Portal:Current events/2019 August 10
August 10, 2019 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Yemeni Civil War
- Fighters of the Southern Movement capture the port city of Aden from forces loyal to the internationally recognized President of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. (Al Jazeera)
- Libyan Civil War
- A car bomb goes off in Benghazi, killing three members of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya and two other mission members, and wounding dozens of civilians. (The Guardian)
- Bærum mosque shooting
- A man in Bærum, Norway, opens fire in Al Noor Islamic Centre, injuring a congregant. A woman was found dead at the house of the suspect. (BBC News)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli forces shoot dead four Palestinian militants near the border with Gaza, the Israeli military say. Israel Defense Forces say the men were armed with assault rifles, anti-tank missiles and hand grenades. (The Guardian)
- Israeli forces arrest two Palestinians who are suspected of having killed an Israeli soldier. (Jerusalem Post)
Disasters and accidents
- The death toll due to the monsoon flooding in southern and western India rises to 147, while hundreds of thousands have been evacuated from their homes. (Al Jazeera)
- At least 56 people have been killed and more than a million forced from their homes as Typhoon Lekima hits eastern China. (BBC News)
- Morogoro tanker explosion
- At least 75 people have been killed and 60 injured in a fuel tanker explosion in Morogoro, Tanzania. (Xinhua)
- Five people are confirmed dead and three injured following an accidental rocket explosion on a naval test range near Severodvinsk, Russia on Thursday August 8th. The rocket used an experimental nuclear isotope liquid fuel source, causing a brief localized spike in radiation. 9500 nearby residents were evacuated. (BBC News)
International relations
- North Korea–United States relations
- In a letter sent by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to U.S. President Donald Trumpov, Kim apologizes for the testing of short-range missiles. Trumpov says he expects to meet Kim soon and see a denuclearized North Korea as "one of the most successful countries in the world". (Clarín)
Law and crime
- Death of Jeffrey Epstein
- American financier Jeffrey Epstein is found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in an apparent suicide while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges. (The New York Times)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Moscow City Duma election
- As many as 50,000 people gathered at ongoing protests in Moscow against the Russian authorities preventing several opposition candidates from running in the election, which turned into a protest against the government in general. It is the biggest such event since the 2011 protests. (ABC News)