Portal:Current events/2023 August 22

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Pakistani Taliban insurgents ambush a military convoy in South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, triggering a shootout, with at least six soldiers and four militants killed. (AP via Yahoo! News)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • More than 200 fishermen stage a protest on the docks of Gaza’s seaport after the arrest of at least six fishermen and the seizure of multiple boats by Israeli forces, requesting immediate international intervention. (Al Jazeera)
• Mexican drug war
  • The Mexican Army says that drug cartels have increased usage of improvised explosive devices, with 42 soldiers, police and suspects wounded this year. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian forces shell Torske and Zavitne in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, killing three people and injuring two others. (BBC News)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • France delivers the first shipment of its SCALP-EG air-launched cruise missiles to Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Tropical Storm Harold makes landfall in south Texas, United States, the first during the hurricane season. A tropical storm warning is issued for parts of Texas and the Mexican border. (ABC News)
• 2023 Greece wildfires
  • Eighteen people are found dead amid wildfires in the Dadia Forest in Greece. (BBC News)
• Sixteen people are killed and thirty-six others are injured after a bus carrying Mexican and Venezuelan migrants crashes into a freight truck in Oaxaca, Mexico. (AP)

International relations

• 15th BRICS summit
  • The BRICS summit begins in Johannesburg, South Africa. The summit will focus on the bloc's expansion and role among the economies of the Global South. (Peoples Dispatch)
• 2023 Nigerien crisis
  • The African Union's Peace and Security Council votes to suspends Niger's membership with immediate effect. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Human rights in the United States
  • The American Civil Liberties Union and three advocacy groups release a report examining the screening system at the Torrance County Detention Facility where claims to asylum were inappropriately screened out for deportation. Complaints of retaliation against migrants who objected to procedures and living conditions were cataloged. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Cambodian general election
  • Hun Manet is approved as the next Prime Minister by the National Assembly. (AFP via WION)
• 2023 Thai general election
  • Srettha Thavisin is approved as the next Prime Minister in a joint session of parliament. (Reuters)
  • Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returns to Thailand after 15 years of self-exile. He is arrested and jailed by the Supreme Court of Thailand over his existing convictions. (BBC News) (Bangkok Post)

Sports

• Women's Chess World Cup 2023
  • Aleksandra Goryachkina wins her first Women's Chess World Cup title after defeating Bulgaria's Nurgyul Salimova in a tiebreak. (The Free Press Journal)