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Anna Muzychuk
- The Chess Olympiad concludes with Uzbekistan winning the open event and Ukraine winning the women's event (player Anna Muzychuk pictured).
- Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, is killed by a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan.
- In association football, UEFA Women's Euro 2022 concludes with England defeating Germany in the final.
- In cycling, Annemiek van Vleuten wins the Tour de France Femmes.
August 11, 2022 (Thursday)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Marshall Islands
- The Marshall Islands confirms its first death from COVID-19 in a patient in Majuro. (RNZ)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the Marshall Islands
Law and crime
- 2021–2022 inflation surge
- Sierra Leone declares a nationwide curfew amid anti-government protests that have left two Sierra Leone Police officers and one civilian dead. The West African country is experiencing record inflation. (Reuters)
August 10, 2022 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- Russian forces install air defence systems at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, according to the Russian-appointed Governor of Zaporizhzhia Yevhen Balytskyi. (MSN)
- A Russian missile strike in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, kills at least 13 civilians and injures 11 others. (The New York Times)
- Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- Mexican Drug War
- Cartel gunmen in Mexico burn down dozens of stores and block streets with burning cars in the states of Jalisco and Guanajuato in response to arrests of cartel figures by the Federal Police. (AP)
Business and economy
- COVID-19 recession
- Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Domino's Pizza closes all of its stores in Italy after its franchise holder ePizza SpA files for bankruptcy. The American restaurant chain says that it was severely impacted by COVID-19 restrictions in the country. (BBC News)
- Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Disasters and accidents
- A house explodes in Evansville, Indiana, United States, killing at least three people and damaging at least 39 nearby houses. (CNN)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic in Georgia
- Stacey Abrams, the Democratic Party nominee for the upcoming gubernatorial election in Georgia, U.S., tests positive for COVID-19. (ABC News)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Georgia
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Law and crime
- Anti-government protests occur in Sierra Leone, calling for the removal of President Julius Maada Bio. Both protestors and policemen are killed during clashes. (The Washington Post)
- Uzbekistan says that it will imprison any nationals who join Russia's war against Ukraine. (EuroWeekly News)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Papua New Guinean general election
- James Marape is re-elected unopposed as Prime Minister by the Parliament after his party Pangu Pati won the general election in July. (The Guardian)
August 9, 2022 (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
- Discoveries of exoplanets
- Scientists say that they have discovered AS 209, a newborn Jupiter-sized exoplanet via the Atacama Large Millimeter Array telescope in Chile. (Space.com)
- 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)
August 8, 2022 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Insurgency in Northern Chad
- The government of Chad and more than 30 rebel and opposition factions sign a peace agreement at talks in Doha, Qatar. However, the main rebel group Front for Change and Concord in Chad rejects the agreement, saying that negotiators had not listened to their demands, which included the release of political prisoners. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- The Pentagon announces that it will send Ukraine an additional $1 billion in military assistance, including tens of thousands more munitions and explosives, the largest such aid package to the country since the start of the invasion. (The Washington Post)
International relations
- Russia–United States relations
- Russia suspends New START arms inspections of its nuclear weapons in response to travel restrictions imposed by the United States and its allies. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- FBI search of Mar-a-Lago
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation executes a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the primary residence of former U.S. president Donald Trump, as part of a Justice Department investigation into Trump. (CNN)
August 7, 2022 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza–Israel conflict
- Operation Breaking Dawn
- Israel and the Islamic Jihad agree to a ceasefire agreement for the Gaza Strip. (CNN)
- Operation Breaking Dawn
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- Mali War
- Forty-two soldiers and four civilians are killed during an attack near the town of Tessit by Islamic State in the Greater Sahara gunmen. Twenty-two other soldiers are wounded, and 37 of the attackers are also killed. (Al Jazeera)
- Mali War
- Ituri conflict, 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
- Twenty people are killed when suspected Islamists attack two villages in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Senior Pakistani Taliban militant Omar Khalid Khorasani and three other militants are killed as their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Paktika Province, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Colombian presidential election
- Gustavo Petro is inaugurated as the first left-wing president of Colombia. (The Globe and Mail)
August 6, 2022 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza–Israel conflict
- Operation Breaking Dawn
- Israel launches airstrikes for the second day in the Gaza Strip, killing 14 people and injuring several others. Nineteen Palestinian Islamic Jihad members are also arrested in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- Operation Breaking Dawn
Disasters and accidents
- Twelve people are killed and 32 others are injured when a bus carrying pilgrims from Poland to Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, crashes in Podvorec, Croatia. (BBC News)
- One person is killed and at least 121 others are injured after a lightning strike causes a fire near the supertanker port in Matanzas, Cuba. (Reuters)
- Four people are killed and eight others are injured when a bus travelling from Istanbul, Turkey, to Bucharest, Romania, crashes near Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. (AP)
August 5, 2022 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- Ukraine's nuclear agency Energoatom says that Russian rockets have caused damage to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, including a nitrogen-oxygen unit and a high-voltage power line. (BBC News)
- Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast
- Volodymyr Saldo, the head of the Russian occupational administration in Kherson Oblast, is hospitalized, with former FSB officer Sergei Eliseev taking over his post temporarily. (Newsweek)
- Southern Ukraine campaign
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Gaza–Israel conflict
- Operation Breaking Dawn
- Israel launches a series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, including a number against Palestinian Islamic Jihad's facilities. Ten people are killed and 55 others are wounded, including PIJ military leader Tayseer Jabari. (Al Jazeera)
- Operation Breaking Dawn
- Afghanistan conflict
- Islamic State–Taliban conflict
- August 2022 Kabul bombing
- Eight people are killed and 18 others are injured when a bomb hidden in a cart explodes near a Shiite mosque in Kabul. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack. (Al Arabiya)
- August 2022 Kabul bombing
- Islamic State–Taliban conflict
- Casamance conflict
- The Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance signs a peace deal with the government of Senegal, pledging to lay down its arms in order to work towards a permanent solution. (BBC News)
Business and economy
- Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree banning investors from "unfriendly countries" from selling their assets in Russian banks, strategic entities, and energy and commodity projects until December 31. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Mountain B nightclub fire
- Fourteen people are killed and over 40 others injured in a fire at a nightclub in Sattahip district, Chonburi province, Thailand. (BBC News)
- 2022 Pakistan floods
- The death toll from the flash floods in Pakistan increases to 550. (Reuters)
- Five people are killed and 44 others injured in a fire at a hospital in Icheon, South Korea. (Korea Times)
- Ten people are killed in a house fire in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania, United States. (AP)
- One person is killed and another is injured after heavy flooding in Dakar, Senegal. (Reuters)
- Fifteen people are injured when an SUV crashes into a Native American parade in Gallup, New Mexico, United States. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Senegalese parliamentary election
- Provisional results show that the Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition wins 82 seats, falling 1 seat short of absolute majority, while 80 seats were won by the opposition coalitions Yewwi Askan Wi and Wallu Sénégal. (Reuters) (BBC News)
- 2022 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election
- The opposition Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party, led by Terrance Drew, wins the snap general election to the National Assembly. Drew becomes the prime minister-elect. (The St Kitts & Nevis Observer)
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