Current events: 2025-08-09

Disasters and accidents

The death toll from yesterday's flash floods in China increases to 22, with over two dozen still missing. (Anadolu)
At least six Lebanese soldiers are killed in an explosion as troops were removing munitions from a Hezbollah facility near the Israeli border. (Al Arabiya) Law and crime
Two people are killed and five others are injured in a drive-by mass shooting in the busy area of Robinson Road and Market Street in Nassau, The Bahamas. (The Nassau Guardian)
A total of 474 people are arrested in London during a protest in support of Palestine Action, which was proscribed as a terrorist group on 5 July. (BBC News)