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Friday,  August 5th, 2022 

Three people are killed and a fourth person is seriously injured by a lightning strike at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., United States. (CBC) 

Amnesty International releases a report alleging Ukrainian forces have endangered civilians by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in residential areas, schools, hospitals, violating international humanitarian law as they turn civilian objects into military targets. (Amnesty International) 

Russia shells the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, damaging a nitrogen-oxygen unit and a high-voltage power line, according to Enerhoatom. (BBC News) 

Volodymyr Saldo, the head of the Russian occupational administration in Kherson Oblast, is hospitalized, with former FSB officer Sergei Eliseev taking over his post temporarily. (Newsweek) 

Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree banning investors from “unfriendly countries” from selling their assets in Russian banks, strategic entities, and energy and commodity projects until December 31. (Reuters) 

Israel launches a series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, including a number against Palestinian Islamic Jihad‘s facilities. Ten people are killed and 55 others are wounded, including PIJ military leader Tayseer Jabari. (Al Jazeera) 

Eight people are killed and 18 others are injured when a bomb hidden in a cart explodes near a Shiite mosque in Kabul. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack. (Al Arabiya) 

The Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance signs a peace deal with the government of Senegal, pledging to lay down its arms in order to work towards a permanent solution. (BBC News) 

Fourteen people are killed and over 40 others are injured in a fire at a nightclub in Sattahip district, Chonburi province, Thailand. (BBC News) 

The death toll from the flash floods in Pakistan increases to 549. (Reuters) 

Ten people, including three children, are killed in a house fire in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania, United States. (AP) 

Fifteen people are injured after an SUV crashed into a Native American parade in Gallup, New Mexico, United States. (AP) 

Provisional results show that the Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition wins 82 seats, falling 1 seat short of absolute majority, while 80 seats were won by the opposition coalitions Yewwi Askan Wi and Wallu Sénégal. (Reuters)

The opposition Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party, leaded by Terrance Drew, wins the snap general election to the National Assembly. (The St Kitts & Nevis Observer) 

Thursday, August 4th, 2022 

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China launches missiles off the coast of Taiwan as part of its military exercises following the visit from U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi. (Reuters)  

American basketball player Brittney Griner is sentenced to 9 years in prison by a Russian court after being found guilty of bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia. (Reuters) 

A Russian strike kills eight civilians and injures four others including three children at a bus stop in Toretsk, according to regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko. (Ukrinform) 

Reignited clashes in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region between Armenia and Azerbaijan kill three soldiers and injure fourteen others. (ABC News) 

The Biden administration declares the ongoing Monkeypox outbreak to be public health emergency. (MSN) 

The United States Food and Drug Administration announces that it will permit the use of Bavarian Nordic’s Jynneos vaccine in children on a case by case basis. (ABC News) 

South Africa reports their first death linked to the COVID-19 vaccine. The individual received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. (Reuters) 

A journalist in Belarus is sentenced to five years in prison amidst a government crackdown on the media following protests that occurred after the 2020 Belarusian presidential election. (RFE/RL) 

Prime Minister of Peru Aníbal Torres resigns citing “personal reasons”, amid multiple criminal investigations focusing on president Pedro Castillo. (Reuters) 

The former chairman of the Union of Values and federal presidential candidate for the AfD, Max Otte, is legally expelled from the CDU. (Der Spiegel) 

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