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- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Pokrovsk offensive
- Russian troops capture the village of Memryk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
- Russia–NATO relations
- The Latvian Defence Ministry confirms that a Russian military Shahed drone that crashed near the village of Gaigalava, Latvia, last week was carrying explosives and was likely intended to strike Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Pokrovsk offensive
- Syrian civil war
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- At least 25 people are killed and more than 40 others are injured in overnight Israeli airstrikes targeting Iranian research centers in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (The Guardian) (Syriahr)
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Thirteen people are injured when a roadside bomb targets a police vehicle escorting a polio vaccination team in Wana, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Arab News)
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- The Turkish Ministry of Defense announces that a Turkish soldier was killed in clashes with the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Duhok Governorate, Iraq. (Daily Sabah)
- Sudanese civil war
- The Rapid Support Forces renew an assault on the city of Sennar, Sennar State, Sudan, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 100 others. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam increases to more than 59 people, with 24 others still missing. (Al Jazeera)
- At least 18 people, including three foreign nationals, are killed in southern Morocco by floods caused by torrential rains. (US News)
- At least 16 people are killed and 22 others are injured when a bus and a truck collide in Bambey Department, Senegal. (TRT Afrika)
- At least six people are killed when a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Senegal over the weekend. (Reuters)
International relations
- Slovakia–Ukraine relations
- The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expresses "disappointment" towards assertions made by Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico that Kyiv should remove "fascist elements" from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, using rhetoric similar to Russian allegations of current neo-Nazism in Ukraine's Azov Brigade. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Censorship in Nigeria
- The Nigerian State Security department arrests Joe Ajaero, the leader of the Nigeria Labour Congress, at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, days after Ajaero criticised the Nigerian government for increasing gas prices. (DW)
- Ali Kiba, a Tanzanian official from the opposition party Chadema, who went missing last week, is found dead with signs of beatings and acid poured on his face. (ABC News)
- Germany's traffic light coalition government announces border restrictions on all its national land borders, including those with other EU nations, for at least six months in order to combat irregular migration from asylum seekers. (Reuters)
- The exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran claim that its offices in Stockholm, Sweden, were firebombed overnight with Molotov cocktails. The Swedish Police Authority announces that they have opened an investigation into the arson. (Al Arabiya)
- Forty-seven inmates escape from a maximum security prison in Margibi County, Liberia. (Reuters)
- Finnish-Canadian sportswear mogul Peter Nygård is sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexual assault. (CBC News)
- Authorities in Guinea-Bissau say that they have seized more than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine that was found on a plane arriving from Venezuela at Osvaldo Vieira International Airport in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. (BBC News)
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