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Current Events: 7 August 2022
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Gaza–Israel conflict
Operation Breaking Dawn
Israel
and the
Islamic Jihad
agree to a ceasefire agreement for the
Gaza Strip
.
(CNN)
Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
Mali War
Forty-two soldiers and four civilians are killed during an attack near the town of
Tessit
by
Islamic State in the Greater Sahara
gunmen. Twenty-two other soldiers are wounded, and 37 of the attackers are also killed.
(Al Jazeera)
Ituri conflict
,
2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
Twenty people are killed when suspected
Islamists
attack two villages in
Ituri
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
.
(Reuters)
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Senior
Pakistani Taliban
militant
Omar Khalid Khorasani
and three other militants are killed as their vehicle hit a
roadside bomb
in
Paktika Province
,
Afghanistan
.
(Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
2022 Colombian presidential election
Gustavo Petro
is inaugurated as the first
left-wing
president of Colombia
.
(
The Globe and Mail
)
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