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Indonesian protests
- A magnitude-6.0 earthquake in Afghanistan leaves more than 1,100 people dead.
- Protests erupt in Indonesia (pictured) over increased benefits and salaries given to parliament members.
- Prime Minister of Thailand Paetongtarn Shinawatra is removed from office by the Constitutional Court for misconduct.
- Targeted strikes by the Israeli Air Force kill several ministers of the Houthi–led government of Yemen, including Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi.
September 2, 2025 (Tuesday)
International relations
- Belgium–Palestine relations, Belgium–Israel relations, International recognition of Palestine
- Belgian foreign minister Maxime Prévot announces that Belgium will recognize a Palestinian state at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly session and impose sanctions on Israel, including bans on products from Israeli colonies and restrictions on certain public contracts. (Reuters)
September 1, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine, Gaza Genocide
- The International Association of Genocide Scholars declares that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. (IAGS) (BBC News) (Reuters)
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine, Gaza Genocide
Business and economy
- Economy of New Zealand
- New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon announces that holders of investor residence visas may buy or build a single home valued above NZ$5 million (US$3.55 million), following changes to the visa rules previously preventing such investments. (Reuters)
- Economy of South Korea
- The South Korean trade ministry reports that semiconductor exports reached a record ₩21 trillion (US$15 billion) in August, up nearly one-third from last year, contributing to total monthly exports of ₩81 trillion ($58.4 billion). (AFP via Barron's)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Afghanistan earthquake
- The toll from yesterday's earthquake in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, increases to at least 1,100 people killed and 3,500 others injured. (BNO News) (Reuters)
- An EastIndo passenger MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 helicopter goes missing with eight people on board in the Tanah Bumbu Regency, Indonesia. (ASN)
- Five people are killed when a Gilgit-Baltistan government helicopter crashes in Thor Valley, Chilas, Diamer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. (Dawn)
International relations
- Australia–Nauru relations
- Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announces that Australia will pay Nauru to accept foreign-born criminals who are expelled from Australia following the signing of a memorandum by Nauruan president David Adeang. (AP)
- North Korea–South Korea relations
- The South Korean defense ministry announces that it has suspended the "Voice of Freedom" military radio broadcast to North Korea for the first time in 15 years as part of measures to reduce tensions between the two countries. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- August 2025 Indonesian protests
- The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence reports that 20 people are missing across Bandung and Depok, West Java, and the Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia, following the protests. (AFP via France 24)
- Police storm into the campuses of Universitas Pasundan and Universitas Islam Bandung in West Java, firing tear gas at protesters. (IDN Times)
- An Argentine federal judge bars media outlets from publishing audio recordings made inside the presidential palace, which reportedly include conversations involving President Javier Milei's sister and chief of staff, Karina Milei, amid ongoing corruption allegations against the government. (Reuters)
- A Finnish court sentences Biafran activist Simon Ekpa to six years in prison for incitement, tax fraud, and terrorism, among other charges. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2026 Beninese presidential election
- Benin's ruling coalition, composed of the Progressive Union Renewal and the Republican Bloc, nominates finance minister Romuald Wadagni as their presidential candidate in the upcoming election. (Reuters)
- 2025 Guyanese general election
- Guyana votes to elect a new National Assembly and president, with polls favouring a second term for incumbent Irfaan Ali of the PPP/C. (The Guardian)
- Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
- The Philippine Senate Blue Ribbon Committee orders the arrest of two contractors who failed to attend hearings on alleged corruption in flood control projects, as part of its probe into incomplete or substandard works awarded under President Bongbong Marcos's infrastructure program. (Gulf News)
- Ghanaian president John Mahama removes Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo from office following a committee report recommending her dismissal for misconduct, which Torkornoo denies. (Reuters)
August 31, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza City offensive
- At least 88 Palestinians are killed by the Israeli military as Israel continues its heavy bombardment of Gaza. (Financial Times)
- Israeli defence minister Israel Katz announces that the Israeli military killed Hamas spokesperson Abu Obaida in an airstrike on Gaza City yesterday. (BBC News)
- 2025 Gaza City offensive
- Sudanese civil war
- Darfur campaign
- At least seven people are killed and 71 others are injured in shelling by the Rapid Support Forces in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan. (AFP via Barron's)
- Darfur campaign
- Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute
- The Guyanese military report that Venezuelan gunfire targeted a patrol boat escorting election materials on the Cuyuní River in the disputed Essequibo region. (AFP via TRT World)
- Yemeni civil war
- The Houthis raid United Nations offices in Sanaa, Yemen, and detain at least eleven UN personnel. (The Times of Israel)
Arts and culture
- The original 1920s manuscripts of The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, one of the most well-known works of Czech literature, are rediscovered by the Czech Museum of Literature. (NOS) (Radio Prague International)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Sudan landslide
- Over 1,000 people are killed when a landslide destroys a village in the Marrah Mountains area of western Sudan. (CNN)
- 2025 Afghanistan earthquake
- At least 610 people are killed and 1,300 others are injured when a Mw 6.0 earthquake strikes Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. (TRT World) (The Times)
- Two people are killed and eight Kenyan police officers are injured after two armored vehicles figured in an accident in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, Haiti. (AP)
International relations
- Armenia–Pakistan relations
- Armenia and Pakistan agree to establish diplomatic relations on the sidelines of the 2025 Tianjin SCO summit. (Dawn)
- Norway–United Kingdom relations
- Norway agrees to purchase at least five new British-made anti-submarine Type 26 frigates for the Royal Norwegian Navy in a £10 billion (US$13.5 billion) deal. The ships will be built by a consortium of companies led by BAE Systems. (AP)
Law and crime
- August 2025 Indonesian protests
- Mobs loot the houses of Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani and parliament member Nafa Urbach. (Jakarta Globe)
- In a press conference, President Prabowo agrees to revoke the allowance for parliament members and put moratoriums to their foreign trips. (CNA)
- A university student dies one day after participating in a protest in Yogyakarta one day prior, after he was allegedly separated from other protestors and assaulted by police. (Kompas)
- Deportation in the second Trump administration
- United States judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the District of Columbia issues an injunction halting the deportation of Guatemalan unaccompanied minors after advocacy groups filed an emergency appeal against the Trump administration's plan to repatriate them. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Gaza war
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
- The Global Sumud Flotilla, the largest civilian-led maritime convoy, departs from four cities in the Mediterranean and heads towards Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli blockade, carrying humanitarian aid and activist Greta Thunberg and actors Mark Ruffalo and Gustaf Skarsgård, among others. (Al Jazeera) (CBS News)
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
- Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
- Philippine public works secretary Manuel Bonoan resigns over the flood control controversy, while President Bongbong Marcos appoints transportation secretary Vince Dizon as Bonoan's replacement. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
August 30, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Red Sea crisis
- Israeli attacks on Yemen
- 28 August 2025 Israeli attacks on Yemen
- The Houthis confirm the death of prime minister Ahmed al-Rahawi and an unspecified number of ministers from an Israeli airstrike two days earlier. (AP)
- 28 August 2025 Israeli attacks on Yemen
- Israeli attacks on Yemen
Arts and culture
- Archaeologists discover 40 ancient tombs dating back to at least 2,300 years ago at the Mosul Dam reservoir in Dohuk Governorate in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, following lowered water levels from a drought. (Arab News) (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- Fourteen people are killed and three others are critically injured in a head-on collision between a police van and a prison bus outside of Mariental, Namibia. (BBC News)
- Three people are killed and 103 others are injured when a train derails between Alexandria and Matrouh Governorate, Egypt. (The National News) (BBC News)
International relations
- Colombia–Israel relations, Diplomatic impact of the Gaza war, List of sanctions involving Israel
- The Colombian commerce ministry officializes a complete export ban of coal to Israel to prevent further atrocities in the Gaza Strip. (Colombia Presidency)
Law and crime
- 2025 Indonesian protests
- August 2025 Indonesian protests
- Unrest in Indonesia, following a government truck killing a 21-year-old, continues as a mob loots the houses of parliament members Ahmad Sahroni, Eko Patrio and Uya Kuya. (Jawa Pos) (Reuters)
- Four people are killed amid spreading protests in Indonesia, including three government workers who jumped from a building on fire and one who was attacked by a crowd. (The New York Times)
- August 2025 Indonesian protests
- Assassination of Andriy Parubiy
- Former speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Andriy Parubiy is assassinated by an unknown gunman in Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. A manhunt is underway for the suspect. (BBC News)
- A man drives a car into a crowd outside a bar in Évreux, France, after a dispute, killing one person and injuring five others, including two critically. (The Guardian)
- Nicaraguan opposition groups report that attorney Carlos Cárdenas, arrested on August 15 during police operations against government critics, has died in state custody, marking the fifth such death of a detainee since 2019. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Sudanese civil war
- Hemedti, leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), is sworn in as head of a parallel government in Nyala, South Darfur, Sudan, where the RSF has established a presidential council and prime minister while continuing its conflict with the Sudanese army. (Reuters)
August 29, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Gaza war hostage crisis
- Israel recovers the bodies of two hostages in Gaza, one of whom is identified as Elan Weiss, who was killed in the October 7 attacks. (CNN)
- Gaza war hostage crisis
Disasters and accidents
- A severe weather system in Greater Poland causes heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, and strong winds, triggering the evacuation of an office building in Poznań due to flooding. A tornado later forms in the vicinty of Gniezno. No injuries are reported. (TVP Info)
International relations
- Diplomatic impact of the Gaza war, Israel–Turkey relations
- Eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly, Palestine–United States relations, Visa policy of the United States
- United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio blocks Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials from attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York City in September by revoking their previously-valid travel visas. (Sky News) (PBS)
Law and crime
- 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
- South Korean special prosecutors indict former prime minister Han Duck-soo without detention on charges of abetting the imposition of martial law on December 3, 2024, preparation of false public documents and perjury for falsely testifying that he had not been aware of the martial law declaration. (Kyodo News)
- Austria and Russian intelligence
- Austrian prosecutors indict former intelligence officer Egisto Ott on charges of espionage, abuse of office, and providing sensitive information to fugitive Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek and Russian intelligence services. (AP)
- The English Court of Appeal rules that the government may continue housing asylum seekers in a hotel in Epping, Essex, overturning a previous order to relocate them. (The New York Times)
- Former South Korean first lady Kim Keon Hee is indicted on bribery and other charges related to a wider investigation into her and her husband, former president Yoon Suk Yeol. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Indonesian protests
- August 2025 Indonesian protests
- At least three people are killed and four others are injured after protesters set fire to the Regional House of Representatives building in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. (AFP via RNZ)
- August 2025 Indonesian protests
- 2025 Philippine House of Representatives elections
- The Philippine Commission on Elections denies the right-wing Duterte Youth's motion to reconsider the cancellation of their party-list registration and disqualifies them from holding their three seats at the House of Representatives. However, Duterte Youth may still appeal to the Supreme Court. (ABS-CBN News)
- 2025 Samoan general election
- Samoans are called in a snap election to elect the members of the Legislative Assembly. (Reuters)
- 2025 Thai political crisis
- The Thai Constitutional Court removes prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office for ethical misconduct over leaked phone calls she had with former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
August 28, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Middle Eastern crisis
- Red Sea crisis
- 28 August 2025 Israeli attack on Yemen
- Israeli airstrikes hit Sanaa, Yemen, reportedly assassinating Houthi prime minister Ahmed al-Rahawi and several of his companions hours after the Houthis launched a drone towards Israel which was intercepted by the Israeli military. (The Times of Israel) (AP)
- 28 August 2025 Israeli attack on Yemen
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- The Lebanese army reports that two soldiers were killed and two others were injured after an Israeli drone crashed and exploded in An-Naqoura, southern Lebanon, while they were inspecting it. (Reuters)
- The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to withdraw its peacekeeping mission in Lebanon on December 31, 2026. (AP)
- Red Sea crisis
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv strikes
- The Russian Armed Forces launch nearly 600 drones and more than 30 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine, striking multiple residential areas, killing 25 people, including four children, and wounding 63 others, including 11 children. (BBC News) (MSN)
- Ukrainian spy ship Simferopol is sunk by a drone strike in the Danube river, killing two people and leaving several others missing or injured. (The Kyiv Independent)
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv strikes
- Colombian conflict
- August 2025 FARC dissidents clashes
- Colombia's Ombudsman's Office confirms that 33 soldiers detained for three days in a village in Guaviare after clashes with dissident FARC fighters have been released following negotiations involving officials and the United Nations. (Al Jazeera)
- August 2025 FARC dissidents clashes
Disasters and accidents
- A Polish Air Force F-16 training jet crashes during rehearsals for the 2025 Radom Air Show in Radom, Poland, killing the pilot. (Reuters) (Echo Dnia)
Health and environment
- A cholera outbreak in Bukkuyum, Zamfara State, Nigeria, kills at least eight people and infects over 200 others across eleven communities. (Reuters)
International relations
- Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia–United Kingdom relations
- Kyiv strikes
- The United Kingdom summons Russia's ambassador to the UK, Andrey Kelin, after the British Council's office in Kyiv was heavily damaged and one employee was injured in an overnight Russian attack on Kyiv. (BBC News)
- Kyiv strikes
- Philippines–Taiwan relations
- Taiwanese foreign minister Lin Chia-lung visits the Philippines as part of a business mission. The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs later states that it did not recognize any Taiwan official as a member of the business delegation, reiterating its adherence to One China. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Law and crime
- 2025 Indonesian protests
- August 2025 Indonesian protests
- A Mobile Brigade Corps armored tactical vehicle intentionally runs over and kills an online motorcycle taxi driver at an anti-government demonstration in Jakarta, Indonesia. The seven occupants of the vehicle have been detained. (BBC News)
- August 2025 Indonesian protests
- Brazilian federal police and the taxation authority conduct nationwide raids targeting organized crime schemes in the energy sector, investigating money laundering and fraud involving more than R$10 billion (US$1.9 billion) in imports, R$52 billion (US$9.7 billion) in domestic sales, and R$46 billion (US$8.6 billion) in related financial transactions. (Reuters)
- Croatian police detain a 54-year-old military officer and his Serbian partner on suspicion of spying for Serbia, with prosecutors opening an investigation into the case. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune dismisses prime minister Nadir Larbaoui and appoints industry minister Sifi Ghrieb as acting prime minister. (Reuters)
August 27, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Sudanese civil war
- Darfur campaign
- At least 24 people are killed and 55 injured after Sudan's Rapid Support Forces shell residential areas of Al-Fashir, North Darfur. The city remains under siege as the last military stronghold in the region. (AP)
- Darfur campaign
- Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
- At least three people are killed and seven others are injured in alleged Pakistani airstrikes on Nangarhar Province and Khost Province, Afghanistan. (MSN)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 70 migrants are killed after a boat carrying about 150 people, mostly Gambian and Senegalese nationals, sinks off the coast of Mauritania, while over 30 others remain missing and 16 are rescued. (Reuters)
- 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
- Denmark–United States relations, Proposed United States acquisition of Greenland
- Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen summons the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Copenhagen after individuals linked to U.S. president Donald Trump conducted covert influence activities in Greenland. (ABC News Australia)
- Myanmar–Thailand relations
Law and crime
- Mass shootings in the United States
- Annunciation Catholic Church shooting
- Two people are killed and 18 more injured, including at least four critically, in a mass shooting at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States in an alleged anti-Christian hate crime. The suspect died by suicide at the scene. (BNO News) (KNSI-AM)
- Annunciation Catholic Church shooting
- Assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay
- A Colombian court sentences a 15-year-old to seven years in juvenile detention for attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the assassination of Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay in June. (France 24)
- A Bolivian court grants opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho's transfer to house arrest after more than two years in pre-trial detention, allowing him to resume his duties as Governor of Santa Cruz while still facing trial on charges related to the 2019 political unrest and a 2022 strike. (AP)
- A Moroccan court rejects a request to provisionally release human rights activist Ibtissame Lachgar, who faces blasphemy charges for online content while experiencing serious illness. (AP)
- A South African equality court finds Limpopo representative and leader of the second-largest opposition party Julius Malema guilty of hate speech over remarks made at a 2022 rally, where he encouraged violence in the context of revolution. (AP)
Politics and elections
- Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
- Philippine president Bongbong Marcos orders lifestyle checks on government officials, beginning with the Department of Public Works and Highways, as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in flood control projects that have received ₱545 billion (US$9.5 billion) in funding since 2022. (South China Morning Post)
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)
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