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This article covers breaking news and events in August 2018.

Daily events

Wednesday 1st August 2018

• Berlin / Germany : The more than two-year suspension of family reunification for those with subsidiary protection ends.
• Copenhagen / Denmark : A ban on wearing face veils in public comes into force in the country.
• Washington, DC / United States : The United States Office of Foreign Assets Control has imposed sanctions on Turkish Ministers Abdülhamit Gül (Justice) and Süleyman Soylu (Home Affairs).
• Rio de Janeiro / Brazil : At the International Congress of Mathematicians are Caucher Birkar , Alessio Figalli , Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh the Fields Medals awarded.

Thursday 2nd August 2018

• Glasgow / United Kingdom : Start of the European Championships 2018

Friday 3rd August 2018

• Gardez / Afghanistan : 39 people are killed and over 80 injured in a suicide attack by two assassins on the Shiite Khawaja Hassan mosque of the Hazara .

Saturday 4th August 2018

• Caracas / Venezuela : During a military parade in the capital on the occasion of Independence Day and the 81st anniversary of the founding of the National Guard, seven national guardsmen are injured by bomb attacks with mini-drones . A so-called National Movement of Soldiers in Flannel (Movimento Nacional Soldados de Flanela) has become known . President Nicolás Maduro blamed the Colombian government under Juan Manuel Santos and the USA for the attack .
• Piz Segnas / Switzerland : On a flight from Locarno to Dübendorf accident a 52 Junkers Ju of Ju-Air near the Piz Segnas summit ( → crash of the Junkers Ju 52 HB-HOT ).
• Vankor field / Russia : The collision of two helicopters of the type Mil Mi-8 of UTair in use for the oil industry to be killed three crew members and 15 oil workers. A helicopter got caught in the suspension of another helicopter, crashed and burned out completely. The other helicopter landed safely.

Sunday 5th August 2018

• Lombok / Indonesia : At least 480 people are killed and thousands injured in the Lombok earthquake . In total, around 70,000 houses, 470 schools and 65 mosques are also damaged.
• Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : Due to the Canadian government's criticism of the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government has expelled the Canadian ambassador Dennis Horak . Trade relations with Canada have been frozen and government-sponsored education and medical programs have ended.
• Tscharikar / Afghanistan : Three Czech soldiers from the NATO military mission Resolute Support (RSM) are killed during a foot patrol in a suicide attack by the radical Islamic Taliban . Two soldiers of the Afghan National Army and one US soldier are wounded.

Monday 6th August 2018

• Washington, DC / United States : The US economic sanctions against Iran are to come into force again after the July 2015 exit from the so-called " Atom Deal " (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
• Berlin / Germany : Start of the European Athletics Championships 2018

Tuesday 7th August 2018

Wednesday 8th August 2018

• Washington, DC / United States : In the case of the poisoned former Russian double agent Sergei Viktorovich Skripal , the US government has announced further sanctions against Russia, which will come into force in two weeks.

Thursday 9th August 2018

• Idlib / Syria : The Syrian armed forces begin preparations for an offensive on Idlib in the Idlib governorate of the same name as the last major rebel area in the country. Dozens of air and artillery strikes have been carried out in northwest Syria, including the use of fighter jets and helicopters. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), at least 22 people were killed.
• La Paz / Bolivia : President Evo Morales hands over the newly built Casa Grande del Pueblo (“Great House of the People”), which is replacing the old Palacio de Gobierno as the seat of government.
• Saʿda / Yemen : In an air strike by the military coalition led by Saudi Arabia , a school bus was attacked in a market in Dahjan, killing at least 51 people, including 40 children, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). 79 people are injured. In a statement published by the news agency SPA, the military alliance, which has existed since 2015, spoke of a "legitimate military operation". UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for an independent and swift investigation into the attack.

Friday 10th August 2018

• Ankara / Turkey The Turkish lira , which had already fallen sharply before, fell by almost a fifth due to new punitive tariffs by the USA on steel and aluminum. The rate of the lira has now fallen to 7.61 lira for one euro and 6.87 lira for one US dollar. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on his citizens to exchange their foreign currencies in order to counter the decline of the lira. At a rally in Bayburt , he said, "If you have dollars, euros or gold under your pillow, go to the bank and exchange it for Turkish lira. This is a national fight."
• Bogota / Colombia : The Colombian government under President Iván Duque has announced that it will leave the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), which was founded in 2008 . Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Peru had also announced their exit in April 2018.
• Lisbon / Portugal : A week after a huge forest fire broke out in the hinterland of the Portuguese Algarve coast , firefighters brought the flames under control.
• San Francisco / United States : The federal district court for Northern California approves the suit of a caretaker against the agricultural company Monsanto (now part of Bayer AG ) for damages because of the lymph gland cancer suffered from the weed killer Roundup with the controversial active ingredient glyphosate, which has been used for several years, and condemns Monsanto Payment of $ 289 million. The jury considered it proven that the user was not adequately informed about the dangers.

Saturday 11th August 2018

• Bucharest / Romania : During protests against the social democratic government of Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă in the capital, at least 440 people were injured as a result of the tough crackdown on security forces. The demonstrators are calling for the government to resign over proposed legislative changes that critics say will make it difficult to prosecute corruption . President Klaus Johannis condemned the police operation as disproportionate.
• Northern Europe and Northeast Asia : Partial solar eclipse .
• Locarno / Switzerland : The feature film A Land Imagined by director Yeo Siew Hua from Singapore wins the Golden Leopard at the 71st  Locarno Film Festival . As best actress from Romania was Andra Guti for Alice T. excellent and as Best Actor South Korean Ki Joo Bong for the hotel on the river .

Sunday 12th August 2018

• Aqtau / Kazakhstan : The five countries bordering the Caspian Sea have agreed on the legal status of the world's largest inland waterway at a joint summit meeting of the heads of state and government, and in the convention agreed the sea borders and that no armed forces from third countries may use the Caspian Sea. The subdivision of the seabed is also to take place in further negotiations.
• Bamako / Mali : The run-off election for the presidential election between incumbent Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta ( RPM ) and his challenger Soumaïla Cissé ( URD ) won the head of state, who has been in office since 2013, with 67.17 percent of the vote, his challenger Cissé received 32.83 percent of the vote .
• Cape Canaveral / USA : On board a carrier rocket of the type Delta IV Heavy is the spacecraft Parker Solar Probe of NASA started to explore the sun.
• Ghazni / Afghanistan : An offensive by the radical Islamist Taliban on the provincial capital of the same name, Ghazni, leads to heavy fighting with the Afghan armed forces. The US armed forces support defensive battles with drone missions. In total, at least 90 security guards and 13 civilians have been killed since August 10.
• Glasgow / United Kingdom , Berlin / Germany : The European Championships are ended.
• Nador / Morocco : The human rights association L'Association marocaine des droits humains (AMDH) reports on the deportations of up to 1800 migrants from camps in Nador and Tangier by security forces to Tiznit, 870 km and 1200 km away, respectively, in the south of the country. The spokesman, Omar Naji, blames the Moroccan authorities as well as Spain and the European Union (EU) for the procedure.
• Zurich / Switzerland : The new FIFA ethics regulations come into force. This new code of ethics was criticized for the fact that corruption was no longer a punishable offense and that bribery and match-fixing could only be investigated for a limited time. In addition, the new paragraph 22.2 of the FIFA Code of Ethics has been introduced, which prohibits all players, agents and football officials from making publicly defamatory statements about FIFA and those subject to the FIFA Code of Ethics. A violation of the regulation threatens a fine of the equivalent of at least 8,800 euros and a ban of up to two years from all football activities. FIFA stated that the renaming of the previous title of the article “Bribery and Corruption” to “Bribery” was done for the sake of linguistic clarity and had no material impact on the actual offenses.

Monday 13th August 2018

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

• Genoa / Italy : The western of the three pylons with an approximately 250-meter-long section of the Polcevera Viaduct , an inner-city four-lane highway bridge the Autostrada A10 , collapses. At least 42 people are killed.

Wednesday 15th August 2018

• Harrisburg , United States : The Attorney General of Pennsylvania has accused more than 300 Catholic priests of sexual abuse and rape of at least 1,000 children in an 887-page report he submitted . Catholic institutions in the cities of Allentown , Erie , Greensburg , Harrisburg , Pittsburgh and Scranton were affected .
• Kabul / Afghanistan : At least 48 people are killed and 67 injured in a suicide attack on an education center in the Shiite district of Dascht-e Bartschi in the west of the capital.
• Pol-e Chomri / Afghanistan : 39 soldiers are killed in an attack by the radical Islamist Taliban on a checkpoint of the Afghan national army in the Baglan-I Markasi district in the northern province of Baglan .
• Tripoli / Libya : A Libyan criminal court sentenced 45 people to death. They are charged with firing live ammunition under a bridge of the Tariq Sareea (Triq al-Sareeh) in the capital in the Abu Salim district on August 21, 2011, who protested against the then revolutionary leader Muammar al-Gaddafi . 54 defendants will be sentenced to five years' imprisonment and 22 others will be acquitted, the Libyan Justice Ministry said.

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Friday 17th August 2018

• Kerala / India : More than 300 people die in Kerala as a result of heavy rainfall from the monsoons . Several dams have broken.
• Ljubljana / Slovenia : After the parliamentary elections on June 3, the new Prime Minister Marjan Šarec , who heads a minority government made up of five center-left parties , is sworn in.
• Washington, DC , United States : The US government has sanctioned four commanders in the Myanmar Armed Forces and Border Police. The three army commanders Lieutenant General Aung Kyaw Zaw, Major General Maung Maung Soe and Colonel General Min Aung Hlaing and the commander of the San Lwin Border Police are responsible for "ethnic cleansing, massacres, sexual attacks and extrajudicial killings" against the Muslim Rohingya and other minorities directed. On June 26, 2018, the Council for Foreign Affairs of the European Union (EU) had already issued sanctions against seven responsible generals.

Saturday 18th August 2018

Imran Khan becomes new Pakistani Prime Minister (photo taken in 2012)

• Islamabad / Pakistan : Imran Khan is sworn in as the new Prime Minister.
• Jakarta / Indonesia : Opening of the 18th Asian Games in the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta. Next to Jakarta, Palembang is another main competition site and a total of 45 nations and a joint Korean team take part.
• Mbabane / Swaziland : First round of elections in Swaziland .
• Minsk / Belarus : President Aljaksandr Lukashenka dismisses Prime Minister Andrei Kabjakou , who has been in office since 2014, and the ministers for construction, industry, communication and economy. He named the previous head of the development bank , Siarhiej Mikalajevič Rumas , as the new head of government, and Alexander Turtschin , previously chairman of the Council for Entrepreneurship, as the first deputy head of government .

Sunday 19th August 2018

Monday 20th August 2018

• Vienna / Austria : Start of the 30th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
• Istanbul / Turkey : The accused German journalist and translator Meşale Tolu's travel ban has been lifted.
• Purchase / United States : The US group PepsiCo buys the Israeli for about 3.2 billion US dollars SodaStream , a manufacturer of water machines . The takeover is expected to be completed by January 2019.

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

• Dublin / Ireland : International family meeting of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis
• New York / United States : The former volunteer of the SS , Jakiw Palij , is deported from his place of residence in Queens in New York to Germany and is in a nursing home in Münsterland.
• Cologne / Germany : Gamescom , the world's largest trade fair for computer and video games, begins

Wednesday 22nd August 2018

• Kourou / French Guiana : The Earth observation satellite ADM-Aeolus the ESA is from the Guiana Space Center started out into space.

Thursday 23rd August 2018

Still life with a hare

• Koblenz / Germany : The Germany tour starts after a ten-year break
• New York / United States : After a corruption trial , a federal district court announces that the former vice-president of the world football association FIFA and sports official from Paraguay , Juan Ángel Napout , has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
• Tbilisi / Georgia : During a visit to Georgia, Chancellor Angela Merkel received back the painting Still Life with a Hare by Pietro Francesco Cittadini (Milan 1616 - 1681 Bologna), which had been missing since 1945 .
• Washington, DC / United States : The USA is levying new punitive tariffs against the People's Republic of China , which are to be levied at 25 percent on goods worth around 16 billion US dollars.

Friday 24th August 2018

• Canberra / Australia : Following the resignation of Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull , Scott Morrison has been sworn in as his successor.
• Munich / Germany : The 56th season of the Bundesliga begins with the match between Bayern Munich and TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
• Washington, DC / United States : In the wake of tensions with Russia and China's military advances , the reactivation of the second US fleet in the Atlantic , which had already been announced on May 4, 2018, was formally carried out. It had previously been dissolved on September 30, 2011.
• Zeltingen-Rachtig / Germany : After almost five years of construction, the last of thirteen bridges to be moved on the Hochmosel Bridge , the second highest German bridge , took place.

Saturday 25th August 2018

• Vancouver / Canada : Team OG wins the eighth edition of the e-sports tournament The International .

Sunday 26th August 2018

• Stuttgart / Germany : The Slovenian professional cyclist Matej Mohorič from the Bahrain-Merida team wins the new edition of the Germany Tour .

Monday, August 27, 2018

• Brussels / European Union : In the European Union (EU), Tisagenlecleucel (CTL019) (trade name: Kymriah of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis ) is one of the first CAR-T-cell therapy agents to be used as an adoptive immunotherapy, specifically for the treatment of a specific one Form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The price for all gene therapy with a Kymriah treatment was set at $ 475,000 by Novartis after approval in the US in September 2017.
• Chemnitz / Germany : After a fatal knife attack on a 35-year-old man by two asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq, xenophobic riots broke out in downtown Chemnitz .
• Innsbruck / Austria : After the blogger Markus Wilhelm discovered irregularities in competitions, the Austrian National Council member Dominik Schrott ( ÖVP ) announced his resignation.
• Washington, DC , United States : The United States and Mexico have agreed to reform the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) under pressure from US President Donald Trump . Negotiations between the US and Canada are ongoing.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

• Ménaka / Mali : As part of the Barkhane anti-terrorist operation in the Gao region , the leading jihadist of the terrorist organization Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), Mohamed Ag Almouner and three others are attacked by two Mirage 2000 aircraft of the French armed forces People killed.
• Paris / France : The French Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Solidarity Transition , Nicolas Hulot , announces his resignation from the government and criticizes the politics under President Emmanuel Macron , because lobbyists are present in the circles of power and he sees no progress in the environmental field and in reducing the share of nuclear energy.
• Potsdam / Germany : Diana Golze ( Die Linke ), Minister for Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family in Brandenburg , declares her resignation after the health authorities, despite tips in 2016, only after a report by the ARD television magazine Kontraste against the Trafficking in stolen cancer drugs by the pharmaceutical company Lunapharm based in Mahlow had intervened.

Wednesday 29th August 2018

• Berlin / Germany : Federal Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen and Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announce the establishment of an agency for innovations in cybersecurity (ADIC). From the beginning of 2019, the agency is to promote and finance ambitious research and development projects with high innovation potential in the field of cybersecurity . The aim is to keep key technologies that are important for internal and external security in Germany.
• Boa Vista / Brazil : As part of national security, the Brazilian government has ordered the continued deployment of soldiers from the armed forces to the state of Roraima to secure the border until September 12, 2018 . In the border region to economically ailing Venezuela , the number of economic refugees is increasing again. Since 2017, more than 127,000 Venezuelans have left their country and crossed the border into Brazil, of which around 69,000 have traveled on to other countries. In the first half of 2018, around 56,000 nationals from Venezuela applied for a right to stay in Brazil. In mid-August 2018 there were already clashes in a refugee camp.

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Friday 31st August 2018

• Amsterdam / Netherlands : In the western part of the Amsterdam Centraal train station, a 19-year-old Afghan citizen Jawad S. with a residence permit in Germany carried out a knife attack on two US citizens and seriously injured them. He is shot by the police while trying to escape. The authorities assume a terrorist motive. Further investigations are also being carried out in Germany.
• Ankara / Turkey : The Turkish government is increasing taxes on balances in foreign currency to support the ailing currency lira . By decree by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , the withholding tax on money deposits in foreign currency will be increased from 18 to 20 percent for up to six months, while the tax on deposits of up to one year will be increased from 15 to 16 percent. In return, the withholding tax on cash deposits in lira will be reduced from 15 to 5 percent for up to six months and from 12 to 3 percent for cash deposits in lira up to one year and from 10 to zero percent for deposits of more than one year.
• Atlanta / United States : The British coffee house chain Costa Coffee , based in Dunstable , is being sold by its previous parent company Whitbread to the American Coca-Cola Company for 3.9 billion pounds (around 4.4 billion euros) . Costa Coffee operates around 3,400 branches in more than 30 countries.
• Berlin / Germany : Start of the international radio exhibition
• Donetsk / Ukraine : The Armed Forces Command of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk announces the death of the rebel chief and self-proclaimed President Alexander Sachartschenko after a bomb attack on Café Separ .
• Sofia / Bulgaria : After a coach accident due to bad roads near Svoge on August 26th with 17 dead, three government ministers resigned: Interior Minister Valentin Radew, Transport Minister Ivailo Moskovsky and Minister for Regional Development Nikolaj Nankow. All belong to the ruling conservative GERB party .
• Washington, DC / United States : After a tender, the US Navy awards the contract for the construction and development of four pre-series machines for the MQ-25 Stingray stealth drone to the armaments company Boeing , which is scheduled to begin flight tests in 2021. These carrier-based drones are supposed to take on the aerial refueling of combat aircraft and, in addition, the reconnaissance. The contract is valued at approximately $ 805.3 million and the UCLASS program is expected to purchase an additional 72 MQ-25s worth $ 13 billion by 2024 .

See also

• Nekrolog August 2018 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in August
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in August

Web links

Canton of Geneva in August 2018

Commons : August 2018  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published August 2018  - News

Individual evidence

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