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• A Mil Mi-8 helicopter with 22 people on board goes missing over the
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. (AP)
• 2024 Summer Paralympics
□ Polish Paralympian Róża Kozakowska is disqualified a day after winning
gold in the Women's club throw F32 event, due to an irregularity with
her equipment. (Polsatnews)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
□ Twelve Pakistani Taliban members are killed during a raid by the
Pakistani Army in the Tirah Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan,
bringing the number of insurgents killed there to 37 since August 20.
(AP)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
□ 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
☆ Three Palestinian militants, including Hamas' leader in Jenin,
Wissam Hazem, are killed in a drone strike at the Jenin refugee
camp in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
□ An Israeli soldier is killed and several others are injured in an IED
attack in Jenin, West Bank. (Palestine Chronicle)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
□ Kharkiv strikes
☆ Seven people are killed when a Russian guided bomb strikes a
residential building and playground in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
□ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses the commander of the
Ukrainian Air Force Mykola Oleshchuk following the crash of an F-16
fighter jet and the death of its pilot while defending against Russian
strikes. (Reuters)
• Sudanese civil war
□ Battle of Khartoum
☆ Seven people are killed and 25 others are injured in shelling near
Khartoum, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
• Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
□ At least 15 Islamic State militants are killed and seven U.S. troops
are injured in a joint United States–Iraq raid on Islamic State camps
in Anbar Desert, Iraq. (AP)
• 2024 Venezuelan blackouts
□ A widespread power outage affects most of Venezuela with President
Nicolás Maduro's government blaming it on sabotage by the opposition.
(DW)
• Four people are killed and one other is missing when a National Republican
Guard helicopter crashes into the Douro river in Lamego, Portugal. (DW)
• Afghanistan–Germany relations
□ Germany deports 28 convicted Afghan criminals, marking the first such
action since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021
. (AP)
• Mongolia–Russia relations, Foreign relations of Ukraine
□ President of Ukraine Volodomyr Zelenskyy urges Mongolia to arrest
Russian President Vladimir Putin as he travels to Ulaanbaatar to make
his first meeting to an International Criminal Court member state since
the issue of his ICC arrest warrant. (France 24)
• Russia–NATO relations, Ukraine–NATO relations, August 2024 Kursk Oblast
incursion
□ Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg declares that Ukraine's
incursion into Russian territory in Kursk Oblast is legitimate under
Ukraine's right to self-defense. (Reuters)
• Censorship of Twitter
□ Brazil blocks X after they ignore court orders relating to supposed
misinformation about the 2023 Brazilian Congress attack on the
platform. (The New York Times)
• Six people are wounded in a stabbing attack on a bus in Siegen, North
Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (DW)
• Death of Tūheitia Paki
□ Incumbent Māori King Tūheitia dies at the age of 69 while recovering
from heart surgery. (New Zealand Herald)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
□ Israel–Hamas war
☆ Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
○ 2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic
■ Israel and Hamas agree to three separate three-day
humanitarian pauses to allow the World Health Organization
to vaccinate more than 600,000 children against polio in
the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
○ The Israel Defence Forces carry out an airstrike on a
humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza that kills five workers. (The
Guardian)
□ 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
☆ Mohammed "Abu Shujaa" Jaber, leader of the Tulkarm Brigade, and
four other fighters are killed in an Israeli attack on the Nur
Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
☆ The number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the
operation in the West Bank two days ago increases to 18, including
eight in Jenin, six in Tulkarm, and four in Tubas. Dozens of others
are wounded and at least 20 others have been arrested. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
□ Eastern Ukraine campaign
☆ The Russian defence ministry claims that its forces have captured
the settlements of Mykolaivka in Donetsk Oblast and Stelmakhivka in
Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)
• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
□ Bangladeshi interim health minister Nurjahan Begum says that more than
1,000 people were killed during last month's anti-government protests,
making it the bloodiest period in the country's history since the 1971
independence movement. (Al Arabiya)
• 2024 Red Sea oil spill
□ The Houthis release footage showing their fighters boarding and placing
explosives on the Greek-flagged MT Sounion oil tanker, causing
explosions that put the tanker at risk of causing a major oil spill in
the Red Sea. (AP)
• Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
□ Iraq shoots down a Turkish TAI Aksungur drone over Kirkuk Governorate.
(Middle East Eye)
• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
□ More than 250,000 households are affected by power outages and dozens
of people are reportedly injured as Typhoon Shanshan makes landfall
over Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. (Reuters)
□ Three people are killed, seven are injured, and one person is reported
missing in Kyushu due to Typhoon Shanshan. (Reuters)
• 2024 Yemen floods
□ The death toll from the floods in Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen,
increases to 33. (ABC News)
• Migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea
□ Pope Francis strongly condemns European mistreatment of migrants
crossing from the Mediterranean Sea and refusal to offer aid as means
to reject them from entering European nations as "a grave sin", and
requests the expansion of migrant access routes to the continent. (The
Hill) (Reuters)
• Two people are killed and ten others are injured in a gas leak at an
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps training center in Isfahan province, Iran
. (AP)
• Three people are killed and 17 are injured when a car crashes into a group
of migrants in Oaxaca, Mexico. (AP)
• One hundred tons of dead freshwater fish wash up in and around the port of
Volos in Greece as a result of severe flooding followed by a prolonged
drought in Lake Karla caused by "extreme climate fluctuations". (AP)
• France–Serbia relations
□ Serbia and French aerospace manufacturer Dassault Aviation sign an
agreement for the purchase of twelve Dassault Rafale warplanes. (Le
Monde)
• Germany–Iran relations
□ The interior ministry of Hamburg, Germany, expels the Iranian leader of
the Islamic Centre Hamburg Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh, giving Mofatteh a
September 11 deadline to either leave the country or face deportation.
(Reuters)
• The Taliban government bans mixed martial arts, saying that the sport is
too violent and has a risk of death and that it is incompatible with
Islamic law. (BBC News)