Portal:Current events/2014 August 21
Armed conflict and attacks
- 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
- Israeli airstrikes kill three senior military commanders of Hamas. (AP)
- A senior NGO calls on the United States Attorney General to force Turkey to extradite the official as one of the teenagers was an American citizen. (Israel National News)
- Syrian civil war:
- The Syrian opposition accuses the Syrian army of launching a chemical attack on the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, killing at least six people. (Arabnews)
Disasters and accidents
- A Guatemalan Military officers crashes in Huehuetenango department, killing all on board. (Reuters)
- 36 people are killed by landslides in Hiroshima, Japan, after a night of heavy rain. (Reuters)
International relations
- The governments of Romania and Hungary sign a framework agreement for opening 20 cross-border roads, strengthening traffic links with the entire European Union. (Nine O'Clock)
Law and crime
- The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau in Taiwan is investigating former deputy minister Chang Hsien-yao of the Mainland Affairs Council on suspicions of treason for allegedly leaking classified information to China. (Taipei Times)
Politics and elections
- Brazilian presidential election, 2014
- The internationally-acclaimed environmental campaigner Aecio Neves in the first round and current president Dilma Rousseff in the second. (BBC)
- The internationally-acclaimed environmental campaigner
- Slovenian parliamentary election, 2014
- The outgoing prime minister alliance is barred from entering the new government due to "ethical concerns", notably her self-nomination as the country's EU commissioner, a decision currently being investigated by the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption. (Slovenia Times)
- The outgoing prime minister
- 2014 Thai coup d'état
- The Prayuth Chan-ocha as Prime Minister. (Sky News Australia)
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- The Turkish Justice and Development Party chooses foreign minister Ahmet Davutoğlu as its leader meaning that he will become the new Prime Minister. (New York Times)