Portal:Current events/2022 August 19

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 Western Russia attacks
      • Explosions are reported overnight at Russian military bases in Crimea and Belgorod Oblast, Russia. Two villages have been evacuated. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2022 Mogadishu hotel attack
    • At least 10 people are killed as al-Shabaab gunmen storm a hotel in Mogadishu, following two car bomb blasts and gunfire. (Al Jazeera)
• Syrian civil war
  • Fifteen people are killed and at least 28 others are injured in a rocket attack on a market in rebel-controlled Al-Bab, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (AP)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • A roadside bombing kills two Pakistani security forces in Bajaur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (AP)

Business and economy

• 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
  • Russia's Gazprom announces that the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline will be shut down for 3 days of unscheduled maintenance between August 31 and September 2. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Oder environmental disaster
  • The Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries says that a large overgrowth of toxic Prymnesium parvum algae linked to industrial pollution was likely the cause of the mass mortality event of fish in the Oder river. (Reuters)
• Temperatures in Chongqing, China, reach 45 °C (113 °F) during a historic drought. It is the highest temperature ever recorded in China outside of Xinjiang. (AP)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    • COVID-19 vaccination in the United States
      • The FDA announces that it has approved the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for youths between the ages of 12 and 17. (Marketwatch) (WPSD-TV)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand
    • Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announces that Thailand will lift its COVID-19 emergency decree and dissolve the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA). Additionally, CCSA spokesman Thavisin Visanuyothin announces that the country will shift to an endemic phase of the disease beginning in October. (The Star) (Bankgkok Post)

Law and crime

• 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping
  • A Mexican court issues the arrest warrants for 83 suspects, consisting of military personnel, police officers, administrative and judicial authorities, and members of the Guerreros Unidos syndicate, in connection with the abduction and disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in Iguala, Guerrero, on September 26, 2014. (CNN)
• Police in Nicaragua confirm that they have arrested an anti-Ortega Roman Catholic bishop in Managua and warned against further "provocative and destabilizing" activities amongst the clergy. (Infobae)
• Islamic State and "Beatles" cell member El Shafee Elsheikh is sentenced to eight life sentences by a United States district court for his role in the kidnapping and deaths of hostages James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig, and Kayla Mueller. (AP)
• A man is killed and a woman is injured in a shooting at the Emporia shopping centre in Malmö, Sweden. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast
  • Russia appoints former Krasnodar mayor Andrei Alekseyenko as the head of its Kharkiv military–civilian administration. (Reuters)
• Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau nominates judge Michelle O'Bonsawin to the Supreme Court of Canada. An Abenaki member, O'Bonsawin would be the first Indigenous Canadian to sit on the country's highest court. (Deutsche Welle)
• The government of Prime Minister of Montenegro Dritan Abazović collapses after the Parliament passes a vote of no-confidence following dispute within the coalition over an agreement the government signed with the Serbian Orthodox Church. (Reuters)