and minority blocs >The French Bayrou government collapses after a losing a vote of confidence in the National Assembly by 364 votes to 194 >Ugandan police detain the deputy spokesperson of the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) outside a court in Kampala where he was attending a bail hearing for party members held on charges the NUP describes as politically motivated >The party of President Javier Milei suffers heavy losses in local elections in Argentina's most populous province |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| SEPTEMBER 9TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Israeli Defense Forces issues an evacuation order for the entirety of Gaza City >The Israeli Air Force carries out a series of airstrikes against the Hamas leadership's office in Doha, Qatar, during a meeting. Six people are killed; however, the entire leadership survived according to Palestinian and Hamas sources. A member of the Qatari security forces is among the fatalities >The Houthis launch a ballistic missile at Israel, which is intercepted RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >A Russian airstrike kills at least 24 people collecting their pensions in Yarova, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine KIVU WAR >According to a local leader, 102 people are killed when Islamic State forces attack a funeral in Ntoyo, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo WAR ON DRUGS >Ecuadorian police seize more than US$313 million in real estate assets from the armed group Comandos de la Frontera, which the government link to drug-related organized crime NEPAL UNREST >Nepalese prime minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigns in response to the protests amid a government collapse >The Federal Parliament building is stormed and set on fire by protesters >Rabi Laxmi Chitrakar, the wife of former prime minister Jhala Nath Khanal, is killed during an arson attack against their residence >Foreign minister Arzu Rana Deuba and her husband, former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, are assaulted at their residence >A video shows finance minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel being beaten and dragged through the streets of Kathmandu by protesters. His condition is unknown >The private residence of President Ram Chandra Poudel is stormed and vandalized by protesters while the headquarters of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) and the Nepali Congress party are both destroyed >Nakhu Jail in Lalitpur District, Bagmati Province, is stormed by protesters and all inmates are freed, including prominent opposition figure Rabi Lamichhane. The prison is then set ablaze >Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport is closed and occupied by the Nepali Army, while several airlines suspend flights to Nepal due to the ongoing civil unrest MISC >UNICEF reports that for the first time, obesity has surpassed undernourishment as the leading form of global malnutrition among children and adolescents >The United States announces more sanctions on cyber scamming rings operating in Cambodia and Myanmar >The US House Oversight Committee releases a "birthday book" compiled for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, which includes a note allegedly signed by President Donald Trump; the White House denies its authenticity. The book is part of a larger set of documents >Iraqi Shia militia Kata'ib Hezbollah releases Russian-Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov, abducted in 2023 during a research trip to Iraq, following negotiations involving Israel and the United States >An arson attack on two power poles in Berlin, Germany, causes a widespread blackout affecting the Berlin S-Bahn, emergency services, and more in the southeastern part of the city >Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson announces that the government will lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 in response to rising cases of criminal gangs recruiting children to commit serious crimes >The Thai Supreme Court rules that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra must serve a one-year prison term for corruption, declaring his prior hospital detention unlawful >Off-island voting in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville's general election concludes, with vote counting expected to begin on Thursday, September 11th >French prime minister François Bayrou formally submits his resignation after losing a vote of confidence in the National Assembly the day before. President Emmanuel Macron appoints Sebastien Lecornu as the new prime minister >Elections take place for the next Vice President of India following the early resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar. C.P. Radhakrishnan is elected as the 15th vice president of India >Ethiopia fully launches the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, sparking concerns about Nile water security from Egypt and Sudan |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| SEPTEMBER 10TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >The Polish Air Force and NATO allies scramble fighter jets in response to 19 Russian drones penetrating up to 250 km into Polish airspace during an overnight air attack on Ukraine >The Polish Armed Forces confirms it has shot down four Russian drones over the country, marking the first time Poland has directly engaged Russian military assets since the start of the war >Poland closes multiple airports due to the airspace breach, including Warsaw Modlin Airport, Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport, and Lublin Airport >Polish prime minister Donald Tusk invokes Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty following the incursion SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip kill at least 72 more Palestinians as the assault to capture Gaza City continues >Israel carries out a series of airstrikes against Houthi targets and civilian structures in Sanaa and Al Jawf Governorate, Yemen, killing 35 people and wounding 131 others >European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announces intentions to seek sanctions against and a partial suspension of trade with Israel, while also immediately suspending certain bilateral funds, citing the ongoing Gaza Strip famine as the reason FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS >Sébastien Lecornu is sworn in as Prime Minister of France after previous prime minister François Bayrou failed a confidence vote on September 8. His appointment coincides with country-wide protests and strikes against austerity measures previously announced by Bayrou, with protestors calling to "block everything". Eighty thousand police officers and gendarmes are deployed nationwide, with at least 470 people arrested so far MISC >Cuba experiences its fifth nationwide power outage in less than a year, affecting about 10 million people >At least 15 people are killed and six others are missing due to widespread flooding in Bali and East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia >Four people are killed when a Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil crashes into a mountainside in Jila, Mimika Regency, Central Papua, Western New Guinea, Indonesia >At least 3 people are killed and 70 others are injured, including up to 19 seriously, after a tank truck carrying around 49,500 liters (13,000 gallons) of LP gas explodes in the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City, Mexico >Australia approves the first vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia >China approves the establishment of a national nature reserve at Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, a territory also claimed by the Philippines and Taiwan >Ghanaian president John Mahama announces that Ghana can accept citizens of West African nations who have been deported from the United States under a regional visa-free travel arrangement >A German state court convicts a Syrian national of murder, attempted murder, and Islamic State membership for a 2024 mass stabbing in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, sentencing him to life imprisonment without parole eligibility after 15 years >A court in British Columbia, Canada, rules that a man accused of killing eleven people during a vehicle-ramming attack in April at a Filipino Heritage Month event in Vancouver, is mentally fit to stand trial >German public prosecutors charge eight suspected members of a far-right group who plan to secede from Saxony to create a Nazi state after the group were discovered in 2024 to be conducting paramilitary training and amassing weapons. One of the men was a former AfD local politician >The high court in Gauteng, South Africa, sentences seven Chinese nationals to 20 years in prison each for trafficking 91 Malawian workers and forcing them to labor under abusive conditions at a Johannesburg factory >American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk is fatally shot during a debate at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, United States >The Australian government announces plans to bolster its military through a US$1.1 billion fleet of Ghost Shark underwater drones, with the first batch delivered to the Australian Navy in January 2026 >The Sri Lankan parliament votes 151–1 to abolish state-funded benefits, including housing, pensions, transport, and office staff, for former presidents and their spouses >Police in Bratislava, Slovakia, evacuate several downtown blocks and suspend traffic and public transport after the discovery of a 500-pound (225-kilogram) World War II unexploded bomb in a construction site >Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency agree to resume nuclear site inspections which were suspended after U.S. and Israeli strikes, with Iran warning the deal will be void if international sanctions are reimposed >An article published in Nature announces that the Perseverance rover discovered vivianite, greigite, and various organic compounds in rocks at Cheyava Falls on Mars, in what NASA Administrator Sean Duffy says may be "the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars" |
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