Armed conflicts and attacks
Arts and culture
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
Law and crime
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- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Gaza war
- Five Palestinians are killed from Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. (RTÉ News)
- Gaza war
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
- Two people are killed in a Russian airstrike on Sloviansk, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)
- Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
- War on terror
- Boko Haram insurgency
- A U.S. military official confirms that the U.S. will deploy 200 soldiers to Nigeria to help train the Nigerian Armed Forces and provide logistical support against Boko Haram and other Islamic terrorist groups. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Boko Haram insurgency
- Syrian conflict
- Four people are killed and eight others are wounded after their vehicle strikes a land mine in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. In a separate incident, a tractor triggers a land mine in the village of Taanah, Aleppo Governorate, killing one person. (The New Arab)
Arts and culture
- Ireland launches a permanent basic-income programme for the arts that pays 2,000 creative workers €325 (US$387) per week for three years, following a government trial that began in 2022, and which culture minister Patrick O'Donovan describes as the first permanent scheme of its kind worldwide. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- United States embargo against Cuba
- Mexico confirms it has suspended all shipments of fuel to Cuba to avoid punitive tariffs by the United States which is enforcing a near total blockade of the island, while vowing to continue shipments of humanitarian aid. (AA)
- Canadian airline WestJet suspends all flights to Cuba amid a shortage of fuel for commercial aviation, and says efforts are underway to return Canadians stranded on the island. (CBC)
- Connections of Jeffrey Epstein
- Canadian pensions giant La Caisse suspends all future ventures with multinational logistics company DP World following the disclosure that its CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem had close ties with Jeffrey Epstein. (Financial Times)
Disasters and accidents
- A Starsky Aviation Fokker 50 aircraft veers off a runway at Aden Adde International Airport to a nearby beach in Mogadishu, Somalia, due to a technical error. All 55 people on board survive. (AP) (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Corruption in Malaysia
- The Malaysian federal court reinstates the bribery conviction and six-year prison sentence of former Federal Land Development Authority chairperson Mohd Isa Abdul Samad after overturning a 2024 acquittal on nine corruption counts linked to a hotel purchase. (Reuters)
- Recognition of same-sex unions in the Philippines
- The Philippine supreme court rules that same-sex partners may qualify as co-owners of property under the Family Code when both contribute to its acquisition, reversing lower-court decisions in a dispute between two former partners in Metro Manila. (BBC News)
- At least one shooter is dead after a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. (CBC News)
- Europol says it has dismantled a drug trafficking network that was smuggling cocaine into Iceland, resulting in the arrests of 24 people. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Elections in Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet approves draft constitutional amendments that extend presidential term limits from five to seven years and replace direct presidential elections with parliamentary selection, which would allow Mnangagwa to remain in office until 2030 if adopted by parliament. (Reuters)
- Corruption in Albania
- Protesters clash with riot police in the Albanian capital Tirana amid protests over corruption allegations involving Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku. At least sixteen people are injured while police say thirteen people have been arrested. (AP)
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