Current events: 2025-08-10

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Killing of journalists in the Gaza war
      • Seven people are killed, including five Al Jazeera journalists and cameramen, by an Israeli strike near the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Balıkesir earthquake
  • A {{M|ww|link=y}} 6.1 earthquake strikes western Turkey, killing one person, injuring 35 others, trapping several and causing at least sixteen building and two mosque minaret collapses in Balıkesir Province and Manisa. (CNN) (TRT Haber)
• Six people are killed, including four children, in a two-alarm fire at a house in Waldorf, Maryland, United States. (CBS News)
• Four people are killed and sixteen others are injured due to a vehicle collision on the BR-452 highway in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. (G1 Globo)
• More than 600 pilgrims in Baghdad, Iraq, are hospitalised with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station. (MSN)

International relations

• Russia–United States relations, Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces he will be meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska for talks on August 15 to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. (The Atlantic) (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Eight people are killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting at a nightclub in Santa Lucía Canton, Guayas Province, Ecuador. (AP)

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