< Portal:Current events
August 3, 2022 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Afghanistan conflict
- Taliban–ISIL conflict
- Two Taliban policemen and three Islamic State gunmen are killed during a gunbattle at a hideout in Kabul. Four other officers are wounded. (Gandhara)
- Taliban–ISIL conflict
- 2021–2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
- Reignited clashes in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region between Armenia and Azerbaijan kill three soldiers and injure fourteen others. (ABC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Seventeen people are killed and four others are injured after a minibus collides with a truck in Juhaynah, Sohag Governorate, Egypt. (Gulf News)
- Two people are killed after heavy flooding in The Gambia. (Reuters)
- Eight people are injured after an explosion at a factory in Bergerac, France. (Business Standard)
International relations
- Cross-Strait relations
- 2022 United States congressional delegation visit to Taiwan
- China warns airlines to avoid areas near Taiwan as it conducts military exercises in response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island. (Bloomberg)
- 2022 United States congressional delegation visit to Taiwan
Law and crime
- Three people are killed and six others are injured in a mass stabbing attack at a kindergarten in Anfu County, Jiangxi, China. (ABC News)
- Belarusian journalist Iryna Slaunikava is sentenced to five years in prison amidst a government crackdown on the media following protests that occurred after the 2020 Belarusian presidential election. (RFE/RL)
- American basketball player Brittney Griner is sentenced to nine years in prison by a Russian court after being found guilty of bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Prime Minister of Peru Aníbal Torres resigns citing "personal reasons", amid multiple criminal investigations focusing on president Pedro Castillo. (Reuters)
- The former chairman of the Union of Values and federal presidential candidate for the AfD, Max Otte, is legally expelled from the CDU. (Der Spiegel)
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