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Revision as of 08:57, 20 August 2022
August 19, 2022 (2022-08-19) (Friday)Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Ukrainian attacks on Occupied Crimea
- Explosions are reported overnight at Russian military bases in Crimea and Belgorod Oblast, Russia. Two villages have been evacuated. (Reuters)
- 2022 Ukrainian attacks on Occupied Crimea
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Syrian civil war
- Nine people are killed and 28 others are injured in a rocket attack on a market in Al-Bab, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (Reuters)
- Somali Civil War
- Militants linked to al-Shabaab attack a hotel in Mogadishu. A suicide bombing is reported, followed by a gunfight between the militants and security forces. (Urdu Point)
Business and economy
- 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
- Russia's Gazprom announces that the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline will be shut down for 3 days of unscheduled maintenance between August 31 and September 2. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Temperatures in Chongqing, China, reach 45 °C (113 °F) during a historic drought. It is the highest temperature ever recorded in China outside of Xinjiang. (AP)
Health and environment
- 2022 Oder environmental disaster
- The Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries says that a large overgrowth of toxic Prymnesium parvum algae linked to industrial pollution was likely the cause of the mass mortality event of fish in the Oder river. (Reuters)
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
- The FDA announces that it has approved the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for United States teens between the ages of 12 and 17. (Marketwatch) (WPSD-TV)
- COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand
- Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announces that Thailand will lift its COVID-19 emergency decree and dissolve the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA). Additionally, CCSA spokesman Thavisin Visanuyothin announces that the country will shift to an endemic phase of the disease beginning in October. (The Star) (Bankgkok Post)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Law and crime
- Police in Nicaragua confirm that they have arrested an anti-Ortega Roman Catholic bishop in Managua and warned against further "provocative and destabilizing" activities amongst the clergy. (Infobae)
- Islamic State and "Beatles" cell member El Shafee Elsheikh is sentenced to eight life sentences by a United States district court for his role in the kidnapping and deaths of hostages James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig, and Kayla Mueller. (AP)
Politics and elections
- Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast
- Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau nominates judge Michelle O'Bonsawin to the Supreme Court of Canada. An Abenaki member, O'Bonsawin would be the first Indigenous Canadian to sit on the country's highest court. (Deutsche Welle)