Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
International relations
Law and crime
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- Gaza war
- Gaza war hostage crisis
- The United States releases a 20-point ceasefire proposal to end the Gaza war, to which Israel agrees. The proposal includes the immediate end of military operations inside the Gaza Strip and the release of all living hostages within 72 hours. (Reuters)
- 2025 Gaza City offensive
- At least 33 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- Gaza war hostage crisis
- Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
- Unidentified gunmen kill at least twelve forest security guards in Oke-Ode, Kwara State, Nigeria. (AP)
- Red Sea crisis
- A Houthi anti-ship missile attack on Dutch-flagged cargo ship Minervagracht injures two people and forces the crew to abandon the ship. (AP)
Business and economy
- German economic crisis, Workplace impact of artificial intelligence
- German airline Lufthansa announces they will cut 4,000 administrative positions by 2030 and replace them with artificial intelligence and digitization processes. (DW)
- American video game company Electronic Arts agrees to be acquired by a group of private investors, including Silver Lake, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia and Affinity Partners, in a deal valued at $55 billion. The transaction, which will take Electronic Arts private, constitutes the largest leveraged buyout on record. (Bloomberg News)
Disasters and accidents
- Eight people are killed and 14 other are injured after a bus overturns in Samalut, Minya Governorate, Egypt. (MSN)
International relations
- Russian president Vladimir Putin signs a law denouncing and leaving the European Convention against Torture, after the country left the Council of Europe in 2022. (Reuters) (Mezha)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in China, China–Myanmar relations
- The intermediate people's court in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, sentences eleven people, including three from a powerful family in Kokang, Myanmar, to death for running an illegal gambling and scamming crime syndicate. The court also sentences twelve other people to prison sentences between five and 24 years. (AP)
- Capital punishment in Iran
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