Thursday, August 3rd, 2023 

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, extends their voluntary oil production cut of one million barrels per day for another month, maintaining daily production at approximately nine million barrels. (AFP via RFI) 

Research shows that fossil bones of the Perucetus colossus whale discovered in Peru could indicate that it was the heaviest animal to have ever existed. (BBC News) 

A train collides with a bus near El Marqués, Querétaro, Mexico, killing at least seven people and injuring seventeen others. (AP) 

Eight civilians are injured in Russian strikes on the St. Catherine’s Cathedral in Kherson. (AP)

Clashes in Sirba, West Darfur, Sudan, cause at least 460 deaths and more than 1,000 injuries, with the Rapid Support Forces seizing the city. (Dabanga Sudan) 

Colombia and the National Liberation Army begin a six-month ceasefire aimed at creating peace between both sides. (AP) 

Ethiopian soldiers clash with ethnic Amhara Fano militiamen in several areas across the Amhara Region, with Fano seizing several airports and major cities. (AP) 

South Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia announce that they have recalled over 113,000 vehicles in the United States due to the risk of fire. (Reuters) 

In Mexico, at least 18 people are killed and 23 others are injured when a bus traveling from Mexico City to Tijuana, Baja California, falls into a ravine in Tepic, Nayarit. The driver is arrested for suspected overspeeding. (AFP via Le Monde) 

Nine days after catching fire off the coast of the Netherlands, the car carrier MV Fremantle Highway is successfully towed to the port of Eemshaven. (AD) 

The Kyrgyzstan Emergency Situations Ministry declares an emergency in the Tüp District due to flooding. (AKIPress) 

The European Union extends sanctions against Belarus over their support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (RFE/RL) 

Senegal pledges to contribute troops if the Economic Community of West African States decides to intervene militarily in Niger in response to the recent coup d’état. (AFP via The Guardian) 

Russia adds Norway to its list of “unfriendly countries” after Norway expelled 15 Russian diplomats earlier this year. (Reuters) 

Cristiano Zanin is sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil. (AP) 

Brazilian footballer Dani Alves is indicted in Spain on sexual assault charges. (Reuters) 

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023 

The perpetrator of the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, is sentenced to death. (Reuters) 

A Russian drone strike in Izmail, Odesa Oblast, damages administrative buildings and grain storage facilities. (Bloomberg) 

The death toll from the flooding in Beijing, China, which is the city’s worst flooding in more than 140 years, increases to 21. (CP24) 

Twenty people are killed, five others are missing, and nine others are rescued after a boat carrying charcoal and food capsizes in the Ugandan waters of Lake Victoria. (Al Jazeera) 

Two people are killed and two others are injured by an explosion at a house in Buena, New Jersey, United States. (NBC News via Yahoo!) 

At least 10 people are killed in a police raid on a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, days after 19 people in Bahia and 14 people in São Paulo State were killed in other raids. (BBC News) 

A man is charged after crashing a stolen Hyundai Tucson car that injured 10 pedestrians during a police chase near the Grand Central Terminal in New York City, U.S. (New York Daily News) 

The Moldovan Interior Ministry reports that a man has been arrested by Chișinău police after ramming his vehicle near the Russian Embassy in the country. (Meduza) 

Tunisian president Kais Saied appoints Ahmed Hachani as prime minister after dismissing Najla Bouden, the first female prime minister in the Arab world, from the role. (Reuters via Devdiscourse) 

Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra announces a return to Thailand after 15 years of exile in the United Arab Emirates. (DW) 

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau announce their separation. (Reuters) 

Jamaica become the first Caribbean team to qualify for the knockout stage of a FIFA Women’s World Cup after drawing 0–0 with Brazil in their final group stage match to finish second in their group. (Forbes) 

A Cessna 152 aircraft crashes in Luna, Apayao, Philippines, during a training flight from Laoag, Ilocos Norte, to Tuguegarao, Cagayan, killing an Indian student pilot and his flight instructor. (AFP via Gulf News) 

Tunisian President Kais Saied appoints Ahmed Hachani as prime minister after dismissing Najla Bouden, the first female prime minister in the Arab world, from the role. (Reuters via Devdiscourse) 

One person is killed and 56 others are injured after a tour bus rolls over in Grand Canyon West, Arizona, United States. (Reuters) 

Tuesday,  August 1st, 2023 

The Senate of the Philippines adopts a resolution condemning China’s incursions in the West Philippine Sea and urges the Department of Foreign Affairs to file a resolution regarding China’s harassment of Philippine vessels before the United Nations General Assembly. (GMA News) 

Burundi and Russia sign a memorandum of cooperation on sharing nuclear technology for peaceful purposes at the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (World Nuclear News) 

One civilian is killed and five others are injured in a Russian attack on a medical facility in Kherson. (The Kyiv Independent via Yahoo! News) 

Russia says that it destroyed three drones near Moscow. One drone damaged the 21st floor of the IQ-quarter mixed-use complex, which hosts offices for the Ministry of Economic Development. The Vnukovo International Airport remains closed. (The Guardian)

Protests begin in Kadugli, South Kordofan, Sudan, against the ongoing clashes in the city, with protesters also denouncing the war and the country’s violations against women. (Dabanga Sudan) 

A Palestinian man is shot and killed by Israeli security forces after opening fire on Israelis in the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera) 

A deputy imam is killed and another is injured when Hindus storm a mosque in Gurgaon, Haryana, India, as a spillover of yesterday’s intercommunal violence in the neighboring Nuh district. (Al Jazeera) 

The Soviet state emblem emblazoned on the Motherland Monument statue in Kyiv is removed and will be replaced with the tryzub. (AFP via The Manila Times) 

Major credit rating agency Fitch downgrades the United States’ bond credit rating from AAA to AA+, citing an “erosion of governance” manifested in the country’s debt ceiling impasses. (Financial Times) 

11 people are killed and 13 others are reported missing during floods in Beijing, China. More than 50,000 people have been evacuated from the city. (BBC News) 

Twenty workers are killed and three others are injured when a large crane collapses at a highway construction site in Thane, Maharashtra, India. (Al Jazeera) 

The Iranian government declares a two-day nationwide holiday due to extreme heat, closing all schools, banks, and government offices. (Sky News) 

France and Italy begin the evacuation of their citizens and other European nationals from Niger. (Al Jazeera) 

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is indicted by DOJ Counsel Jack Smith on four criminal counts for his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. (Politico)

Two members of the Michigan Republican Party are charged by prosecutors for attempting to tamper with voting machines in Michigan during the 2020 election. (AP) 

Two people are killed and five others are injured when an assailant robs passengers and throws a Molotov cocktail on a bus in Dakar, Senegal. (AFP via UrduPoint) 

Fugitive Filipino Congressman and alleged mastermind of the Pamplona massacre Arnolfo Teves Jr. and twelve others are designated as terrorists by the Anti-Terrorism Council. (GMA News) 

Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is pardoned on five of her convictions, thereby reducing her prison sentence from 33 to 27 years. (AFP via France 24) 

The Public Prosecutor of Costa Rica launches an influence peddling investigation into President Rodrigo Chaves Robles and several other government officials. (AFP via New Vision) 

Royal Mail initiates the first regular postal delivery by drones in the United Kingdom, delivering mail by Skyports drones on the Scottish island of Orkney. (AFP via Manila Bulletin) 

Monday,  July 31st, 2023 

A 20-meter-long inflatable attraction in the amusement park “Wonderland Waterpark” in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France, blows away, killing a 35-year-old man and severely injuring his daughter. (NOS) 

At least six civilians are killed and 75 others are injured in a Russian ballistic missile strike on an apartment complex and a university building in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. (The Washington Post) 

Russian forces strike residential areas in Kherson, killing at least four civilians and injuring 17 others. (CNN International) 

The Islamic State-KP claims responsibility for yesterday’s suicide bombing at a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) rally in Khar, Bajaur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, which killed 54 people and injured around 200 others. (Al Jazeera) 

Twelve FARC dissidents and a soldier are killed during a shootout in a mountainous region in Cauca Department. (Reuters) 

Seven Clan del Golfo members are killed and four arrested after soldiers stormed on of their camps in Chocó Department. (El Comercio) 

Clashes between rival groups in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon District, Lebanon, continue for the second day, with six more people being killed, bringing the death toll to eleven. (BBC News) 

UNESCO recommends the inclusion of Venice, Italy, a World Heritage Site, on its List of World Heritage in Danger due to overtourism and flooding. (CNN) 

Niger’s military junta accuses France of wanting to intervene by force to reinstate ousted president Mohamed Bazoum, a day after ECOWAS gave an ultimatum for Bazoum’s reinstatement. The French foreign ministry denies the accusation. (Reuters) 

The governments of Burkina Faso and Mali issue a joint statement saying that any military intervention in Niger to overthrow the new military junta will be considered a “declaration of war” against both countries. (AFP via Barron’s) 

The United Kingdom imposes sanctions on the judges and officials involved in the prosecution of activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who lost the appeal of his 25-year sentence for treason. (Reuters) 

The Ministry of Justice charges detained opposition leader and Ziguinchor mayor Ousmane Sonko with fomenting insurrection, undermining state security, and criminal association with a terrorist body. (AFP via France 24) 

Two people are killed in Ziguinchor during protests in response to Sonko’s arrest and indictment. (AFP via The Straits Times) 

Acting President Myint Swe announces the National Defence and Security Council‘s extension of the country’s state of emergency by six months, likely delaying the general election that was previously pledged to be held by August, saying that the country’s situation has “not returned to normalcy yet”. (AFP via The Manila Times) 

The Tokyo District Court sentences Kyota Hattori to 23 years in prison for attempted murder and arson on a train in Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan, in October 2021. (AP) 

Four people are shot dead on board the Jaipur Superfast Express (12956) by a Railway Protection Force constable on escorting duty in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. (TNN via Times of India) 

Zambia wins its first FIFA Women’s World Cup match after defeating Costa Rica 3–1 in a dead rubber match. (Reuters) 

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Sunday, July 30th, 2023 

Russia says that it destroyed three Ukrainian drones over Moscow, which injured one person, prompting officials to close the Vnukovo International Airport to traffic. (AFP via The Guardian) 

At least 44 people are killed and nearly 200 others are injured in a suicide bombing at a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) rally in Khar, Bajaur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) 

At least four officers are killed and at least 21 others are injured in a mass shooting at a police facility in Arish, North Sinai Governorate, Egypt. (AP via Al Arabiya) 

Five people are killed and seven others are injured in clashes in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon District, Lebanon. (AP via ABC News) 

Spanish government researchers identify 357 missing foreign fighters from the Spanish Civil War, specifically from the International Brigades, with most of the fighters from Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. (AP) 

Ten people are killed and 76 others are injured by severe storms in parts of central Russia. (BBC News) 

Three people are killed and 37 others are injured in a collision between a bus and a truck in El Dabaa, Matrouh Governorate, Egypt. (Al-Ahram) 

West African regional bloc ECOWAS announces a no-fly zone over Niger. (Channels TV) 

ECOWAS threatens to “take all measures necessary”, including the use of force, to reinstate the government of Niger if ousted president Mohamed Bazoum is not released and reinstated within a week. (AFP via France 24) 

The military junta regime warns against any foreign intervention in the country, saying that “we want to once more remind ECOWAS or any other adventurer, of our firm determination to defend our homeland”. (Reuters) 

Chadian president Mahamat Déby visits Niamey in order to meet with Nigerien government officials to address the crisis. (AFP via The Peninsula) 

Ukrainian officials announce that a peace summit, aimed at addressing the invasion, will take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in early August with representatives from 30 countries expected to attend. (AP) 

One person is killed and eight others are critically injured in a mass shooting in the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. (CNN) 

Five people are injured, two critically, in a mass shooting at a shopping center in Lansing, Michigan, United States. (CNN) 

Citizens of the Central African Republic vote in a referendum that could remove the presidential term limit. (Reuters) 

Thousands of pro-Tchiani demonstrators protest outside the French embassy in Niger, setting fire to the door as well as defacing a plaque bearing the words Embassy of France in Niger and replacing it with Nigeran and Russian flags, with others shouting pro-Russian phrases. (AFP via Al Arabiya) 

Anti-war activists protest in Belgrade, Serbia, after two prominent anti-war and anti-Putin activists experienced problems trying to enter the country. (AP) 

Dutch cyclist Demi Vollering of SD Worx wins the second edition of the Tour de France Femmes with a dominant stage win over fellow Dutchwoman Annemiek van Vleuten of Movistar Team on the Col du Tourmalet in the Pyrenees. (CNN) 

Moroccan defender Nouhaila Benzina becomes the first football player to compete in a senior-level international tournament while wearing a hijab, following the overturning of a FIFA ban on head coverings in 2014. (AP) 

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Saturday, July 29th, 2023 

Kenyan foreign minister Alfred Mutua announces the country’s plan to deploy 1,000 police officers to Haiti, leading a multinational force to assist local law enforcement and restoring stability, pending mandate approval from the United Nations Security Council and local authorities. (AFP via VOA) 

Russian forces strike Zaporizhzhia, killing two civilians and injuring another, as well as damaging infrastructure. (CNN International) 

Two people are killed and 20 injured in a Russian missile strike on civilian infrastructure in Sumy. (The Kyiv Independent) 

At least 12 people are killed and more than 115 others are injured in an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Sungai Kolok, Thailand. (Al Jazeera) 

Another firefighter is killed while combating a wildfire near Fort St. John, marking the third firefighter death in Canada’s wildfire season this year. (AFP via The Straits Times) 

Colombian police arrest the son of President Gustavo Petro and his ex-wife on charges of money laundering and illicit enrichment related to the alleged acceptance of funds from drug traffickers during Petro’s 2022 presidential campaign. (AFP via France 24) 

Indonesian police announce the arrest of three Bali-based immigration officers linked to an illicit organ trade network accused of trafficking 122 individuals to Cambodia for nephrectomies and selling their kidneys, earning an estimated IDR 24.4 billion (US$1.58 million) since 2019. (AFP via CNA) 

Iran announces that it will try 104 members of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran organization in absentia, including its leader Maryam Rajavi, who is in exile in Albania. (Xinhua) 

Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo facilitates an agreement between opposing Kenyan political alliances Azimio la Umoja and Kenya Kwanza in order to establish a joint committee aimed at resolving their “differences” following a series of violent protests against the government of President William Ruto. (AFP via Barron’s) 

Friday,  July 28th, 2023 

Nine civilians are injured in a Russian missile strike on a residential complex and a nearby building of the SBU in Dnipro. (Reuters) 

At least four civilians are injured in a Russian shelling of a residential area in Beryslav Raion, Kherson Oblast, according to Governor Oleksandr Prokudin. (CNN) 

Russia claim to have shot down two Ukrainian S-200 missiles, with the debris injuring at least nine civilians in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast. (The New York Times) 

Nigerien army general Abdourahamane Tchiani declares himself the new President of Niger following Wednesday’s coup d’état. (BBC News) 

The United Nations suspends humanitarian aid to Niger in response to the coup. (TRT World) 

Ford announces that they will recall more than 870,000 F-150 pickup trucks due to concerns about possible parking brake malfunctions. (CBS News) 

The death toll from Typhoon Doksuri’s landfall in the Philippines rises to 39, with about 42,000 people displaced. (AA) 

At least one person is killed and 68 others are injured as Typhoon Doksuri makes landfall in Taiwan. (CNN) 

Four people are missing and feared dead after a helicopter crashes off the coast of Queensland, Australia. (Reuters) 

A Cessna Citation III goes missing with three people near Veracruz, Mexico. All three occupants are feared dead. Search and rescue operations ongoing. (XEU Noticias) 

Preliminary data by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals that the North Atlantic Ocean’s temperature has hit an all-time high of 24.8 °C (76.6 °F), reaching this peak several weeks earlier than usual in the year. (AFP via Manila Bulletin) 

The U.S. Department of Defense announces the provision of a $345 million military aid package to Taiwan. (AFP via i24 News) 

Singapore executes Saridewi Djamani, the first woman to be executed in nearly twenty years. Djamani was found guilty of trafficking 30 grams of heroin in 2018. (BBC News) 

A judge in Florida, U.S., denies a request by entertainment conglomerate Disney to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Governor Ron DeSantis against their effort to neutralize the Walt Disney World district takeover in Orange County. (AP) 

Three people are killed and two others are injured during a spree shooting in Langweid am Lech, Germany. (AP) 

In basketball, the Dallas Wings’ Satou Sabally records her first triple-double with 14 points, 11 rebounds, and 10 assists in the Wings’ 90–62 win over the Washington Mystics. This is the Wings’ first triple-double since 2005, and the first since the franchise moved to Dallas in 2016. (AP) (ESPN) 

The Biden administration orders U.S. government personnel and their families to leave Haiti, citing “kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and poor health care infrastructure” in the country. (Reuters) 

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Tuesday,  July 25th, 2023 

NASA announces that the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered water around the PDS 70 star. (Forbes) 

Israeli security forces kill three Palestinian gunmen in the Nablus neighborhood of al-Tur in the occupied West Bank. (AP) 

A five-month-old girl dies when Indian forces fire tear gas at Rohingya refugees trying to escape a detention centre in Hiranagar, Jammu and Kashmir. (The Guardian) 

Two people are killed when a Canadair CL-215 waterbomber crashes on Evia island, Greece. (Metro) 

Four people are killed and several others injured by floods in Lombardy, Italy. Heavy rains also occur in Veneto. (Fanpage) 

Four people are killed in wildfires in southern Italy. A firefighter also dies in Sardinia after extinguishing fires in Baunei. (La Repubblica) 

A 25-year-old man is charged with three counts of murder four days after intentionally causing a fatal accident on the Bruce Highway in Federal, Queensland, Australia. The suspected killer had been chasing one of the vehicles in the lead-up to the accident in what police suspects is domestic violence, killing three people. (ABC News Australia) 

Six men are found guilty of terrorist murder for their participation in the 2016 Brussels bombing, with two of them also being found guilty for their roles in the November 2015 Paris attacks. (BBC) 

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang is replaced by his predecessor Wang Yi after non-attendance at public engagements for a month. (India Today) 

American Casey Phair, participating as part of the South Korean football team in a match against Colombia, becomes the youngest player to appear at a FIFA Women’s World Cup game at 16 years old. (NPR) 

Monday,  July 24th, 2023 

New Zealand justice minister Kiri Allan resigns following charges of careless driving and refusal to accompany police after an alcohol-related car accident. (AP) 

The Algerian foreign ministry summons Danish ambassador Ole Wøhlers Olsen and the Swedish chargé d’affaires following a series of protests involving Quran desecration in Copenhagen and Stockholm. (Xinhua) 

Two drones damage buildings in Moscow, including one near the Defence Ministry headquarters. (Reuters) 

A child is killed and six people are wounded in a Russian missile strike on Kostiantynivka. (The Guardian) 

Dylan Collins, a journalist for Agence France-Presse, is wounded in Bakhmut by a Russian drone attack. (The Guardian) 

An al-Shabaab suicide bomber blows himself up at a military academy in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing over 20 soldiers and injuring dozens more. (DW) 

GAC Toyota, a subsidiary of Toyota, announces that they have cut off 1,000 jobs from China. (Nikkei Asia) 

Thirty-four people are killed, 26 more are injured, and thousands are evacuated during wildfires in Algeria. (AFP via France 24) 

The United States announces sanctions on three senior Malian officials, including the country’s Defence Minister Sadio Camara, for allegedly “helping to facilitate” the presence of the Russian paramilitary Wagner Group in the country. (Al Jazeera) 

North Korea shoots two ballistic missiles into a sea, hours after the arrival of USS Annapolis at a port on South Korea’s Jeju Island. (AP via The Guardian) 

The Knesset votes 64–0, with the 56-member opposition boycotting, to approve a law that prevents the Supreme Court from overturning government decisions on the basis of “reasonableness.” (Reuters) 

The United States justice department files a lawsuit against the state of Texas for placing buoys in the Rio Grande as part of the state’s effort to deter migrants from crossing into the United States. (NBC News) 

Indian police arrest 74 Rohingya refugees, including ten minors. (Reuters) 

Russian forces attack Odesa Oblast with drones, destroying grain warehouses and injuring seven civilians. (Reuters) 

A nighttime Russian missile attack on Odesa kills at least one person, injures 22 others, and severely damages the Transfiguration Cathedral. (AP) 

Nine people, including four soldiers, are killed when a civilian Antonov aircraft crashes due to technical issues in Port Sudan, Sudan. A child is the sole survivor of the crash. (AFP via The Daily Star) 

In Indonesia, at least 15 people are killed and 19 others are missing after a ferry traveling from Buton to Muna capsizes off the coast of Sulawesi. (AFP via France 24) 

Wildfires killed 15 people in the mountainous Bejaia and Bouira regions of Algeria. (alarabiya) 

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