Saturday, August 23, 2025

Boko Haram insurgency

More than 35 ISWAP fighters are killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force during an attempted ground assault on troops near the Cameroon–Nigeria border in Kumshe, Borno State, Nigeria.

2025 Syrian parliamentary election

The Syrian electoral commission announces that the upcoming parliamentary election will exclude the Al-Hasakah, Raqqa, and Suwayda governorates due to security concerns, with seats for those regions left vacant until conditions allow voting.

2025 Taiwanese referendum

Taiwan's referendum on reopening the Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant in Pingtung fails to meet the legal threshold for it to be binding, despite a majority voting in favor, leaving the facility closed as the government continues its shift toward renewable energy and liquefied natural gas.

Dharmasthala mass burial case

Indian police arrest a man who recently alleged that he had been coerced into burying hundreds of bodies of women who were raped before being murdered from 1995 to 2014 at the Dharmasthala Temple in Dharmasthala, Karnataka, India.

Pork barrel scam

The Sandiganbayan appellate court of the Philippines sentences Janet Lim-Napoles to 55 years in prison over the diversion of ₱7.55 million (US$133,600) in the Priority Development Assistance Fund involving Davao del Sur vice governor Marc Douglas Cagas IV.

Disasters

Seven students are killed and 28 others are injured in drownings on a school trip to the Abu Talat beach in Ajami, Alexandria, Egypt.

2025–26 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation suspends Norwegian Olympic ski jumpers Johann André Forfang and Marius Lindvik for three months and fines them CHF 2,000 (US$2,500) each after they admitted to equipment tampering during the men's large hill event at the 2025 World Ski Championships in Trondheim, Norway.