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Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2026 Iran war
  • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
    • The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy declares the Strait of Hormuz to be closed until further notice and says that they have fired a shot at two vessels that used an unauthorized route. (France 24) (Shafaq)
    • The United States launches new strikes against Iran in response. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Ten people are killed and several others are injured after a pickup truck carrying 17 passengers was hit from behind by another truck while turning, which then caused another truck in the opposite direction to collide in West Java, Indonesia. (Xinhua)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Arab–Israeli conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • One Palestinian is killed and two others are injured in a Israeli drone strike in central Gaza. (Palestine Chronicle)
  • Hezbollah–Israel conflict
    • 2026 Israel–Lebanon peace talks
      • A Lebanese official says Lebanon will participate in planned talks with Israel in Rome, Italy, as a U.S. military delegation visits Beirut to discuss the implementation of a framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Kordofan campaign, Siege of El Obeid
    • UNICEF warns that half a million civilians in El-Obeid, North Kordofan, are forcing children and families to be displaced and seek refuge. (AA)
  • The Khartoum State government says that they have transferred the remains of 27 victims of the war in the country to official cemeteries ahead of the rainy season. (Sudan Tribune)

Business and economy

• Housing in the United States
  • The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act becomes law after U.S. president Donald Trump allows the bill to take effect without his signature. It was passed by the U.S. Congress to expand affordable housing and reduce housing costs. (CBS News)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 44 people are killed and more than one million are stranded as floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains affect southeastern Bangladesh, disrupting power, roads, and communications across several districts. (Reuters)
• Fifteen Indian tourists are killed and 21 others are rescued when a speedboat capsizes near Phú Quốc, Vietnam. (CNN-News18)

International relations

• India–New Zealand relations
  • India and New Zealand announce the formation of a strategic partnership during Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's visit to Auckland, expanding cooperation on defense, security, trade, diplomacy, culture, sport, science, and maritime issues in the Indo-Pacific. (AFP via The Manila Times)

Law and crime

• 2026 Toronto shooting
  • Two people are killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting at a festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (CBC News)

Politics and elections

• Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide Committed by Ukrainian Nationalists
  • Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, marking the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, announces plans to build a Wall of Remembrance in Warsaw for identified victims of the Volhynia massacre and says Poland will continue efforts to exhume and properly bury victims. (AFP via The Straits Times) (Rzeczpospolita in Polish)
• Gaza war protests
  • Protesters in Stockholm, Sweden, gather at the Odenplan plaza to protest against Israel’s attacks in Gaza, ceasefire violations, and restrictions on humanitarian aid entering Gaza. (AA)

Sports

• 2026 Wimbledon Championships
  • In tennis, Linda Nosková wins her first major title after defeating her compatriot Karolína Muchová in the final, 6–2, 5–7, 6–3 to win the ladies' singles title at the 2026 Wimbledon Championships. (CNN)
• 2026 FIFA World Cup
  • Argentina at the FIFA World Cup
    • In association football, Argentine forward and captain Lionel Messi becomes the first player to reach 10 assists in FIFA World Cup matches since records began in 1966. (ABC)
    • Following Argentina’s 3–1 win over Switzerland in the quarterfinals, the semifinals will consist of the four best placed teams in the FIFA Men's World Ranking, the first time this has happened since the rankings were introduced in 1992. (Fox Sports)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Hezbollah–Israel conflict
  • 2026 Lebanon war
    • 2026 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire
      • The Financial Times reports that a delegation from the United States Central Command has arrived in Lebanon to implement an agreement to end the conflict between Israel, Lebanon, and Hezbollah. (Middle East Eye)
    • The Israeli military says that it has killed an alleged Hezbollah militant emerging from a tunnel in Ali al-Taher. (Israel National News)
• Oyo school kidnappings
  • Nigerian president Bola Tinubu says military, police, and intelligence personnel have rescued all 46 students and staff abducted in May from schools in Oyo State, arresting eight suspects and killing some abductors during the operation. (AFP via Le Monde)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024–2026 Cuba blackouts, 2026 Cuban crisis
  • Cuba suffers its second nationwide blackout in five days, with state utility UNE reporting a total grid collapse amid fuel shortages, aging power plants and continuing electricity rationing. (AFP via Jamaica Observer)
• 2026 Pacific typhoon season
  • Two separate landslides caused by Typhoon Bavi and the enhanced monsoon occur in the Philippines. Ten people are killed in Malapatan, Sarangani, after their residence is buried. Seven others are killed and two are injured in Calanogas, Lanao del Sur, with search operations ongoing for four missing. (Al Jazeera) (Manila Bulletin) (ABS-CBN News in Filipino)
• Ten people are killed when a Flamingo Air Cessna 402 crashes shortly after takeoff from San Andros Airport in North Andros, The Bahamas. (BBC News)

International relations

• Algeria–Mali relations
  • Algeria says its ambassador will return to Mali, while both countries reopen their respective airspaces to each other, easing a diplomatic dispute that began after Algeria shot down a Malian drone in April 2025. (AFP via Arab News Pakistan)

Law and crime

• Diesel emissions scandal
  • The High Court in London, England, dismisses claims that automakers Ford, Mercedes, Nissan, Renault, and Stellantis use prohibited diesel emissions defeat devices, while allowing damages issues over some specific strategies to proceed to a second trial. (AFP via Gulf News)
• A murder investigation is launched into the death of British politician Ann Widdecombe yesterday. Police say they have arrested a British man in connection with her death. (CNN) (The Daily Telegraph)

Science and technology

• 2026 in spaceflight
  • China becomes the second country to achieve the controlled recovery of an orbital-class rocket booster, after successfully launching the Long March 10B. (South China Morning Post)

Sports

• 2026 Diamond League
  • Kenyan middle-distance runner Emmanuel Wanyonyi breaks the men's 1,000 metres ​world record in two minutes ‌and 11.83 seconds at the Herculis in Monaco. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2026 Iranian strikes on Arab countries
      • 2026 Iranian strikes on Jordan
        • The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force fires 10 ballistic missiles at the Al-Azraq air base in Jordan. (AA)
      • 2026 Iranian strikes on Kuwait
        • The Kuwaiti General Staff of the Army reports that Kuwait air defenses has intercepted "hostile missile and drone attacks" on the country. (AFP via The Times of Israel)
      • 2026 Iranian strikes on Qatar
        • Qatar is attacked by projectiles from Iran. (Al Jazeera)
    • 2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations
      • 2026 Iran war ceasefire
        • A U.S. official says that technical talks will continue after two days of recent clashes between the two countries. (Bloomberg) (Middle East Eye)
    • Israeli defence minister Israel Katz says that Israel is ready to launch further strikes against Iran if necessary. (Armen Press)
  • Gaza war
    • The Israel military says that Islamic Jihad commander 'Rashid al-Qadhi', who was allegedly in charge of the organization's weapon production division, was killed in a airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip. Additionally, Hamas sniper Abdullah Baha al-Din Razak al-Souti is said to have been killed in a separate strike in the northern part of Gaza, both despite the ongoing ceasefire. (The Times of Israel) (The Jerusalem Post)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Kordofan campaign
    • Siege of El Obeid, Sudan–European Union relations
      • The European Parliament votes 476–28 with 96 abstentions to adopt a resolution calling on the European Union to designate the Rapid Support Forces as a terrorist organization and impose sanctions on individuals responsible for attacks on civilians in El-Obeid, North Kordofan. (Sudan Tribune)
  • Sudanese prime minister Kamil Idris and African Union envoy to Sudan Mohamed Belaiche hold talks in Khartoum to discuss efforts to achieve peace and stability in the country and coordinate initiatives for a ceasefire to end the civil war. (AA)
• Mali War
  • 2026 Mali offensives
    • The Azawad Liberation Front attacks a convoy carrying Malian soldiers and Russian Africa Corps fighters near Anéfis, Kidal Region. Security sources say Niger provided air support for Mali during the attack. (Reuters)
• 2026 Damascus bombings
  • Syrian interior minister Anas Khattab and Rif Dimashq internal security commander Ahmed al-Dalati say security forces have captured an Islamic State-linked cell responsible for the two bombings in Damascus that killed one person and injured 36 others last Tuesday. (AFP via France 24)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Nigerian troops kill more than 300 suspected kidnapping and cattle-rustling gang members during an operation that began yesterday in Gummi, Zamfara State. (AFP via New Straits Times)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2026 Iran war
  • QatarEnergy pauses efforts to restore liquefied natural gas (LNG) production at the Ras Laffan gas facility after an attack on an LNG carrier in the Strait of Hormuz, choosing to keep its operations at a minimum. (AA)

Disasters and accidents

• Huiteng Shoes factory fire
  • Twenty-eight people are killed after a fire at a shoe factory in Jinjiang, Fujian, China. (AFP via France 24) (Xinhua)
• 2026 Los Gallardos wildfire
  • Twelve people are killed, eight others injured and 23 reported missing in a wildfire in Los Gallardos, Andalusia, Spain. (The Guardian) (Reuters)
• Five members of a family are killed in an apartment fire caused by a gas leak in Giza, Egypt. (Xinhua)
• At least four people are killed in a building collapse in New Delhi, India, due to rains related to the monsoon season. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2026 Ebola epidemic
  • The death toll from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches 600. (NPR)

Law and crime

• 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • Tanzanian police arrest 130 people for allegedly encouraging criminal activity after home affairs minister Hamad Masauni banned political rallies and deployed security forces to prevent planned protests seeking democratic reforms and accountability for election-related deaths. (Reuters)
• Terrorism in the United States
  • The U.S. justice department announces that a federal grand jury has indicted eight men over an alleged plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House in Washington, D.C., last month. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Impact of the 2026 Iran war on Iran
  • State funeral of Ali Khamenei
    • The final stage of former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's state funeral begins in his hometown of Mashhad after previously being delayed by an hour in which Iran said U.S. forces struck a railway bridge northeast in the country en-route to the funeral. (The New York Times)
    • Khamenei's body arrives in the Imam Reza shrine for his burial. (Al-Monitor)
• 2026 New Caledonian legislative election
  • Virginie Ruffenach, of the pro-France coalition, is elected president of the Congress of New Caledonia following elections. Ruffenach defeats Dominique Foch [fr] of the pro-independence bloc with a 28 to 25 vote. (Radio New Zealand)
• Thousands of people protest in Budapest, Hungary, against the attempt by prime minister Péter Magyar to oust president Tamás Sulyok, whom Magyar accuses of failing to "live up" to his role by not opposing what he calls antidemocratic measures by former prime minister Viktor Orbán. (AP)
• Senegal's Constitutional Council strikes down a parliamentary bill that would expand the powers of the National Assembly and prime minister while limiting presidential authority, after president Bassirou Diomaye Faye challenges the measure. (AFP via Indo Premier)

Science and technology

• AI boom
  • OpenAI releases the large language model tool GPT-5.6. (Axios)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations
      • 2026 Iran war ceasefire
        • U.S. president Donald Trump says that the ceasefire between Iran and the United States is over and that airstrikes will continue. However, he also states that negotiations can continue. Pakistan's foreign ministry reaffirms its call for all sides to honor the recently-signed memorandum of understanding following Trump's declaration. (AFP via The Times of Israel) (Asharq Al-Awsat) (Reuters)
    • 2026 Iranian strikes on Arab countries
      • 2026 Iranian strikes on Bahrain
        • The Bahraini military intercepts projectiles from Iran. (Al Jazeera)
      • 2026 Iranian strikes on Kuwait
        • The Kuwaiti military intercepts two ballistic missiles and 13 drones from Iran. (Al Jazeera)
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
      • International Maritime Organization head Arsenio Dominguez reports that 6,000 seafarers are still stranded in the Strait of Hormuz and calls for a "maximum restraint and de-escalation" amidst renewal of the crisis. (Middle East Eye) (Oman Observer)
      • Nakilat confirms that the Qatari LNG tanker Al Rekayyat was hit yesterday by projectiles near the Strait of Hormuz. No casualties are reported. Additionally, the tanker is reported to be stranded near the coast of Oman. (Gulf Times) (Khaleej Times) (The Peninsula Qatar)
    • Iranian state media, including the Fars News Agency, releases footage of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei's compound after it was hit in an airstrike by Israel and the U.S. during the first day of the war. (The Jerusalem Post) (Al Jazeera)
    • The U.S. military conducts new airstrikes against Iran, with at least 14 people killed in the last two days. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
  • Gaza war
    • The Israeli military states that Nukhba commander Mohammed Emad Alrahman Abu Taima of the Al-Qassam Brigades, who is alleged to have taken part in the infiltration of the kibbutz Nirim during the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas, has been killed in an airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip. (Cleveland Jewish News) (Israel National News)
• Sudanese civil war
  • 2026 Blue Nile campaign
    • The Sudanese Army says that they have recaptured the Blue Nile town of Kurmuk. (Sudan Tribune)
  • War crimes during the Sudanese civil war, Darfur genocide
    • A probe by the United Nations fact-finding mission of Sudan finds that the Rapid Support Forces have committed mass killings, abductions ‌of women and girls, mass gang rapes, and forced starvation in the North Darfur city of El Fasher. (Al Jazeera)
  • Human rights groups report that drone strikes in Sudan on civilian vehicles heading to social gatherings have killed 20 people in recent days. (ABC News) (AP)
  • A drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces kills 10 people traveling to a wedding near Omdurman. (AA) (MENAFN)
• 2026 Damascus bombings
  • The toll from yesterday's bombings in Damascus, Syria, increases to one person killed and 36 people injured. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Pakistan's military says that three militant attacks in Balochistan since July 6 have killed 42 army and police personnel, while security forces have killed 54 militants in the incidents. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2026 Iran war
  • Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate oil prices increase by at least 5% amidst the escalation in the Iran war, rising to US$78.01 and $73.86, respectively. (CNBC)
  • Stocks on the Pakistan Stock Exchange witness a sharp decline following renewed geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, with the KSE-100 Index falling to 4,626 points. (Dunya News) (Arab News PK)

Disasters and accidents

• Seven children and a teacher are killed when heavy rain triggers a landslide during a class at Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (AFP via The Straits Times) (Reuters)
• Two people are killed after an explosion in a fireworks factory in Borgorose, Rieti Province, Italy. (Xinhua)

Health and environment

• A cyclosporiasis outbreak, caused by cyclospora cayetanensis, is reported across the United States in 18 U.S. states, with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reporting around 992 cases and Ohio Department of Health reporting 177 in Ohio. (WJRT-TV) (WTTG) (The Columbus Dispatch)

International relations

• Aftermath of the Syrian civil war
  • Syria–United States relations, US-designated state sponsors of terrorism
    • U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio notifies Congress that the U.S. will remove Syria as a "state sponsor of terrorism" after being listed as one since 1979 during the Assad regime. (Al-Monitor)
• Protests against the 2026 Iran war
  • Pakistan–United States relations, 2026 attack on the United States consulate in Karachi, Pakistan in the 2026 Iran war
    • The United States announces that it will resume regular consular services at its consulates in Karachi and Lahore after previously suspending operations over security concerns during violent protests in Pakistan, including an attack on the U.S. consulate in Karachi. (Dawn)
• Greenland crisis
  • The prime ministers of Greenland and Denmark, Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Mette Frederiksen, respectively, reaffirm that Greenland is not for sale amidst a renewed push by Trump at the NATO summit to control the territory. (RFI) (Reuters)
• Ukraine–European Union relations, Polish Order of the White Eagle controversy
  • The European Parliament passes a resolution expressing regret over the decision of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to name a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, citing their responsibility for the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. (TVP World)

Law and crime

• 2026 Sumatra blackout, Corruption in Indonesia
  • Indonesia police perform raids on 12 places linked to three different cases. They found 74 kg of golds, and cash in form of Indonesian rupiah, Singapore dollar, and United States dollar totaling over US$3.7 million. (Bloomberg) (Jakarta Globe) (Tempo)
• Disappearance of ARA San Juan
  • A court in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina, convicts former Argentine Navy commander Claudio Villamide for his role in the 2017 implosion of the submarine ARA San Juan, which killed all 44 people on board. (Buenos Aires Times)
• Norwegian police and international partners announce the arrest of 28 men across seven countries in an operation targeting suspected dark-web buyers of child sexual abuse material who allegedly used the cryptocurrency Monero, while Europol says three children are safeguarded. (AFP via South China Morning Post)

Politics and elections

• Iraq in the 2026 Iran war
  • State funeral of Ali Khamenei
    • State funerals for former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei are held in Iraq's Shi'ite holy cities of Karbala and Najaf. (AP) (Middle East Eye)
• 2026 United States elections
  • 2026 United States Senate elections
    • U.S. Senate Democratic nominee Graham Platner suspends his campaign in the upcoming U.S. Senate election in Maine, leaving the Maine Democratic Party to seek a replacement challenger to incumbent Republican Susan Collins. (Reuters)
• Human rights in Thailand
  • Thailand's parliament passes an amnesty bill covering political activists convicted since 2005 while excluding corruption and royal insult offences. The measure awaits royal approval. (AFP via The Star)

Sports

• 2026 FIFA World Cup controversies
  • 2026 Trump–FIFA red card controversy
    • Seventy-two lawmakers from the European Parliament call for an investigation into FIFA president Gianni Infantino after FIFA lifted the red-card suspension on American striker Folarin Balogun. (Politico Europe)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
      • Three commercial vessels are reported to be attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, including the Qatari LNG tanker Al Rekayyat, which is owned by Nakilat. (AP)
      • Al Rekayyat is reported to be at a risk of explosion following the attack. The attack marks the first time a vessel from Qatar was attacked since the war started on February 28. (Al-Monitor)
      • The United States revokes the temporary sanctions waiver against Iranian oil issued as part of the Islamabad Memorandum after the attacks on the three vessels. (AFP via CNA) (Axios)
      • U.S. forces strike Iranian air-defence, coastal surveillance, and missile sites after attacks hit three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, with explosions heard in Bandar Abbas, Bandar Sirik, and Qeshm Island. Iran accuses the U.S. of violating their memorandum of understanding and warns of retaliation. (AFP via CNA)
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli airstrikes and gunfire kill at least seven people, including a child, in the Gaza Strip, while Israel says the airstrikes targeted Hamas militants. (Reuters)
    • The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet says that they have killed a Hamas Nukhba Force commander and another commander associated with the militant group's intelligence unit. (JNS)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Kordofan campaign
    • Human rights groups say that 15 people have been killed in drone strikes in Sudan's North Kordofan state. (AFP via Al-Arabiya)
    • The Sudanese Army says that it has shot down a Chinese-made FH-95 drone in North Kordofan, the third model shot down by the army. (AA)
• 2026 Damascus bombings
  • One person was killed and 36 others are injured in two explosions near Four Seasons Hotel Damascus, Syria, where French president Emmanuel Macron stayed during his state visit to the country. Macron was not at the hotel during the explosions. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• K2 Airways Flight 1732
  • A K2 Airways Boeing 737-400 cargo aircraft goes missing off the coast of Pakistan with five people on board. (The Independent)
• Fourteen people are killed and 28 others are injured after a bus collided head-on with a trailer on the Kampala–Gulu Highway, in Northern Uganda. (Xinhua)
• Two people are killed and 14 others are injured after a bus veered off a road and struck pedestrians in Amadora, Portugal. (Xinhua)
• Two people are killed and seven others are missing after a massive landslide triggered by heavy rains hit a bridge in Wayanad District, Kerala, India. (Xinhua)

International relations

• 2026 Ankara NATO summit
  • Greenland crisis
    • At the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, U.S. president Donald Trump renews his calls for the United States to control Greenland, and says that the U.S. could remove troops from Europe over the dispute. (CNBC)
  • Turkey–United States relations
    • Trump says that the U.S. will lift sanctions against Turkey that were imposed in 2020 over its purchase of Russian defense missiles. (Defense News)

Health and environment

• Sudanese cholera epidemic
  • The Médecins Sans Frontières deploys to the Darfur region amidst ongoing cases of cholera in the Kordofan states of West and North Kordofan. (Sudan Tribune)

Politics and elections

• Iraq in the 2026 Iran war
  • State funeral of Ali Khamenei
    • Iraqi state television says that former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei's remains has arrived in Iraq's Shi'ite holy city of Najaf for viewing following funeral ceremonies in Tehran and Qom, Iran. (Reuters)
• 2027 French presidential election
  • French deputy Marine Le Pen announces her candidacy for president in the next election as the far-right National Rally's nominee. It will be her fourth bid for the presidency. (CNN)

Sports

• 2026 FIFA World Cup
  • Argentina at the FIFA World Cup
    • In association football, Argentine forward and captain Lionel Messi becomes the first player to score in nine consecutive World Cup matches (including the previous edition), after scoring in the team's 3–2 victory against Egypt in the round of 16. (ABC News)
  • Switzerland at the FIFA World Cup
    • Switzerland advances to the quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1954 after beating Colombia in a penalty shootout in the round of 16. (CBS Sports)
• 2028 Summer Olympics
  • Doping in Russia, Russia at the Summer Olympics, International sporting sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The International Olympic Committee lifts its ban on Russian athletes, allowing them to take part in the upcoming Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States, after previously being banned from competing under its own flag for doping and the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza peace plan
      • Hamas announces that its government will step down to facilitate the transition of a technocratic administration in the Gaza Strip, as stipulated in the Gaza peace plan of October 2025. In response, the Board of Peace states that it will assess the implementation of these steps. (Al Jazeera) (The Jerusalem Post)
    • The Israeli military states that they have killed five Hamas militants who allegedly attempted to restore underground infrastructure in the northern Gaza Strip, west of the Yellow Line, including Hudhayfah Hussein Abdullah al-Hawajri, a Nukhba militant from the East Jabalia Battalion command, despite the ongoing ceasefire. (Israel National News)
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
      • According to shipping data from LSEG, around 10 Japan-linked ships, mostly managed by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, are reported to have transited through the Strait of Hormuz using the route proposed by Iran. Data also show that a supertanker carrying Saudi crude oil headed for South Korea left over the weekend. (Gulf Today) (Japan Times)
• Mali War
  • 2026 Mali offensives
    • The Al-Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Tuareg Azawad Liberation Front rebels seize the northern Mali town of Anéfis. (AllAfrica) (AFP via RFI)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes
    • At least 22 people are killed and 56 others are injured in a Russian ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Search and rescue efforts are underway in Kyiv to free civilians trapped under rubble. (BBC News)
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Ukraine's General Staff reports that drones have struck Russia's Omsk refinery in Omsk, Omsk Oblast in the Siberia region. (Reuters)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Siege of El Obeid
    • The United Nations Human Rights Council orders an inquiry into alleged human rights violations around El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan, warning that civilians face a risk of mass atrocities as the Rapid Support Forces encircles the city amid Sudan's civil war. (AFP via Macau Business)
  • UNICEF reports that over 330 children have been killed in Sudan's civil war in the first six months of 2026. (AP) (UCICEF)

Business and economy

• 2022–2026 video game industry layoffs
  • Microsoft cuts roughly 4,800 jobs, primarily within its Xbox and commercial sales divisions, while divesting game studios Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs. (Reuters) (The Verge)

Disasters and accidents

• 2026 Cuban crisis, 2024–2026 Cuba blackouts
  • Cuba experiences its third nationwide power outage of the year, with state utility Unión Eléctrica de Cuba reporting a total grid disconnection as the country faces severe fuel shortages and chronic failures in its electricity system. (AFP via The Guardian)
• 2026 Ezhou-Huanggang tornado
  • At least 12 people are killed, hundreds are injured, and extensive damage is reported when a large wedge tornado strikes Ezhou and Huanggang, Hubei, China. (Sohu in Chinese) (The Watchers)
• Fifteen miners are killed and another is injured when part of a decommissioned gold mine collapses in Wadi Halfa, Northern State, Sudan, after miners entered the closed site. (AFP via Asharq Al-Awsat)
• At least nine people are killed, including children, and several others are injured in landslides at Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar District, Bangladesh. (Demócrata) (TRT World)
• Five people are killed and one injured after a fire at a residential building in Zhengzhou, Henan, China. (PTI via The Hindu) (Xinhua)

Health and environment

• 2026 Ebola epidemic
  • The total number of deaths from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo exceeds 500. (ModernGhana)

International relations

• Australia–Fiji relations
  • Australia and Fiji sign a defence pact, making Fiji one of Australia's treaty-bound allies and committing both countries to consult on security threats and support mutual defence in the Pacific. (AFP via France 24)
• Kyrgyzstan–Pakistan relations
  • Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari begins a four-day visit to Kyrgyzstan after an invitation from Kyrgyz president Sadyr Japarov, making it the first official visit by a Pakistani president to the country in 21 years. (Pakistan Observer)

Law and crime

• 2026 Monaco bombing
  • Anastasiia Berezovska, the suspect in a bombing targeting Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Iermolaiev and his family in Monaco on June 29, is found dead near Kyiv, Ukraine, with gunshot wounds to the head. (BBC News) (Pravda)
• 2026 Negombo prison riot
  • Riots between inmates from rival drug gangs at a prison in Negombo, Sri Lanka, kill 27 people, including four officers, and injure more than 100 others. (AFP via Daily Tribune)
• Corruption in the Philippines
  • Philippine police ⁠separately arrest senator Rodante Marcoleta and three co-accused, including former party-list representative Mike Defensor, after an anti-graft court orders their arrest in relation to a plunder case filed by the Ombudsman. (AP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• Crime in Bangladesh
  • A crude bomb explodes during a post-march rally in Savar, Dhaka District, Bangladesh, while National Citizen Party convener Nabila Tasnid was giving a speech, injuring three. (The Business Standard)
• Óbuda scandal
  • News outlet Telex.hu publishes the text of arrested Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) politician Gergő Czeglédy's 2024 testimony alleging the existence of a large corruption network involving members of the MSZP and Fidesz since 2006. (24.hu in Hungarian) (HVG in Hungarian) (Daily News Hungary)

Politics and elections

• Impact of the 2026 Iran war on Iran
  • State funeral of Ali Khamenei
    • Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends former supreme leader Ali Khamenei's funeral amidst questions surrounding his fate in the aftermath of an Israeli–U.S. airstrike on his home during the early stages of the war. (Iran International) (The Jerusalem Post) (RFE/RL)
    • Iranian state television reports that Khamenei's body arrives in Qom, where he studied, ahead of a planned procession. (AFP via Al-Ahram)
• Second impeachment of Sara Duterte
  • The impeachment trial of Philippine vice president Sara Duterte begins in the Senate. (AP) (BBC News)

Science and technology

• Samsung Electronics announces that Samsung Messages is being discontinued in the US on July 6 and directs users who have Android 12 or above to switch to Google Messages. (9to5Google)

Sports

• 2026 FIFA World Cup
  • Spain at the FIFA World Cup
    • In association football, Spain records its sixth consecutive FIFA World Cup clean sheet in a 1–0 win over Portugal in the round of 16, setting a tournament record, while goalkeeper Unai Simón extends his scoreless streak to 609 minutes. (ANI)
• 2026 Esports World Cup
  • The third edition of the Esports World Cup opens in Paris, France. (TNT Sports)