Current events: 2023-08-02

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • A Russian drone strike in Izmail, Odesa Oblast, has caused damage to administrative buildings and grain storage facilities. (Bloomberg News)

Disasters and accidents

• Twenty people are killed, five are missing and nine others are rescued after a boat carrying charcoal and food capsized in the Ugandan waters of Lake Victoria. (Al Jazeera)
• A Cessna 152 aircraft crashes in Luna, Apayao, Philippines, during a training flight from Laoag, Ilocos Norte, to Tuguegarao, Cagayan, killing an Indian student pilot and his flight instructor. (AFP via Gulf News)
• Beijing, China, records the heaviest rainfall in at least 140 years, causing severe flooding and 21 deaths. (CP24)

Law and crime

• Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
  • The perpetrator of the 2018 shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, is sentenced to death. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• At least 10 people are killed during a police raid on a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, days after 19 people in Bahia and 14 in São Paulo State were also killed during police raids. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• Tunisian President Kais Saied appoints Ahmed Hachani as prime minister after dismissing Najla Bouden, the first female prime minister in the Arab world, from the role. (Reuters via Devdiscourse)
• Former prime minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra announces a return to Thailand after 15 years of exile in the United Arab Emirates. (DW)

Sports

• 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
  • Jamaica become the first Caribbean nation to qualify for the knockout stage of a FIFA Women's World Cup after drawing 0–0 with Brazil in their final group stage match to finish second in their group. (Knox News)

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