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July 10

Law and crime

A murder investigation is launched into the death of British politician Ann Widdecombe yesterday. Police say they have arrested a British man in connection with her death.
Source: The Daily Telegraph external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

The Israeli military says that it has killed a Hezbollah militant emerging from a tunnel in Ali al-Taher.
Source: Israel National News external link
Nigerian president Bola Tinubu says military, police, and intelligence personnel have rescued all 46 students and staff abducted from schools in Oyo State, in May, arresting eight suspects and killing some abductors during the operation.
Source: Le Monde external link

Science and technology

China becomes the second country to achieve the controlled recovery of an orbital-class rocket booster, after successfully launching the Long March 10B.
Source: South China Morning Post external link

Disasters and accidents

Two separate landslides caused by Typhoon Bavi and the enhanced monsoon occur in the Philippines. Ten people are killed in Malapatan, Sarangani, after their residence is buried. Seven others are killed and two are injured in Calanogas, Lanao del Sur, with search operations ongoing for four missing.
Source: in Filipino external link
Ten people are killed when a Flamingo Air Cessna 402 crashes shortly after takeoff from San Andros Airport in North Andros, The Bahamas.
Source: ASN external link

July 9

Armed conflicts and attacks

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

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
Virginie Ruffenach, of the pro-France coalition, is elected president of the Congress of New Caledonia following elections. Ruffenach defeats Dominique Foch of the pro-independence bloc with a 28 to 25 vote.
Source: Radio New Zealand 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

Disasters and accidents

Twenty-eight people are killed after a fire at a shoe factory in Jinjiang, Fujian, China.
Source: Xinhua external link
Twelve people are killed, eight others injured and 23 reported missing in a wildfire in Los Gallardos, Andalusia, Spain.
Source: Reuters 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

Science and technology

OpenAI releases the large language model tool GPT-5.6 in three versions: Luna, Terra and Sol.
Source: Forbes external link

Health and environment

The death toll from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches 600.
Source: NPR 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

July 8

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

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

Law and crime

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 US$3.7 million.
Source: Tempo external link
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

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

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

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

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

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