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- Israel–Hamas war
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- An Israeli Air Force airstrike kills two people and injures six others in Hanine, Lebanon. (Reuters)
- Nasser Hospital mass graves, Nasser Hospital siege
- United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk calls for an international investigation after hundreds of bodies are discovered in mass graves near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. (The New York Times)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
- North Korea claims that it tested a new command-and-control system in a simulated nuclear counterstrike. (CNN)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Lumut mid-air collision
- Two Royal Malaysian Navy helicopters collide in mid-air during a rehearsal parade in Lumut, Malaysia, killing ten people on board. (CNA)
- English Channel migrant crossings
- Five migrants drown while attempting to cross the English Channel and 49 others are rescued. (Reuters)
- At least 21 migrants die after their boat capsizes off the coast of Djibouti. (Reuters)
- A Douglas DC-4 crashes into the Tanana River in Alaska, United States, shortly after takeoff from Fairbanks, killing two people on board. (Anchorage Daily News)
Politics and elections
- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak announces that he plans to increase the United Kingdom's defence budget to 2.5% of its GDP by 2030, totaling around £85 billion. (The Guardian) (Reuters)
Science and technology
- NASA announces that it has received decipherable data from the Voyager 1 space probe for the first time in five months. (CNN)
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