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During the night of 11-12 Aug 2026, Kyiv executed a coordinated strike of drones, Neptune missiles and sea-borne drones that punched through to Russia’s mainland port of Novorossiysk—forcing two key grain terminals offline and damaging multiple warships over 300 km from the front.
On 13 Aug 2026, Vladimir Putin personally landed on Iturup in the disputed Kuril chain after Pacific Fleet drills, marking the first visit by a sitting Russian president and prompting an immediate formal protest from Tokyo.
On 13 Aug 2026 officials revealed that the CIA had rated as “low-confidence” an Israeli report of an imminent Iranian missile attack on Air Force One, even though the July 8 alert had already forced President Trump into a covert catering-truck transfer to a smaller C-32A jet departing the NATO summit in Ankara.
Just four days into office, President Abelardo de la Espriella secured cabinet backing to declare a nationwide economic emergency, granting himself decree authority to finance relief for the 10 August quake that has already killed over 180 people.
By 12 Aug 2026, officials confirmed more than 250 fatalities from the 10 Aug 7.4-magnitude earthquake in western Colombia, leading President Abelardo de la Espriella to invoke emergency powers and redirect the national budget toward relief.
On 10 August 2026, five days after being cleared to run, the Supreme Court annulled Yabloko’s registration and removed the country’s only anti-war party from the 18–20 September parliamentary elections.
On 10 Aug 2026 a deep, magnitude-7.4 earthquake under Chocó rattled half of Colombia, killing at least twenty people and collapsing dozens of structures within minutes.
Less than a week after taking office, President Abelardo de la Espriella mobilised the entire military and police force and invoked a national state of emergency when Monday’s 7.4-magnitude earthquake killed at least 181 people and left thousands unaccounted for across western Colombia.
Madrid officially increased the count of migrants who flooded into Ceuta on 30–31 July 2026 from 72,000 to roughly 80,000, unleashing a resident backlash and emergency security deployments as the enclave struggles to house thousands who remain.
On 7 Aug 2026 the three governments signed a defence pact in Makkah declaring that an attack on one will be treated as an attack on all, prompting coordinated public celebrations and business-chamber calls for a new trade corridor.
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