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Jim Lovell in 1969
- American astronaut Jim Lovell (pictured), the commander of Apollo 13, dies at the age of 97.
- A helicopter crash in the Ashanti Region, Ghana, kills eight people on board including two ministers, Edward Omane Boamah and Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed.
- In cycling, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot wins the Tour de France Femmes.
- In association football, the Copa América Femenina concludes with Brazil defeating Colombia in the final.
August 13, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli forces launch a massive aerial bombardment of Gaza City amid reports that the Israeli Army is about to enter the city imminently. (BBC News)
- Chief of the General Staff Eyal Zamir approves the military occupation of the entire Gaza Strip. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
International relations
- Australia–Vanuatu relations
- Australia and Vanuatu agree on a A$500 million (US$327 million) agreement to be implemented over the next decade, providing funding for economic development, security cooperation, labour mobility, and climate resilience. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- The Federal Court of Malaysia 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. (Reuters)
August 12, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- 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. (AP)
Business and economy
- China–United States 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 2. (AP) (The New York Times) (CNN)
- Chinese property sector crisis
- The Evergrande Group announces it will be delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on August 22 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. (Euronews)
Disasters and accidents
- 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. (GMA)
Law and crime
- 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. (Reuters)
- 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. (DW)
- 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. (The Guardian)
Sports
- Red Bull GmbH finalizes the complete acquisition of the Newcastle Falcons rugby club as its newest venture into another sport, following involvement in football, ice hockey, Formula One, and esports. (AP)
August 11, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Dobropillia offensive
- 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. (UNN)
- Dobropillia offensive
- Sudanese civil war
- Darfur campaign
- 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. (CTV News)
- Darfur campaign
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
- Tropical Storm Erin forms in the Atlantic Ocean, killing seven people and leaving others missing in São Vicente, Cape Verde. (The Weather Channel) (CNN) (DTudo1Pouco)
- 2025 Clairton Coke Works explosion
- Two people are killed and another ten people are injured in an explosion at the Clairton Coke Works U.S. Steel plant in Clairton, Pennsylvania, United States. (AP) (WPXI-TV)
Health and environment
International relations
- Australia–Palestine relations, International recognition of Palestine
- Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announces that Australia will recognise Palestine as an independent country in September. (The Guardian)
- Israel–Norway relations
- 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. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay
- Colombian senator and presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay dies after he was shot in June. (Barron's)
- Three people are killed in a shooting at a Target Corporation building in Austin, Texas, United States. (KVUE-TV)
- U.S. president Donald Trump places the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia under federal government-control and orders 800 National Guard troops to enter Washington, D.C., allegedly to fight rising crime rates. (Reuters)
- 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. (Reuters)
August 10, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Killing of journalists in the Gaza war, Assassination of Anas Al-Sharif
- Seven people are killed, including five Al Jazeera journalists and prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif, in an Israeli strike near the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)
- Killing of journalists in the Gaza war, Assassination of Anas Al-Sharif
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Balıkesir earthquake
- A Mw6.1 earthquake strikes western Turkey, killing one person, injuring 35 others, trapping several and causing at least 16 buildings and two mosque minarets to collapse in Balıkesir Province and Manisa. (CNN Türkiye) (TRT Haber)
- Six people are killed, including four children, in a two-alarm fire at a house in Waldorf, Maryland, United States. (WJZ-TV)
- Four people are killed and 16 others are injured due to a vehicle collision on the BR-452 highway in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. (G1 Globo)
- 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. (MSN)
International relations
- Russia–United States relations, Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2025 Russia–United States Summit
- U.S. president Donald Trump announces that he will be meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska, United States, for talks on August 15 to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. (The Atlantic) (BBC News)
- 2025 Russia–United States Summit
Law and crime
- Gaza war protests in the United Kingdom
- More than 500 people are detained by the Metropolitan Police in London, United Kingdom, under the Terrorism Act 2000 for attending a protest in support of the now proscribed organisation Palestine Action. (Sky News)
- Eight people are killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting at a nightclub in Santa Lucía Canton, Guayas Province, Ecuador. (AP)
August 9, 2025 (Saturday)
Disasters and accidents
- At least six Lebanese soldiers are killed in an explosion while removing munitions from a Hezbollah facility near the Israeli border. (Al Arabiya)
International relations
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 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. (AP) (CBC) (Sky News)
- Foreign relations of Singapore
- Multiple national leaders attend celebrations of the 60th anniversary of Singaporean independence, including Bruneian sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto. (Al Jazeera) (The Jakarta Post) (The Star)
Law and crime
- Haitian 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. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
- Two people are killed and five others are injured in a drive-by mass shooting in a busy area in Nassau, The Bahamas. (The Nassau Guardian)
- Metropolitan Police carry out the largest mass detainments in London's history, detaining at least 466 people for peacefully protesting the UK's ban on the pro-Palestine activist network Palestine Action. Protesters gathered in Parliament Square to denounce the Israeli invasion of Gaza and the criminalisation of support for Palestine Action, with many holding signs reading "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action" before being forcibly removed by police. (Al Jazeera)
- Former Chadian prime minister and leader of the Les Transformateurs party 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. (Reuters)
August 8, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli reoccupation of the Gaza Strip
- The Israeli Security Cabinet approves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to capture Gaza City with the stated objective of defeating Hamas, while supposedly ensuring the provision of humanitarian aid to civilians outside the areas of combat. (Bloomberg)
- 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. (AP)
- The Israel Defense Forces begins massing troops and tanks on the border with Gaza ahead of an expected major ground offensive. (The Times of India)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli reoccupation of the Gaza Strip
- Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign
- Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, reports that M23 rebels have killed over 319 civilians in July. M23 president Bertrand Bisimwa said the group would investigate the claim. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- M23 campaign
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- At least 33 Pakistani Taliban militants are killed in an overnight operation near the Afghanistan border in Zhob, Balochistan, Pakistan. (CTV News)
- War on drugs
- U.S. president Donald Trump signs an executive order commanding the U.S. 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. (Al Jazeera) (The New York Times)
Disasters and accidents
- A bus carrying mourners back home from a funeral in Kisumu, Kenya, overturns and plunges into a ditch, killing at least 21 people. (MSN)
- A bus and a truck collide head-on in Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 11 people and injuring 45 others. (Reuters)
- Flash floods kill at least 22 people and leave two dozen others missing in Gansu province, China. (MSN)
- At least 30 people are injured when a passenger train derails on the Kerman–Zarand railway path in Kerman province, Iran. (The Express Tribune)
- 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. (The Guardian) (El País)
International relations
- Armenia–Azerbaijan relations
- Armenia–Azerbaijan peace agreement
- 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. (CNN)
- Armenia agrees to grant the U.S. exclusive development rights in the Zangezur corridor for 99 years. The U.S. would sublease to a consortium to develop rail, oil, gas, and fiber optic lines along the 27-mile (43km) corridor. (Politico)
- Armenia–Azerbaijan peace agreement
Law and crime
- 2025 Anaconda shooting
- 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
- The Seoul Central District Court rejects a petition brought 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. (The Korea Times)
- A police officer and the perpetrator are killed, and another officer suffers non-life-threatening injuries, in a shooting at the CDC building near Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. (CNN) (WAGA-TV)
- 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. (Reuters)
- 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. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vetoes 63 provisions of a congressional bill revising environmental licensing rules, removing measures that would have expanded fast-tracking of projects in sensitive areas such as the Amazon rainforest. (AP)
August 7, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign
- M23 rebels attack Wazalendo militia Decisive Movement for the Liberation of Congo positions in Kamakombe and Kasheke, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Radio Okapi)
- M23 campaign
Business and economy
- The Egyptian government signs a $35bn deal to import 130 billion cubic metres of gas from Israel's Leviathan gas field which will remain in effect until 2040, despite the Israeli invasion of Gaza. (Middle East Eye)
Disasters and accidents
- 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. (Daily Nation)
- 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. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
- Five people are killed and several are injured when a malfunctioning gas cylinder explodes in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. (MSN)
- Two people are killed when a helicopter crashes into an unmanned barge on the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, United States. (AP)
International relations
- United States–Venezuela relations
- U.S. 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. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Mass shootings in the United States
- 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. (BBC News) (WHP-TV)
Politics and elections
- 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. (BBC News)
- The cabinet of Lebanon approves a U.S. proposal for disarming Hezbollah by the end of the year, along with ending Israel's occupation in the country, despite Hezbollah's rejection of this demand. (Al Jazeera)
Science and technology
- OpenAI releases ChatGPT-5 with "PhD-level intelligence" to the general public. (The Guardian)
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