Portal:Current events/2019 August 22

August 22, 2019 (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Papua conflict
- Indonesia cuts off Internet in the provinces of Papua and West Papua amid pro-independence unrest. (The Guardian) (RTÉ)
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- A ninth round of peace talks between the United States and the Taliban starts in Doha, Qatar. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

At least four people are dead and more than 100 injured after lightning strikes the summit of Giewont in the Tatra Mountains, Poland. Another person is killed in Slovakia. (tvn24.pl) (gazeta.pl) (BBC News)
At least five people are killed and 21 others injured in a stampede at a rap concert in Algiers, Algeria. (BBC News)

International relations

Japan–South Korea relations, GSOMIA
- South Korea decides against extending the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA). South Korean officials express that the exclusion from Japan's preferred trade list on 12 August eliminated any benefit to maintaining the agreement. (NHK)

Law and crime

2018 Chemnitz protests
- A Syrian man is jailed for manslaughter in relation to a stabbing in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany last year. The killing sparked far-right protests and riots in the city. (BBC News)
Eileen Sarmenta and Allan Gomez murder
- Philippine Department of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra and Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director-General Nicanor Faeldon says that former Calauan Mayor Antonio Sanchez is ineligible under a 2013 law that credits good conduct time allowance (GCTA) for an early release from prison. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Politics and elections

Science and technology

The second GPS IIIA satellite is successfully launched by a Delta IV Medium rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It is the last launch of the Delta IV Medium vehicle. (Orlando Sentinel)
The uncrewed Soyuz MS-14 mission to resupply the International Space Station commences. Its launch is a successful test of a Soyuz spacecraft atop a Soyuz-2 launch vehicle, which will replace the Soyuz-FG as the carrier rocket for Soyuz spacecraft starting next year. (NASASpaceFlight.com) (Space.com)