Friday,  August 26th, 2022 

Protestors during a Just Stop Oil protest and blockade in London are arrested for vandalism. (Telegraph) 

Ukraine says that the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been reconnected to the power grid after suffering a power failure the day before due to Russian shelling. (Al Jazeera) 

Russian peacekeepers withdraw from Lachin city and the villages of Zabukh and Sus, returning them to Azerbaijan. (Al Jazeera) 

Ethiopian forces reportedly airstrike a kindergarten in Mekelle, Tigray Region, leaving at least two children and two adults dead and 13 people hospitalized. (CTV News) 

The United States conducts airstrikes against Iranian and Russian-backed militia groups in Syria for a second day. (The Wall Street Journal) 

The electoral commission announces that President João Lourenço‘s MPLA has won the general election. (Reuters) 

Thursday, August 25th, 2022 

The Taliban say that they have destroyed more than 5,000 acres (~2000 hectares) of poppy fields, after Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada ordered a crackdown on narcotics. (Xinhua) 

Taliban central spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid announces the government is yet to recover the body of former emir of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was killed in a United States drone strike at his Kabul residence on 31 July. The government says it is “continuing investigations”. (Reuters) 

Ukraine says the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been completely disconnected from its power grid after several fires sparked by shelling near the Russian-occupied plant. Security systems at the plant were activated shortly after the power failure, according to a local official. (NBC News) 

At least 25 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured in a Russian rocket attack on a passenger train in Chaplyne, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. (The Guardian) (Reuters) 

The United States announces a security package of nearly $3 billion from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. (CBS News) 

U.S. President Joe Biden orders airstrikes against claimed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Russia-linked groups in Syria following a series of rocket attacks on the U.S. military base in al-Tanf, Syria, which houses the Maghaweir al-Thowra rebel group, and an airstrike by the Russian military in an area held by the Syrian opposition. The U.S. strikes targeted eleven bunkers in Deir ez-Zor used to store weapons, according to the United States Central Command. (CNN) (Reuters) 

A spokesperson for the Iranian foreign ministry denies that Iran has any link to targets hit by U.S. in Syria and condemns the strike as “a violation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”. (Reuters) 

Itaru Nakamura, chief of the Japanese national police agency, resigns, taking responsibility for the failures in former prime minister Shinzo Abe‘s security that resulted in his assassination in Nara on 8 July. (CBC) 

North Korea reports four new “fever” cases after declaring “victory” over the name by which the government refers to COVID-19 in Ryanggang Province, which goes under lockdown. (Al Arabiya) 

Eight people are killed in a mass shooting in Tuzantla, Michoacan, Mexico. (AP) 

A United States grand jury awards former professional basketball player Kobe Bryant’s widow, Vanessa Bryant, $16 million against the Los Angeles County sheriff’s and fire departments for releasing graphic photographs of the former player, their 13-year-old daughter, and the other victims of the helicopter crash. Another victim’s widow receives $15 million. (The Manila Times) 

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