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- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- At least two terrorists are killed during an attack by the Pakistani Taliban on a cadet college in South Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Dawn)
Arts and culture
- 68th Annual Grammy Awards
- Nominations are released for the 2026 Grammy Awards, including in two new categories, Best Traditional Country Album and Best Album Cover. (Grammy Awards)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
- Two people are killed when a Beechcraft King Air plane carrying Hurricane Melissa relief supplies for Jamaica crashes into a pond in Coral Springs, Florida, United States. (CNN) (The Palm Beach Post)
- 2025 Pacific typhoon season
- The death toll from Typhoon Fung-wong's impact on Luzon, Philippines, rises to eight, with more than 1.4 million others displaced. (AP)
- Two people are rescued and nine others remain missing after a Chinese fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Gunsan, South Korea. (AP)
- Twenty-six people are injured, including three critically, when a bus carrying mostly teenagers overturns on SR 330 near Running Springs, California, United States. (AP)
International relations
- Cambodia–Thailand relations
- 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
- Thailand suspends the implementation of a peace agreement with Cambodia after a land mine explosion injures two Thai soldiers in Sisaket province. (AFP via CNA)
- 2025 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
Law and crime
- 2020 United States presidential election
- Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, Trump fake electors plot
- United States president Donald Trump grants federal pardons to 77 people, mostly political allies who are accused of electoral fraud-related charges from the 2020 presidential election, including several who have pled guilty. (NPR)
- Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, Trump fake electors plot
- 2025 Delhi car explosion
- Ten people are killed and 24 others are injured in a suspected car bombing near the Red Fort in New Delhi, India. (Times Now) (DW)
- 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
- Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, former defense minister Kim Yong-hyun, and former Defense Counterintelligence Command leader Yeo In-hyung are indicted on additional charges related to his attempt to invoke martial law last December alleging that he ordered surveillance drones to be sent into North Korea to stoke tensions and justify his plans. (DW) (The Chosun Ilbo)
- A court in Thailand orders the extradition of convicted kingpin She Zhijiang to China to face charges related to operation cybercrime and illegal gambling networks across Asia. (AP)
- A court of appeals in Paris, France, releases former president Nicolas Sarkozy from prison under judicial supervision conditions, less than three weeks after he began to serve a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy over his 2007 election campaign funds. (AP)
Politics and elections
- Capital punishment in Israel
- The Knesset passes by 39–16 the first reading of a bill that would allow pursuing the death penalty for terror offences in Israel. The proposal was brought to the Knesset by MK Limor Son Har-Melech, and will now go to committee discussions. (YNet News)
- Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto posthumously grants the title of National Hero of Indonesia to former president Suharto, despite criticism by activists and civil society due to his New Order military dictatorship. (CNN Indonesia)
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