Current events: 2025-08-03

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • Israeli forces kill at least 33 Palestinians seeking food while six more die of hunger. (AP) (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A massive fire is reported at an oil refinery in Sochi, Russia, following a Ukrainian drone attack on the facility. Smoke from the fire prompts Russian authorities to close Sochi International Airport. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Sixty-eight people are killed, 74 others are reported missing and 12 are injured when a boat carrying 154 Ethiopian migrants capsizes off Abyan Governorate, Yemen. (AP)
• Krasheninnikov, a volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, erupts for the first time since the 15th century and the first in historical records. The eruption takes place four days after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit the same region on July 30, which may have contributed to the eruption. (CNN)
• Four workers are killed while inspecting sewage pipes after falling into a manhole filled with hydrogen sulfide in Gyōda, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. (DW)

Law and crime

• Two people are killed and three others are injured in a mass stabbing attack at a primary school in Caizichi, Leiyang, Hunan, China. (Sina News)

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