Sunday, August 6th, 2023 

India’s Chandrayaan-3 successfully enters the Moon’s orbit ahead of the country’s second attempted Moon landing between August 23 and 24. (AFP via France 24) 

At least 30 people are killed and 100 injured after 10 carriages of the Hazara Express derails near Sahara railway station in Nawabshah, Pakistan. (BBC News) 

The Supreme Court of the Maldives bars former president Abdulla Yameen from running for office while he serves an 11 year prison sentence. (Reuters) 

The Philippine Coast Guard accuses the China Coast Guard of firing water cannons at its vessels near the Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands where Filipino military personnel are stationed. (AFP via Malay Mail) 

The National Election Committee declares a landslide victory for Prime Minister Hun Sen‘s Cambodian People’s Party, which won 120 of the 125 seats in the parliament. The royalist FUNCINPEC party secured the remaining five seats. (AP) 

Floods and landslides occurs in southern Austria, with water being pumped out of a dam in the Viktring district of Klagenfurt, Carinthia, after concerns are raised over its stability. (Atlas News) 

 

Saturday, August 5th, 2023 

NASCAR announces that it has indefinitely suspended driver Noah Gragson after Gragson liked a meme ridiculing the murder of George Floyd. (NBC News) 

Ukraine says that it damaged the Russian Sig tanker in a naval drone attack in the Black Sea near the Crimean Bridge. (BBC News)

Peace talks begin in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The talks will last for two days and are being attended by officials from around 40 countries, including those from countries in the Global South but excluding those from Russia. (Reuters)

At least three people are killed in floods and landslides in northeastern and central Slovenia and southern Austria. Concerns are raised over the stability of a dam in the Viktring district of Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria, with water being pumped out of the dam. (DW)

 A court in Lahore, Pakistan, sentences former prime minister Imran Khan to three years in prison on corruption-related charges. (Al Jazeera) 

Friday,  August 4th, 2023 

Civil unrest and rioting occur in New York City, United States, after Twitch streamer and YouTuber Kai Cenat announces a gift card and PlayStation 5 video game console giveaway in Union Square, Manhattan. (CBS News) 

A court in Melekhovo, Vladimir Oblast, Russia, sentences opposition politician Alexei Navalny to nineteen years in prison for six crimes, including “inciting and financing extremist activity” and “creating an extremist organization”. (Reuters) 

The Russian Olenegorsky Gornyak landing ship is damaged by a Ukrainian naval drone attack at the naval base at the Port of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai. (BBC News) 

Cyprus approves the use of human COVID-19 medication molnupiravir to combat a local feline virus mutation causing feline infectious peritonitis resulting in numerous cat deaths locally. The government assures that there is no risk of depleting medication stocks for potential COVID-19 surges in the human population. (AP) 

The Ethiopian government declares a state of emergency in response to heavy clashes between the ENDF and Fano militia in Amhara Region. (Al Jazeera) 

The Sudanese state of El Gedaref closes its border with Ethiopia in response to the clashes. (Sudan Tribune) 

Authorities in the Sudanese state of North Kordofan announce a state-wide curfew. (Dabanga Sudan) 

Eight people are killed and four others are injured when a freight train collides with a pickup truck at a railway crossing in Mueang Chachoengsao district, Thailand. (Al Jazeera) 

The End