Sunday, August 21st, 2022 

The siege at a hotel seized by al-Shabaab fighters in Mogadishu ends with the deaths of all of the attackers. Twenty-one people were killed aside from them, and 117 others were injured. (Al Jazeera) 

Sixteen people are killed and three others are injured as a lorry collides with a minibus in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. (Reuters) 

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says that Singapore will decriminalize gay sex between men, which is illegal under a colonial-era law, while at the same time they will amend the Constitution to define marriage as a heterosexual union. (Channel News Asia) 

A car bomb outside Moscow kills Darya Dugina, the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, a far-right political philosopher, who was due to travel in the same car. (RTVI) (The Guardian) 

Oleksandr Nakonechny, regional head of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kirovohrad Oblast, is found shot dead in his apartment. (Al Jazeera) 

Saturday, August 20th, 2022 

Nine civilians, including four children, are injured by Russian shelling on a residential building in Voznesensk, Mykolaiv Oblast, according to regional governor Vitaliy Kim. (The Washington Post) 

Russia says that a number of its soldiers in Zaporizhzhia have been poisoned by Ukraine, with tests showing Botulinum toxin type B present in their bodies. (Reuters) 

Sixteen people are killed and 21 others are injured when a bus crashes into the scene of an earlier road accident in Gaziantep, Turkey. (BBC News) 

Twenty people are killed and 29 others are injured when a truck crashes into the scene of an earlier road accident involving three vehicles in Mardin, Turkey. (Al Jazeera) 

Fifteen people are killed and at least 28 others are injured in a rocket attack on a market in rebel-controlled Al-Bab, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (AP) 

Russia’s Gazprom announces that the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline will be shut down for 3 days of unscheduled maintenance between August 31 and September 2. (Reuters) 

The Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries says that a large overgrowth of toxic Prymnesium parvum algae linked to industrial pollution was likely the cause of the mass mortality event of fish in the Oder river. (Reuters) 

A Mexican court issues the arrest warrants for 83 suspects, consisting of military personnel, police officers, administrative and judicial authorities, and members of the Guerreros Unidos syndicate, in connection with the abduction and disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in Iguala, Guerrero, on September 26, 2014. (CNN) 

The End