Portal:Current events/2025 August 31

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza City offensive
    • At least 88 Palestinians are killed by the Israeli military as Israel continues its heavy bombardment of Gaza. (Financial Times)
    • Israeli defence minister Israel Katz announces that the Israeli military killed Hamas spokesperson Abu Obaida in an airstrike on Gaza City yesterday. (BBC News)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Darfur campaign
    • At least seven people are killed and 71 others are injured in shelling by the Rapid Support Forces in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan. (AFP via Barron's)
• Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute
  • The Guyanese military report that Venezuelan gunfire targeted a patrol boat escorting election materials on the Cuyuní River in the disputed Essequibo region. (AFP via TRT World)
• Yemeni civil war
  • The Houthis raid United Nations offices in Sanaa, Yemen, and detain at least eleven UN personnel. (The Times of Israel)

Arts and culture

• The original 1920s manuscripts of The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, one of the most well-known works of Czech literature, are rediscovered by the Czech Museum of Literature. (NOS) (Radio Prague International)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Afghanistan earthquake
  • At least 610 people are killed and 1,300 others are injured when a M_w 6.0 earthquake strikes Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. (TRT World) (The Times)
• 2025 Tarasin landslide
  • Over 1,000 people are killed when a landslide destroys a village in the Marrah Mountains area of western Sudan. (CNN)
• Two people are killed and eight Kenyan police officers are injured in an accident involving two armored vehicles in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, Haiti. (AP)

International relations

• Armenia–Pakistan relations
  • Armenia and Pakistan agree to establish diplomatic relations on the sidelines of the 2025 Tianjin SCO summit. (Dawn)
• Norway–United Kingdom relations
  • Norway agrees to purchase at least five new British-made anti-submarine Type 26 frigates for the Royal Norwegian Navy in a £10 billion (US$13.5 billion) deal. The ships will be built by a consortium of companies led by BAE Systems. (AP)

Law and crime

• August 2025 Indonesian protests
  • Mobs loot the houses of Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani and parliament member Nafa Urbach. (Jakarta Globe)
  • In a press conference, President Prabowo agrees to revoke the allowance for parliament members and put moratoriums to their foreign trips. (CNA)
  • A university student dies one day after participating in a protest in Yogyakarta one day prior, after he was allegedly separated from other protestors and assaulted by police. (Kompas)
• Deportation in the second Trump administration
  • United States judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the District of Columbia issues an injunction halting the deportation of Guatemalan unaccompanied minors after advocacy groups filed an emergency appeal against the Trump administration's plan to repatriate them. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Gaza war
  • Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
    • The Global Sumud Flotilla, the largest civilian-led maritime convoy, departs from four cities in the Mediterranean and heads towards Gaza to attempt to break the Israeli blockade, carrying humanitarian aid and activist Greta Thunberg and actors Mark Ruffalo and Gustaf Skarsgård, among others. (Al Jazeera) (CBS News)
• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines
  • Philippine public works secretary Manuel Bonoan resigns over the flood control controversy, while President Bongbong Marcos appoints transportation secretary Vince Dizon as Bonoan's replacement. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)