Portal:Current events/2025 August 14
August 14, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Myanmar civil war
- At least 21 people are killed and seven others are injured in a Tatmadaw airstrike on Mogok, Mandalay Region, Myanmar, controlled by the Ta'ang National Liberation Army, with homes and religious buildings also damaged. (AP)
- Somali Civil War
- At least three people are killed amid fierce clashes between security forces and local militants in Somalia's capital city Mogadishu due to tensions over residential building evictions and demolitions. (Garowe Online)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Kishtwar district flash flood
- At least 65 people are killed, while more than 167 others are injured, including 38 critically, and over 220 are reported missing following a massive cloudburst in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (India TV) (Hindustan Times)
- Three people are killed, including a child, and 109 others are injured, including three critically, by celebratory gunfire during Independence Day in Pakistan. Police arrest 86 suspects for their involvement and seize 68 illegal weapons. (The Express Tribune) (Dawn)
Health and environment
- 2024–2025 Sudanese cholera epidemic
- According to the Sudanese government, at least 40 people have died of cholera in the Darfur region over the last week in the country's worst outbreak in years. (MSN)
International relations
- North Korea–South Korea relations
- Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un, states in a KCNA article that the rumour that North Korea had removed the loudspeakers in the Korean Demilitarized Zone is false. (Al Jazeera) (The Independent)
Law and crime
- Mali announces the arrest of two generals, other military officers, civilians, and a French national accused of plotting to destabilize the state, with authorities stating the alleged conspiracy began on August 1 and that investigations are ongoing. (AP)
- Pampanga State University officials suspend graduation ceremonies following a reported bomb threat in Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- Former Peruvian president Martín Vizcarra is arrested after a judge investigating him for corruption orders five months of preventive detention. (Infobae)