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• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Luhansk Oblast campaign
    • Head of the Luhansk People's RepublicLeonid Pasechnik says thatRussian forces have captured the entirety of theLuhansk Oblast inUkraine.(AP)
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • AUkrainianSBUdrone attack on a military factory inIzhevsk,Russia, which producedTorsurface-to-air missile systems, kills three people and injures 45 others. Astate of emergency is later declared byHead of the Udmurt RepublicAleksandr Brechalov.(BBC News)
• Mali War
  • Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin claims responsibility for attacks on severalMali Armed Forces positions nearSenegal inMali. The Malian army spokesperson said 80 attackers were neutralized while there were no details on casualties among soldiers.(CTV News)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • A boy and some insurgents are killed and nine others are injured when dozens of militants armed with guns and rockets storm a police station and set fire to two banks before fleeing inMastung District,Balochistan, Pakistan. TheBalochistan Liberation Army is suspected to be behind the attacks.(CTV News)

Disasters and accidents

• Eight people are killed and five others are injured, including three critically, in an explosion at afireworks factory inSivakasi,Tamil Nadu, India.(India Today)(Deccan Herald)
• Asea rig capsizes in theGulf of Suez off the coast of Jabal al-Zeit,Egypt. Of the 30 personnel on board, 23 are rescued, four others are killed, and three others are still missing.(MarineTraffic)(Reuters)
• AnAustralian east coast lowrapidly intensifies as it makes landfall on the east coast ofAustralia, affecting millions of people inSydney and theCentral Coast.(The Sydney Morning Herald)
• TheWarsaw Metro'sM1 line is damaged in an overnight fire inWarsaw,Poland.MayorRafał Trzaskowski blames the incident on apower outage.(TVP Info)

International relations

• China–Philippines relations
  • TheChinese government sanctions formerPhilippine Senate majority leaderFrancis Tolentino,barring him from enteringChina, citing his conduct on China-related issues.(Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 Thai political crisis
  • TheConstitutional Court of Thailand suspendsPrime MinisterPaetongtarn Shinawatra from duty pending a case seeking her dismissal.(The Washington Post)
• Turkey arrests four journalists of the satirical magazineLeMan accused ofdrawing the Islamic prophet Muhammad.(BBC News)
• One person is killed and two others are injured in amass stabbing attack when a 21-year-old man stabs employees at a company inMellrichstadt,Bavaria, Germany.(Euronews)

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• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • United States Secretary of DefensePete Hegseth orders the indefinite suspension ofair defense and weapon shipments toUkraine, includingPatriot interceptors and othermissiles and ammunition.(The New Voice of Ukraine)

Arts and culture

• Succession of the 14th Dalai Lama
  • The14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso confirms that after his death there will be a reincarnated successor. Chinese officials reject this statement and announce that the nextDalai Lama will have to be born in China and his appointment will have to be approved by the government.(BBC)

Disasters and accidents

• Somali Civil War
  • At least fiveUgandan soldiers are killed and some others are injured when a militaryMi-24 helicopter part of theAfrican Union peacekeeping mission crashes nearAden Adde airport inMogadishu, Somalia's capital. The helicopter carrying eight people had been arriving from an airfield in theLower Shabelle region ofSomalia.(AP)
• 2025 European heatwaves
  • Twofarmers are killed in awildfire inCatalonia,Spain, while three people die from heat-related causes inSardinia,Italy, and a 10-year-oldAmerican tourist dies after collapsing from extreme heat inParis,France. Hundreds of others are hospitalized.(BBC News)
• Six people are killed and 29 others are missing when a ferry carrying 65 people capsizes off the coast ofBali,Indonesia.(The New York Times)(AP)

International relations

• Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
  • Australia,India,Japan, and theUnited States announce a joint initiative to work towards securingminerals necessary for new technologies and reduce reliance onChinese sources.(DW)(The Guardian)
• Iranian presidentMasoud Pezeshkian orders the suspension of cooperation with theInternational Atomic Energy Agency following theIran–Israel war and theUnited States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.(AP)

Law and crime

• 2025 Chicago shooting
  • Four people are killed and fourteen others are wounded in adrive-by shooting outside anightclub inChicago,Illinois, United States.(WBBM-TV)
• Trial of Sean Combs
  • American rapper and music producerSean Combs is acquitted ofsex trafficking andracketeering and found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage inprostitution.(Reuters)
• Australian airlineQantas is hit by acyberattack affecting a third-party platform used by its call centre, compromising the personal data of up to 6 million customers.(ABC News Australia)

Science and technology

• 3I/ATLAS
  • TheMinor Planet Center confirms aninterstellar object is transiting theSolar System on ahyperbolic trajectory, the third of its kind to be officially confirmed. The object is likely acomet and could be as large as 12 miles (20 km) in diameter.(Minor Planet Center)(Earth Sky)
• Ford recalls more than 200,000 vehicles due to a software defect that can cause thebackup camera to fail, raising the risk of crashes.(AP)

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• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • Israeliairstrikes and shootings kill at least 94Palestinians inGaza, including 45 who were attempting to gethumanitarian aid.(AP)
• Gang war in Haiti
  • According to theUnited Nations, over 90% of theHaitian capital cityPort-au-Prince is now under the control of violentgangs.(NPR)

Business and economy

• South American trade blocMERCOSUR and European blocEFTA sign afree trade agreement, setting up afree trade zone of nearly 300 million people.(DW)(Buenos Aires Herald)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Russia relations,Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
  • Russia becomes the first country to formally recognize theTaliban government inAfghanistan.(Reuters)

Law and crime

• Four people are injured in ahammer attack by a 20-year-oldSyrian national on anIntercity Express train while it was betweenStraubing andPlattling inBavaria, Germany.(Euronews)
• Four people are injured in amass stabbing attack by a man near a shopping mall inTampere,Finland.(Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Cabinet of Lee Jae Myung
  • TheSouth KoreanNational Assembly votes 173–3 with three abstentions to approve the nomination ofKim Min-seok as the country'sprime minister, despite boycotts from thePeople Power Party over allegations surrounding his wealth and family.(Yonhap)
• Air traffic controllers inFrance go onstrike to protest understaffing, management culture, and outdated equipment. Hundreds of flights are delayed or cancelled, including atCharles de Gaulle Airport inParis, which is one ofEurope's busiest airports.(DW)(Bloomberg News)
• TheOne Big Beautiful Bill Act is passed by theUnited States House of Representatives in a 218–214 vote and is signed into law byPresidentDonald Trump the following day.(BBC News)
• TheSyrian transitional government unveils the newemblem of Syria, featuring a gold-coloured eagle, facing to its right, with three five-pointed stars arranged in an arc above its head.(SANA)
• Christophe Mirmand is appointed the newminister of state of Monaco and will succeed actingIsabelle Berro-Amadeï on 21 July.(Le Monde)

Science and technology

• The 3.500 years oldCaral city ofPeñico is discovered inPeru.(BBC)

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• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
    • ThePakistan Army says it killed 30Pakistani Taliban fighters trying to cross theAfghanistan–Pakistan border barrier inNorth Waziristan District,Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.(Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2025 Central Texas floods
  • At least 51 people are killed, including 15 children, with 27 more children missing, during a flood inCentral Texas,United States.(BBC News)(CNN)
• 2025 Karachi building collapse
  • At least 16 people are killed when a building collapses inKarachi,Pakistan.(AP)(France 24)
• A fire and subsequent explosion at agas station inRome,Italy, leaves 45 people injured, including two critically.(Roma Today)

Law and crime

• Anti-gentrification protests inMexico City,Mexico, lead to tourist harassment and vandalism inCondesa.(AP)

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• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip,2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • Israeli airstrikes kill 78Palestinians, including ten who were seekinghumanitarian aid, and injure dozens of others.(AP)(Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• The firstLegoland in China opens inShanghai.(AP News)
• Black Sabbath's final concert,Back to the Beginning, takes place atVilla Park inBirmingham. The event raises £140m for local charities.(BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• InGlendora, Mississippi, 13 cars of a Canadian National freight train derail, including one car spilling benzene, forcing an evacuation of the area.(Press-Register)
• Two minibuses collide head-on inEgypt, killing nine and injuring 11.(The New Arab)
• A minivan collided with a locomotive inMpika,Zambia killing nine.(Zambia Monitor)
• A light propeller aircraft originating from Germany, crashes nearWald im Pinzgau,Austria, killing all four people on board.(AP News)
• Four people are killed after an abandoned open cast coal mine collapsed inRamgarh district,India.(The Times Of India)
• A boat, capable of carrying forty passengers, sank in conditions of strong winds inDongjiang Lake,China. Of the 29 people on board, 27 were rescued and two died.(AA)

International relations

• India–United States relations
  • X briefly withholds access to multipleReuters accounts in India, citing a legal request under Section 69A of theInformation Technology Act, 2000.(Reuters)

Politics and elections

• TheTurkish government arrests the mayors ofAdıyaman,Adana, andAntalya, who are all part of the oppositionRepublican People's Party, as part of a bribery investigation.(AP)

Law and Crime

• Officers conducting a welfare check on a woman at the request of her grandmother found four people shot to death in an apartment inTalladega County,Alabama leased by the woman's boyfriend.(ABC News)
• Two people, including a juvenile, were killed and five others, including two other juveniles, were injured in a shooting inDowntown Indianapolis.(Fox59)
• Palestine Action
  • Police arrest 29 people following a CentralLondon protest in support ofPalestine Action on its first day as a proscribed terrorist group.(BBC News)
• A gynaecologist fromBonneville,France is sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by a court in Haute-Savoie for the rape of nine patients.(France 24)

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• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli airstrikes kill at least 38Palestinians inGaza.(AP)
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict
    • Israel conducts fourdrone strikes inBint Jbeil,Shebaa, andShaqra, in southernLebanon over the weekend, killing one person and injuring several others.(Al Jazeera)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Liberian-flaggedbulk carrierMagic Seas is attacked by theHouthis withsmall arms fire androcket-propelled grenades in theRed Sea forcing the crew to abandon ship, according to theUnited Kingdom Maritime Trade Operation.(NOS)(ABC News Australia)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Boko Haram insurgents kill nine people and injure four others in an attack on Mallam Fatori inBorno State,Nigeria.(AP)
• Gang war in Haiti
  • The historicHotel Oloffson inPort-au-Prince,Haiti, is destroyed following anarson attack by armed gangs.(Le Quotidien 509)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Karachi building collapse
  • The death toll from the collapse of a multistory building on Friday inKarachi,Sindh, Pakistan, rises to 27 as rescuers pull 11 more bodies from the rubble as the three-day rescue operation ends. 10 others were injured in the collapse, of which one died in hospital from their injuries.(CTV News)
• A truck and a commercial vehicle carrying passengers collide along the Zaria-Kano expressway inKano State,Nigeria, killing 21 and injuring three.(AP)
• FiveTurkish soldiers are killed bymethane gas exposure in a cave in northernIraq during an operation to search for a fellow soldier's remains.(AP)

International relations

• Japan–Philippines relations
  • TheYomiuri Shimbun reports that theJapanese Navy will export six usedAbukuma-class destroyer escorts to theArmed Forces of the Philippines to strengthen thePhilippine Navy due toterritorial disputes in theSouth China Sea.(Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • Prosecutors inSouth Korea request that formerpresidentYoon Suk Yeol be detained amid the ongoing investigation against him forinsurrection.(Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup
  • Inassociation football, the defending championsMexico win a record-extending 10thGold Cup title after defeating theUnited States 2–1 inthe final at theNRG Stadium inHouston, Texas, United States.Edson Álvarez is named the tournament's best player.(France 24)

Politics and elections

• TheSurinameseparliament electsJennifer Geerlings-Simons as the country's first femalepresident.(CNN)(France 24)

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• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
      • Attacks on theEternity C
        • At least four people are killed, two people are injured and two other people are missing after theEternity C, aLiberian flagged ship, is attacked in theRed Sea nearHodeida,Yemen, by multipleHouthi boats anddrones. The ship later sinks.(NOS)(NOS)
    • Israeli attacks on Yemen
      • TheIsraeli Air Force strikes three ports and a power plant inHouthi-controlled Yemen in response to recentballistic missile attacks onIsrael.(ABC News)(Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • TheUkrainian Armed Forces launch a long-range drone strike onKrasnodar Krai, Russia, damaging the mainoil refinery inIlsky.(The Kyiv Independent)
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russia launches over 100drones at areas acrossUkraine, killing ten civilians and injuring 38 others.(PBS)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab militants recaptureMoqokori, a town in theHiiraan region ofSomalia. The heavy fighting resulted in the deaths of at least 40Somali National Army andMa'awisley fighters.(Garowe Online)
• 2025 Kenyan protests
  • Eleven people are killed and 29 others are injured in clashes withsecurity forces amid ongoing anti-government protests inKenya, according to theNational Commission on Human Rights.(Sky News)(Reuters)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Over 70 vigilante group members are killed and others are missing in anambush by bandits in two villages inKanam andWase,Plateau State,Nigeria. Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) denied the initial account and reported eight deaths and several missing.(Daily Post)(Vanguard News)(The Punch)

Business and economy

• Paschal Donohoe is re-electedPresident of the Eurogroup.(RTE.ie)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2025 Central Texas floods
  • The death toll from theflooding inCentralTexas,United States, increases to 104, including 28 children, with 41 other people still missing.Flash flood warnings are issued for expected additional rainfall.(AP)
• Ramses Exchange fire
  • Four people are killed and at least 22 others are injured in a fire at theRamses Exchange building inCairo,Egypt. National connectivity data is brought down to 62% of ordinary levels, including banking and phone calls. Trading on theCairo Stock Exchange is halted the following day.(NOS)(CNN)
• Four people are killed, including two children, when aCirrus SR22 crashes into a field nearRaleigh Executive Jetport inSanford,North Carolina,United States.(WTVD-TV)

Law and crime

• 2021–2022 Luzonsabungero disappearances
  • Philippine police chiefNicolas Torre announces that 15 police officers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in abducting and killing at least 34cockfighters acrossLuzon,Philippines, from 2021 to 2022.(AP)
• 2023 Leongatha mushroom murders
  • Erin Patterson is found guilty on all charges regarding deaths fromAmanita poisoning from a lunch at her home inLeongatha,Australia.(ABC News Australia)
• Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
  • Amnesty International says thatSaudi Arabia executed a record 345 people last year, many of them over drug offenses.(AP)
• Death of Jeffrey Epstein
  • TheUnited States Department of Justice announces that the alleged "Epstein client list" does not exist, in contradiction of Attorney GeneralPam Bondi's claims of possessing it, and reaffirms thatJeffrey Epstein's death was suicide.(AP)
• The perpetrator is killed and three people, two police officers and aborder guard, are injured in amass shooting when a man opens fire onlaw enforcement officers before being fatally shot at aBorder Patrol facility inMcAllen,Texas,United States.(CNN)

Politics and elections

• Cabinet of Lee Jae Myung
  • Kim Min-seok is officially inaugurated as theprime minister ofSouth Korea at theGovernment Complex inSejong City, four days after he was approved by theNational Assembly.(The Korea Herald)
• RussianpresidentVladimir Putin dismissesMinister of TransportRoman Starovoyt, with his deputyAndrey Nikitin replacing him. Hours after his dismissal, Starovoyt is found dead from aself-inflicted gunshot.(ABC News Australia)

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• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • FiveIsraeli soldiers are killed and two others are seriously injured in an ambush inBeit Hanoun,Gaza.(The New York Times)(The Washington Post)
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict
    • AnIsraeliairstrike kills at least three people and injures 13 others in an attack onTripoli,Lebanon.(Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• German economic crisis
  • German vehicle manufacturerDaimler Truck announces it will cut around 5,000 jobs in the country by 2030 in an effort to save€1 billion following a drop in sales.(DW)
• Bulgaria and the euro
  • TheEuropean Parliament and theEuropean Council approveBulgaria's request to adopt theeuro, which will replace thelev as Bulgaria's official currency on 1 January 2026.(Euronews)(European Council)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2025 Southern New Mexico floods
  • At least three people are killed, four people are trapped, including a father and his two children, and 85 others are rescued when they are washed away inflash floods inRuidoso,New Mexico,United States.(AP)(LBC)
• Ten people are killed and some others are injured when a fire andexplosion cause eight rooms to collapse at afireworks factory inVirudhunagar,Tamil Nadu,India.(The Star)

Law and crime

• Treatment of women by the Taliban
  • TheInternational Criminal Court issuesarrest warrants againstTaliban leaderHibatullah Akhundzada and Taliban officialAbdul Hakim Haqqani over alleged persecution of girls, women and theLGBTQ+ community.(AP)
• Two people are killed, including the perpetrator, and six others are injured, including threepolice officers and three seriously, in ashootout at a house inCalldetenes,Catalonia,Spain.(Ara)
• A 9-year-old is killed and two others are injured in amass stabbing attack by a 16-year-old at a school inEstação,Rio Grande do Sul,Brazil.(CTV News)

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• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • 2025 Jaalle Siyaad military academy bombing
      • Several people are killed and injured in asuicide bombing targeting the14th October Brigade of theSomali Armed Forces at a military academy inMogadishu,Somalia.Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack.(Reuters)(Hiiraan Online)(Somali Guardian)
    • At least sevenKenyan police officers are injured after an al-Shabaabroadside bomb strikes theirpatrol truck on a highway east ofMandera inKenya, near the border with Somalia.(Hiiraan Online)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
    • Attacks on theEternity C
      • TheEternity C, aLiberian-flagged ship, sinks in theRed Sea after being attacked by theHouthis on Monday. At least four people are killed, seven others are rescued and fourteen are reported missing. A rescue operation is underway.(The Guardian)(NOS)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russian forces launch 728Geran-2 drones atUkraine overnight in the largest singledrone attack of the war to date.(Newsweek)
• Colombian conflict
  • A donkey packed with explosives blasts near a military outpost in Las Cruces sector, Valdivia, Antioquia Department, killing one soldier and injuring two. Authorities blamed the ELN of being behind the attack.(Radio Caracol)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • U.S. presidentDonald Trump announces a 50%tariff on most imports into theUnited States fromBrazil starting August 1, in a letter addressed toBrazilian presidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva and citingthe trial of former Brazilian presidentJair Bolsonaro.(Reuters)
  • President Trump also announces a new set of tariff rates on imports fromAlgeria,Brunei,Iraq,Libya,Moldova, thePhilippines, andSri Lanka, assigning country-specific duties ranging from 20 to 30% following the expiration of a 90-day negotiation period.(Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Guatemala earthquakes
  • At least six people die when a M_w 5.7earthquake strikesGuatemala and causes widespread damage.(ABC News)
• At least thirteen people are killed and nine others are injured after a section of theGambhira Bridge inGujarat,India, partially collapses during morningrush hour.(The Times of India)(NDTV)

International relations

• United States and the United Nations
  • The United States issues sanctions againstFrancesca Albanese, theUnited Nationsspecial rapporteur for human rights in theoccupied Palestinian territories.(NPR)
• TheSyrian minister of foreign affairsAsaad al-Shaibani announces the country's readmission to theUnion for the Mediterranean after 13 years of its suspension.(ARK News)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • TheSeoul Central District Court issues anarrest warrant for formerSouth KoreanpresidentYoon Suk Yeol over five key charges related to his short-livedmartial law declaration on December 3, 2024, placing him in custody for the first time since March due to concerns ofevidence tampering.(Yonhap)
• Censorship in Turkey
  • Turkey partially bans certain contents fromX (formerly Twitter)'sAI chatbotGrok amid a criminal probe over insults toTurkish presidentRecep Tayyip Erdoğan and the country's founderMustafa Kemal Atatürk.(Reuters)

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• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli airstrikes kill at least 15Palestinians, including eight children and two women, queuing for nutritional supplements near a medical point inDeir al-Balah,Gaza. They were among at least 82 killed in strikes in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it struck a memberHamas's eliteNukhba forces who took part in theOctober 7 attacks.(BBC News)(Al Jazeera)
  • Palestinian political violence
    • Two Palestinians kill a 20-year-oldIsraelisettler in a combined shooting and stabbing attack at theGush Etzion Mall in the Israeli-occupiedWest Bank.(YNet)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kyiv strikes
    • An overnightRussianmissile anddrone attack onKyiv,Ukraine, kills two people, injures 28 others, and causes fires across the capital with multiple districts targeted. 397 drones and 18 missiles are launched in total.(BBC News)(The Kyiv Independent)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • At least 30 bandits, fivesecurity officers and one civilian are killed during an insurgent attack on three villages inFaskari,Katsina State,Nigeria.(AP)(Reuters)

International relations

• Armenia–Azerbaijan relations,Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • Armenian prime ministerNikol Pashinyan andAzerbaijani presidentIlham Aliyev meet inAbu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates, for peace talks regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.(Reuters)
• France–United Kingdom relations
  • French presidentEmmanuel Macron andUnited Kingdom prime ministerKeir Starmer announce a joint migration deal for theUK to deportillegal migrants toFrance in exchange for acceptingasylum seekers with British family connections.(DW)

Law and crime

• Irish Amateur Swimming Association abuse scandal
  • Former swimming coach George Gibney agrees to be extradited from theUnited States toIreland to face trial forindecent assault andrape.(RTÉ)
• The United Kingdom'sNational Crime Agency arrests four people for conductingcyberattacks as part of an organized crime ring against national retailersMarks & Spencer,Harrods, andCo-op Food.(AP)
• In a case concerning regulations requiring theSouth African athleteCaster Semenya to decrease her naturaltestosterone levels to be allowed to participate in the female category, theEuropean Court of Human Rights finds thatSwitzerland violated her right to a fair hearing, requiring the case to be sent back to Swiss courts.(ECHR)(CNN)

Politics and elections

• Labour in India
  • Sporadic clashes occur inEast India between trade unionists and left-wing groups againstpolice andTrinamool Congress supporters during a currentgeneral strike opposing the "Special Intensive Revision".(ABP)
• Von der Leyen Commission II
  • European CommissionpresidentUrsula von der Leyen survives avote of confidence at theEuropean Parliament.(CNN)

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• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • United States presidentDonald Trump confirms plans to sell weapons toNATO allies to be provided toUkraine afterthe Pentagon previously paused weapon shipments.(Axios)(PBS)
• Israeli settler violence
  • Israeli settlers kill twoPalestinians nearRamallah in theWest Bank. One of the victims, identified as aPalestinian-American, was beaten to death whilst the other victim was shot in the chest.(Reuters)
• Myanmar civil war
  • At least 23 civilians, including four children, are killed and about 30 others are injured, with ten critically injured, in anAir Forcestrike on aBuddhistmonastery in theDistrict of Sagaing, located in theSagaing Region ofMyanmar.(ABC News)
• Yemeni civil war
  • At least five children are killed after anexplosive device detonates inAl-Hashamah,Taiz Governorate,Yemen.(Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Los Choneros gang leaderJosé Adolfo Macías Villamar agrees to a request ofEcuador's National Court forextradition to theUnited States to face trial fordrug trafficking andarms smuggling.(CNN)(Reuters)
• Mexican drug war
  • Ovidio Guzmán López, son of the former drug lordJoaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, pleads guilty to two counts ofdrug distribution and two counts of participation in a continuingcriminal enterprise. He is expected to cooperate with the U.S. government by providing information on criminal networks.(Reuters)(Chicago Tribune)

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• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukraine infrastructure
    • Russia launches 597drones and 26cruise missiles acrossUkraine, killing two civilians inChernivtsi, injuring 20 others, and damaging infrastructure in several cities.(ABC News)(Reuters)

Arts and culture

• List of World Heritage Sites
  • UNESCO adds 26 landmarks to theUNESCO World Heritage list.(UNESCO World Heritage Convention)(Newsweek)

Disasters and accidents

• Three people, including a baby, are killed and 20 other people are hospitalized in an apartment fire inAnkara,Turkey.(AP)

International relations

• Foreign relations of New Caledonia,Politics of New Caledonia
  • Representatives ofNew Caledonia sign an accord with theFrench government to become the "State of New Caledonia" within the French Republic, subject to a referendum. The newstate would immediately gain control of some foreign affairs, and would have the option of gaining further powers, subject to further referenda.(Al Jazeera)(The New York Times)
• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • United States presidentDonald Trump announces a 30% tariff increase on imported items fromMexico and theEuropean Union to take effect on August 1.(BBC News)

Law and crime

• Five men arelynched after being accused of robbing damaged homes in the M_w 5.7 earthquake inSanta María de Jesús,Guatemala, earlier this week.(Al Jazeera)

Sports

• 2025 Wimbledon Championships
  • In tennis,Iga Świątek defeatsAmanda Anisimova in thewomen's singles final 6–0, 6–0 to win her firstWimbledon title, becoming the firstPole to do so. This is the thirdmajor final to have a doublebagel scoreline and the first since 1988.(The Independent)(WTA)

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• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip,2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • Israeli strikes kill at least 30 people, including six children, at awater collection zone, bringing the official death toll inGaza to over 58,000.(AP)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab militants claim the takeover of Tardo Village in theHiiraan region of Somalia'sHirshabelle state, which was previously captured byMa'awisley fighters and theSomali National Army in September 2022.(Garowe Online)(Reuters)
• Aftermath of the Syrian civil war
  • Southern Syria clashes
    • More than 30 people are killed and 100 others are injured in clashes between pro-government forces andDruze fighters inSuwayda,Suwayda Governorate, Syria.(Sky News)(The Straits Times)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Islamic State-affiliatedAllied Democratic Forces insurgents kill at least 66 people inTerritory of Irumu, in theIturi Province of theDemocratic Republic of the Congo.(AP)
• Sudanese civil war
  • At least 48 civilians are killed, houses are razed and property islooted in an attack whenRapid Support Forces fighters storm the village of Um Garfa inNorth Kordofan, Sudan.(Barron's)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Arizona wildfires
  • TheGrand Canyon Lodge inArizona,United States, is destroyed by theDragon Bravo Fire.(AP)
• 2025 Fall River assisted-living fire
  • Nine people are killed and more than 30 others are injured, including five firefighters, in a fire at anassisted living facility inFall River,Massachusetts, United States.(WPRI-TV)
• Zeusch Aviation Flight 1
  • ABeechcraft King Air B200 aircraft crashes and catches fire shortly after taking off fromLondon Southend Airport inSouthend-on-Sea,England, killing all four people onboard.(NOS)(The Independent)
• A bus plunges into a ravine nearChakri,Pakistan, killing six and injuring 38.(The Express Tribune)

Law and crime

• E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump,Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations,Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump
  • TheUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejectsDonald Trump's second bid to overturn the civil ruling ofCarroll II (2022), upholding that Trump must pay US$5,000,000 toE. Jean Carroll forsexual abuse.(Reuters)
• 2025 Lexington shootings
  • At least three people, including the perpetrator, are killed, and three others are injured, including astate trooper and one critically, in twospree shootings inLexington, Kentucky, United States.(NBC News)(BNO News)
• Three people are killed in a raid by theHaitian National Police on drug traffickers, seizing 1,045 kilograms of cocaine on a boat nearTortuga,Nord-Ouest,Haiti.(Miami Herald)

Sports

• 2025 FIFA Club World Cup
  • Inassociation football, English clubChelsea F.C. win theFIFA Club World Cup for the second time, defeating French clubParis Saint-Germain 3–0 in thefinal. ChelseawingerCole Palmer is awarded the tournament'sGolden Ball.(FIFA)
• 2025 Major League Baseball draft
  • Inbaseball, theMLB draft is held at theCoca-Cola Roxy inCumberland,Georgia, U.S., with theWashington Nationals selectingEli Willits as thefirst overall pick. At the age of 17, Willits becomes the 3rd youngest player in MLB draft history to be selected first overall.(ESPN)
• 2025 Wimbledon Championships
  • Intennis,Jannik Sinner defeatshis rival anddefending championCarlos Alcaraz in the men's singles final 4–6, 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 to win his firstWimbledon title. Sinner is the firstItalian player to win a singles title at Wimbledon.(ESPN)

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• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War,United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • United States presidentDonald Trump announces that severalNATO allies will buy U.S.-made weapons, includingPatriot air defense missile systems to provide toUkraine.(NPR)(Axios)
• President Zelenskyy announces a government reshuffle and nominatesYulia Svyrydenko as prime minister. Following the announcement, outgoing prime ministerDenys Shmyhal submits his resignation the next day, which theVerkhovna Rada accepts on 16 July.(The Kyiv Independent)

Disasters and accidents

• AMil Mi-8 helicopter carrying five people goes missing after contact with its pilot is lost shortly after refueling inOkhotsk,Khabarovsk Krai,Russia.(Aviation Safety Network)(The Kyiv Independent)
• A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hitsAndalusia,Spain causing damage toAlmería Airport.(Independent)
• Three people are killed in a lightning strike at a resort inTula Oblast.(The Moscow Times)
• A passenger train collides with a school bus inCuddalore,India killing three people and injuring two(The Hindu)

Law and crime

• Rapes of Gisèle Pelicot
  • Gisèle Pelicot is awarded theLegion of Honour award, the highest civilorder of merit inFrance, for her courage in testifying in the case about her decades-longsexual abuse.(DW)
• Twenty-fourU.S. states and theDistrict of Columbia file a joint lawsuit against theU.S. Department of Education in an attempt to reverse freezing of education funding ahead of the start of the school year.(NPR)

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• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 99Palestinians are killed inIsraeli airstrikes onGaza City and theGaza Strip.(Hazzretz)
• Aftermath of the Syrian civil war
  • Southern Syria clashes,Israeli invasion of Syria
    • Israeli warplanes carry out strikes targetingSyrian government forces as they attempt to enter theDruze-majority city ofSuwayda in southernSyria.Israeli prime ministerBenjamin Netanyahu claims he ordered the strikes for the protection of the Druze from forces aligned with theSyrian transitional government.(Reuters)(The Times)
• Somali Civil War
  • Constitutional crisis in Somalia
    • ThePuntlandinterior ministry reports at least five militant casualties inDhahar,Haylan region, following a coordinated campaign as Puntland'sdefence forces repels an assault backed by theSomali federal government.(Idil News)(Garowe Online)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • At least 12 people are killed in Israeli air strikes in Lebanon's easternBekaa Valley. The missiles struck a number of military compounds belonging to the armed groupHezbollah, including training camps affiliated to its eliteRadwan Force. These were the deadliest strikes since a ceasefire ended a year of fighting betweenIsrael andHezbollah.(BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• A pick-up truck veers off a road inPithoragarh,India, and plunges into a 300-meter gorge, killing eight people and injuring five others.(MSN)
• A building under demolition collapses inKurume, killing two workers.(Kyodo News)

International relations

• Indonesia–United States relations
  • U.S. presidentDonald Trump announces a newtrade deal withIndonesia, where Indonesia will purchase $15 billion in energy and $4.5 billion in agricultural products, along with 50Boeing jets. Indonesia will also allow importation of U.S. products without tariffs, while the U.S. will maintain a19% tariff on all goods coming from Indonesia.(Financial Times)

Law and crime

• US airstrikes on Yemen
  • TheFederal Constitutional Court of Germany dismisses a case brought about by Yemeni plaintiffs accusing the German government of failing to prevent deaths from US drone strikes on Yemen coordinated fromRamstein Air Base, citing the lack of a "sufficient connection" to the German state’s authority and "a serious danger of systematic violation" of international law.(AP News)
• Protests against Donald Trump
  • Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump,June 2025 Los Angeles protests
    • TheTrump administration announces that it has ordered 2,000 troops from theNational Guard to leaveLos Angeles after being sent to deal withthe protests against theICE raids.(AP)
• At least 86 guns and 974 rounds of ammunition are recovered in a joint operation by security forces inManipur amid ongoingethnic violence in the state.(The Times Of India)

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• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
      • At least 21Palestinians are killed in acrowd crush at aGaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) site in theGaza Strip. The GHF attributed the stampede to armed agitators, whileHamas and Palestinian eyewitnesses said thatIsraeli soldiers sprayed people with pepper gas and opened fire.(Al Jazeera)(Reuters)
  • Israeli invasion of Syria,Southern Syria clashes
    • TheIsraeli Air Force bombs theSyrian Defense Ministry headquarters and thepresidential palace inDamascus.(Al Jazeera)(The Times of Israel)
    • Israeli forces launch an attack on theDruze city ofSuwayda inAs-Suwayda Governorate,Syria, after scattered clashes continue in spite of theceasefire announcement by theSyrian Armed Forces.(Al Jazeera)(AP)
• Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • TheBangladesh military clashes with supporters of oustedprime ministerSheikh Hasina inGopalganj District, leading to four deaths and many others injured.(AP)
• Herder-farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • At least 27 people are killed when unidentified gunmen attack a village inRiyom,Plateau State,Nigeria.(BBC News)(AP)
• Spillover of the Somali civil war
  • Al-Shabaab militants claim to have killed threeKenyan soldiers patrolling a road in the east of the country near the Somali border.(Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pakistan floods
  • Torrential rains inPunjab,Pakistan, kill at least 63 people.(BBC News)
• One person is killed and thirteen others are injured in a lightning strike at an archery range inJackson Township,New Jersey,United States.(BNO News)
• Atsunami advisory is issued after aM_w 7.3 earthquake strikes the southern coast ofAlaska, United States.(WAGA-TV)

International relations

• Pakistan–United Kingdom relations
  • TheUnited Kingdom ends its five-year ban onPakistaniairlines from landing in the UK due to significant improvements inaviation safety standards.(DW)(Dawn)

Law and crime

• Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
  • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
    • TheEthiopianNational Intelligence and Security Service detains dozens of suspectedSomalianIslamic State militants, whom it alleges were trained and deployed to conduct operations throughout the country, especially in theCal Miskaad mountains of theBari region inPuntland.(Reuters)
• Opioid epidemic in the United States,Anti-fentanyl legislation in the United States
  • U.S. presidentDonald Trump signs into law the HALT Fentanyl Act, reclassifying allfentanyl-related substances, includingsynthetic drugs, asSchedule I controlled substances.(The Hill)
• Internet censorship in Russia
  • TheRussianState Duma introduces new legislation that introduces fines for searching for prohibited material online. The legislation is passed on July 22.(The Washington Post)(Euronews)
• Two people are killed and two others are injured in amass shooting on a street inTaranto,Italy.(Rai News)(Taranto Today)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Surinamese general election
  • Jennifer Geerlings-Simons is sworn in as the first femalepresident ofSuriname.(RFI)
• Cabinet of Benjamin Netanyahu
  • TheShas party quits theNetanyahucabinet due to disagreements overHaredi Jews conscription exemptions from military service inIsrael, but remains in the governing coalition.(Al Jazeera)

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• Gaza war
  • Attacks on religious sites during the Israeli invasion of Gaza
    • Three people are killed and nine others are injured whenIsraeli forces strikes theHoly Family Church inGaza City, the onlyCatholic church inGaza.(BBC News)
• Somali Civil War
  • At least six people are killed and ten others are injured after a fresh outbreak of tribal violence in theGalgaduud region ofSomalia.(Hiiraan Online)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Kut shopping mall fire
  • At least 69 people are killed, 11 are reported missing, and 43 others are injured in a fire at a shopping mall inKut,Wasit Governorate,Iraq. TheIraqi government declares three days of mourning and the provincial government fileslawsuits against the owners of the mall.(Reuters)(CNN)(NDTV)
• At least four people are killed, two others are seriously injured and more than 1,000 others are evacuated after torrential rainfall submerges buildings and causes alandslide inGyeonggi andSouth Chungcheong provinces,South Korea.(Reuters)(The Korea Herald)
• A child is killed and 21 people are injured when acoach bus crashes inSomerset,England.(BBC News)

Politics and elections

• TheUkrainianparliament appointsYulia Svyrydenko as the newprime minister, succeedingDenys Shmyhal.(Reuters)
• TheBritish government announces it will lower thevoting age to 16, allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in theupcoming general election.(NPR)

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• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 41Palestinians, ten of which were seekingHumanitarian aid are killed by artillery shelling and gunfire.(The Hindu)(Al Jazeera)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Nine people are killed while at least 15 others are abducted in an attack by gunmen inTalata Mafara,Zamfara State,Nigeria.(Al Jazeera)
• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Israeli invasion of Syria
    • Southern Syria clashes
      • Israel andSyria agree to a ceasefire, following a de-escalation of the conflict after Syrian government troops withdrew fromSweida.(Reuters)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Israel intercepts aballistic missile launched by theHouthis, who say it was targetingBen Gurion International Airport.(Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Three people are killed in astampede during a public celebration inGarut,West Java,Indonesia.(Jakarta Globe)
• At least three people are killed in an explosion at aLos Angeles County Sheriff's Department training facility inMonterey Park,California,United States.(KABC-TV)
• Four people are killed and over a dozen are injured in amultiple-vehicle collision onInterstate 35 inSan Antonio,Texas, United States.(AP)
• Five people are killed inPedda Amberpet,India, after a car rammed into the back of a lorry.(The Hindu)
• Six illegal miners are killed and four others injured after a hoist system malfunctioned in a mine inMashonaland Central Province,Zimbabwe.(Zimeye)
• At least 15 are injured after a three storey structure collapsed inBandra,India.(The Indian Express)

International relations

• Germany–Russia relations
  • Russia withdraws from its military technical cooperation agreement withGermany.(The Kyiv Independent)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • TheSeoul Central District Court rejects formerpresidentYoon Suk Yeol's petition to release him due to an unreasonable request more than a week after he wasre-arrested on charges related to a failedmartial law attempt on December 3, 2024.(The Korea Herald)
• March 2025 American deportations of Venezuelans
  • The governments ofEl Salvador, the United States, andVenezuela conduct a prisoner swap involving over 200 Venezuelans incarcerated at theTerrorism Confinement Center in exchange for the release of ten Americans from Venezuelan custody.(Reuters)
• Political ineligibility of Jair Bolsonaro
  • TheSupreme Federal Court ofBrazil orders formerpresidentJair Bolsonaro to wear anelectronic ankle bracelet and places him on nightlyhouse arrest, and forbids him from approaching embassies, foreign ambassadors, and diplomats.(AP)
• The United States government declares thePakistani militant groupThe Resistance Front aterrorist group after it committedan attack inPahalgam in April.(DW)

Politics and elections

• TheTrinidad and Tobagogovernment declares astate of emergency after uncovering a plot bycriminal organizations to allegedly target and kill government officials.(AP)

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• Syrian civil war
  • Southern Syria clashes
    • Street-to-street fighting inSuwayda,Syria, is reported between localDruze forces and pro-governmentBedouin tribesmen.(i24)
    • AnAgence France-Pressewar correspondent reports witnessing armed menlooting andsetting fire toDruze-owned shops in Suwayda.(BBC News)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 32Palestinians are killed trying to reachGaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution sites.(AP)
• M23 campaign
  • TheM23 paramilitary group and thegovernment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sign a declaration of principles stating that a fullceasefire and final peace agreement will be signed no later than August 18, and that it will be aligned with the earlierDR Congo–Rwanda agreement.(CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• Sinking of theWonder Sea
  • At least 38 people are killed, 11 are rescued and eight others are reported missing, including children, when a storm causes the tourist boatWonder Sea to capsize in theHạ Long Bay inQuảng Ninh province,Vietnam.(News18)
• At least 21 people are killed and 34 others are injured after a bus overturns and crashes inKavar,Fars province,Iran.(The New Arab)
• Eight people are killed and six others are injured when a truckcollides with two passenger vans inAurora,Isabela province,Philippines.(Xinhua)(Manila Bulletin)

Law and crime

• At least 30 people are injured, including seven critically, in avehicle-ramming attack at a night club inLos Angeles,California,United States.(AP)(Los Angeles Fire Department)
• Turkish involvement in the Somali civil war
  • ThePuntland Maritime Police Force confiscates aTurkish vessel illegally transporting high-grade weaponry, includingarmoured personnel carriers and crates of weapons, toMogadishu inBareeda,Ras Aseir region.(Idil News)(Marine Insight)
• At least 12 people are killed in amass shooting at a pool hall inPlayas,Guayas Province,Ecuador.(Diario Extra)

Sports

• Inboxing, UkrainianOleksandr Usyk defeatsBritish challengerDaniel Dubois atWembley Stadium inLondon,England, via a fifth-roundknockout to become a two-timeundisputedheavyweight champion.(BBC Sport)

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• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 85Palestinians are killed while attempting to accessaid across theGaza Strip.(AP)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • TheSomali National Army andAfrican Union forces, primarilyUgandan troops, abruptly withdraw from the towns of Sabiid and Anole, afteral-Shabaab militant group recaptures these locations, which are situated approximately 40 kilometres southwest ofMogadishu in Somalia’sLower Shabelle region.(The Soufan Center)

Disasters and accidents

• Seventeen people are killed and 11 others are missing intorrential rains inSouth Korea.(AP)
• Six people, including a pregnant woman, are killed in a fire on the passenger ferryKM Barcelona 5 just before it reachesSulawesi,Indonesia.(AP)(Hindustan Times)

Law and crime

• Terrorism in Egypt
  • Egyptianpolice kill two suspected militants belonging to theHasm Movement, an affiliate of the outlawedMuslim Brotherhood, during a raid on their hideout inGiza. One passerby is also killed.(Al-Ahram)
• Ecuador extraditesJosé Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of theLos Choneroscartel, to theUnited States where he faces federal charges related todrug trafficking.(AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election
  • Japanese citizens vote for 125 of the 248 members of theHouse of Councillors, theupper house of theNational Diet.(NHK)
  • The ruling coalition of theLiberal Democratic Party (LDP) andKomeito lose their majority in the House of Councillors, marking the first time in LDP's 70-year history that it leads a coalition in the Diet without a majority in either house.(NHK)

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• Colombian conflict
  • Catatumbo campaign
    • TheNational Liberation Army deploys adrone to attack amilitary convoy inCatatumbo,Colombia, killing three soldiers and injuring eight others.(AP)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli troops and tanks enterDeir al-Balah incentral Gaza for the first time since the start of the war.(Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • TheUnited States andGermany agree to send fivePatriot missile defense systems toUkraine.(The Kyiv Independent)
• Syrian civil war
  • Southern Syria clashes
    • Hundreds ofBedouin civilians are evacuated fromSuwayda,Syria, as part of a ceasefire following clashes that left hundreds dead.(Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Dhaka fighter jet crash
  • At least 31 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured after aBangladesh Air ForceFT-7BGItraining aircraft crashes into a college and school campus inUttara,Dhaka,Bangladesh.(AlJazeera)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least 22 people are killed and more than 90,000 people are displaced asTropical Storm Wipha hits thePhilippines andSouth Korea.(Gulf News)

International relations

• El Salvador–Venezuela relations
  • TheVenezuelanattorney general's office opens a formal investigation intoSalvadoranpresidentNayib Bukele and hisgovernment's alleged mistreatment of Venezuelan migrants detained in the United States and sent to theCECOT megaprison, built to hold allegedgang members.(AP)

Politics and elections

• Christophe Mirmand is sworn in as the newminister of state of Monaco, succeeding acting minister of stateIsabelle Berro-Amadeï.(L'Observateur de Monaco)
• Jagdeep Dhankhar resigns as theVice President of India citing health reasons.(NDTV)

Sports

• TheUnited States Olympic & Paralympic Committee announces a ban ontransgender women competing inwomen's sports in compliance with anexecutive order issued earlier this year.(NPR)

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• Constitutional crisis in Somalia
  • Jubaland crisis
    • At least ten people are killed afterJubaland forces claim they have taken full control of theBeled Hawo District headquarters as well as the entire city, following heavy fighting with theSomali National Army from theFederal Government of Somalia.(Garowe Online)
• Gang war in Haiti
  • ThreeHaitian National Police officers are killed and one is missing after a gang attack inLiancourt,Artibonite department,Haiti.(AP)(The Haitian Times)
• Red Sea crisis
  • TheHouthis launch aballistic missile atBen Gurion International Airport inIsrael, which is intercepted byIsraeli forces.(Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pakistan floods
  • Flash flooding kills three people and leaves 15 others missing inGilgit-Baltistan,Pakistan.(AP)
• A head-on collision between aminibus taxi and atruck kills 17 people and injures several others inHarare Province,Zimbabwe.(AP)

International relations

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • Japan–United States relations
    • U.S. presidentDonald Trump announces a trade deal withJapan onTruth Social that would let Japan invest $550 billion into theUnited States and reduce thetariffs to 15%.(CNBC)
  • Philippines–United States relations
    • President Trump announces atrade agreement withPhilippine presidentBongbong Marcos that sets a 19% tariff on Philippine exports to the United States, while U.S. goods entering thePhilippines will be exempt from tariffs.(CNN)(Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Ukrainian protests,Corruption in Ukraine
  • TheUkrainianparliament adopts a law placing theNational Anti-Corruption Bureau and theSpecialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office under theProsecutor General, sparking widespread protests across the country, the largest since the 2022 Russian invasion. Despite calls to veto the law,PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy signs the law.(The New York Times)(The Kyiv Independent)

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• 2025 European and Mediterranean wildfires
  • At least ten firefighters and rescue workers are killed and 14 others are injured in awildfire inEskişehir Province,Turkey.(CTV News)
  • Two people are killed and hundreds of others are evacuated in a fire inLimassol,Cyprus. The fire brigade chief says the fire wasarson.(Greek Reporter)(Cyprus Mail)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • One person is killed byTropical Storm Wipha inNghệ An province,Vietnam.(AP)
• SixNortheastern University students are killed and one teacher is injured after the collapse of protective grates over aflotation cell at the Wunugetushangold mine nearManzhouli,Inner Mongolia,China.(Reuters)(South China Morning Post)

Health and environment

• 2023–2025 mpox epidemic
  • The Gambia reports its first case ofmpox and announces anoutbreak.(Hurriyet Daily News)

International relations

• China–India relations
  • India announces it willresume issuingtourist visas forChinese citizens, ending a five-year suspension imposed following the2020 border skirmishes between the two countries.(The Straits Times)

Law and crime

• 2022 University of Idaho murders
  • Bryan Kohberger is sentenced to four consecutivelife sentences in prison without parole after pleading guilty to the murders of fourUniversity of Idaho students in 2022.(The New York Times)
• Colombian conflict
  • Aspecialized court inAntioquia,Colombia, sentences seven formerChiquita executives to 135 months in prison and fines themCOP$13.876 billion (US$3.4 million) for financing the now-defunctAUC paramilitary group.(Infobae)
• Amass shooting inMaguiresbridge,Northern Ireland, leaves three people dead and another seriously injured.(BBC News)
• Indonesian National Police arrest 44 people suspected ofstartingforest fires across the country, which contribute to theSoutheast Asian haze.(AP)

Politics and elections

• Politics of the Northern Mariana Islands
  • GovernorArnold Palacios dies in office in neighboringGuam due to a medical condition.(Marianas Variety)
  • Lt. GovernorDavid Apatang succeeds Palacios asGovernor of the Northern Mariana Islands.Dennis C. Mendiola becomesLieutenant Governor.(Marianas Variety)(RNZ)

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• 2025 Cambodia–Thailand clashes
  • Cambodian andThai troops exchange fire near thePrasat Ta Muen Thom site near theborder. Fourteen people are killed and 46 others are injured in Thailand.(BBC News)(Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Angara Airlines Flight 2311
  • AnAngara AirlinesAntonov An-24 operating asAngara Airlines Flight 2311 en route toTynda crashes into aforested area inAmur Oblast,Russia, killing all 48 occupants, including five children.(The Guardian)(Reuters)
• At least 12 people are killed, several others are missing, and 157 are injured in an explosion at anammunition depot inMaarrat Misrin,Idlib Governorate,Syria.(Xinhua News Agency)(AP)

International relations

• International recognition of Palestine
  • French presidentEmmanuel Macron announces thatFrance will recognizePalestine as a state starting September, citing reasons such as an immediate end to thewar and helping thehumanitarian crisis.(France 24)(AP)
• Norway–Russia relations,Violations of non-combatant airspaces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Norway reports thatRussia has violated itsairspace overFinnmark for the second time this year.(Reuters)

Law and crime

• Central African Republic Civil War
  • TheInternational Criminal Court convictsPatrice-Edouard Ngaïssona andAlfred Yekatom, leaders of theAnti-balaka militia alliance, of multiple counts ofwar crimes andcrimes against humanity and sentences them to 12 and 15 years in prison respectively for their roles in various massacres against civilians throughout the civil war in theCentral African Republic.(AP)
• Hungary–Israel relations,Hungary–United Kingdom relations
  • Hungary bansIrish rap trioKneecap for three years ahead of a music festival, citing a national security threat over their alleged support forHamas andHezbollah.(The Times of Israel)

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• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab targets two military bases operated byAUSSOM and theSomali Armed Forces near the Somali capitalMogadishu using a bomb-laden attack.(Garowe Online)
  • Jubaland crisis
    • Following the capture ofBeled Hawo byJubaland forces, Somali federal troops are deployed to reinforce federal government presence inGedo.(Garowe Online)
• War against the Islamic State
  • Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
    • In a jointmilitary operation,Puntland Counter-Terrorism forces andUS SOF capture the financial and foreign recruitment chief ofISIS-Somalia, Abdiweli Mohamed Aw Yusuf "Abdiweli Walalac," and two others. The operation took place in the Laag area of rural Xumbeys in theBari region ofPuntland.(Garowe Online)
  • US intervention in the Syrian civil war
    • U.S. Central Command kills seniorIslamic State leader Diaa Zoubaa Musleh Al-Hardani along with his two sons in a strike onAl-Bab,Aleppo Governorate,Syria.(Al Arabiya)
• 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
  • 2025 Cambodia–Thailand clashes
    • TheRoyal Thai Armed Forces's Border Defense Command declaresmartial law in eight districts of the provinces ofChanthaburi andTrat ontheir border with Cambodia, citing "Cambodia's use of force to enter Thai territory".(NDTV)
    • TheRoyal Thai Air Force launchesairstrikes on targets insideCambodia, including areas near thePreah Vihear Temple andPrasat Ta Muen Thom.(Nation Thailand)(The Star)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • Wazalendo fighters launch an offensive to take the town of Luke,Masisi Territory,Democratic Republic of the Congo, which theMarch 23 Movement had taken the previous day.(Radio Okapi)
    • TheAlliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo of the Wazalendo resist an attack on their positions by the M23 in the area of Showa, Masisi Territory. Residents of Luke, Showa, and Bukombo flee to escape the fighting.(Radio Okapi)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Pokrovsk offensive,Kupiansk offensive
    • Russian forces enter the city ofPokrovsk for the first time since the invasion began, and enter the city ofKupiansk for the first time since 2024.(ISW)
• Ituri conflict
  • TwoMai-Mai militias continue to fight over the control of agricultural roads in Babila-Babombi chiefdom,Mambasa Territory, DRC. Residents of several villages flee to escape the fighting.(Radio Okapi)

Disasters and accidents

• Piplodi school roof collapse
  • A school collapse caused by continuous rainfall inPiplodi,Jhalawar District,India, kills at least seven students, seriously injures 28 others, including eight critically, and traps over 32 under debris.(The Indian Express)
• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • A boat carryingEgyptian migrants andSudanese crewmen en route to Europe capsizes off the coast ofTobruk,Cyrenaica,Libya, killing at least 15 people, injuring 10 others and leaving some missing.(AP)
• A gas explosion at a ten-story apartment building inSaratov,Saratov Oblast, Russia kills at least six people, including a child, injures seven others and destroys or damages over 30 apartments.(Anadolu Agency)(Novaya Gazeta)

International relations

• India–Maldives relations
  • Indianprime ministerNarendra Modi announces India will lend a US$565 millioncredit line to theMaldives, gift theirarmed forces severalheavy fighting vehicles, and launch formal talks for afree-trade agreement.(AP)
• Palau–United States relations
  • Thetraditional chiefs of Palau and theNational Congress reject a proposal by theUnited States to host asylum seekers and strongly advisePresidentSurangel Whipps Jr. to also reject it.(Island Times)

Law and crime

• The trial of formerCongolesepresident andsenator for lifeJoseph Kabila for his crimes in connection with theM23 Movement and theCongo River Alliance begins. Thearmed forces auditor general charges Kabila withtreason, participation in aninsurrectional movement, crimes against the peace and security of humanity, intentional homicide, rape, torture, deportation, and condoning crimes.(Radio Okapi)
• Thegovernment ofHong Kong places aHK$200,000 (US$25,500) bounty on 19 members of the overseaspro-democracy organizationHong Kong Parliament.(DW)

Politics and elections

• Impeachment of Sara Duterte
  • TheSupreme Court of the Philippines rules that theimpeachment complaint againstVice PresidentSara Duterte, filed bythe lower house of Congress in February, isunconstitutional.(Reuters)

Science and technology

• Online Safety Act 2023
  • Thousands of websites, such asFacebook andYouTube, begin implementing age verification to block "adult content" forBritish viewers under the age of 18, according toOfcom.(BBC News)(The Guardian)

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• 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
  • 2025 Cambodia–Thailand clashes
    • Cambodia'sambassador to theUnited Nations, Chhea Keo, calls for an immediate and unconditionalceasefire withThailand.(BBC News)
    • Twelve more deaths are reported in Cambodia while aThai soldier is shot dead onthe border as both countries exchangeartillery fire.(AP)
    • Around 38,000civilians in Cambodia and almost 140,000 in Thailandflee their homes as fighting intensifies.(Al Jazeera)
    • Cambodia closes itsairspace over the regions in the country where the conflict is being fought.(Phnom Penh Post)
    • Royal Cambodian Armymajor general Duong Somneang is killed in an artillery strike on the frontline.(Nation Thailand)
    • TheRoyal Thai Navy engages Cambodian forces in theGulf of Thailand after they launched attacks onTrat province, Thailand.(Thai PBS World)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Dnipro strikes
    • Russian forces launch an overnightdrone andcruise missile attack onDnipro,Ukraine, killing at least three people and damaging multiple residential buildings.(Reuters)
• Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
  • At least nine people are killed, including three attackers and a child, and 22 others are injured, including several critically, in aterroristmass shooting and grenade attack at a courthouse inZahedan,Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran.Sunnijihadistseparatist militant groupJaysh al-Adl claims responsibility for the attack.(Kurdistan 24)(RFERL)(DW)
• Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip,Gaza Strip famine
  • TheUnited NationsWorld Food Programme says 90,000 children and women are in need of urgent treatment inGaza.(BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 18 people are killed and 48 others are injured when a bus overturns on a highway in theAndes Mountains inJunín Department,Peru.(CP24)

Law and crime

• 2025 Traverse City stabbing attack
  • At least eleven people are injured, several critically, in amass stabbing attack at aWalmart inTraverse City,Michigan, United States. A suspect is in custody.(BNO News)(WPBN-TV)

Sports

• 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations
  • Inassociation football, theNigerian women's team wins a record-extending 12thAfrica Cup of Nations title after defeating the host nationMorocco 3–2 in the final. NigerianforwardRasheedat Ajibade is named the tournament's best player.(The Guardian)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 73Palestinians are killed while seekinghumanitarian aid in theGaza Strip.(Sky News)
  • Gaza Strip famine
    • TheIsraeli Air Force beginshumanitarian aid drops over theGaza Strip amid growing international pressure to allow food into thePalestinianenclave.(BBC News)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab seizes control of the centralSomalia town ofMahaas in theHiiraan region following a groundoffensive. The attack began with multiplesuicide bombings just outside the town, followed by heavy gunfire, prompting thearmy and localMa'awisleymilitias to withdraw.(The Somali Digest)(AP)
• 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
  • Cambodia andThailand agree tonegotiate aceasefire followingmediation efforts byUnited States Secretary of StateMarco Rubio the previous day. However, both sides accuse the other of violating the ceasefire.(AP)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Komanda town massacre
    • Allied Democratic Forcesmilitants attack the city of Komanda,Ituri province,Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 43 people, including 20 during avigil in a Catholic church.(Radio Okapi)
• New People's Army rebellion
  • SevenNew People's Armyguerrillas are killed in amilitary operation inUson,Masbate,Philippines, asPhilippine troops pursue remaining insurgents.(AP)
• Ecuadorian Drug War
  • Seventeen people are killed and 14 others are injured after gunmenopen fire on abar inEl Empalme, Ecuador. The shooting is believed to be linked to a conflict between localdrug cartels for control ofdrug trafficking routes.(BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Baden-Württemberg train derailment
  • At least three people are killed, including a railway employee and the driver, and around 50 others are injured, including 25 seriously, when aDeutsche BahnRegional-Express train carrying 100 people derails inBaden-Württemberg,Germany.(ARD)
• Twenty-five people are killed, 26 others are rescued, and 49 are reported missing when a large wooden boat capsizes inNiger State,Nigeria.(CJNI-FM)(Reuters)
• At least six people are killed and 27 others are injured in astampede when a high-voltage electric wire falls on a path at theMansa Devi Temple inHaridwar,Uttarakhand,India.(AP)(The Independent via Yahoo! News Canada)

International relations

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • United States–European Union relations
    • U.S. presidentDonald Trump andEuropean Commission presidentUrsula von der Leyen announce a trade deal that would set a reciprocal 15%tariff on all exports and promise to boostEuropean Union investment into the U.S. by $600 billion. The EU also promises to purchase $750 billion inAmerican energy products over an unspecified period of time.(BBC News)
• North Korea–Russia relations
  • Russian airlineNordwind launches the firstcommercial flight fromMoscow toPyongyang,North Korea.(AP)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Iran
  • Iran executes two members of the exiled terrorist groupMojahedin-e-Khalq on charges of carrying out attacks on residential, education, and government buildings.(AP)
• Three people are killed and ten others are injured in amass shooting inTurks and Caicos, whose authorities are deeming it the first mass shooting in recent history, due to an increase in violence spilled over from thegang war inHaiti.(AP)(CBS News)

Sports

• UEFA Women's Euro 2025
  • Inassociation football,England defeatsSpain 3–1 onpenalties in theUEFA Women's Eurofinal to win their second major football championship and successfully defending their title. Spain'sAitana Bonmatí is named the tournament's best player.(Reuters)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • Congolese government–alignedWazalendo militias, including Resisting Congolese Patriots and theAlliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo, clash withM23 rebels in Shoa and Shamarambo villages,Masisi Territory,Democratic Republic of the Congo. The villages are captured by the M23.(Radio Okapi)(Radio Okapi)
    • Wazalendo militia Collective of Movements for Change clashes with M23 rebels in the villages of Mashango and Mudugudu,Rutshuru Territory.(Radio Okapi)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli attacks kill more than 80Palestinians across theGaza Strip.(Al Jazeera)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
    • TheHouthis release a video showing ten crewmembers of theGreek-operatedcargo shipEternity C, which the group attacked and sunk earlier this month, in captivity.(Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • U.S. presidentDonald Trump issues a new 12-dayultimatum toRussia to end the war inUkraine.(BBC News)
• Constitutional crisis in Somalia
  • Jubaland crisis
    • Clashes occur inDolow,Somalia, betweenJubaland forces and theSomali National Army.(Garowe Online)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Operation Mahadev
    • TheIndian military announces they have killed three militants behind thePahalgam Attack in theDachigam area ofJammu and Kashmir.Jazeera)
• ThePakistaniCounter Terrorism Department kills three suspected militants accused of orchestrating an attack inKarachi last year.(AP)

Arts and culture

• ThePolisario Front formally condemns the recent filming ofChristopher Nolan's upcoming filmThe Odyssey in Moroccan-occupiedDakhla, Western Sahara.(Forbes)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 30 people are killed and several others are missing due to heavy rain andflooding inHebei andBeijing,China.(AP)
• Three people are killed and hundreds of others areevacuated during floods across nine counties in northeasternRomania.(AP)(Reuters)

International relations

• 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza
  • Apeace conference opens inNew York City, United States, aimed at reviving thetwo-state solution and renewingdiplomatic efforts to resolve theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict.(Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 New York City shooting
  • Five people are killed, including anNYPD officer and the perpetrator, and five others are injured, including four with non-gunshot injuries, in amass shooting at the345 Park Avenueskyscraper inManhattan, New York City, United States.(CNN)(BNO News)
• Grand Sierra Resort shooting
  • Three people are killed and eight others are injured, including the perpetrator and an officer that sustained non-gunshot injuries, in amass shooting at theGrand Sierra Resort inReno,Nevada, United States.(Reno Gazette-Journal)(KRNV-DT)
• Or Tor Kor Market shooting
  • Six people are killed, including the perpetrator, and two others are injured in amass shooting atOr Tor Kor Market inBangkok,Thailand.(Reuters)(Thairath)
• Two people are killed and two others are injured, including the perpetrator, in amass stabbing on business premises onLong Lane inSouthwark,London,United Kingdom.(Sky News)
• A court inBogotá,Colombia, convicts formerpresidentÁlvaro Uribe ofwitness tampering andbribery.(AP)

Politics and elections

• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines (2024–2025)
  • In hisState of the Nation Address,PhilippinepresidentBongbong Marcos orders a nationwide audit of flood control projects across the country, alongside acrackdown on corruption on these projects, in response to widespread damage caused by recent flooding resulting fromTropical Storm Wipha and themonsoon season.(Philippine Daily Inquirer)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian forces launchdrone strikes andcruise missile strikes acrossUkraine, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens of others, including 16 inmates killed in anairstrike on a prison inZaporizhzhia.(BBC News)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • Wazalendo militia Human Rights Defense Forces andM23 rebels clash on a hill near Kazinga,Masisi Territory,Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).(Radio Okapi)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Famine in Sudan
    • According to theSudan Doctors Network, 13 children have died frommalnutrition in adisplacementcamp in theDarfur region ofSudan.(AP)
• Ituri conflict
  • Zaïre-FPAC militants attack Sanduku 1,Djugu Territory, DRC, killing two civilians.(Radio Okapi)
• Red Sea crisis
  • TheHouthis launch aballistic missile targetingBen Gurion International Airport inIsrael, which was intercepted byIsraeli forces.(The Times of Israel)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 18 people making theKanwar Yatra pilgrimage are killed in a bus accident inDeoghar,Jharkand,India.(DW)(NDTV)
• The death toll from the flooding inHebei andBeijing,China, increases to 34, with eight others missing.(NPR)
• Seven people are killed and three others are injured when aVenezuelan Air ForceCessna 208 Caravan aircraft carrying members of theYanomami Indigenous community, medical personnel and crew crashes after a suspected technical failure in theAmazon Rainforest,Amazonas State,Venezuela.(The Times of India)(ASN)
• Adust explosion at a wood chip manufacturing plant inFremont, Nebraska,United States, kills three people.(AP)

International relations

• 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza
  • International recognition of Palestine
    • Malteseprime ministerRobert Abela announces that Malta will recognize theState of Palestine at theUN General Assembly session in September, whileSammarineseforeign and political affairs secretaryLuca Beccari announces that San Marino will recognize the State of Palestine by the end of 2025.(TVM)(GiornaleSM)
    • United Kingdomprime ministerKeir Starmer declares that the UK will formally recognize the State of Palestine should a ceasefire not be achieved by September.(The Telegraph)
  • Attendees of the conference issue a declaration committing to 15-month transition plan for ademilitarized, fullysovereign Palestinian state governed by thePalestinian Authority with the assistance of aUnited Nationspeacekeeping force. The declaration additionally calls onHamas to disarm and give up itsrule over Gaza.(AP)(Al Arabiya)
• Israel–Netherlands relations
  • The Netherlands bansfar-rightIsraeli ministersItamar Ben-Gvir andBezalel Smotrich from the country and calls on theEuropean Union to support aceasefire inGaza.(AP)

Law and crime

• Lebanon convicts and sentences six people who are accused of killing aUnited Nations peacekeeper inBeirut in 2023.(AP)
• TheInternal Security Agency ofPoland detains 32 people, including aPole, aColombian,Russians,Ukrainians, andBelarusians, who are suspected of coordinating withRussia to engage insabotage.(AP)

Politics and elections

• Four people are killed and over 500 others are arrested in protests inLuanda,Angola, against thegovernment's increase infuel prices.(DW)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Constitutional crisis in Somalia
  • Jubaland crisis
    • Federal troops captureBeled Hawo,Somalia, from forces loyal toJubaland.(Garowe Online)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 71Palestinians are killed and dozens more are wounded while seekinghumanitarian aid inGaza.(Al Jazeera)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • M23 rebels expelWazalendo militia Decisive Movement for the Liberation of Congo from Kamakombe,Kabare Territory,Democratic Republic of the Congo.(Radio Okapi)
• South Sudan–Uganda relations
  • FiveSouth Sudanese soldiers, one Ugandan soldier, and one civilian are killed in a shooting at two villages inYumbe District,Uganda, in a retaliatory strike against theSouth Sudan People's Defence Forces after the killing of aUganda People's Defence Force soldier during border clashes on Monday. Both countries have agreed to an immediateceasefire.(AP)(Daily Monitor)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Kamchatka earthquake
  • A M_w 8.8 earthquake strikes off the coast ofRussia'sKamchatka Peninsula.Tsunami alerts have been issued along thePacific coast of many countries.(The New York Times)
• At least nine people are killed and two others are critically injured in an explosion at afireworks workshop inBan Pho Tha Sai,Suphan Buri province,Thailand.(AP)(Bangkok Post)
• Five people, including four Ukrainian nationals, are killed after a truck collides with a minivan on theA1 motorway nearSlovenske Konjice,Slovenia.(Slovenian Press Agency)(Sloboden Pečat)

International relations

• 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza,Canada–Palestine relations
  • Canadian prime ministerMark Carney announces thatCanada will recognisePalestine as an independent country in September, conditional on thePalestinian Authority committing to certain reforms.(CBC)
• Syria–Turkey relations,Qatar–Syria relations
  • Turkey announces it will start supplyingnatural gas toSyria via theArab Gas Pipeline to help Syria generate new electricity, whileQatar will also help with the project's financing.(AP)
• 2022 Brazilian coup plot
  • TheU.S. Treasury Department imposes sanctions under theMagnitsky Act onBrazilian Supreme Court justiceAlexandre de Moraes over allegedhuman rights violations and suppression offreedom of expression in his oversight of formerpresidentJair Bolsonaro.(Reuters)

Science and technology

• Internet censorship in Australia
  • Thegovernment of Australia announces the inclusion ofvideo-sharing siteYouTube inits social media ban forteenagers starting in December, following a survey on harmful content being reported on the site.(BBC News)(Reuters)
• Internet censorship in Russia
  • Russian federal agencyRospotrebnadzor blocks web serviceSpeedtest after identifying alleged threats to the security of the public communications network and a segment of theInternet in Russia.(The Moscow Times)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kyiv strikes,Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian forces launchdrones andcruise missiles onKyiv,Ukraine, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 150 others. At least onetower block completely collapses.(Reuters)(BBC News)(AP)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • M23 rebels clash with variousMai-Mai groups in several villages in the Ufamandu group,Masisi Territory,Democratic Republic of the Congo.(Radio Okapi)
• Myanmar civil war
  • Themilitary junta ofMyanmar formally ends the country's four-year-longstate of emergency and declares aDecember 2025 election for the country's newhead of government andlegislative members.(AP)
• New People's Army rebellion
  • Eight alleged members of theNew People's Army are killed in clashes with thePhilippine Army inLas Navas, Northern Samar,Philippines.(Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Arts and culture

• Canonisation of John Henry Newman
  • Pope Leo XIV declaresSaintJohn Henry Newman, a 19th-centuryAnglican convert who became a prominentEnglish Catholic theologian, as aDoctor of the Church.(AP)(Vatican News)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from the flooding inBeijing,China, increases to over 70 as the government discovers 31elderly people who were trapped in anursing home inMiyun district.(AP)
• Six people are killed and nine others are injured after a M_w 4.2 earthquake causes a collapse at theEl Teniente copper mine nearMachalí,O'Higgins Region,Chile.(Tiempo Sur)
• Heavy rain leads toflash flooding in theGuinean capitalConakry, killing at least seven people and leaving several others missing.(RFI)

Health and environment

• U.S. presidentDonald Trump signs anexecutive order restoring thePresidential Fitness Test in all public schoolsnationwide.(AP)(USA Today)

International relations

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration,Liberation Day tariffs
  • South Korea–United States relations
    • South Korea and theUnited States reach atrade agreement that places a 15%tariff on U.S. imports from South Korea. South Korea also promises to invest US$350 billion into Americanbiotech,semiconductors, andshipbuilding over an unspecified time.(Yonhap)(CBS News)
  • U.S. presidentDonald Trump announces revised tariff rates set to start on August 1, including a new 35% tariff onCanada.(Reuters)
• Israel–Slovenia relations,Arms embargoes on Israel since 2023
  • TheSlovenian government announces a complete ban on the import, export, and transit of arms and military equipment to and fromIsrael.(Arab News)
• Myanmar–United States relations
  • Americanlobbying firmDCI Group signs a $3 million-per-year agreement withMyanmar'sMinistry of Information to provide public affairs services aimed at rebuilding relations with the United States, according to aForeign Agents Registration Act filing, despite existingU.S. sanctions onMyanmar's military leadership.(Reuters)

Law and crime

• A court inFaisalabad,Pakistan, sentencesopposition leaderOmar Ayub and over 200 supporters of oustedprime ministerImran Khan to over ten years in prison each for their participation in the2023 protests.(AP)
• Conor McGregor loses his appeal against a civil court in theRepublic of Ireland, finding that heraped Nikita Hand.(RTÉ)
• Islamic terroristOsama Krayem is found guilty atStockholm District Court,Sweden, of involvement in awar crime in whichRoyal Jordanian Air Force pilotMuath al-Kasasbeh was burned alive inside a cage inRaqqa,Syria by theIslamic State on January 3, 2015.(BBC News)

Politics and elections

• TheLegislative Assembly of El Salvador abolishespresidential term limits, increases presidential terms from 5 to 6 years, and moves the date of thenext presidential election from 2029 to 2027.(BBC News)

Science and technology

• Italy andVatican City agree to transform a 430-hectare (1,100-acre) field inRome to asolar farm that will power the Vatican, with the goal of turning it into the firstcarbon-neutral state.(AP)(Bluefield Daily Telegraph)

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• 22:Joey Jones
• 22:George Kooymans
• 22:Chuck Mangione
• 22:Ozzy Osbourne
• 21:V. S. Achuthanandan
• 21:Roy Black
• 21:Kenneth Calman
• 20:Malcolm-Jamal Warner
• 18:Edwin Feulner
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• 17:Alan Bergman
• 17:Bryan Braman
• 16:Connie Francis
• 15:Judy Loe
• 14:B. Saroja Devi
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