## [2026-08-21](/feed/2026/08/21/index.md)

##### Mass stabbing
### [Three people are injured in a mass stabbing, carried out with a sword, at a high school in Fagersta, Sweden. The perpetrator is arrested at the scene. ](/feed/2026/08/21/three-people-are-injured-in-a-mass-stabbing-carried-out-with-a-sword-at-a-high-school-in-fagersta-sweden-the-perpetr.md)
##### Hong Kong
### [The Hong Kong Court of First Instance convicts Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung of incitement to subversion over their leadership of a group that organized annual Tiananmen crackdown vigils. They face up to 10 years in prison. ](/feed/2026/08/21/the-hong-kong-court-of-first-instance-convicts-lee-cheuk-yan-and-chow-hang-tung-of-incitement-to-subversion-over-their-l.md)
##### War crimes in the Gaza war
### [Turkey justice minister Akın Gürlek announces that Turkey has issued an Interpol arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his role in attacks on activists seeking to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. ](/feed/2026/08/21/turkey-justice-minister-akin-gurlek-announces-that-turkey-has-issued-an-interpol-arrest-warrant-for-israeli-prime-minist.md)
##### Capital punishment in Japan
### [Japan executes a 58-year-old man for a 2009 arson attack that killed five people at a pachinko parlor in Osaka. It is the first execution under the premiership of Sanae Takaichi. ](/feed/2026/08/21/japan-executes-a-58-year-old-man-for-a-2009-arson-attack-that-killed-five-people-at-a-pachinko-parlor-in-osaka-it-is-th.md)
##### Project Elephant
### [India's Supreme Court orders states to protect elephant corridors, identify and remove obstructions, and prohibit groups from using fire to drive wild elephants away amid increasing habitat loss and human-elephant conflict. ](/feed/2026/08/21/india-s-supreme-court-orders-states-to-protect-elephant-corridors-identify-and-remove-obstructions-and-prohibit-groups.md)
##### Idlib
### [Three people are killed and six more wounded in an explosion at a house in the Ain al-Qasab village of Idlib, Syria. ](/feed/2026/08/21/three-people-are-killed-and-six-more-wounded-in-an-explosion-at-a-house-in-the-ain-al-qasab-village-of-idlib-syria.md)
##### Panama Canal
### [The Panama Canal announces it will limit the number of ships allowed to cross the passage over the next month due to El Niño causing droughts in the region. ](/feed/2026/08/21/the-panama-canal-announces-it-will-limit-the-number-of-ships-allowed-to-cross-the-passage-over-the-next-month-due-to-el.md)
##### The Odyssey
### ["The Odyssey" reaches $1.35bn at the worldwide box office to become the highest-grossing R-rated film, surpassing "Deadpool & Wolverine". ](/feed/2026/08/21/the-odyssey-reaches-135bn-at-the-worldwide-box-office-to-become-the-highest-grossing-r-rated-film-surpassing-deadp.md)
##### Myanmar civil war
### [Resistance fighters and a local activist say Myanmar’s military deployed hundreds of troops around the proposed Dawei Special Economic Zone in the Tanintharyi Region, burning villages and pushing resistance groups back as the government seeks to revive the project. ](/feed/2026/08/21/resistance-fighters-and-a-local-activist-say-myanmar-s-military-deployed-hundreds-of-troops-around-the-proposed-dawei-sp.md)
##### Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
### [Pakistani forces raid multiple hideouts and kill 49 militants allegedly belonging to the Pakistani Taliban and the Balochistan Liberation Army in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. ](/feed/2026/08/21/pakistani-forces-raid-multiple-hideouts-and-kill-49-militants-allegedly-belonging-to-the-pakistani-taliban-and-the-baloc.md)
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