Current events: 2023-08-23

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Western Russia attacks
    • The governor of Belgorod Oblast, Russia, says that a Ukrainian attack killed three civilians in the region. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • A Russian drone strike on agricultural facilities in Izmail, Odesa Oblast, destroys 13,000 tons of grain and damages infrastructure. (CNN International)
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Four people are killed and four others are injured in a Russian drone strike on a school in Romny, Sumy Oblast. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Tver plane crash
  • A plane crashes in Tver Region, Russia, killing all the ten people on board. Wagner Group's leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and mercenary Dmitry Utkin were among the listed passengers. (BBC)
• 2023 Hawaii wildfires
  • The Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that around 1,110 people have been missing since wildfires have hit Maui, Hawaii, United States, including the historic town Lahaina. (BBC)
• 2023 Mizoram bridge collapse
  • Twenty-six people are killed after a railway bridge being built across a ravine collapses in Mizoram, India. (Al Jazeera)
• Eight people are killed and other are injured, after a passenger bus veeres off the Prithvi Highway and crashes into the Trishuli River in Nepal. (AP)
• Tropical Storm Franklin makes landfall on the island of Hispaniola, with heavy rain in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. (AP)

Law and crime

• Southwark Crown Court in London, United Kingdom, rules that two teenagers were part of the hacking group Lapsus$ and participated in a blackmail campaign against technology companies, including Rockstar Games, the maker of the Grand Theft Auto video game series. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Immigration to Germany
  • Germany passes legislation to ease citizenship rules, aiming to reduce a shortage of skilled workers and to bolster the integration of immigrants. (AP)

Science and technology

• Chandrayaan programme
  • Chandrayaan-3 makes a soft landing near the Moon's South Pole, marking India's first landing on the Moon and the first soft landing near the lunar South Pole. (CNN)

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