Armed conflicts and attacks

At least five United States personnel are injured when two missiles strike the joint American–Iraqi Al Asad Airbase in al-Anbar Governorate, Iraq. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-personnel-hurt-attack-against-base-iraq-officials-say-2024-08-05/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel returns 89 decomposed, unidentifiable Palestinian bodies to the Gaza Ministry of Health. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/5/israel-returns-decomposed-bodies-of-89-palestinians-to-gaza

International relations

Brazil becomes the representative of the interests of Argentina and Peru in Venezuela, after Venezuela expels the Argentinian and Peruvian diplomats following tensions in the aftermath of the presidential election. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-venezuela-reach-deal-after-diplomatic-ruptures-following-contested-2024-08-05/

Law and crime

District of Columbia District Judge Amit Mehta finds Google guilty of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act by illegally maintaining a monopoly over internet search. (CNN) (The Washington Post)

• https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/05/business/google-loses-antitrust-lawsuit-doj/index.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/05/doj-google-monopoly-trial-judgment/

Sports

Sweden's Armand Duplantis wins his second consecutive gold medal, breaking his own world record with a jump of 6.25 metres (20 ft 6 in). (CNN)

• https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/05/sport/mondo-duplantis-pole-vault-world-record-paris-olympics-spt-intl/index.html