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• The International Olympic Committee provisionally lifts its suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee.
• In cricket, the Women's T20 World Cup concludes with Australia defeating England in the final (player of the match Beth Mooney pictured).
• Keiko Fujimori is elected President of Peru.
• The Catholic Church declares the Society of Saint Pius X to be in schism and excommunicates its members following a consecration dispute.

Ongoing:

• Ebola epidemic
• FIFA World Cup
• Flamingo Revolution
• Iran war (Lebanon war)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
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Recent deaths:

• Bonnie Tyler
• Lothar Voigtländer
• George E. Johnson
• Vladimir McTavish
• Roger Vangheluwe
• Julio Revuelta

July 9, 2026 (2026-07-09) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2026 Iranian strikes on Arab countries
      • 2026 Iranian strikes on Bahrain
        • Bahrain's interior ministry announces on X that air raid sirens sound in the country. (AFP via Gulf News)
      • 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)
    • 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
      • 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)
  • War crimes during the Sudanese civil war
    • Officials with the International Criminal Court says that a "breakthrough" has been made into investigations of war crimes in the Darfur region during the ongoing civil war in Sudan. (Middle East Eye)
  • Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris and African Union (AU) 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 during the attack. (Reuters)

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)
• 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)

Law and crime

• Gen Z 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. Department of Justice 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)
• 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)

July 8, 2026 (2026-07-08) (Wednesday)

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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 more 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, reaffirms 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

• 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)

July 7, 2026 (2026-07-07) (Tuesday)

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)

July 6, 2026 (2026-07-06) (Monday)

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)

July 5, 2026 (2026-07-05) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Post-war plans for the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that there will be no reconstruction in the Gaza Strip until Hamas is disarmed and the strip is demilitarized. (Ynetnews)
    • Medics say that two Palestinians have been killed in airstrikes at the Omar Al-Mokhtar street in Gaza City. (Reuters)
  • 2026 Lebanon war
    • Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon
      • Netanyahu says some Christian-majority villages in southern Lebanon asked to be annexed by Israel for protection from Hezbollah, while villages in the Marjayoun District deny seeking annexation. (AFP via Arab News)
    • The Israeli military says that the Commando Brigade targeted Hezbollah operatives riding motorcycles near Nabatieh. (The Times of Israel)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations and British military's Royal Navy reports that a cargo ship was attacked by "unknown armed assailants" off the coast of Yemen's port city Hodeidah at the Red Sea. (Euronews) (DW)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2026 Iran war
  • 2026 Iran war fuel crisis, 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
    • Seven OPEC+ members agree to raise oil production quotas by 188,000 barrels per day in August, as oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz gradually resume after disruptions linked to the Iran war. (AFP via France 24)
  • Qatar resumes all maritime activities, reversing a June 29 advisory suspending sailing and fishing boats following the death of a Qatari national from shrapnel linked to regional military operations. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2026 Venezuela earthquakes
  • The Venezuelan information ministry reports that the death toll from the earthquakes in Venezuela has risen to 3,342. (Reuters)
• Ten people are killed and six others are injured after a truck and a bus collided in Ogun State, Nigeria. (Daily Review)
• Six people are killed and one injured after a three-story residential building collapses due to heavy rains in Mumbai, India. (Xinhua)

Health and environment

• 2026 Bangladesh measles outbreak
  • Seven more children are reported to have died from measles, bringing the death toll from the disease in Bangladesh to 738. (The Business Standard)
  • A complaint is filed in a Dhaka court against former interim Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, former health adviser Nur Jahan Begum, and two other health officials from the Yunus ministry over their roles in the measles epidemic in the country including child deaths. (Dhaka Tribune) (Daily Sun Bangladesh)
• 2026 North American heat wave
  • Around 25 deaths are reported in heat waves in the United States, with 40 million people under heat alerts across the East Coast, Southeast, and Southwest regions of the country. (NBC News)
• Sudanese cholera epidemic
  • The Dar Hamar Emergency Room reports 800 cases of cholera, including 30 deaths, in the West Kordofan communities of Wad Banda and Al-Nahud in western Sudan. (Middle East Monitor)
  • The Sudan Doctors Network reports 200,000 people in the North Kordofan town of Bara are facing a cholera outbreak alongside measles, including 100 cases of measles in children at health care facilities in Bara. (AA)

International relations

• Somalia–Turkey relations
  • Turkish involvement in the Somali civil war, Constitutional crisis in Somalia
    • Puntland government issued a statement saying exclusive control over its marine resources, citing its constitution and Somalia's federal framework to block SOMTURK. a joint venture between Somalia's fisheries ministry and Turkey's OYAK fund, from operating without approval. The firm holds a federal licence for fishing permits across Somalia's economic zone, signed in Ankara last December to regulate fishing and curb illegal activities, following as leverage in stalled political talks as rich tuna grounds remain underdeveloped. (Garowe Online) (Horseed Media) (Hiiraan Online)

Science and technology

• The satellite Hayabusa2 conducts a flyby of the asteroid 98943 Torifune. (NHK)

Sports

• 2026 FIFA World Cup
  • 2026 FIFA World Cup controversies
    • 2026 Trump–FIFA red card controversy
      • In association football, FIFA declares American forward Folarin Balogun eligible to face Belgium following an intervention by U.S. president Donald Trump. FIFA suspends his ban under Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code, placing it on a one-year probationary period while allowing the red card itself to stand. It became the first time since the introduction of FIFA's automatic suspension system that a World Cup red card suspension is overturned rather than served. (BBC News) (The New York Times)
  • Norway at the FIFA World Cup, Brazil at the FIFA World Cup
    • Norway advances to the quarterfinals of a FIFA World Cup for the first time after defeating Brazil 2–1 in the round of 16. Brazil's loss also marks the team's earliest elimination from the tournament since 1990. (AFP via RFI)

July 4, 2026 (2026-07-04) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2026 Iran war
  • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
    • Oman reaches an agreement with France and the United Kingdom to ensure safe navigation through the country's waterways including the Gulf of Oman and Strait of Hormuz. (CNBC)
• Mali War
  • 2026 Mali offensives
    • The Al-Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Tuareg Azawad Liberation Front separatists launch coordinated attacks on the Malian communes and towns of Aguelhok, Anéfis, Gao, and Sévaré. The Malian army says it has repelled the assaults, while local sources report continuing fighting. (AFP via France 24)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Battle of Kostiantynivka
    • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces deny Russia's claim that it captured Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, yesterday, saying Ukrainian forces still control the city and continue defensive operations there. (Reuters)
• Yemeni civil war
  • Over 50 Houthi fighters and 16 soldiers are killed during clashes in Hodeidah, Yemen. Twenty-two more soldiers are also wounded. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• United States Semiquincentennial
  • The United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Declaration of Independence in 1776. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Nine people are killed and eight others injured after a minibus collides with a truck between Krasne and Nechayane, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine. (Xinhua)

International relations

• China–United States relations
  • China releases pastor Jin Mingri, the founder of the Beijing Zion Church, after detaining him since October, with ChinaAid.org saying officials presented the release as a goodwill gesture following U.S. president Donald Trump's visit to China last May. (AFP via New Straits Times)
• Moldova–Russia relations
  • A Russian cultural center in Chișinău, Moldova, closes after the government orders its shutdown, citing security concerns linked to Russian influence and drone incidents amid strained bilateral relations. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Slovak referendum
  • Slovaks vote in a referendum to decide whether to cancel life payments for prime ministers after their terms expire and whether to reopen the office of an anti-corruption agency. The referendum is invalidated due to low turnout. (AP)

Sports

• 2026 Wimbledon Championships
  • In tennis, Alexandra Eala becomes the first Filipino singles player to reach the fourth round of a major tournament after defeating defending champion Iga Świątek in the third round of the Wimbledon Championships women's singles. (AP)

July 3, 2026 (2026-07-03) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Kyiv strikes
      • Ukraine declares a day of mourning for the victims of the Russian bombardment of Kyiv on July 2 as the death toll rises to 30. (DW)
    • Russian missile and drone strikes kill at least five people and injure ten others across Ukraine, including three people in Sumy when a drone struck their apartment building. (Al Jazeera)
  • Crimea attacks
    • Ukrainian forces strike nine substations across Russian-occupied Crimea causing power outages. Saky air base and Gvardeyskoye air base are also targeted with seven jets destroyed or damaged. (The New Voice of Ukraine) (Reuters)
  • Eastern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Russia reports that its forces have captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk Oblast. (AFP via NDTV)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Kordofan campaign, Siege of El Obeid
    • United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk issues a "red alert" warning in El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan, of a "catastrophe" and violence in the city. (ABC News) (ModernGhana)
  • Sudanese foreign minister Mohi El-Din Salem says that the Sudanese government is ready to engage in "sincere initiatives" aimed at ending the civil war that started in April 2023. He also says that initiatives submitted by Sovereign Council chairman and military head Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to the United Nations last year must be a part of this process. (AA)
• Gaza war
  • The Israeli military and Shin Bet state that Hamas militant Muhammad Na'im Jandiya, who allegedly took part in taking hostages during the attack on the Nahal Oz kibbutz in the October 7 attacks on Israel, has been killed in an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip, violating the ongoing ceasefire. (The Jerusalem Post) (Ynetnews)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Two policemen, including an additional station house officer, are killed, while a driver is injured, as gunmen open fire on a mobile patrol vehicle in Mohmand District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Dawn)

Disasters and accidents

• In Pakistan, a bus en route from Quetta to Islamabad plunges into a deep roadside ditch in Sherani District, Balochistan, killing 40 people and injuring eight others. (Reuters)
• Four people are killed, ten are missing and eight others are injured during the collision of a car with a bus, carrying Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan, on the Kabul–Nangarhar highway in Laghman Province, Afghanistan. (Caliber.az) (Pajhwok)

Health and environment

• 2026 heat waves
  • 2026 European heatwaves
    • Health officials in Belgium report a 39% increase of deaths, compared to the week prior, from heat waves in the country during June, while France saw a 29.1% increase. (Euronews)
    • The French health agency reports that over 2,025 people in France have died in heat waves last month between June 22 and June 28. (Le Monde)
  • 2026 North American heat wave
    • Heat waves are reported across the eastern and central United States, with 23 states placed under heat warnings by the National Weather Service. (Reuters) (The New York Times) (KGW)

Politics and elections

• Impact of the 2026 Iran war on Iran
  • State funeral of Ali Khamenei
    • The state funeral of former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike on his compound by Israel and the United States during the first day of the Iran war on February 28, begins as his body lies in state at Tehran's Grand Mosalla. The funeral is expected to draw millions of attendees, including foreign dignitaries. (AFP via France 24) (The Guardian) (The New York Times) (Reuters)
• Armenia's parliament passes a law requiring citizens living abroad to meet stricter residency rules before voting, following reports of Russian efforts to influence the June election through Armenians living in Russia. (Reuters)
• The Royal Palace of Cambodia confirms that King Norodom Sihamoni has returned to the country from Beijing, China, after undergoing treatment and surgery for prostate cancer. (AFP via The Straits Times)
• Moldovan prime minister Alexandru Munteanu resigns. (Politico)

Sports

• 2026 FIFA World Cup
  • Egypt at the FIFA World Cup
    • In association football, Egypt advances to the round of 16 of a FIFA World Cup for the first time after defeating Australia 4–2 on penalties, following a 1–1 draw after extra time, in the round of 32. (RFI)
  • Argentina at the FIFA World Cup
    • Argentine forward and captain Lionel Messi becomes the first player to make 30 FIFA World Cup appearances, score 20 World Cup goals, and score in eight consecutive World Cup matches (including the previous edition), after scoring in the team's 3–2 victory against Cape Verde in the round of 32. (AP) (ESPN)

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Ongoing events

Disasters and humanitarian

• African Ebola epidemic
• Cuban crisis and blackouts
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Economics

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• United States tariff policy

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• Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
• United Kingdom government crisis
  • Labour Party leadership election

Protests and strikes

• Albanian anti-government protests

Weather

• European heatwaves
• Pacific typhoon season

• Typhoon Bavi

Elections and referendums

Recent

• June

• 28: New Caledonia, Congress

• July

• 02: Algeria, People's National Assembly
• 04: Slovakia, Referendum

Upcoming

• 19: São Tomé and Príncipe, President

Sports

• Association football

• 2026 FIFA World Cup
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• 2025–27 ICC World Test Championship
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• Golf

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• Motorsport

• 2026 Formula One World Championship
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• Rugby league

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• 2025–26 Premiership Rugby
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• Softball

• 2027 Women's Softball World Cup

• Tennis

• 2026 ATP Tour
• 2026 WTA Tour
• 2026 Wimbledon Championships

• Volleyball

• 2026 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League
• 2026 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League

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• 08: Bonnie Tyler
• 07: Shapoor Zadran
• 06: Louise Lasser
• 04: Slaine Kelly
• 04: Sparky D
• 30: Victor Willis
• 29: Penelope Keith
• 29: Phyllis Kinney
• 29: Les Mills
• 27: K. Bhagyaraj
• 27: Anna Dawson
• 26: Likulia Bolongo
• 26: Joe Doering
• 26: Sergei Ivanov
• 25: Nicholas Alahverdian
• 24: Ann Blyth
• 24: David Clayton-Thomas
• 22: Clive Davis
• 22: Alan Greenspan
• 21: Francisco Guterres
• 20: Michael Byrne
• 19: Mona Khalil
• 19: James Burrows
• 18: Tay Keith
• 17: Tom Dreesen
• 17: Carlo Ginzburg
• 17: Major Oak
• 17: Walter Parazaider
• 17: Éric Roy
• 16: Daveigh Chase
• 16: Bobby Prince
• 16: Robert Thurman
• 15: Kyle Calder
• 15: Abdullah Ibrahim
• 14: Dave Greenslade
• 14: Anne Schedeen
• 14: Gaspi
• 14: Oliver Tree
• 14: Lucas A. Vignale
• 13: Roger Cook
• 13: Roy Hattersley
• 13: Aldon Smith
• 12: Niño Guerrero
• 12: Ronnie Schell
• 12: Gene Shalit
• 11: Princess Bajrakitiyabha
• 11: Charlie Dalin
• 11: David Hockney
• 11: Kenny Jackett
• 11: Margaret Kerry
• 11: Jane Yolen
• 10: Bharathiraja

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda

• M23 campaign

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Sahel

• Burkina Faso
• Chad Basin

• Mali
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Blue Nile campaign

Americas

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• Domestic conflict

• Haiti

• Gang war

• War on cartels
  • United States military intervention

• Ecuador

• Mexico

Asia−Pacific

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• Border war

• Myanmar

• Civil war

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russo-Ukrainian war

Middle East

• Israel–Palestine

• Gaza war

• Middle Eastern crisis

• Iran war

• Lebanon war

• Syria

• Post-Assad conflict

• Yemen

• Civil war

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

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