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Revision as of 02:01, 11 August 2022
August 9, 2022 (2022-08-09) (Tuesday)Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Ukraine summer counteroffensive
- Multiple explosions are reported at a Russian military air base near Novofedorivka in western Crimea. At least one person is killed and six others are injured, according to Crimean authorities. (Reuters) (Sky News)
- 2022 Ukraine summer counteroffensive
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, local head of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, and two other people are killed during a raid by Israeli soldiers in Nablus. At least 40 others are injured. (BBC News)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Four Pakistani soldiers are killed in a suicide bombing in Mir Ali, North Waziristan, Pakistan. (Reuters)
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- Fifteen troops are killed when their vehicle hits a roadside bomb in Bam Province, Burkina Faso. (Reuters)
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Four civilians and a soldier are killed, and another civilian is wounded, during three separate attacks by Boko Haram gunmen in the Far North Region, Cameroon. (Xinhua)
Business and economy
- 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
- Russia's Transneft says that Ukraine has suspended Russian oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline to the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia after it was unable to pay transit fees to Ukraine's pipeline operator UkrTransNafta. The Czech Republic's pipeline company says it expects supplies through the pipeline to restart within several days. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 South Korean floods
- Nine people are killed by flooding caused by record-breaking rainfall in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)
- Matanzas, Cuba oil factory explosion
- Firefighters in Cuba bring a catastrophic fire at an oil terminal in Matanzas under control after it burned out of control for five consecutive days, destroying 40% of the country's main fuel storage facility and causing widespread blackouts. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Marshall Islands
- The Marshall Islands confirm their first community transmission cases of COVID-19 in the capital Majuro. The government subsequently announces that the start of the school year will be delayed, and also suspends flights and boat travel to the country's outer islands. (RNZ)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Marshall Islands
International relations
- Moldova–Russia relations
- Russia bans the import of agricultural products from Moldova from August 15 due to "repeated detection of dangerous quarantine objects in Moldovan products entering Russia". (Reuters)
Law and crime
- A man is arrested for the killings of three Pakistani men last month and for the murder of an Afghan man in November 2021 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. The alleged killer targeted the victims “because he was angry over his daughter marrying a Shiite Muslim”; all the victims were Shiite. (Al Jazeera)
- The driver of a pickup truck that collided with a motorcycle procession and killed seven people in Randolph, New Hampshire, United States in 2019 is acquitted on all charges. (New York Times)
Politics and elections
Science and technology
- Roscosmos launches the Iranian Space Agency's Earth observation satellite Khayyam from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Al Jazeera)
Sports
- 44th Chess Olympiad
- The Chess Olympiad in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, concludes, with Uzbek chess grandmaster Nodirbek Abdusattorov winning the open event. (The Indian Express)