Current events: 2025-08-23

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A 31-year-old Russian serviceman claims to have participated in the killing of five captured Ukrainian soldiers in Karlivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, in May 2024. (MSN)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • More than 35 Boko Haram fighters are killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force during an attempted ground assault on troops near the Cameroon–Nigeria border in North West Nigeria. (France 24)

Disasters and accidents

• At least six students are killed and 24 others are injured in drownings during a school trip to the Abu Talat beach in Alexandria, Egypt. (People)

Law and crime

• Dharmasthala mass burial case
  • Indian police arrest a man who recently alleged that he had been coerced into burying hundreds of bodies of women who were raped before being murdered from 1995 to 2014 at the Dharmasthala Temple in Dharmasthala, Karnataka, India. (BBC News)
• Pork barrel scam
  • The Sandiganbayan appellate court sentences Janet Lim-Napoles to 55 years in prison over the diversion of ₱7.55 million (US$133,600) in the Priority Development Assistance Fund involving Davao del Sur vice governor Marc Douglas Cagas IV. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Sports

• 2025–26 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
  • The International Ski and Snowboard Federation suspends Norwegian Olympic ski jumpers Johann André Forfang and Marius Lindvik for three months and fines them CHF 2,000 (US$2,500) each after they admitted to equipment tampering during the men's large hill event at the 2025 World Ski Championships in Trondheim, Norway. (Reuters)

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