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Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022 Ukraine summer counteroffensive
    • Multiple explosions are reported at a Russian Air Force base near Novofedorivka in western Crimea. At least one person is killed, and six others are injured, according to Crimean authorities. (Reuters) (Sky News)
• 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)
• Insurgency in the Maghreb
  • Fifteen troops are killed when their vehicle hits a roadside bomb in Bam Province, Burkina Faso. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Nine people are killed by flooding caused by record-breaking rainfall in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)
• 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 caused widespread blackouts. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the Marshall Islands
    • The Marshall Islands confirms 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)

International relations

• Moldova–Russia relations
  • Russia bans the import of agricultural products from Moldova beginning on August 15 due to "repeated detection of dangerous quarantine objects in Moldovan products entering Russia". (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Roscosmos launches the Iranian Space Agency's Earth observation satellite Khayyam from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Al Jazeera)

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