Armed conflicts and attacks
Disasters and accidents
International relations
Law and crime
Politics and elections
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- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian forces launch drone strikes and cruise missile strikes across Ukraine, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens more, including 16 inmates killed in an airstrike on a prison in Zaporizhzhia. (BBC News)
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign
- Wazalendo militia Human Rights Defense Forces and M23 rebels clash on a hill near Kazinga, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). (Radio Okapi)
- M23 campaign
- Sudanese civil war
- Famine in Sudan
- According to the Sudan Doctors Network, thirteen children have died from malnutrition in a displacement camp in the Darfur region of Sudan. (AP)
- Famine in Sudan
- Ituri conflict
- Zaïre-FPAC militants attack Sanduku 1, Djugu Territory, DRC, killing two civilians. (Radio Okapi)
- Red Sea crisis
- The Houthis launch a ballistic missile targeting Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, which was intercepted by Israeli forces. (The Times of Israel)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 18 people making the Kanwar Yatra pilgrimage are killed in a bus accident in Deoghar, Jharkand, India. (DW) (NDTV)
- The death toll from the flooding in Hebei and Beijing, China, increases to 34, with eight others missing. (NPR)
International relations
- 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza, International recognition of Palestine
- Maltese prime minister Robert Abela announces that Malta will recognize the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly session in September. (TVM)
- United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer declares that the UK will formally recognize the State of Palestine should a ceasefire not be achieved by September. (The Telegraph)
- Israel–Netherlands relations
- The Netherlands bans far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich from the country and calls on the European Union to support a ceasefire in Gaza. (AP)
Law and crime
- Lebanon convicts and sentences six people who are accused of killing a United Nations peacekeeper in Beirut in 2023. (AP)
- The Internal Security Agency of Poland detains 32 people, including a Pole, a Colombian, Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, who are suspected of coordinating with Russia to engage in sabotage. (AP)
Politics and elections
- Four people are killed and over 500 others are arrested in protests in Luanda, Angola, against the government's increase in fuel prices. (DW)
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