Current events: 2025-08-04

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings, Gaza Strip famine
    • At least 74 Palestinians are killed by Israeli gunfire and airstrikes, including ten seeking aid, and another five Palestinians die of starvation. (Reuters) (Channel 4 News)
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces that the Israeli government has decided to completely militarily occupy the Gaza Strip and fully eliminate Hamas, and tells Chief of the General Staff Eyal Zamir to resign. (Euronews)
• Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
  • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
    • Puntland forces and U.S. forces conduct a Puntland counter-terrorism operation (PCTO) in the area of Humbeis of Sanaag region, Puntland, detaining three Islamic State militants. (Tracking Terrorism)

Business and economy

• Over 10,000 hotel owners in Europe, represented by the HOTREC union, file a joint lawsuit against Netherlands-based travel agency Booking.com seeking compensation for losses from 2004 to 2024, alleging that the booking agency prevented the hotels from offering lower prices on their own sites. (DW) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Eight people are killed and two others are injured in a vehicle collision on the BR-491 in Guaxupé, Minas Gerais, Brazil. (G1 Globo)
• Three people are killed and 18 others are injured in a multiple-vehicle collision on the Autostrada A1 in Montevarchi, Province of Arezzo, Italy. (Arezzo Today)

International relations

• 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict, Cambodia–Thailand relations
  • Delegates from Cambodia and Thailand meet in Malaysia, the current ASEAN chair, to work out details for a long-term ceasefire at their border following deadly clashes that killed dozens of people and displaced over 270,000 others. (AP)
• India–Philippines relations, Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • The Indian and Philippine navies conduct their first joint exercise in the West Philippine Sea. (AP) (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Brazilian coup plot
  • Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes issues a house arrest order for former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is standing trial for allegedly plotting a coup, and bans him from receiving visits and use of a cell phone either directly or through third parties. (Reuters)

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