Portal:Current events/2023 August 26

August 26, 2023 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2023 Jacksonville shooting
- Three people are killed in a racially motivated shooting at a store in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. The perpetrator, who killed himself after the attack, released a manifesto against black people. (AP)
2023 Nigerien crisis
- The ruling Nigerien military government orders the Niger Armed Forces to go on maximum alert, citing an increased threat of attack. (Al Jazeera)
Haitian crisis
- Seven people are killed when gang members open fire on a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (BBC News)
Aftermath of the Tigray War
- Four people are killed and twenty are injured in a grenade attack by a former TPLF combatant in Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia. (Borkena)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - 2022–2023 western Russia attacks
    - The governor of Belgorod Oblast says that Ukrainian shelling and usage of cluster munitions injured six civilians in Urazovo. (Al Jazeera)
  - Russian forces shell the front-line city of Kupiansk, killing two people and injuring another. (AP via MSN)
Russia's Northern Fleet conducts navy exercises in the Barents Sea aimed at preventing the passage of unauthorised and foreign ships. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

British Museum chair George Osborne announces that the museum has begun the process of recovering 2,000 stolen artifacts. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

Ukraine’s foreign ministry expresses opposition to a continuation of European Union import restrictions on its grain after member states including Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary supported an extension. (Al Jazeera)
The Panama Canal imposes a one-year restriction on ship passage due to severe drought conditions, leading to delays and decreased maritime traffic. (AFP via ABS-CBN News)

Disasters and accidents

2023 Hawaii wildfires
- A new brush fire in Maui, United States, burns up to 10 acres in a Kaanapali neighborhood located a few miles from the Lahaina area damaged by wildfires, prompting evacuations. The evacuation order is lifted after the fire was contained. (AP) (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
Nine people are killed and nine more are injured when a gas canister explodes on a train in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. (BBC News)
Three people were killed and 46 others were injured in series of explosions at a liquefied petroleum gas station in Crevedia, Romania. (Reuters via RTÉ)

Law and crime

American food delivery platform DoorDash announces that it will pay $1.6 million to its workers after a Seattle Office of Labor Standards investigation finds that the company failed to implement the city’s required sick and safe time policy. (AP)
2023 Greece wildfires
- Fire department officials in Greece arrest two men on suspicion of setting fires amid ongoing wildfires. (AP)

Politics and elections

2023 Gabonese general election
- Gabonese citizens vote for a president and members of the parliament. (AFP via France 24)
- The government imposes a nightly curfew and suspends internet access following the closure of polls, citing the need to prevent violence and misinformation. (AFP via Le Monde)
2023 Zimbabwean general election
- President Emmerson Mnangagwa is re-elected to a second term with 52.6% of the vote, defeating main challenger Nelson Chamisa who garners 44%. Mnangagwa's ZANU–PF also wins a majority in the National Assembly elections. Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change rejects the results, alleging electoral irregularities. (AFP via SCMP)

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