Armed conflicts and attacks

Ukraine accuses Belarus of building up a "significant level" of troops and weaponry, including artillery, multiple-launch rocket systems and air defense systems along the border under the guise of military exercises, and demands their immediate withdrawal. (The Kyiv Independent) (Reuters)

• https://kyivindependent.com/belarus-gathering-significant-number-of-troops-weaponry-along-ukraines-border-under-guise-of-exercises-ukraine-says/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-calls-belarus-pull-back-forces-border-2024-08-25/

Armed conflicts and attacks

At least four people are killed and 37 others are injured in overnight Russian attacks in Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Donetsk Oblasts, Ukraine. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-attacks-ukraine-with-missiles-drones-ukraine-military-says-2024-08-25/

Armed conflicts and attacks

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly presents the Ukrainian-produced Palianytsia rocket drone and loitering munition, intended to serve as the Ukrainian counterpart to the Russian ZALA Kub-BLA. (Ukrainska Pravda)

• https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2024/08/25/7471770/

Armed conflicts and attacks

At least 71 people are killed and 112 others are injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/25/at-least-eight-people-killed-in-israeli-air-attack-in-gazas-deir-el-balah

Armed conflicts and attacks

Nearly 200 people are killed and at least 140 others are injured in an attack by the al-Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin jihadist organization in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/25/up-to-200-people-killed-in-attack-in-central-burkina-faso

Armed conflicts and attacks

German police detain a 26-year-old Syrian asylum seeker with ties to the Islamic State as the suspect of the stabbing attack in Solingen, Germany, on Friday. The man is charged with three counts of murder, as well as attempted murder, dangerous bodily harm and membership of a terrorist organisation abroad. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/germany-knife-attack-solingen-islamic-state-1095235a9dadf6e1005e8adff52d05b4

Armed conflicts and attacks

Two police officers are killed and three others are injured in an attack in Abuja, Nigeria. A police spokesperson says that the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria was responsible for the attack. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/two-nigerian-police-officers-killed-attack-by-islamist-group-say-police-2024-08-25/

Disasters and accidents

At least two people are killed in wildfires in São Paulo state, Brazil. (BBC News)

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cze56wn278zo.amp

Disasters and accidents

Thirteen people are killed and 20 others are injured in a mudslide near the Big Buddha in Phuket, Thailand. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/mudslide-thailands-phuket-kills-13-including-2-russians-official-says-2024-08-25/

Disasters and accidents

Twenty-two people are killed when a bus plunges into a ravine in Kahuta, Punjab, Pakistan. Separately, twelve people are killed in a bus crash on the Makran Coastal Highway in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/25/bus-accidents-in-pakistan-leave-dozens-dead-including-pilgrims

Disasters and accidents

At least thirteen people are killed and at least 14 others remain missing after a boat carrying Ethiopian and Yemeni migrants from Djibouti sinks off the coast of Taiz Governorate, Yemen. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/25/at-least-13-killed-14-missing-after-boat-sinks-off-yemen-un-agency

Disasters and accidents

One person is killed, one is injured, two are missing and 21 are rescued unharmed after the collapse of an ice cave in the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, in southern Iceland. (AP)

• https://apnews.com/article/iceland-ice-cave-collapse-breiamerkurjokull-8d6a45480717589a4699f75f976e3df3

Law and crime

Four people are injured in a mass stabbing in Engadine, New South Wales, Australia. The suspect is later taken into custody. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-police-say-4-people-injured-sydney-stabbing-attack-2024-08-25/