Portal:Current events/2023 August 2
August 2, 2023 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- A Russian drone strike in Izmail, Odesa Oblast, damages administrative buildings and grain storage facilities. (Bloomberg)
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
Business and economy
- Cryptocurrency legality
- The Wall Street Journal discloses that cryptocurrency exchange Binance continues to do business within the People's Republic of China despite a formal prohibition of such activity by PRC authorities in 2021; WSJ says that more-or-less open trading totals US$90 billion per month. (Wall Street Journal)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Pacific typhoon season
- Twenty people are killed, five others are missing, and nine others are rescued after a boat carrying charcoal and food capsizes in the Ugandan waters of Lake Victoria. (Al Jazeera)
- A train collides with a bus near El Marqués, Querétaro, Mexico, killing at least seven people and injuring seventeen others. (AP)
- Two people are killed and two others are injured by an explosion at a house in Buena, New Jersey, United States. (NBC News via Yahoo!)
- A Cessna 152 aircraft crashes in Luna, Apayao, Philippines, during a training flight from Laoag, Ilocos Norte, to Tuguegarao, Cagayan, killing an Indian student pilot and his flight instructor. (AFP via Gulf News)
Law and crime
- Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
- The perpetrator of the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, is sentenced to death. (Reuters)
- At least 10 people are killed in a police raid on a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, days after 19 people in Bahia and 14 people in São Paulo State were killed in other raids. (BBC News)
- A man is charged after crashing a stolen Hyundai Tucson car that injured 10 pedestrians during a police chase near the Grand Central Terminal in New York City, U.S. (CBS News) (New York Daily News)
- The Moldovan Interior Ministry reports that a man has been arrested by Chișinău police after ramming his vehicle near the Russian Embassy in the country. (Meduza)
- Brazilian footballer Dani Alves is indicted in Spain on sexual assault charges. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Tunisian president Kais Saied appoints Ahmed Hachani as prime minister after dismissing Najla Bouden, the first female prime minister in the Arab world, from the role. (Reuters via Devdiscourse)
- Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra announces a return to Thailand after 15 years of exile in the United Arab Emirates. (DW)
- Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau announce their separation. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
- Jamaica become the first Caribbean team to qualify for the knockout stage of a FIFA Women's World Cup after drawing 0–0 with Brazil in their final group stage match to finish second in their group. (Forbes)