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July 20

Armed conflicts and attacks

Islamic Republic News Agency reports that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have launched a "surprise attack" on a command centre in Al-Tanf, Syria.
Source: Gulf News external link

Business and economy

Brent Crude surpasses US$90 per barrel as oil prices increase amidst the ongoing escalation, while West Texas Intermediate reaches $84.49.
Source: CNBC external link

July 19

Sports

In association football, Spain win their second FIFA World Cup title after defeating the defending champions Argentina 1–0 after extra time in the final held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. Spain's captain Rodri is awarded the Golden Ball.
Source: Yahoo! Sports external link

Politics and elections

Students hold protests in several cities across India after activist Sonam Wangchuk is arrested and taken to a hospital during his hunger strike calling for education minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over the 2026 NEET exam paper leak, with a march on Parliament planned for the following day.
Source: Financial Express external link
Santomeans vote to elect the country's president. Incumbent president Carlos Vila Nova seeks a second term in office.
Source: Reuters external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that diplomatic solutions are still on the table if Iran ceases attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.
Source: The Jerusalem Post external link
The Kurdistan Freedom Party reports that eight Iranian Kurdish rebels have been wounded after a drone strike from Iran hit a camp near Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
Source: Arab News external link
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announces that an American service member has been killed in northern Iraq during a "controlled detonation" of a downed Iranian drone, bringing the total amount of American casualties to 17.
Source: Reuters external link
The Israeli military uses the Iron Dome to shoot down fragments from an Iranian missile fired at Aqaba, Jordan, after the Aegis was reportedly used to shoot down the missile.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
CENTCOM launches strikes against Iran for a ninth consecutive evening amidst a rise in American casualties.
Source: CNBC external link
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that 530 people, including 76 civilians, have been killed in clashes between the post-Assad Syrian Army and the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Source: Shafaq external link
Around 50 Malian soldiers are reported to have been killed in Anéfis, Mali, by the Al-Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Tuareg Azawad Liberation Front rebels.
Source: The News Pakistan external link
Ukrainian officials say Russian forces struck a Guinea-Bissau-flagged cargo ship carrying corn off Odesa, killing at least five crew members. Eight are rescued and five remain missing, while the vessel continues burning.
Source: Reuters external link

Health and environment

Canada bars foreign nationals who have visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo within the previous 21 days, citing the Ebola epidemic.
Source: Reuters external link

Disasters and accidents

At least six people are killed and 21 others are injured when a M 5.5 earthquake strikes the town of Pumpunya in Chongos Bajo District, Chupaca province, Department of Junín, Peru.
Source: El Comercio Perú external link
Four people are killed, four others are unaccounted for, and several houses are swept away after a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall hits Mon District, Nagaland, India.
Source: NDTV external link
Sixty-seven people are rescued and 66 others are reported missing when a passenger ferry capsizes and sinks near the Pomeroon River in Guyana.
Source: AP external link

July 18

Law and crime

Turkey’s interior ministry announces the arrest of 119 people linked to ISIS.
Source: AFP via Al Arabiya external link

Business and economy

Belgium approves an import ban on goods from Israeli settlements.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
Kuwait Airways reschedules most of its flights due to the country's airspace being closed amidst ongoing Iranian attacks.
Source: Middle East Eye external link
Iran's Hormozgan province water and wastewater company announces that United States airstrikes have damaged desalination equipment, cutting off water to about 10,000 people.
Source: Middle East Eye external link

Disasters and accidents

Over 100 houses burn down in the Norwegian town Krokstadelva.
Source: NOS external link
Nine people are killed and nine others are injured after an unauthorized firecracker factory explodes in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Source: Xinhua external link
Five people are killed and two others are injured in a workplace accident in Thanh Hóa province, Vietnam.
Source: Xinhua external link
Five people, including three women, drown in the Godavari River whilst fishing near Polavaram district, India.
Source: The Hindu external link
Four people are killed, four more are missing, and seven others are injured after torrential rains and flash floods hit a mountainous village in Lai Châu province, Vietnam.
Source: AA external link

Sports

In association football, England beats France 6–4 in the highest-scoring third-place playoff in FIFA World Cup history, securing their best result since winning the tournament in 1966.
Source: BBC Sport external link
French footballer Kylian Mbappé scores twice to become the highest-scoring player in World Cup history, and the first player to score 10 goals in a single World Cup since Germany's Gerd Müller in 1970.
Source: BBC Sport external link
At the London Athletics Meet, British runner Josh Kerr sets a new world record of 3:42.66 for the mile. The previous record of 3:43.13 by Hicham El Guerrouj had been set in 1999.
Source: BBC Sport external link

Politics and elections

Hungarian president Tamás Sulyok signs the 17th amendment to the nation's constitution, which will end his term in office at midnight the following day.
Source: BBC News external link
Jens Spahn resigns as leader of the governing CDU/CSU alliance in Germany's Bundestag amid criticism after he and his husband became parents through surrogacy, despite Germany's ban and his party's opposition to the practice.
Source: AFP via Channels TV external link

Science and technology

Skyroot Aerospace successfully launches Vikram-1, India's first privately built orbital rocket, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh, carrying small satellite payloads into low Earth orbit on its maiden flight.
Source: Asharq Al-Awsat external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

The Bahraini military intercepts projectiles fired from Iran.
Source: DPA via Yahoo News external link
The U.S. Central ​Command (CENTCOM) reports that two American troops have been "killed in action" in Jordan, bringing the total casualties for American troops to 16.
Source: The Wall Street Journal external link
Kuwait says Iranian attacks have struck a second power and desalination plant in two days, causing a fire and shutting several generating units, while other attacks injure firefighters and a worker and temporarily disrupt flights from Kuwait International Airport.
Source: Vanguard external link
An oil facility is damaged, according to the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
Source: PBS external link
reports that Iran has launched a ballistic missile at a United States base in Saudi Arabia, making it the first direct attack by Iran on the country since targeting a petrochemical complex in Jubail.
Source: Financial Times external link
Iranian deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi says that the United States has violated the terms of the Islamabad Memorandum and that Iran is "no longer implementing them".
Source: PBS external link
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in a statement published by IRNA, report that two oil tankers have exploded after hitting mines south in the Strait of Hormuz. However, the U.S. Central Command disputes the claims on X as "false".
Source: Arab News external link
The Philippine foreign affairs department reports that four Philippine-registered vessels carrying 81 seafarers have safely transited through the Strait of Hormuz. The vessels are identified as the MV Lyng Trader, MV Western Doncaster, MV Vivian Trader, and MV Eva Fuji.
Source: GMA Network external link
In the seventh day of renewed U.S. strikes, civilian infrastructure, including a desalination plant in Jask, are damaged, cutting off the access to water for 10,000 civilians.
Source: in Persian external link
Communications services in Iran's Hormozgan province are disrupted after U.S. strikes damaged 116 radio towers there.
Source: in Persian external link
The U.S. CENTCOM launches a new wave of strikes for an eighth consecutive night against IRGC targets in response to two American service members killed in Jordan.
Source: The Hill external link
Source: AP external link
Arab League secretary general Nabil Fahmy and U.S. envoy Massad Boulos reach an agreement to establish a regular framework for joint coordination for a ceasefire in the ongoing civil war in Sudan.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link
An insurgent is killed and five others are injured during a counterterrorism operation that foiled a terrorist plot in Wana, South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Source: Dawn external link

July 17

International relations

The United States allows its national emergency over Hong Kong's national security law to expire while retaining the underlying executive order and most related sanctions.
Source: New Straits Times external link

Business and economy

Iraq and Syria sign a memorandum of understanding to rehabilitate the Kirkuk–Baniyas pipeline to bypass to the Strait of Hormuz.
Source: Middle East Eye external link

Law and crime

A civilian dies and a police officer and the suspected gunman are wounded in a shooting in Nørresundby, North Jutland, Denmark, after officers responding to a reported fire are met with gunfire.
Source: TV2 external link
The Ontario Court of Appeal finds Canadian far-right activist and Freedom Convoy organizer Pat King "guilty of intimidation" and orders a re-sentencing.
Source: Toronto Star external link
Japan enacts a law criminalizing public damage, removal or defacement of the national flag, punishable by up to two years in prison or a ¥200,000 (US$1,200) fine.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link
Turkish authorities detain 67 irregular migrants and five other suspected smugglers following a sailboat interception off the coast of Muğla, Turkey.
Source: Xinhua external link

Health and environment

The death tolls from the measles outbreak in Bangladesh reaches 780 after one child is reported to have died from the disease by the Directorate General of Health Services.
Source: Dhaka Tribune external link
Taylor Farms recalls their iceburg lettuce, traced through a farm in Mexico, amidst the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak in the United States, which is caused by .
Source: Forbes external link
Michigan, U.S., surpasses 5,000 cases of cyclosporiasis.
Source: The Detroit News external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Iran says that it has launched ballistic missile and drone strikes at targets in Bahrain, including a drone vessel depot, an artificial intelligence center used for targeting, and the Al-Sakhir Air Base, as part of the 11th phase of its Saegheh operation.
Source: Middle East Monitor external link
Jordan reports having intercepted projectiles fired from Iran.
Source: AA external link
Iranian strikes damage a desalination plant and a power plant in Kuwait, according to the Kuwaiti energy ministry.
Source: CNBC external link
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy launches attacks on radar facilities in Oman.
Source: AA external link
Iranian state media reports that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have targeted a United States Special Operations Command in Al-Tanf in response to the killing of Iranian soldiers in Iranshahr, Sistan and Baluchestan province.
Source: Arab News external link
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force launches an attack at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, and claims to have caused damage to equipment there, while Qatar's armed forces claim to have intercepted Iranian attacks.
Source: AA external link
The U.S. military's Central Command (CENTCOM) confirms that they have destroyed the Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port surveillance tower in Chabahar Port yesterday, which was allegedly used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for tracking commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
Iranian drone strikes near Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, kill eight Kurdish rebels and injure several more.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
CENTCOM launches strikes against Iran for a seventh consecutive night.
Source: The Guardian external link
Around eight Palestinians are reported to be killed in an airstrike on a funeral in central Gaza.
Source: AA external link
The Israeli military and Shin Bet confirm that they have killed Hamas commander Anas Mahmoud Ahmad Hamdan, who served as a "right-hand man" of former Al-Qassam Brigades commander Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
An attack on a military deployment in Téra, Tillabéri Region, Niger, kills 16 soldiers and injures 23 others, while state media reports that security forces have killed 15 attackers.
Source: The Economic Times external link

Disasters and accidents

The United States Forest Service reports that wildfires in northern Minnesota has reached over 77,000 acres, prompting evacuations in the area.
Source: KAAL external link
Over 900 wildfires are reported across Canada, including 43 new active blazes, prompting evacuations across the country.
Source: BNN Bloomberg external link
The U.S. state of Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection deploys firefighters to assist with wildfire efforts in Quebec, Canada.
Source: WVIT external link
The confirmed death toll from the doublet earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela rose to 5,069.
Source: AP external link
A strong M 7.3 earthquake strikes near the coast of Chiapas, Mexico. Tsunami warnings were issued and damage is unknown.
Source: The Weather Network external link
Eight people are killed, ten others are rescued and 34 are reported missing when a landslide buries multiple houses and residential buildings in Pengshui, Chongqing, China.
Source: India Today external link
Four people are killed and nine others are injured after a head-on collision between two overspeeding cars along the N-25 National Highway, Wadh, Balochistan, Pakistan
Source: Dawn external link
A nine-vehicle pile-up in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, Indonesia kills at least four and injures eight others.
Source: Xinhua external link
A storm in Chile kills three people, injures seven others, damages more than 800 homes, displaces hundreds, and leaves around 400,000 people without electricity across 10 regions.
Source: Xinhua external link
A nine-story building under construction near Conakry, Guinea, collapses due to heavy rainfall, killing three people and injuring several others.
Source: Xinhua external link
Two citizens are killed from weather-related incidents and 53,000 homes are reported to be without power during severe thunderstorms across several regions of France.
Source: AA external link
A large fire breaks out among terraced houses in Krokstadelva, Drammen, Norway, spreading rapidly between multiple housing blocks and prompting mass evacuations; the municipality declares a crisis and calls in fire crews from eight neighboring municipalities.
Source: VG external link

Politics and elections

Andy Burnham is elected as the new leader of the British Labour Party. He will formally succeed Keir Starmer as prime minister on Monday.
Source: The Guardian external link
Protests continue for a second day in Kyiv near the Office of the President of Ukraine, demanding the return of Mykhailo Fedorov as Minister of Defence and the resignation of Oleksandr Syrskyi as the Commander-in-Chief.
Source: Reuters external link
Japan's National Diet amends the Imperial Household Law to allow unmarried male descendants of former imperial branches to rejoin the family and permit royal women to retain status after marrying commoners, while preserving male-only succession.
Source: AFP via ABS-CBN News external link