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August 11, 2023 (Friday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
The West African bloc ECOWAS announces an emergency summit after Niger's government rejected an ultimatum to restore the previous president.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces the dismissal of all heads of regional military recruitment centres due to corruption.
Business and economy
The International Energy Agency increases its 2023 forecast for global oil demand to a potential all-time annual high of 102.2 million barrels per day.
Disasters and accidents
Authorities in Hawaii, United States, call the Lahaina fire the "worst natural disaster in the state's history", as the death toll increases to 80 people, and 11,000 homes and businesses continue to be without electricity.
Valencia, Spain, sets a new temperature record of 46.8 °C (116.2 °F) recorded at the Valencia Airport.
President Joe Biden orders the provision of federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts.
Five people are killed and approximately 40,000 are evacuated due to floods and landslides from monsoon rains in Myanmar.
The Maria Lanakila Catholic Church is reportedly still standing despite the wildfires. The banyan tree is also standing, but is damaged by the wildfire and it is unknown if it will survive.
A freight train derails in the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, causing the tunnel to be closed for at least six days.
Health and environment
Nearly 14,000 residents of Lublin, Poland, are ordered to evacuate, after an unexploded bomb was found at the site of a pre-World War II factory yesterday.
Due to a long-term structural damage at FSO Safer, a floating oil storage and offloading vessel moored near Al Hudaydah, Yemen, 1.1 million barrels of oil are transferred by Smit International to another ship to prevent a potential environmental disaster.
Law and crime
American judge Lewis A. Kaplan revokes FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried's bail, citing reasonable cause to believe that Bankman-Fried attempted witness tampering while on bail.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announces the appointment of Delaware attorney David Weiss as special counsel for the investigations into the financial dealings of presidential son Hunter Biden.
A man kills three people, including his ex-wife, and wounds three more, before killing himself, during a spree shooting in Gradačac, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Politics and elections
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ministry survives a motion of no confidence in parliament over their response to the Manipur violence.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa pardons his predecessor Jacob Zuma, who was convicted last year for refusing to testify in his corruption trial, alongside other non-violent offenders as part of an attempt to reduce overcrowding in the country's prisons.
Science and technology
Russia launches the Luna 25 lunar lander at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, which will touch down near the Moon's south pole. The mission will investigate the composition of the moon's polar soil as well as the plasma and dust contained in the lunar exosphere.
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