Armed conflicts and attacks
Disasters and accidents
Health and environment
Law and crime
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- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Gaza war
- Israeli forces kill at least 71 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. At least 14 Palestinians were killed in the North Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli settler violence
- Three Palestinians are killed and many others injured by Israeli settlers in the village of Kafr Malik near Ramallah in the West Bank. (BBC News)
- Gaza war
Disasters and accidents
- The bodies of three missing people are recovered after the June 20 crash of an Airmedic MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 in a lake shortly after takeoff from Havre Saint-Pierre Airport in Quebec, Canada. (CTV News)
- Two people are killed, including a child, and seventeen others are injured, including one critically, during torrential storms that caused flooding in Paris, France. (CTV News)
- Six people are killed and thousands of others are displaced from their homes amid torrential rain and flash floods in Rongjiang County, Guizhou, China. (Al Jazeera)
- Three people are killed and dozens of others are missing in a flash flood caused by torrential rain in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India. (AP)
- A double-decker bus carrying students from Barton Peveril Sixth Form College plunges into a river in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, injuring all 19 passengers, including five who are hospitalized. (AP)
- The death toll from the flooding caused by a winter storm in the Eastern Cape of South Africa two weeks ago increases to 101, with two children still missing. (AP)
Health and environment
- A United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report says the worldwide recreational use and production of cocaine hit an all-time high in 2023, saying the current surge in cocaine use is primarily due to increased illicit coca bush cultivation in Colombia and updated yield data. (RTE)
Law and crime
- Ecuadorian conflict
- Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa announces that José Adolfo Macías Villamar, the leader of the Los Choneros cartel and Ecuador's most wanted criminal, has been recaptured in Manta, Manabí Province, after he disappeared from a prison last year. (DW)
Politics and elections
- Protests against Faure Gnassingbé
- Clashes take place between protesters and security forces in the Togolese capital Lomé amid calls for Faure Gnassingbé, who has ruled the country since 2005, to step down. Opposition groups accuse Gnassingbé of changing the constitution to remain in office indefinitely. (AP)
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