Sunday, September 1st, 2024 

A weather station near Qeshm International Airport in Dayrestan, Iran, records the highest unverified heat index on Earth of 82.2 °C (180.0 °F) and the highest dew point of 36.1 °C (97.0 °F). Climatologists will investigate to confirm the readings’ accuracy. (The Economic Times) (Times of India) 

NASA announces discovery of Earth’s subtle electric field (ambipolar electric field), which contributes to the polar wind phenomenon. Its significance as to the emergence of life and complex organisms on Earth, and the planet’s physical and chemical properties, are to be analyzed. (NASA Science) (MSN, Newsweek) 

The number of August fires in the Amazon rainforest reaches its highest number in fourteen years at 38,266 fire hotspots as a result of an ongoing drought across South America. (Reuters) 

Ukraine launches over a hundred drones against targets in Russia, including the Konakovo Power Station in Konakovo, Tver Oblast and the Moscow Refinery in Moscow. (Reuters) 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force Mykola Oleshchuk following the crash of an F-16 fighter jet and the death of its pilot while defending against Russian strikes. (Reuters) 

 At least 47 people are injured when Russian missiles hit a shopping mall and events complex in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters) 

Russia reports that its forces have taken control of the settlements of Ptyche and Vyimka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters) 

Three Israeli police officers are killed in a shooting on a road near Tarqumiyah in the West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post) 

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announces that it will deploy a fact-finding team to investigate human rights abuses and violations committed by government forces during the quota reform movement, after being requested to do so by the interim government of Muhammad Yunus. (The New York Times) 

A Mil Mi-8T helicopter which went missing yesterday over the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia is found crashed, with all 22 people on board dead. The victims include nineteen passengers and three crew members. (Kommersant) 

Germany deports 28 convicted Afghan criminals, marking the first such action since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021. (AP) 

The number of August fires in the Amazon rainforest reaches its highest number in fourteen years at 38,266 fire hotspots as a result of an ongoing drought across South America. (Reuters) 

At least 15 Islamic State militants are killed and seven U.S. troops are injured in a joint United States–Iraq raid on Islamic State camps in Anbar Desert, Iraq. (AP) 

Eleven people are killed and more than 40 others are injured when a truck crashes into a bar in Azua, Dominican Republic. The driver subsequently flees the scene. (AP) 

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis, including approximately 300,000 in Tel Aviv, protest in cities across the country following the recovery of the bodies of six hostages from Gaza, with the national trade union center calling for a general strike on Monday and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign after failing to negotiate a ceasefire.  (CNN) 

At least 29 people are arrested in Tel Aviv on accusations of vandalism, disorderly conduct, and attacking police officers. (CNN) 

At least 11 people are killed and more than 30 are injured after a truck crashes into a bar in Azua, Dominican Republic. The driver subsequently flees the scene. (AP) 

Parliamentary elections in the German states of Saxony and Thuringia show large gains for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party and the left-wing populist Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party as well as losses for the left-wing and liberal parties of the governing coalition and for the socialist The Left party. In Thuringia, a far-right party comes in first place in a state election for the first time since World War II. 

Saturday, August 31st, 2024 

The Israeli military recovers the bodies of six hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel, including American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, from an underground tunnel near Rafah, Gaza. (NBC News) 

Israeli strikes kill at least 48 people across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters) 

Israeli strikes kill at least 48 people in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters) 

Five civilians are killed in Ukrainian missile strikes on Belgorod, Russia. (Reuters) 

The Houthis claim they have attacked the Liberia-flagged container ship MV Groton for the second time in the Gulf of Aden. (Reuters) 

Al-Shabaab bombs several businesses in the Tabelaha Sheikh Ibrahim neighborhood of Mogadishu, Somalia, targeting shops that had complied with the government’s directive to install CCTV cameras. (Idilnews) 

The death toll from the effects of Typhoon Shanshan in Japan increases to six, with over 100 people injured. (Reuters) 

A Mil Mi-8T helicopter with 22 people onboard goes missing over the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. (AP) 

The death toll from flooding in Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, increases to at least 97 people. (DW) 

Three people are killed and two more injured after a Cessna 421C crashes in a row of townhouses near Troutdale Airport in Troutdale, Oregon, United States. (AP) 

The BRICS New Development Bank authorizes Algeria as a new bank member. (Reuters) 

Seven people are killed and dozens more are injured in a bus crash near Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. (CBS News) 

Ford Motor Company announces it is recalling over 90,000 vehicles due to issues with the engine intake valves. (Reuters) 

Polish F32 Paralympian Róża Kozakowska is disqualified a day after winning gold in the Women’s club throw F32 event due to an irregularity with her equipment. (Polsatnews) 

Friday,  August 30th, 2024 

President of Ukraine Volodomyr Zelenskyy urges Mongolia to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin as he travels to Ulaanbaatar to make his first meeting to an International Criminal Court member state since the issue of his ICC arrest warrant. (France 24) 

Three Palestinian militants, including Hamas’ leader in Jenin, Wissam Hazem, are killed in a drone strike at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera) 

An Israeli soldier is killed and several others are injured in an IED attack in Jenin, West Bank. (Palestine Chronicle) 

Seven people are killed when a Russian guided bomb strikes a residential building and playground in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters) 

Seven people are killed and 25 others are injured in shelling near Khartoum, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune) 

Twelve Pakistani Taliban members are killed during a raid by the Pakistani Army in the Tirah Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, bringing the number of insurgents killed there to 37 since August 20. (AP) 

A widespread power outage affects most of Venezuela with President Nicolás Maduro’s government blaming it on sabotage by the opposition. (DW) 

Four people are killed and one other is missing when a National Republican Guard helicopter crashes into the Douro river in Lamego, Portugal. (DW) 

Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg declares that Ukraine’s incursion into Russian territory in Kursk Oblast is legitimate under international law, as part of Ukraine’s right to self-defense. (Reuters) 

A Brazilian judge orders the social media platform X to be blocked after the platform failed to comply with court orders. (The New York Times) 

Six people are wounded in a stabbing attack on a bus in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (DW) 

Incumbent Māori King Tūheitia dies at the age of 69 while recovering from heart surgery. (New Zealand Herald) 

The End