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Miguel Uribe Turbay
- The United Nations–backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification confirms a famine in the Gaza Governorate, Palestine.
- A multi-vehicle collision involving a bus carrying migrants deported from Iran kills at least 79 people in Herat Province, Afghanistan.
- Colombian senator Miguel Uribe Turbay (pictured), a pre-candidate in the 2026 presidential election, dies two months after being shot.
- Azerbaijan and Armenia sign a declaration to formalize a future peace treaty to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
August 28, 2025 (Thursday)
August 27, 2025 (Wednesday)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 65 people are killed in flash floods and landslides in Jammu and Kashmir, India. (MSN)
Health and environment
- Extreme temperatures in Japan
- The Japan Meteorological Agency reports that Tokyo recorded ten consecutive days of temperatures at or above 35 °C (95 °F), the longest streak since observations began in 1875. (AFP via The Star)
International relations
Law and crime
- Mass shootings in the United States
- 2025 Annunciation Church shooting
- At least two people are killed and 18 others are wounded, including at least four critically, in a mass shooting at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The suspect committed suicide at the scene. (BNO News) (KNSI)
- 2025 Annunciation Church shooting
Science and technology
- Ford recalls over 355,000 pickup trucks across the United States due to a dashboard display failure that prevents the display of warning lights and vehicle speed. (AP)
August 26, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Colombian conflict
- August 2025 FARC dissidents attacks
- Colombian defense minister Pedro Sánchez reports that at least 34 soldiers have been kidnapped by armed civilians in Guaviare after clashes with dissident factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia that killed eleven fighters, including a commander, on Sunday. (Al Jazeera)
- August 2025 FARC dissidents attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
- Israeli forces carry out a daytime raid on Ramallah in the West Bank, wounding at least 58 Palestinians with gunfire and tear gas. (AP)
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
Arts and culture
- France repatriates three colonial-era skulls from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris to Madagascar under a 2023 law enabling the restitution of human remains, marking the first such handover between the two countries. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- India–Pakistan relations
- At least 12 people are killed and six others are seriously injured when a four-story building collapses in Virar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. (India TV)
International relations
- Australia–Iran relations, Terrorism in Australia, Antisemitism in Australia
- Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announces the closure of the Australian embassy in Tehran, the expulsion of Iranian ambassadors from Australia, and designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization after an Australian Security Intelligence Organisation investigation links the IRGC to least two antisemitic attacks, including the 2024 Melbourne synagogue attack and an arson attack on a North Bondi kosher restaurant. (Sydney Morning Herald) (Reuters)
- International sanctions against Iran, Nuclear program of Iran
- Representatives of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom fail to reach an agreement with Iran in Geneva, Switzerland, on avoiding the possible reimposition of UN sanctions under the 2015 nuclear deal's snapback mechanism, following concerns about Iran's compliance. (AP)
Law and crime
- Corruption in Sri Lanka
- Former Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe is granted bail after being arrested on allegations of misusing public funds, becoming the first former president of the country to face arrest. (AP)
- Haitian conflict
- Haitian police regain control of the Téléco telecommunications hub in Port-au-Prince after it was seized by the Viv Ansanm gang, an operation that briefly disrupted air traffic and internet services. (AP)
- Mass shootings in the United States
- One person is killed and six others are wounded in a mass shooting near Interstate 35 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. (MPR) (CBS News)
- Porepunkah police shootings
- Two police officers are shot and killed and a third is wounded in a suspected sovereign citizen terrorist attack in Porepunkah, Victoria, Australia, sending the town into lockdown. The perpetrator remains at large. (ABC News Australia)
Politics and elections
- 2026 Colombian presidential election
- Miguel Uribe Londoño, the father of assassinated Colombian senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, announces his candidacy for president in the upcoming election, seeking the Democratic Centre's nomination. (AP)
- Martial law in Ukraine
- Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko announces that men aged 18 to 22 may now freely cross the border under martial law, reversing earlier restrictions that barred men aged 18 to 60 from leaving the country. (Reuters)
- The Marshall Islands' parliament building in Majuro, including its library and archives, burns down in a fire. (The Guardian)
August 25, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Killing of journalists in the Gaza war
- 2025 Nasser Hospital strikes
- Two Israeli airstrikes against Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Palestine, kill 22 people, including five journalists working for Reuters and AP, according to Palestinian authorities. (ABC) (NPR) (The Guardian)
- Hassan Douhan, a journalist for newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, is fatally shot by Israeli forces in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, Palestine. (Anadolu Agency)
- 2025 Nasser Hospital strikes
- Killing of journalists in the Gaza war
Business and economy
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- Multiple postal organizations such as Australia Post and Japan Post announce a temporary suspension of shipments to the United States in response to President Donald Trump's executive order suspending the de minimis exemption. (Reuters) (ABC News Australia)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Pacific typhoon season
- The Vietnamese government closes all schools and airports in the North Central Coast and orders 600,000 people to evacuate as Typhoon Kajiki makes landfall in the Hà Tĩnh and Quảng Bình provinces, killing four people and injuring thirteen others. (BBC News) (AP in Spanish)
- 2025 Isle of Wight helicopter crash
- Three people are killed and another is seriously injured when a Robinson R44 helicopter crashes into the ground during a flying lesson near Shanklin on the Isle of Wight, England. (BBC News)
Health and environment
- Botswana president Duma Boko declares a public health emergency after the national medical supply chain collapses, ordering the military to manage emergency distribution while the government allocates P250 million (US$18.6 million) in funding to address nationwide shortages of medical supplies. (Reuters)
International relations
- Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
- Bangladeshi chief adviser Muhammad Yunus declares that the country cannot allocate additional domestic resources to support its 1.3 million Rohingya refugees and urges the international community to create a sustainable plan for their repatriation to Myanmar. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- List of executive orders in the second Trump presidency
- U.S. president Donald Trump signs an executive order instructing the Department of Justice to federally prosecute flag desecration, contradicting constitutional protections by the First Amendment as affirmed with Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, the former the order acknowledges. (MSNBC) (The New York Times)
- Mexican drug war
- Former Mexican drug lord and Sinaloa Cartel top leader Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada pleads guilty to drug trafficking charges in the United States. (AP)
Science and technology
- Archaeology of the Americas
- A new lineage of Pre-Ceramic period humans found in 1992 at the Checua archaeological site in Nemocón, Colombia, has their remains fully genome sequenced. (Reuters)
August 24, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
- Israeli forces kill four Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site near the Netzarim Corridor in the Gaza Strip. (AP)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Hamas reports that at least 64 Palestinians are killed by Israeli planes and tanks at the eastern and northern outskirts of Gaza City as Israel presses ahead with its plans to seize the city. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
- Red Sea crisis
- Israeli attacks on Yemen
- Ten people are killed and 102 others are injured, including 21 critically, in Israeli airstrikes targeting the Houthis in Sanaa, Yemen. (The Guardian) (AP)
- Israeli attacks on Yemen
- Gaza war
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia and Ukraine swap 146 prisoners from each side after mediation by the United Arab Emirates. (CNA)
- Prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Terrorism in Belgium
- One person is critically injured in a stabbing attack at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Brussels, Belgium. A suspect is arrested, with a political motive still under investigation. (Euronews)
Disasters and accidents
- Four people are killed when an air ambulance Cessna 206 crashes into the ground and explodes in Belén de Inambú, Vaupés Department, Colombia. (Blu Radio)
Law and crime
- Terrorism in Norway
- Killing of Tamima Nibras Juhar
- An 18-year-old Norwegian man with German background is arrested for killing a 34-year-old female welfare worker at an institution in Oslo, Norway. The Norwegian Police are treating it as terrorism with a racist and right-wing extremist motive as the perpetrator has expressed Islamophobic views. (The Local)
- Killing of Tamima Nibras Juhar
- Five people are killed, including one perpetrator, in two cases of filicide in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. (CTV News)
Politics and elections
Sports
- 2025 US Open
- In tennis, Alexandra Eala becomes the first Filipino player to win a main draw match at a Grand Slam in the Open Era after defeating Denmark's Clara Tauson in the first round of the 2025 US Open – Women's singles tournament. (Reuters)
August 23, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Boko Haram insurgency
- More than 35 ISWAP fighters are killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force during an attempted ground assault on troops near the Cameroon–Nigeria border in Kumshe, Borno State, Nigeria. (France 24) (ABC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Seven students are killed and 28 others are injured in drownings on a school trip to the Abu Talat beach in Ajami, Alexandria, Egypt. (BBC News) (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 of the Philippines 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)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Syrian parliamentary election
- The Syrian electoral commission announces that the upcoming parliamentary election will exclude the Al-Hasakah, Raqqa, and Suwayda governorates due to security concerns, with seats for those regions left vacant until conditions allow voting. (Reuters)
- 2025 Taiwanese referendum
- Taiwan's referendum on reopening the Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant in Pingtung fails to meet the legal threshold for it to be binding, despite a majority voting in favor, leaving the facility closed as the government continues its shift toward renewable energy and liquefied natural gas. (Reuters)
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)
August 22, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
- Gaza Strip famine
- The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification officially declares a famine in Gaza Governorate in the Gaza Strip, while conditions in the North Gaza Governorate are estimated to be as severe or worse. The Office for Human Rights states that the famine is the direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government, while the Israeli government disputes the report and its methodology. (The New York Times) (OHCHR)
- Gaza Strip famine
- Red Sea crisis
- A Houthi ballistic missile breaks up and a Houthi drone is intercepted over southern Israel. (The Times of Israel)
- Gaza war
- Sudanese civil war
- Darfur campaign
- The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reports paramilitary attacks in Darfur, Sudan, left 89 civilians dead in 10 days. (AP)
- Darfur campaign
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- A naval drone operated by Ukrainian military intelligence explodes in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia after being seized by Russian military divers, killing five of them. (MSN)
- Three militants who were involved in the Bucha massacre in 2022 are killed and two others are injured in an explosion at a house in Kalynove, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. (MSN)
- Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
- Five police officers are killed in a mass shooting by unknown gunmen while patrolling on a highway in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. (AP)
- Syrian civil war
- Three people are killed, including both attackers, in an Islamic State suicide bombing and shooting at a checkpoint in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. (Shafaq News)
Disasters and accidents
- A part of the under-construction Jianzha Yellow River Bridge collapses into the Yellow River on the border of Jainca County, Qinghai, China, killing twelve people and leaving four others missing. (CBS News)
- Five people are killed and 49 others are injured, including several airlifted, when a tour bus loses control and overturns on Interstate 90 West in Pembroke, New York, United States. (WIVB-TV) (BNO News)
- At least four people are killed and four others are injured in an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in San Miguel Zacaola, Santo Tomás Hueyotlipan, Mexico. (Municipios Puebla)
Law and crime
- Corruption in Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka police arrest and detain former president Ranil Wickremesinghe for allegedly misusing public funds while in office. (Reuters)
- Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
- Improperly deported Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia is released from jail in Cookeville, Tennessee, United States, to reunite with family while awaiting trial on people smuggling charges. (AP)
- At least five people are killed and 18 others are injured during clashes in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, after the arrest of the nephew of former president Jalal Talabani. (AP)
- Five people are injured, including three in life-threatening condition, in an arson attack at an Indian restaurant in Ilford, Greater London, England. No arrests have been made. (Sky News)
Politics and elections
- Schoof cabinet
- Dutch foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp resigns from the current cabinet after failing to come to an agreement with coalition partners People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and Farmer–Citizen Movement over implementing additional sanctions against Israel. (DutchNews.nl)
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