Portal:Current events/2024 August 6

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
      • Ukraine launches an incursion into Kursk Oblast, Russia. (Reuters)
    • Eastern Ukraine campaign
      • Russia claims that it captured the village of Tymofiivka in Donetsk Oblast. (AA)
• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Six IDF soldiers and 13 Israeli civilians injured in a Hezbollah drone strike and a malfunctioning of the Iron Dome on a highway in Mazra'a and Hezbollah launches rockets at IDF targets in Avivim, Birkat Rasha, Acre and the Golani Brigade of Egoz Unit in northern Israel. (Al Jazeera)
  • Five Hezbollah militants killed in an Israeli airstrike on Mayfadoun, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Fasher
    • At least 53 people are killed and 60 others are injured in Rapid Support Forces raids on several neighborhoods in El Fasher and Gezira State, Sudan. (Radio Dabanga)
• M23 offensive
  • Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi accuses former President Joseph Kabila of backing the Alliance Fleuve Congo, a U.S-sanctioned coalition of rebel groups, whose main member is the M23. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Whaling in Japan
  • Japanese whaling company Kyodo Senpaku announces the country's first fin whale kill in fifty years off the coast of Iwate Prefecture. (Undercurrent News) (The Inertia)

Business and economy

• Japan's Nikkei 225 stock market index rises more than 10%, a day after declining by more than 12%. (The Washington Post) (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Japan heatwaves
  • At least 123 people, many of whom were elderly, are reported to have died from heat illnesses in the Greater Tokyo Area of Japan in July amid an ongoing heatwave in the country. (AP)
• At least two people are killed when a hotel collapses in Kröv, Germany. (DW) (Reuters)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Niger, Foreign relations of Ukraine
  • Niger suspends diplomatic relations with Ukraine over Ukraine's alleged support for rebels who ambushed and killed dozens of Malian soldiers and Russian mercenaries during the Battle of Tinzaouaten in July. (Reuters)
• Palestine–Russia relations
  • Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announces a visit to Moscow, Russia, from August 12–14 to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the peace process for the Israel–Hamas war and to "strengthen bilateral relations in all areas" between the two nations. (LBCI) (Al Jazeera)
• Ukraine–European Union relations
  • The European Union approves a grant of €4.2 billion (US$4.58 billion) in financial aid to Ukraine. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
    • In the United States, Massachusetts District Judge Richard Stearns rules that Harvard University must face a lawsuit accusing the university of intentionally ignoring requests for safety from Jewish students following "severe and pervasive harassment" on campus, while also calling the university's claims that antisemitic acts are protected under the First Amendment "dubious". (Reuters)
• 2024 Israeli protests
  • Haredi Israelis storm the army base in Tel HaShomer in protest of compulsory conscription. (The Jerusalem Post)
• 2024 Tunisian presidential election
  • A court in Tunisia sentences opposition leader Abir Moussi to two years in prison for insulting the election commission. The court also sentences four potential presidential candidates, including activist Nizar Chaari, to eight months in prison and bans them from running for office on charges of vote buying. (DW)
• Capital punishment in Iran, Mahsa Amini protests
  • The Iranian government executes a man who was convicted of killing an Islamic Revolutionary Guards officer during anti-government and mandatory hijab law protests in 2022. (DW)
• Censorship in Germany, Israel–Hamas war protests in Germany
  • A court in Berlin, Germany, convicts a woman and fines her for "condoning a crime" by leading a chant using the phrase "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" during a protest in October 2023. (Al Jazeera)
• End Bad Governance protests
  • Nigeria detains tailors who made Russian flags that were used in anti-government protests. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • Non-cooperation movement
    • Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin dissolves the national parliament in preparation for an interim government following the resignation and departure of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. (France 24)
    • President Shahabuddin names civil society leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus as the chief of the interim government. (DW)
• 2024 United States presidential election
  • 2024 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection
    • Presumptive Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris selects Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. (CNN)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
    • Yahya Sinwar is named the new leader of Hamas, following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024 Summer Olympics
  • Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics
    • Fourteen-year-old Arisa Trew wins the gold medal in Women's park skateboarding, becoming the youngest Australian to ever win an Olympic gold medal. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  • Concerns and controversies at the 2024 Summer Olympics
    • Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu announces he will boycott the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics due to an initial judging error in another competitor's Women's floor gymnastics routine, which after being corrected, caused Romanian gymnast Ana Bărbosu to move from bronze medal position to 4th place. (AP)
  • Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics
    • Cuban wrestler Mijaín López wins the gold medal in the Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg event, becoming the first Olympic athlete to win gold in the same event at five consecutive Olympic games and the first wrestler to win five gold medals in Olympic history. (AP)