Portal:Current events/2022 August 17

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Northeastern Ukraine campaign
      • Battle of Kharkiv
        • A Russian missile hits a dormitory in Kharkiv, killing seven civilians and injuring 16 others, according to the city's mayor and top military administrator. (Ukrainska Pravda) (The Guardian)
    • Southern Ukraine campaign
      • Russia launches missile strikes on Odesa and Mykolaiv in Southern Ukraine in response to sabotage bombings of military facilities in Crimea. (MSN)
• Afghanistan conflict
  • August 2022 Kabul mosque bombing
    • Twenty-one people are killed and 33 others are injured by a mosque bombing in Kabul. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• 2021–2022 inflation surge
  • Inflation in the United Kingdom increases to 10.1%, the highest level since February 1982, due to increasing fuel and food prices. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• Matanzas oil storage facility explosion
  • The death toll from the August 6 fire at a supertanker port in Matanzas, Cuba, rises to 16. All the deceased were firefighters who were battling the blaze. (BBC News)
• Twenty-six people are killed by wildfires in Algeria, mostly in the city of El Taref. (BBC News).

International relations

• Israel–Turkey relations
  • Israel and Turkey restore full diplomatic relations for the first time since 2018. (Axios)

Law and crime

• Police in Tokyo, Japan, arrest a former member of the 2020 Summer Olympics organising committee after prosecutors accused him of graft and bribery. (Reuters)
• The High Court of Australia rules that Google is not liable for defamatory material within hyperlinks that it serves as part of its search results. (Axios)

Science and technology

• Archaeologists discover one of the largest megalithic sites in Europe on a farm in southern Spain. The site dates back 7,000 years and contains more than 500 standing stones. (The Times)