Current events: 2025-08-11

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Pokrovsk offensive
    • Russian forces launch a full-scale ground assault in the direction of Dobropillia, Donetsk Oblast, with heavy clashes reported along multiple points on the front line. (UNN)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Clairton Coke Works explosion
  • One person is killed, one is reported missing and another ten people are injured in an explosion at the Clairton Coke Works U.S. Steel plant in Clairton, Pennsylvania, United States. (AP) (WPXI-TV)
• 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Tropical Storm Erin forms in the Atlantic Ocean, killing seven people and leaving others missing in São Vicente, Cape Verde. (The Weather Channel) (CNN) (DTudo1Pouco)

Health and environment

• A botulism outbreak kills two people and hospitalizes 14 others in Diamante, Calabria, Italy. (MSN)

International relations

• Australia–Palestine relations, International recognition of Palestine
  • Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announces that Australia will recognise Palestine as an independent country in September. (The Guardian)
• Israel–Norway relations
  • The Norwegian Pension Fund divests from 11 Israeli companies and terminates its contracts with asset managers in Israel, following reports last week that it invested in an Israeli jet engine company that sold parts to the IDF. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay
  • Colombian senator and presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay dies after he was shot in June. (Barron's)
• Three people are killed in a shooting at a Target Corporation building in Austin, Texas, United States. (KVUE-TV)
• U.S. president Donald Trump places the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia under federal government-control and orders 800 National Guard troops to secure Washington, D.C., allegedly in order to combat rising crime. (Reuters)
• The United States Department of State formally designates the Balochistan Liberation Army as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) in response to the killings of civilians in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 State of the Nation Address
  • After initiating an audit of flood control projects during his State of the Nation Address in July, Philippine President Bongbong Marcos announces the initial findings, revealing that 20% of all nationwide projects, valued at ₱100 billion (US$1.75 billion), were awarded to fifteen contractors, including firms owned by Representative Elizaldy Co and businesswoman Sarah Discaya who ran in Pasig elections. (Rappler) (GMA News)

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