Current events: 2025-08-09

[Wikipedia Current Events]

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)

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