Current events: 2025-08-19

Wikipedia Current Events · Tuesday at 8:05 PM

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
  - Russian forces launch 270 drones and ten missiles at critical infrastructure in Poltava and Chernihiv Oblasts, Ukraine. (Kyiv Post)
Gaza war
- Gaza war hostage crisis
  - Israeli forces kill Jihad Kamal Salem Najjar, a member of the Hamas military wing, responsible for abducting Israeli Yarden Bibas in Nir Oz, Israel, during the October 7 attacks. (The New York Times) (The Jerusalem Post)
Gaza war, Sudanese civil war
- The United Nations reports that a record 383 aid workers were killed in the 2024 calendar year, up by 31% from 2023, including 181 who were killed in Gaza and 60 in Sudan. There have already been 265 aid workers killed so far this year. (DW)
Nigerian bandit conflict
- At least 27 people are killed and several others are injured in a mass shooting by bandits at the mosque in Unguwan Mantau community, Katsina State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Business and economy

2025 Air Canada flight attendants strike
- Air Canada announces it will gradually restart operations tonight after it reached a tentative agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents the company's over 10,000 flight attendants. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

At least 71 people are killed, including 17 children, when a speeding passenger bus carrying deported migrants veers off a road and collides with a truck and motorcycle before catching fire in Guzara District, Herat Province, Afghanistan. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
Four people are killed and nearly a dozen others are injured in a fire at a warehouse in Los Guayos Municipality, Carabobo, Venezuela. (Cedar News)

Politics and elections