Armed conflicts and attacks

At least 70 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes, including eight people in a house in Sabra suburb in Gaza City. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-says-israel-resume-gaza-negotiations-end-war-free-hostages-2025-08-21/

Armed conflicts and attacks

An Israeli military database indicates that 83% of deaths in Gaza have been civilians. The Israeli military initially confirmed the database to the media but later disputed it without clarifying their retraction in response to questions from The Guardian. (The Guardian)

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/revealed-israeli-militarys-own-data-indicates-civilian-death-rate-of-83-in-gaza-war

Armed conflicts and attacks

At least six people are killed and more than 60 others are injured in a terrorist car bombing targeting the Marco Fidel Suárez Air Base on a busy street in Cali, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia. (BBC News) (BNO News)

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwypw0xvdk5o
• https://bnonews.com/index.php/2025/08/car-bomb-attack-kills-at-least-6-injures-50-near-colombian-air-base/

Armed conflicts and attacks

At least 12 Colombian police officers are killed and three others are injured when FARC dissidents shoot down a helicopter during an anti-narcotics operation in Amalfi, Antioquia Department, Colombia. (Euronews) (BNO News)

• https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/22/at-least-17-people-killed-in-car-bomb-and-separate-helicopter-attack-in-colombia
• https://bnonews.com/index.php/2025/08/colombian-police-helicopter-shot-down-during-anti-narcotics-mission-10-killed/

Armed conflicts and attacks

The Russian Armed Forces conduct a combined attack overnight, launching at least 570 drones and 40 hypersonic, ballistic, and cruise missiles across Ukraine, with two cruise missiles striking an American electronics factory in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, injuring over a dozen people. (NPR) (DW)

• https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/g-s1-84146/russia-ukraine-american-factory
• https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-russia-launches-largest-strikes-in-weeks/live-73712664

Disasters and accidents

At least 21 people are killed in flooding caused by heavy monsoons in Pakistan, including eleven in Gilgit-Baltistan and ten in Karachi, as the death toll for the flooding season increases to over 400. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/20/at-least-21-killed-in-pakistan-torrential-rain-flooding

Disasters and accidents

At least 47 people and 300 cattle are killed, 70 others are injured and over 56,000 are displaced during flooding in Niger. (Africanews)

• https://www.africanews.com/2025/08/21/flooding-in-niger-displaces-tens-of-thousands-and-leaves-at-least-47-dead/

Disasters and accidents

At least 15 people are killed and ten others are injured in a landslide in Manéah, Kindia Region, Guinea. (Barron's)

• https://www.barrons.com/news/at-least-15-killed-in-guinea-landslide-cba39ea7

Disasters and accidents

Six people are killed in an accident in a confined space at a dairy farm in Weld County, Colorado, United States. (ABC News)

• https://abcnews.go.com/US/colorado-dairy-farm-fatalities/story?id=124860031

Law and crime

Five bodies and ten body parts are recovered and 27 suspected mass graves are discovered at the site of the Good News International Ministries religious cult mass-murder suicide at the Shakahola Forest in Kenya, where over 400 bodies were recovered two years ago. (CTV News)

• https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/five-bodies-are-exhumed-from-shallow-graves-in-kenya-near-a-doomsday-cult-sitea/

Law and crime

Italian police arrest a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the months that followed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (CNN) (DW)

• https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/europe/nordstream-germany-italy-arrest-intl
• https://www.dw.com/en/germany-arrest-made-over-nord-stream-pipeline-explosions/a-73716929