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- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
- The Ukrainian military reports that it used United States-made weapons to destroy several pontoon bridges constructed by Russia following Ukraine's destruction of at least three bridges over the Seym river in Kursk Oblast. (Reuters)
- Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin states that Ukraine launched one of its largest drone attacks on the Russian capital, and claims that all drones were taken down without casualties or damage based on preliminary information. (Reuters)
- August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Pokrovsk offensive
- The Russian Ministry of Defense states it has fully occupied the village of Zhelanne in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Anadolu Agency)
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledges advancements made by Russian Armed Forces on the Pokrovsk front, and announces the strengthening of regional Ukrainian positions in order to resist further advancements. (Reuters)
- Pokrovsk offensive
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger write to the United Nations Security Council to denounce Ukrainian support for rebel groups in the Sahel region of West Africa. (Reuters)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Khalil al-Muqdah, a commander in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, is killed in an Israeli airstrike in Sidon, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- Somali Civil War
- Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for a suicide car bombing that killed at least nine people and injured several others near a security checkpoint on the Mogadishu–Afgoye highway in Somalia. (News Central TV) (Daily Post Nigeria)
Business and economy
- Unemployment in the United States
- The United States Department of Labor issues a significant estimate correction stating that the U.S. economy added 818,000 fewer jobs between April 2023 and March 2024 than what was initially reported in July, the largest estimate revision since 2009. (AP) (CNBC)
Disasters and accidents
- Atchutapuram pharmaceutical factory explosion
- At least seventeen workers are killed and 41 others are injured, many from severe chemical burns, in an explosion at a pharmaceutical facility in Anakapalli, Andhra Pradesh, India. (Indian Express) (NDTV)
- Twenty-eight people are killed and 23 others are injured when a bus carrying Shia Pakistani pilgrims to the Arba'in pilgrimage in Iraq crashes and overturns in Yazd province, Iran. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
- Thailand reports its first case of mpox in a 66-year-old European man who worked in an African country affected by the ongoing epidemic. (The New York Times)
- Several suspected cases of clade 1b of mpox are reported in Somerset, England, United Kingdom. (Devon Live)
- Honduras reports five suspected cases of the new mpox clade. (Prensa Libre)
Law and crime
- Hungary and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hungary–Ukraine relations
- A Hungarian law restricting or removing state support and accommodations for Ukrainian refugees not from regions directly affected by the Russian invasion comes into effect. (BBC News)
- Three staff members are killed in a mass shooting at a school in Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The perpetrator, who also worked at the school, is critically injured after shooting himself. (AP)
- Four people, including three children, are killed in a house fire in Bradford, England, United Kingdom. Police say that the fire was started deliberately and that a suspect has been arrested under suspicion of murder. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- International reactions to the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election
- The United States drafts a punitive sanctions list of sixty Venezuelan government officials from the country's National Electoral Council, Supreme Court, and counterintelligence police agency for alleged electoral fraud. (Reuters)
- The Ukrainian parliament approves the Rome Statute treaty established by the International Criminal Court, thereby allowing the country to become a state party once the government ratifies with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. (Ukrinform)
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