Portal:Current events/2025 August 8

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • The Israeli Security Cabinet approves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to capture Gaza City with the stated objective of defeating Hamas, while supposedly ensuring the provision of humanitarian aid to civilians outside the areas of combat. (Bloomberg)
  • Germany announces it will halt weapon shipments to Israel that could be used in Gaza "until further notice" in light of Israel's plan to fully militarily occupy Gaza. (AP)
  • The Israel Defense Forces begins massing troops and tanks on the border with Gaza ahead of an expected major ground offensive. (The Times of India)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, reports that M23 rebels have killed over 319 civilians in July. M23 president Bertrand Bisimwa said the group would investigate the claim. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • At least 33 Pakistani Taliban militants are killed in an overnight operation near the Afghanistan border in Zhob, Balochistan, Pakistan. (CTV News)
• War on drugs
  • U.S. president Donald Trump signs an executive order commanding the U.S. military and other sectors of the federal government to take action against Latin American drug cartels designated as terrorist organisations, such as Tren de Aragua and MS-13. (Al Jazeera) (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• A bus carrying mourners back home from a funeral in Kisumu, Kenya, overturns and plunges into a ditch, killing at least 21 people. (MSN)
• A bus and a truck collide head-on near Lucas do Rio Verde, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 11 people and injuring 45 others. (Reuters)
• At least 15 people are killed and 33 others are missing following a flash flood in Yuzhong County, Gansu, China. (China Daily)
• At least 30 people are injured when a passenger train derails on the Kerman–Zarand railway path near Siriz, Kerman province, Iran. (The Express Tribune) (Caliber)
• A fire breaks out at the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba in Andalusia, Spain, due to a short circuit. The roof of a chapel collapses, but the fire is extinguished with no further damage. (The Guardian) (El País)

International relations

• Armenia–Azerbaijan relations
  • Armenia–Azerbaijan peace agreement
    • The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan plan to sign a joint declaration at the White House in Washington, D.C., United States, committing to a peace deal facilitated by the Trump administration that would end nearly four decades of conflict between the two countries. (CNN)
    • Armenia agrees to grant the U.S. exclusive development rights in the Zangezur corridor for 99 years. The U.S. would sublease to a consortium to develop rail, oil, gas, and fiber optic lines along the 27-mile (43km) corridor. (Politico)

Law and crime

• 2025 Anaconda shooting
  • The suspected perpetrator of the bar shooting that killed four people last week in Anaconda, Montana, United States, is arrested. (KRTV-TV)
• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • The Seoul Central District Court rejects a petition brought by former interior minister Lee Sang-min regarding the arrest warrant against him over his alleged involvement in former president Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law attempt on December 3, 2024. (The Korea Times)
• A police officer and the perpetrator are killed, and another officer suffers non-life-threatening injuries, in a shooting at the CDC building near Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. (CNN) (WAGA-TV)
• The Uganda High Court denies bail to opposition figure Kizza Besigye, who faces treason charges, ruling that the 180-day period for mandatory release began when his case was transferred to a civilian court in February, leaving him 12 days short of eligibility. (Reuters)
• Portugal's Constitutional Court blocks a parliamentary bill that would require most legally resident immigrants to wait two years before applying for family reunification, ruling that it violates constitutional protections for family unity. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vetoes 63 provisions of a congressional bill revising environmental licensing rules, removing measures that would have expanded fast-tracking of projects in sensitive areas such as the Amazon rainforest. (AP)