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- Israel–Hamas war
- Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
- Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh is assassinated in a missile strike in Tehran, Iran, after attending the inauguration ceremony of the Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian. Hamas and Iran blame Israel for the assassination, whose government officially declines to comment. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
- Killing of journalists in the Israel-Hamas war
- Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman are killed in an Israeli airstrike during coverage near Ismail Haniyeh's home in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Haret Hreik airstrike
- A source close to Hezbollah tells AFP that the body of top commander Fuad Shukr has been recovered, almost 24 hours after he was killed in an Israeli strike on southern Beirut. (Al Arabiya) (Reuters)
- 2024 Haret Hreik airstrike
- Mali War
- Battle of Tinzaouaten
- Mali announces that it carried out joint airstrikes with Burkina Faso on insurgents in and around Tinzaouaten. The CSP-PSD says that a Burkinabe drone strike killed dozens of civilians. (Reuters)
- Battle of Tinzaouaten
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Manila Bay oil spill
- The Cavite provincial government in the Philippines declares a "state of calamity" after an oil spill from the sunk MT Terra Nova reaches the shores of eight municipalities, requiring implementation of a no-catch zone and relief aid to be given to ~25,000 fishers. (GMA Network)
- The Mirola 1 is discovered to have ran aground near the coast of Bataan, becoming the third vessel to spill oil into Manila Bay in one week. (GMA Network)
International relations
- Lukoil oil transit dispute
- Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico threatens to break off its diesel exports to Ukraine if its government continues to cut off pipeline oil transport from Russian oil company Lukoil, which Slovakia asserts is generating a national energy crisis. (The Kyiv Independent)
Law and crime
Sports
- 2024 Summer Olympics
- Diving at the Summer Olympics
- China surpasses the United States for the record of most gold medals in Olympic diving. (NBC Olympics)
- Guatemala at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Adriana Ruano wins the gold medal in women's trap shooting to set a new Olympic record and win the first gold medal for Guatemala in Olympic history. (The New York Times)
- North Korea at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Kim Mi-rae and Jo Jin-mi win the silver medal in Women's synchronized diving, North Korea's first medal in the sport. (Yonhap News Agency)
- Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Novak Djokovic defeats Dominik Koepfer to advance to the quarterfinals of the Men's singles tournament, becoming the only player to reach the quarterfinals four times, and the oldest quarterfinalist in Olympic tennis history at 37 years old. (The Tennis Gazette) (India Today)
- Diving at the Summer Olympics
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