Portal:Current events/2025 August 16
August 16, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Kivu conflict
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
- At least 30 people are killed by suspected Islamic State-aligned Allied Democratic Forces rebels in Bapere, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
Business and economy
- 2025 Air Canada flight attendants strike
- Canadian jobs minister Patty Hajdu orders binding arbitration between Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Erin intensifies to Category 5 strength while affecting several Caribbean islands. (NBC News)
- 2025 Pakistan floods
- The death toll from yesterday's floods in Pakistan increases to at least 321. (Al Jazeera)
- 2025 Air Kasaï Antonov An-2 crash
- Seven people are killed when an Air Kasaï Antonov An-2 aircraft crashes while being ferried near Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (ASN) (Aviation24)
- At least one person is killed and four others are injured, including two seriously, when a Mil Mi-8 military helicopter makes a hard landing during a rescue operation on Jengish Chokusu in Kyrgyzstan. (ASN)
- At least ten people are killed while two others are reported missing following a flash flood that hits a campsite in Urad Rear Banner, Inner Mongolia, China. (Reuters)
Law and crime