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Giorgio Armani
- Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani (pictured) dies at the age of 91.
- A derailment on the Ascensor da Glória funicular in Lisbon, Portugal, kills 16 people.
- A magnitude-6.0 earthquake in Afghanistan leaves more than 2,200 people dead.
- Samoa United in Faith wins an absolute majority in the general election.
September 5, 2025 (Friday)
Disasters and accidents
- A bus carrying tourists plunges down a hill in Uva Province, Sri Lanka, killing at least 15 people and injuring 15 more. (Indian Express)
September 4, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza City offensive
- At least 75 Palestinians are killed, including 44 who are killed in Gaza City, amid Israel's military assault. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza City offensive
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Afghanistan earthquake
- Hundreds of deceased people are found under the rubble of collapsed houses after the August 31 earthquake in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bringing the death toll to 2,205. (AP)
- Seventeen people are injured and fifteen are hospitalized when a double-decker bus crashes near Victoria station in London, England. (AP)
Health and environment
- Vaccination policy of the United States
- Make America Healthy Again
- The U.S. state of Florida announces it will formally eliminate all vaccination mandates, including school and childhood mandates for chickenpox, measles, and polio. (DW) (AP)
- Make America Healthy Again
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo declares a new Ebola outbreak in Kasaï Province with 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, confirmed as the Zaire strain. (Reuters)
International relations
- Algeria–Mali relations
- The Malian transitional government files a lawsuit against Algeria at the International Court of Justice and accuses Algeria of destroying a Malian military drone near Tinzaouaten, Kidal region, to allegedly hinder Mali's campaign against armed rebels in the Mali War. (AP)
- Belarus–Poland relations
- Belarus detains a Polish national and a Belarusian citizen on charges of espionage after authorities allege they possessed documents on Zapad 2025. (Reuters)
- Ecuador–United States relations, War on drugs
- The United States designates Ecuadorian drug cartels Los Choneros and Los Lobos as terrorist organizations. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also says that the US will support the Ecuadorian Navy by providing $6 million in drones and $13 other million for general security in the fight against these gangs. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Chromebook procurement scandal
- Former Indonesian education minister and Gojek co-founder Nadiem Makarim are detained after prosecutors name him as a suspect in a corruption case over the alleged unauthorized procurement of Chromebook laptops that resulted in state losses estimated at Rp 1.98 trillion (US$121.85 million). (Reuters)
- Robodebt scheme
- Australia agrees to pay an additional A$475 million (US$309M) in compensation to victims of the unlawful "Robodebt" welfare debt recovery scheme, bringing total repayments and compensation to A$2.4 billion (US$1.6 bn) in what would be the country's largest class action settlement if approved by the courts. (Reuters)
- Two people are killed, including the suspect, and eight others are injured in a stabbing spree in Hollow Water First Nation, Manitoba, Canada. (CBC)
- A Hong Kong jury convicts three people and acquits five others over 2020 bomb plots targeting hospitals and trains during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding them guilty of conspiracy to cause explosions but not of terrorism charges under the UN anti-terrorism law. (Reuters)
- Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra leaves Thailand after a court ruling that placed him at risk for arrest. Police indicate that he was allowed to leave the country as there is no active warrant for his arrest. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Jamaican general election
- Jamaica's Labour Party wins the general election with 34 seats in the House of Representatives against 29 for the People's National Party, securing a third term for Prime Minister Andrew Holness amid a voter turnout of 39.5%. (Reuters)
- Censorship in Nepal
- Nepal orders its telecommunications authority to block access to unregistered social media platforms after companies failed to meet government requirements to register locally and designate compliance representatives. (Reuters)
- Argentina's Congress overturns President Javier Milei's veto of a bill expanding spending and protections for people with disabilities, marking the first such reversal of his presidency. (Reuters)
September 3, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in the Sahel
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Nigeria's air force kills more than 15 Islamist fighters in an airstrike on hideouts in Borno's Sambisa forest, while troops separately kill 13 Boko Haram militants after repelling an ambush on a military convoy along the Gubio–Damasak road. (Reuters)
- Mali War
- Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin spokesman Abou Houfeiza al-Bambari announces a blockade on all fuel trucks that enter Mali. (TRAC Terrorism)
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- More than 70 Palestinians are killed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- Puntland forces kill at least 15 ISIS fighters and capture key militant positions, including Ceelasha Burti-Cise and Af-ka Dharimood in the Baallade Valley, following a series of intense military operations in the broader Cal Miskaad Mountains of the Bari region, Puntland. (AllAfrica)
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia fires more than 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine overnight, targeting mostly western and central Ukraine and wounding at least five people, in response to the attacks, Poland scrambles its fighter jets and places ground-based air defenses and radar systems on maximum readiness. (Newsweek) (AP)
- Red Sea crisis
- The Houthis launch a ballistic missile at Israel, which is intercepted. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- The Nazi-looted painting Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi is handed over to the Argentine justice system after being discovered on display in a private house in Mar del Plata, Argentina. (NOS)
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Punjab, India floods
- At least 30 people are killed in flash floods caused by cloudbursts, landslides, and waterlogging across north India, including in Punjab, Odisha, and Jammu and Kashmir. Casualty numbers are expected to increase. (DW) (Reuters)
- Ascensor da Glória derailment
- Sixteen people are killed and 22 others are injured when the Ascensor da Glória funicular crashes into a building in Lisbon, Portugal. The Portuguese government declares a day of mourning for the following day in remembrance of those deceased. (Reuters) (BBC News) (NPR)
- Seven migrants are found dead on beaches after several boats from Algeria sink off the coast of Andalusia, Spain, as authorities rescue 26 people from one vessel and 38 from another and continue searching for additional victims. (AFP via Dawn)
- One person is killed, another is injured, and five others are reported missing during an accident on a Hanwha Ocean floating production storage and offloading ship at a shipyard in South Korea. (Upstream)
- A rescue team locates the burnt remains of the EastIndo passenger MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 helicopter that went missing on Monday in Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the island of Borneo and recovers one body. (AP)
International relations
- 2025 China Victory Day Parade
- China holds a military parade in Beijing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The event is attended by the leaders of about two dozen countries. (AP)
- Czech Republic–Germany relations
- Czech defence minister Jana Černochová announces that the Czech government signed a deal to pay Kč34 billion (US$1.6 billion) for 44 Leopard 2A8 tanks from Germany as part of its efforts to modernize the Armed Forces. (AP)
Law and crime
- Odebrecht case
- A Peruvian court sentences former president Alejandro Toledo to 13 years and four months in prison for laundering S/18 million (US$5.1 million) in bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht through offshore accounts to purchase and refinance properties in Lima, with the sentence to run concurrently with his earlier conviction for accepting S/124 million ($35 million) in kickbacks. (Reuters)
- Three people are killed and the perpetrator is injured in a mass stabbing in a pizza restaurant in Gwanak District, Seoul, South Korea. (The Japan Times)
- A Moroccan court sentences human rights activist Ibtissame Lachgar to 30 months in prison and a fine of DH50,000 (US$5,510) for blasphemy, with her lawyers stating they will appeal. (AFP via France 24)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Jamaican general election
- Jamaicans vote to elect the 63 members of the Parliament using first-past-the-post voting. The two leading parties are the ruling Jamaica Labour Party and the opposition People's National Party. (Caribbean Life)
- 2025 Saint Helena general election
- Residents of Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory, vote for the twelve members of the Legislative Council using plurality block voting. (MercoPress)
- 2025 Thai political crisis, 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
- The ruling Pheu Thai Party of the acting government of Thailand moves to dissolve the parliament, setting up for a new election, after Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was dismissed from office due to her phone call leak with Cambodia. (DW)
Science and technology
September 2, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War on drugs, United States–Venezuela relations
- 2025 United States war on cartels
- 2025 United States strike on a Southern Caribbean boat
- The United States military conducts a precision strike and sinks a Venezuelan boat reportedly used by Tren de Aragua for smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people. The Trump administration reports it currently has no plans of attacking the Venezuelan government. (CBS News) (USA Today)
- 2025 United States strike on a Southern Caribbean boat
- 2025 United States war on cartels
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- At least 105 Palestinians are killed during Israeli airstrikes and shootings across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Insurgency in Balochistan
- At least fourteen people are killed and dozens of others are injured, including seven critically, in a suicide bombing at a political rally in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Digital Journal)
- An attack near the Iran–Pakistan border in Balochistan, Pakistan, kills five people. (AFP via France 24)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Six soldiers and six militants are killed in a suicide attack on a paramilitary base in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Hindu)
Business and economy
- Economy of Brazil
- Brazil's Federal Senate approves a constitutional amendment that phases in court-ordered debt payments to fiscal target calculations beginning in 2027, initially counting 10% of the total and gradually reaching full inclusion over up to ten years. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 60 people are killed and dozens rescued after an overloaded boat carrying more than 100 passengers strikes a submerged tree stump and capsizes on the Niger River near Borgu, Niger State, Nigeria, with search operations continuing for missing persons. (Reuters)
International relations
- Belgium–Palestine relations, Belgium–Israel relations, International recognition of Palestine
- Belgian foreign minister Maxime Prévot announces that Belgium will conditionally recognize a Palestinian state at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly session upon the release of hostages and removal of Hamas, and impose sanctions on Israel, including bans on products from Israeli settlements and restrictions on certain public contracts. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Catholic Church sexual abuse cases
- Prosecution of Syrian civil war criminals
- French judges issue arrest warrants for seven former senior Ba'athist Syrian officials, including former president Bashar al-Assad, on charges of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity for a 2012 rocket attack on a media center in Homs that killed journalists Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik and injured others. (Reuters)
- Five people are injured, including one critically and two seriously, in a mass stabbing attack at a hotel and a nearby street in Marseille, France. The perpetrator, a 35-year-old Tunisian, is fatally shot by police. (Le Monde)
- An Argentine court places the daughter of Nazi adviser Friedrich Kadgien and her husband under house arrest and accuses them of stealing the painting Portrait of a Lady, which had been missing since 1945. (AP)
Politics and elections
- A Turkish court annuls the Istanbul provincial congress of the Republican People's Party over alleged procedural violations, dismissing local leaders including the Istanbul chair, and appoints an interim committee to oversee the branch. (AP) (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, an international non-partisan research organization on genocide and crimes against humanity, declares that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. (IAGS) (BBC News) (Reuters)
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine, Gaza genocide
- At least four South Sudanese soldiers and ten militia members are killed in clashes near Nasir, Upper Nile, an area where earlier violence led to the detention of First Vice President Riek Machar. (Reuters)
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)
- Indonesia–Peru relations
- LGBTQ rights in Burkina Faso
- Burkina Faso passes a law criminalizing homosexuality, providing sentences of between two and five years in prison as well as fines. (France 24)
- 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 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)
- 2025 Tarasin landslide
- Over 1,000 people are killed when a landslide destroys a village in the Marrah Mountains area of western Sudan. (CNN)
- Two people are killed and eight Kenyan police officers are injured in an accident involving two armored vehicles 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)
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