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July 10

Disasters and accidents

Twelve people are killed and four injured in a fire in Los Gallardos, Andalusia, Spain. It is suspected that the fire started after a power line fell, igniting dry vegetation before spreading rapidly through surrounding woodland.
Source: The Guardian external link
Ten people are killed after a landslide buries a residence in Malapatan, Sarangani, Philippines.
Source: Manila Bulletin external link
Five people are killed, two others are injured, and six remain missing in a landslide in Calanogas, Lanao del Sur, Philippines.
Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer external link

July 9

Armed conflicts and attacks

Bahrain's interior ministry announces on X that air raid sirens sound in the country.
Source: Gulf News external link
Source: AA external link
The Kuwaiti General Staff of the Army reports that Kuwait air defenses has intercepted "hostile missile and drone attacks" on the country.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
Qatar is attacked by projectiles from Iran.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
A U.S. official says that technical talks will continue after two days of recent clashes between the two countries.
Source: Middle East Eye external link
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz says that Israel is ready to launch further strikes against Iran if necessary.
Source: Armen Press external link
The Israel military says that Islamic Jihad commander 'Rashid al-Qadhi', who was allegedly in charge of the organization's weapon production division, was killed in a airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip. Additionally, Hamas sniper Abdullah Baha al-Din Razak al-Souti is said to have been killed in a separate strike in the northern part of Gaza, both despite the ongoing ceasefire.
Source: The Jerusalem Post external link
The European Parliament votes 476–28 with 96 abstentions to adopt a resolution calling on the European Union to designate the Rapid Support Forces as a terrorist organization and impose sanctions on individuals responsible for attacks on civilians in El-Obeid, North Kordofan.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link
Sudanese prime minister Kamil Idris and African Union envoy to Sudan Mohamed Belaiche hold talks in Khartoum to discuss efforts to achieve peace and stability in the country and coordinate initiatives for a ceasefire to end the civil war.
Source: AA external link
The Azawad Liberation Front attacks a convoy carrying Malian soldiers and Russian Africa Corps fighters near Anéfis, Kidal Region. Security sources say Niger provided air support for Mali during the attack.
Source: Reuters external link
Syrian interior minister Anas Khattab and Rif Dimashq internal security commander Ahmed al-Dalati say security forces have captured an Islamic State-linked cell responsible for the two bombings in Damascus that killed one person and injured 36 others last Tuesday.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link

Politics and elections

Virginie Ruffenach, of the pro-France coalition, is elected president of the Congress of New Caledonia following elections. Ruffenach defeated Dominique Foch of the pro-independence bloc with a 28 to 25 vote.
Source: Radio New Zealand external link
The final stage of former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's state funeral begins in his hometown of Mashhad after previously being delayed by an hour in which Iran said U.S. forces struck a railway bridge northeast in the country en-route to the funeral.
Source: The New York Times external link
Khamenei's body arrives in the Imam Reza shrine for his burial.
Source: Al-Monitor external link
Thousands of people protest in Budapest, Hungary, against the attempt by prime minister Péter Magyar to oust president Tamás Sulyok, whom Magyar accuses of failing to "live up" to his role by not opposing what he calls antidemocratic measures by former prime minister Viktor Orbán.
Source: AP external link
Senegal's Constitutional Council strikes down a parliamentary bill that would expand the powers of the National Assembly and prime minister while limiting presidential authority, after president Bassirou Diomaye Faye challenges the measure.
Source: AFP via Indo Premier external link

Law and crime

Tanzanian police arrest 130 people for allegedly encouraging criminal activity after home affairs minister Hamad Masauni banned political rallies and deployed security forces to prevent planned protests seeking democratic reforms and accountability for election-related deaths.
Source: Reuters external link
The U.S. justice department announces that a federal grand jury has indicted eight men over an alleged plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House in Washington, D.C., last month.
Source: Reuters external link

Business and economy

QatarEnergy pauses efforts to restore liquefied natural gas (LNG) production at the Ras Laffan gas facility after an attack on an LNG carrier in the Strait of Hormuz, choosing to keep its operations at a minimum.
Source: AA external link

Disasters and accidents

Twenty-eight people are killed after a fire at a shoe factory in Jinjiang, Fujian, China.
Source: Xinhua external link
Five members of a family are killed in an apartment fire caused by a gas leak in Giza, Egypt.
Source: Xinhua external link
At least four people are killed in a building collapse in New Delhi, India, due to rains related to the monsoon season.
Source: Reuters external link

July 8

Law and crime

A court in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina, convicts former Argentine Navy commander Claudio Villamide for his role in the 2017 implosion of the submarine ARA San Juan, which killed all 44 people on board.
Source: Buenos Aires Times external link
Norwegian police and international partners announce the arrest of 28 men across seven countries in an operation targeting suspected dark-web buyers of child sexual abuse material who allegedly used the cryptocurrency Monero, while Europol says three children are safeguarded.
Source: South China Morning Post external link
Indonesia police perform raids on 12 places linked to three different cases. They found 74 kg of golds, and cash in form of Indonesian rupiah, Singapore dollar, and United States dollar totaling over 3.7 millions US dollar.
Source: Tempo external link

Health and environment

A cyclosporiasis outbreak, caused by , is reported across the United States in 18 U.S. states, with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reporting around 992 cases and Ohio Department of Health reporting 177 in Ohio.
Source: The Columbus Dispatch external link

Business and economy

Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate oil prices increase by at least 5% amidst the escalation in the Iran war, rising to US$78.01 and $73.86, respectively.
Source: CNBC external link
Stocks on the Pakistan Stock Exchange witness a sharp decline following renewed geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, with the KSE-100 Index falling to 4,626 points.
Source: Arab News PK external link

International relations

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio notifies Congress that the U.S. will remove Syria as a "state sponsor of terrorism" after being listed as one since 1979 during the Assad regime.
Source: Al-Monitor external link
The United States announces that it will resume regular consular services at its consulates in Karachi and Lahore after previously suspending operations over security concerns during violent protests in Pakistan, including an attack on the U.S. consulate in Karachi.
Source: Dawn external link
The prime ministers of Greenland and Denmark, Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Mette Frederiksen, respectively, reaffirm that Greenland is not for sale amidst a renewed push by Trump at the NATO summit to control the territory.
Source: Reuters external link
The European Parliament passes a resolution expressing regret over the decision of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to name a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, citing their responsibility for the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Source: TVP World external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

U.S. president Donald Trump says that the ceasefire between Iran and the United States is over and that airstrikes will continue. However, he also states that negotiations can continue. Pakistan's foreign ministry reaffirms its call for all sides to honor the recently-signed memorandum of understanding following Trump's declaration.
Source: Reuters external link
The Bahraini military intercepts projectiles from Iran.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
The Kuwaiti military intercepts two ballistic missiles and 13 drones from Iran.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
International Maritime Organization head Arsenio Dominguez reports that 6,000 seafarers are still stranded in the Strait of Hormuz and calls for a "maximum restraint and de-escalation" amidst renewal of the crisis.
Source: Oman Observer external link
Nakilat confirms that the Qatari LNG tanker was hit yesterday by projectiles near the Strait of Hormuz. No casualties are reported. Additionally, the tanker is reported to be stranded near the coast of Oman.
Source: The Peninsula Qatar external link
Iranian state media, including the Fars News Agency, releases footage of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei's compound after it was hit in an airstrike by Israel and the U.S. during the first day of the war.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
The U.S. military conducts new airstrikes against Iran, with at least 14 people killed in the last two days.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
The Israeli military states that Nukhba commander Mohammed Emad Alrahman Abu Taima of the Al-Qassam Brigades, who is alleged to have taken part in the infiltration of the kibbutz Nirim during the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas, has been killed in an airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip.
Source: Israel National News external link
The Sudanese Army says that they have recaptured the Blue Nile town of Kurmuk.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link
A probe by the United Nations fact-finding mission of Sudan finds that the Rapid Support Forces have committed mass killings, abductions ‌of women and girls, mass gang rapes, and forced starvation in the North Darfur city of El Fasher.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
Human rights groups report that drone strikes in Sudan on civilian vehicles heading to social gatherings have killed 20 people in recent days.
Source: AP external link
A drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces kills 10 people traveling to a wedding near Omdurman.
Source: MENAFN external link
The toll from yesterday's bombings in Damascus, Syria, increases to one person killed and 36 people injured.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
Pakistan's military says that three militant attacks in Balochistan since July 6 have killed 42 army and police personnel, while security forces have killed 54 militants in the incidents.
Source: Reuters external link

Sports

Seventy-two lawmakers from the European Parliament call for an investigation into FIFA president Gianni Infantino after FIFA lifted the red-card suspension on American striker Folarin Balogun.
Source: Politico Europe external link

Disasters and accidents

Seven children and a teacher are killed when heavy rain triggers a landslide during a class at Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Source: Reuters external link
Two people are killed after an explosion in a fireworks factory in Borgorose, Rieti Province, Italy.
Source: Xinhua external link

Politics and elections

Source: Middle East Eye external link
U.S. Senate Democratic nominee Graham Platner suspends his campaign in the upcoming U.S. Senate election in Maine, leaving the Maine Democratic Party to seek a replacement challenger to incumbent Republican Susan Collins.
Source: Reuters external link
Thailand's parliament passes an amnesty bill covering political activists convicted since 2005 while excluding corruption and royal insult offences. The measure awaits royal approval.
Source: The Star external link

July 7

Health and environment

The Médecins Sans Frontières deploys to the Darfur region amidst ongoing cases of cholera in the Kordofan states of West and North Kordofan.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link

Disasters and accidents

A K2 Airways Boeing 737-400 cargo aircraft goes missing off the coast of Pakistan with five people on board.
Source: The Independent external link
Fourteen people are killed and 28 others are injured after a bus collided head-on with a trailer on the Kampala–Gulu Highway, in Northern Uganda.
Source: Xinhua external link
Two people are killed and 14 others are injured after a bus veered off a road and struck pedestrians in Amadora, Portugal.
Source: Xinhua external link
Two people are killed and seven others are missing after a massive landslide triggered by heavy rains hit a bridge in Wayanad District, Kerala, India.
Source: Xinhua external link

International relations

At the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, U.S. president Donald Trump renews his calls for the United States to control Greenland, and says that the U.S. could remove troops from Europe over the dispute.
Source: CNBC external link
Trump says that the U.S. will lift sanctions against Turkey that were imposed in 2020 over its purchase of Russian defense missiles.
Source: Defense News external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Three commercial vessels are reported to be attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, including the Qatari LNG tanker , which is owned by Nakilat.
Source: AP external link
is reported to be at a risk of explosion following the attack. The attack marks the first time a vessel from Qatar was attacked since the war started on February 28.
Source: Al-Monitor external link
The United States revokes the temporary sanctions waiver against Iranian oil issued as part of the Islamabad Memorandum after the attacks on the three vessels.
Source: Axios external link
U.S. forces strike Iranian air-defence, coastal surveillance, and missile sites after attacks hit three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, with explosions heard in Bandar Abbas, Bandar Sirik, and Qeshm Island. Iran accuses the U.S. of violating their memorandum of understanding and warns of retaliation.
Source: AFP via CNA external link
Israeli airstrikes and gunfire kill at least seven people, including a child, in the Gaza Strip, while Israel says the airstrikes targeted Hamas militants.
Source: Reuters external link
The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet says that they have killed a Hamas Nukhba Force commander and another commander associated with the militant group's intelligence unit.
Source: JNS external link
Human rights groups say that 15 people have been killed in drone strikes in Sudan's North Kordofan state.
Source: AFP via Al-Arabiya external link
The Sudanese Army says that it has shot down a Chinese-made FH-95 drone in North Kordofan, the third model shot down by the army.
Source: AA external link
One person was killed and 36 others are injured in two explosions near Four Seasons Hotel Damascus, Syria, where French president Emmanuel Macron stayed during his state visit to the country. Macron was not at the hotel during the explosions.
Source: AP external link

Politics and elections

Iraqi state television says that former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei's remains has arrived in Iraq's Shi'ite holy city of Najaf for viewing following funeral ceremonies in Tehran and Qom, Iran.
Source: Reuters external link
French deputy Marine Le Pen announces her candidacy for president in the next election as the far-right National Rally's nominee. It will be her fourth bid for the presidency.
Source: CNN external link

Sports

In association football, Argentine forward and captain Lionel Messi becomes the first player to score in nine consecutive World Cup matches (including the previous edition), after scoring in the team's 3–2 victory against Egypt in the round of 16.
Source: ABC News external link
Switzerland advances to the quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1954 after beating Colombia in a penalty shootout in the round of 16.
Source: CBS Sports external link
The International Olympic Committee lifts its ban on Russian athletes, allowing them to take part in the upcoming Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States, after previously being banned from competing under its own flag for doping and the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Source: The Guardian external link