Portal:Current events/2022 August 25: Difference between revisions

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Southern Ukraine campaign
      • Ukraine says the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been completely disconnected from its power grid after several fires sparked by shelling near the Russian-occupied plant. Security systems at the plant were activated shortly after the power failure, according to a local official. (NBC News)
• American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war
  • The United States conducts airstrikes against Iranian-backed and Russian-backed militia groups in Syria for second day. (WSJ)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
    • North Korea reports four new "fever" cases after declaring "victory" over the name by which the government refers to COVID-19 in Ryanggang Province, which goes under lockdown. (Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• Afghanistan conflict
  • Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri
    • Taliban central spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid announces the government is yet to recover the body of former emir of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was killed in a United States drone strike at his Kabul residence on 31 July. The government says it is "continuing investigations". (MSN)
• War on drugs
  • The Taliban say that they have destroyed more than 5,000 acres (~2000 hectares) of poppy fields, after Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada ordered a crackdown on narcotics. (Xinhua)
• Aftermath of the assassination of Shinzo Abe
  • Itaru Nakamura, chief of the Japanese national police agency, resigns, taking responsibility for the failures in former prime minister Shinzo Abe's security that resulted in his assassination in Nara on 8 July. (CBC)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Angolan general election
  • Electoral comission announces that President João Lourenço's MPLA has won the general election. (Reuters)