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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
    • Russian Lieutenant GeneralOleg Tsokov is reportedly killed by a missile strike nearBerdiansk,Zaporizhzhia Oblast.(CNN)
• Mexican drug war
  • Suspecteddrug cartel members set off bombs targeting police officers inTlajomulco de Zúñiga,Jalisco,Mexico, killing six people (four officers and two civilians) and injuring 12 others.(Reuters)

Business and economy

• Proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft
  • United States judgeJacqueline Scott Corley approvestechnology companyMicrosoft's $69 billionacquisition ofvideo game publisherActivision Blizzard, thelargest video game acquisition in history, dismissing theFederal Trade Commission'santitrustinjunction request.(Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• AManang Airhelicoptertouring theHimalayas crashes nearSolukhumbu,Koshi Province,Nepal, killing all six on board.(Reuters)
• Two people are killed and 11 others are injured when anelevated road collapses inBangkok,Thailand.(AP)
• Montpelier,Vermont,United States, receivesextensive flooding after theWrightsville Dam exceeds capacity.(Reuters)

International relations

• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
    • Azerbaijan'sState Border Service temporarily closes theLachin corridor, the only road betweenArmenia and the disputedNagorno-Karabakh region, allegingsmuggling by theArmenian Red Cross Society.(AFP via Al Arabiya)
• Foreign relations of Hong Kong,Foreign relations of Japan
  • TheHong Kong government threatens to banmarine products from multipleprefectures ifJapan pursues its plan todischargetreatedradioactive waste water from theFukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into thePacific Ocean.(AP)
• Australia–Vietnam relations
  • TheVietnamese government releasesAustraliandemocracy activistChau Van Kham from a 12-year prisonsentence onterrorism charges following an appeal byAustralian prime ministerAnthony Albanese.(AP)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in Japan
  • TheSupreme Court overturns therestroom use restrictions that theMinistry of Economy, Trade and Industry imposed on atrans woman employee, marking the court's first ruling onLGBT working conditions.(AP)
• Six people are killed and four others are injured during amass shooting at a home inKwanobuhle,Eastern Cape,South Africa.(Reuters)
• Two German nationals are arrested and charged in the dismemberment death of German businessman Hans Peter Walter Mack inPattaya,Thailand with a Pakistani-Thai national on the run. Two other German nationals are detained as suspects in relation to the case.(The Star (Malaysia)

Politics and elections

• Thai prime ministerPrayut Chan-o-cha announces his retirement from political office.(CNA)

Science and technology

• TheAnthropocene Working Group identifiesCrawford Lake nearMilton,Ontario,Canada, as the origin of the proposedAnthropoceneepoch due to itsvarves which provide a comprehensivegeologic record of recentenvironmental change.(AFP viaDaily Tribune)

Sports

• Testosterone regulations in women's athletics
  • TheEuropean Court of Human Rights rules in favor ofSouth AfricanrunnerCaster Semenya, stating that Semenya's previous appeals againstWorld Athletics'testosterone regulations were inadequately reviewed, potentially enabling her to recontest these rules due to herhyperandrogenism.(Reuters)