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• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
□ August 2024 Lebanon strikes
☆ The Israel Defense Forces says it has launched preemptive strikes
on Hezbollah in Lebanon ahead of an expected major missile and
drone attack on Israel. (Axios)
☆ Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant declares an "emergency
situation" in Israel for the next 48 hours due to the "special
situation in the home front". (Times of Israel)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
□ President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly presents the
Ukrainian-produced Palianytsia drone and loitering munition, intended
to serve as the Ukrainian counterpart to the Russian ZALA Kub-BLA for
the first time after a year and a half of development. (Ukrainska
Pravda)
• Pavel Durov, Telegram founder, arrested at France. (economictimes)
• 2024 Solingen stabbing
□ German police detains a 26-year-old Syrian man as the suspect of the
stabbing attack in Solingen, Germany. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
□ Three-phase Israel–Hamas war ceasefire proposal
☆ Hamas states that it will refuse any ceasefire conditions that
allow Israel to continue to control the Rafah Crossing and
Philadelphi Corridor, and also accuses the United States of
spreading false optimism to support Democratic nominee Kamala
Harris's presidential campaign instead of implementing constructive
diplomatic measures. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
□ Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
☆ Governor of Belgorod Oblast Vyacheslav Gladkov says that five
civilians have been killed by Ukrainian shelling in Rakitnoye,
Russia. (Reuters)
• 2024 Solingen stabbing
□ The Islamic State group claims responsibility for yesterday's mass
stabbing in Solingen, Germany, that killed three people and injured
eight others. (BBC News)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
□ Three people, including two children, are killed and fifteen others are
injured in a motorcycle bomb blast in Pishin District, Balochistan
Province, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) (The Washington Post)
• 2024 Brazil wildfires, 2023–2024 South American drought
□ At least two people are killed at an industrial plant in Urupês after
trying to control widespread wildfires impacting at least 30 cities in
São Paulo state, Brazil. (Reuters)
• 2024 Red Sea oil spill
□ The European Union Operation Aspides task force warns of a likely
significant and ongoing oil spill in the Red Sea following Houthi
demolition of the Greek-flagged Sounion oil tanker carrying 150,000
tons of petroleum, with Houthi footage showing flaming oil leaking into
the sea. (AP) (Financial Times)
• Foreign relations of Hungary, Hungary and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
□ Lukoil oil transit dispute
☆ Hungary accuses the European Union of being behind Ukraine-placed
sanctions blocking Russian oil shipments to both Hungary and
Slovakia essential for their fuel security as blackmail for
anti-Ukraine acts, following the European Commission's refusal to
mediate sanction negotiations while asserting that there was no oil
shortage. (Reuters)
• Russia–Ukraine relations, Russian invasion of Ukraine
□ Prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
☆ Russia and Ukraine complete a prisoner exchange mediated by the
United Arab Emirates with 115 prisoners of war from each side. (Al
Jazeera)
• Mexican drug war
□ 2010 San Fernando massacre, 2011 San Fernando massacre
☆ Eleven Los Zetas gunmen are sentenced to 50 years in prison each
for the 2010–2011 massacres of 122 men in Reynosa, Tamaulipas,
Mexico, who were taken off passing buses and forced to fight each
other to death with sledgehammers. (AP)
• Kidnapping in Nigeria
□ Nigerian police announce that the 20 medical students who were
kidnapped in Benue State, Nigeria, last week have been found without
making any ransom payments. (Al Jazeera)
• The owner and founder of the Telegram and VK social networks Pavel Durov is
arrested at Paris–Le Bourget Airport in France shortly after arriving from
Azerbaijan, in connection with alleged illegal activity on the Telegram
app. (BBC) (Reuters)
• Four people are injured from a stabbing attack in Sydney, Australia, with
the suspect being taken into custody. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
□ Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukraine War
☆ The United States announces a new military aid package to Ukraine,
including air defense missiles, munitions for High Mobility
Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), an array of anti-armor missiles,
vehicles, and other equipment. (AP)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
□ Hezbollah launches over 100 rocket strikes on Israel Defense Forces
targets in Mount Meron and Al-Malkiyya that were intercepted by Iron
Dome and caused wildfires. (Times of Israel)
□ Seven Hezbollah militants are killed in Israeli airstrikes and shelling
on Tayr Harfa and Shebaa in southern Lebanon. (Times of Israel)
• Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency, Turkish war crimes
□ Three people, including two journalists, are killed and another
journalist is injured in a Turkish drone strike on a vehicle in
Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. (Al Jazeera) (Committee
to Protect Journalists)
• Surovikino penal colony hostage crisis
□ Four inmates linked to the Islamic State seize control of a prison in
Surovikino, Volgograd Oblast, Russia, and take hostages, killing four
prison staff members and injuring three others. The attackers are shot
dead by responding security forces. (Azerbaijani Press Agency) (The
Guardian)
• Syrian civil war
□ Abu Abdul Rahman Makki, a senior leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Hurras
al-Din, is killed by an airstrike in Jabal Zawiya, Idlib Governorate,
Syria. (AP)
• Unemployment in the United States
□ United States Chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell states that
increased unemployment rates and labor market cooling has made it
necessary for the Federal Reserve to markedly reduce interest rates in
the near future. (Reuters)
• 2024 India–Bangladesh floods
□ At least 23 people are killed and more than 4.5 million people are
affected by floods caused by heavy rains in eastern Bangladesh. (Al
Jazeera)
• Twenty-seven people are killed and 16 more injured when a bus carrying
Indian pilgrims on the Prithvi Highway in Nepal crashes. (AP)
• Ten people are killed by landslides and flooding in Phuket, Thailand.
(Bangkok Post)
• 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
□ Gabon reports its first case of mpox in a man who traveled to Uganda. (
Le Monde)
• International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine,
Russia–United States relations, China–United States relations
□ The United States Treasury Department imposes sanctions on more than
400 individuals and entities, including Chinese firms that are
allegedly aiding Russia in order to avoid western sanctions. (Reuters)
(CNN)
• Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, India–Ukraine
relations
□ During a meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Prime Minister of India Narendra
Modi urges Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to end the
Russo-Ukrainian War, and volunteers to act as a mediator in talks
between Zelenskyy and Russia. In a later national address, Zelenskyy
thanked Modi but stated that it is necessary for India to respect
international law as well as Ukraine's territorial integrity and
sovereignty. (Reuters)
• Poland–South Africa relations
□ South Africa blocks the transfer of 50,000 purchased artillery shells
to Poland out of fear that they would be sent to Ukraine for use in the
Russo-Ukrainian War. (Kyiv Independent)
• 2023 antisemitic riots in the North Caucasus
□ A court in Krasnodar, Russia, sentences five men to more than six years
in prison for participating in anti-Israel riots at Uytash Airport in
Makhachkala, Dagestan, in October 2023. (Reuters)
• 2024 Solingen stabbing
□ Three people are killed and eight others are wounded in a mass stabbing
at a public festival Solingen, NRW, Germany, during celebrations for
the 650th anniversary of the city. A manhunt for the suspect and a
citywide shelter-in-place emergency for residents are ongoing. (AP)
• 2024 United Kingdom riots
□ The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination recommends that the United Kingdom implement bans and
auditing of hate speech, xenophobia, and far-right rhetoric by
politicians, in addition to prohibiting the strip-searching of children
and addressing the over-policing of schools, following widespread
destructive anti-immigration protests exacerbated by remarks made by
public figures and politicians. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• The Hellenic Coast Guard open fire against a motorboat carrying 14 migrants
near the island of Symi, Greece, killing one of the passengers. (AP)
• 2024 United States presidential election
□ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign
☆ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces that he is ending his presidential
campaign and endorses Donald Trump's campaign. However, Kennedy
will remain on the ballot in some states as he has already
registered his campaign there. (The Hill) (USA Today)