Current events: 2024-08-25

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • At least five people, including three minors, are killed and 13 others are wounded in an overnight Ukrainian strike on Belgorod, Russia. (Al Jazeera)
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • A British safety adviser working for Reuters is killed and two other journalists are injured in a Russian ballistic missile strike on their hotel in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)
  • Northern Ukraine skirmishes, Chernihiv strikes
    • At least four people are killed and 37 others are injured in overnight Russian attacks in northern and eastern Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly presents the Ukrainian-produced Palianytsia rocket drone and loitering munition, intended to serve as the Ukrainian counterpart to the Russian ZALA Kub-BLA after a year and a half of development. (Ukrainska Pravda)
• 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)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 71 people are killed and 112 people are injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • 2024 Barsalogho massacre
    • Nearly 200 people are killed and at least 140 people are injured in an attack by the al-Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin jihadist organization in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Solingen stabbing
  • German Police detain a 26-year-old Syrian asylum seeker, who has ties to the Islamic State, as the suspect of the stabbing attack in Solingen, NRW, Germany. He is charged with three counts of murder, as well as attempted murder, dangerous bodily harm and membership of a terrorist organisation abroad. (AP)
• Two police officers are killed and three others are injured in an attack in Abuja, Nigeria. A police spokesperson says that the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria was responsible for the attack. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Ukrainian ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (MP)
  • Pope Francis condemns the Government of Ukraine's banning of the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church and other Russia-linked religious groups as infringing on Ukrainian civilians' civil right to religious freedom. (Kyiv Independent)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Brazil wildfires
  • At least two people are killed in wildfires in São Paulo state, Brazil. (BBC)
• Thirteen people are killed and 20 others are injured in a mudslide near the Big Buddha in Phuket, Thailand. (Reuters)
• Twenty-two people are killed when a bus plunges into a ravine in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Twelve others are killed in a separated bus crash on the Makran Coastal Highway in the Balochistan Province. (Al Jazeera)
• At least thirteen people die and 14 others remain missing after a boat carrying Ethiopian and Yemeni migrants from Djibouti sinks off the coast of Taiz Governorate, Yemen. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Four people are injured in a mass stabbing in Sydney, Australia, with the suspect being taken into custody. (Reuters)

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