Current events: 2025-08-21

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • At least 70 Palestinians are killed by Israel, including eight people in a house in Sabra suburb in Gaza City. (Reuters)
      • Israeli Military data indicates 83% of deaths in Gaza are civilian. (The Guardian)
  • Palestinian political violence
    • A Palestinian gunman shoots an Israeli shepherd in the Malachei HaShalom region in the West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Russian Armed Forces conduct a combined attack overnight, launching at least 570 drones and 40 hypersonic, ballistic, and cruise missiles across Ukraine, with two cruise missiles striking an American electronics factory in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, injuring over a dozen people. (NPR) (DW)
• War on drugs, United States–Venezuela relations
  • United States president Donald Trump deploys warships to the coast of Venezuela after the US government authorized military operations against drug cartels, prompting an escalation of tensions between the United States and Venezuela. (CBS News)
• Colombian conflict
  • At least six people are killed and 50 others are injured in a terrorist car bombing targeting the Marco Fidel Suárez Air Base on a busy street in Cali, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia. (CTV News) (BNO News)
  • At least ten Colombian police officers are killed and six others are injured when FARC dissidents shoot down a helicopter during an anti-narcotics operation in Amalfi, Antioquia Department, Colombia. (BNO News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pakistan floods
  • At least 21 people are killed in flooding caused by heavy monsoons in Pakistan, including eleven in Gilgit-Baltistan and ten in Karachi, as the death toll for the flooding season increases to over 400. (Al Jazeera)
• At least 47 people and 300 cattle are killed, 70 others are injured and over 56,000 are displaced during flooding in Niger. (Africanews)
• At least fifteen people are killed and ten others are injured in a landslide in Manéah near Conakry, Guinea. (Barron's)
• Six people are killed in an accident in a confined space at a dairy farm in Weld County, Colorado, United States. (ABC News)
• At least four people are killed and 34 others are injured, including one critically, in an explosion at a fireworks storage facility in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. (Geo News) (Dawn)

Law and crime

• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage
  • Italian police arrest a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the months that followed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (CNN) (DW)

Politics and elections

• Polish president Karol Nawrocki vetoes a bill to combine an extension of household energy price freezes with relaxed regulations on building onshore wind farms, arguing that linking the two measures in one law was unacceptable. (Reuters)

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