Portal:Current events/2022 August 3

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan conflict
  • Taliban–ISIL conflict
    • Two Taliban policemen and three Islamic State gunmen are killed during a gunbattle at a hideout in Kabul. Four other officers are wounded. (Gandhara)
• 2021–2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
  • Reignited clashes in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region between Armenia and Azerbaijan kill three soldiers and injure fourteen others. (ABC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Seventeen people are killed and four others are injured after a minibus collides with a truck in Juhaynah, Sohag Governorate, Egypt. (Gulf News)
• Two people are killed after heavy flooding in The Gambia. (Reuters)
• Eight people are injured after an explosion at a factory in Bergerac, France. (Business Standard)

International relations

• Cross-Strait relations
  • 2022 United States congressional delegation visit to Taiwan
    • China warns airlines to avoid areas near Taiwan as it conducts military exercises in response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island. (Bloomberg)

Law and crime

• Three people are killed and six others are injured in a mass stabbing attack at a kindergarten in Anfu County, Jiangxi, China. (ABC News)
• Belarusian journalist Iryna Slaunikava is sentenced to five years in prison amidst a government crackdown on the media following protests that occurred after the 2020 Belarusian presidential election. (RFE/RL)
• American basketball player Brittney Griner is sentenced to nine years in prison by a Russian court after being found guilty of bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Prime Minister of Peru Aníbal Torres resigns citing "personal reasons", amid multiple criminal investigations focusing on president Pedro Castillo. (Reuters)
• The former chairman of the Union of Values and federal presidential candidate for the AfD, Max Otte, is legally expelled from the CDU. (Der Spiegel)