Portal:Current events/2023 August 1

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Bombing of Kherson
      • A civilian is killed and five others are injured by a Russian airstrike on a Kherson hospital. (The Kyiv Independent via Yahoo! News)
  • 2022–2023 western Russia attacks
    • Russia says that it destroyed three drones near Moscow. One drone damaged the 21st floor of the IQ-quarter mixed-use complex, which hosts offices for the Ministry of Economic Development. The Vnukovo International Airport temporarily closed for the second time in two days. (The Guardian) (Meduza)
    • Turkmenistan Airlines announces that they will temporarily suspend flights from Ashgabat to Moscow following the drone attacks. Flights will instead travel to Kazan, located in Tatarstan. (The Moscow Times) (Turkmenportal)
• Religious violence in India
  • 2023 Haryana riots
    • A deputy imam is killed and another is injured when Hindus storm a mosque in Gurgaon, Haryana, India, as a spillover of yesterday's intercommunal violence in the neighboring Nuh district. (Al Jazeera)
• 2023 Sudan conflict
  • Protests begin in Kadugli, South Kordofan, Sudan, against the ongoing clashes in the city, with protesters also denouncing the war and the country's violations against women. (Dabanga Sudan)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A Palestinian man is shot and killed by Israeli security forces after opening fire on Israelis in the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• Decommunization in Ukraine
  • The Soviet state emblem emblazoned on the Motherland Monument statue in Kyiv is removed and will be replaced with the tryzub. (AFP via The Manila Times)

Business and economy

• Major credit rating agency Fitch downgrades the United States' bond credit rating from AAA to AA+, citing an "erosion of governance" manifested in the country's debt ceiling impasses. (Financial Times)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Pacific typhoon season
  • Typhoon Doksuri
    • Eleven people are killed and 13 others are reported missing during floods in Beijing, China. More than 50,000 people have been evacuated from the city. (BBC News)
• Twenty workers are killed and three others are injured when a large crane collapses at a highway construction site in Thane, Maharashtra, India. (Al Jazeera)
• One person is killed and 56 others are injured after a tour bus rolls over in Grand Canyon West, Arizona, United States. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2023 Asia heat wave
  • The Iranian government declares a two-day nationwide holiday due to extreme heat, closing all schools, banks, and government offices. (Sky News)

International relations

• 2023 Nigerien coup d'état
  • France and Italy begin the evacuation of their citizens and other European nationals from Niger. (Al Jazeera)
• Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • The Senate of the Philippines adopts a resolution condemning China's incursions in the West Philippine Sea and urges the Department of Foreign Affairs to file a resolution regarding China's harassment of Philippine vessels before the United Nations General Assembly. (GMA News)
• Belarus–Poland relations
  • Poland orders an increase in the number of soldiers near its border with Belarus after the Polish Ministry of National Defence says two Belarusian helicopters that were carrying out training exercises violated its airspace. (AP)
• Foreign relations of Burundi, Foreign relations of Russia
  • Burundi and Russia sign a memorandum of cooperation on sharing nuclear technology for peaceful purposes at the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (World Nuclear News)

Law and crime

• Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
  • Aftermath of the January 6 United States Capitol attack, US DOJ investigation on the 2020 presidential election
    • Former U.S. President Donald Trump is indicted by DOJ Counsel Jack Smith on four criminal counts as part of an investigation for his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. (Politico) (Fortune)
  • Two members of the Michigan Republican Party are charged by prosecutors for attempting to tamper with voting machines in Michigan during the 2020 election. (AP)
• Two people are killed and five others are injured when an assailant robs passengers and throws a Molotov cocktail on a bus in Dakar, Senegal. (AFP via UrduPoint)
• Suspended Filipino congressman and alleged mastermind of the Pamplona massacre Arnolfo Teves Jr. and twelve others are designated as terrorists by the Anti-Terrorism Council. (GMA News)
• Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is pardoned on five of her convictions, thereby reducing her prison sentence from 33 to 27 years. (AFP via France 24)
• The Public Prosecutor of Costa Rica launches an influence peddling investigation into President Rodrigo Chaves Robles and several other government officials. (AFP via New Vision)

Science and technology

• Royal Mail initiates the first regular postal delivery by drones in the United Kingdom, delivering mail by Skyports drones on Scotland's Orkney archipelago. (AFP via Manila Bulletin)