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July 8

Politics and elections

The United States will resume regular consular services at its consulates in Lahore and Karachi, 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
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

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth cancels a trip to Israel after U.S. President Donald Trump declared that the ceasefire was over.
Source: The Jerusalem Post external link
Pakistan's foreign ministry reaffirms its call for all sides to honor the recently-signed memorandum of understanding after U.S. President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire was over.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
U.S. president Donald Trump says that the ceasefire between Iran and the United States is over, and that airstrikes will continue.
Source: Reuters external link
The 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 renewed tensions between the United States and Iran.
Source: Middle East Eye 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
The Sudanese Army says that they have recaptured the Blue Nile town of Kurmuk.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link
The toll from yesterday's bombings in Damascus, Syria, increases to one person killed and 36 more 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

International relations

The European Parliament passes a resolution condemning Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy over his decision to name a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, who were responsible for the Volhynia genocide.
Source: TVP World 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

July 7

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

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

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

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
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

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

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

July 6

Disasters and accidents

Cuba experiences its third nationwide power outage of the year, with state utility Unión Eléctrica de Cuba reporting a total grid disconnection as the country faces severe fuel shortages and chronic failures in its electricity system.
Source: The Guardian external link
At least 12 people are killed, hundreds are injured, and extensive damage is reported when a large wedge tornado strikes Ezhou and Huanggang, Hubei, China.
Source: The Watchers external link
Fifteen miners are killed and another is injured when part of a decommissioned gold mine collapses in Wadi Halfa, Northern State, Sudan, after miners entered the closed site.
Source: Asharq Al-Awsat external link
At least nine people are killed, including children, and several others are injured in landslides at Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar District, Bangladesh.
Source: TRT World external link
Five people are killed and one injured after a fire at a residential building in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Source: Xinhua external link

Science and technology

Samsung Electronics announces that Samsung Messages is being discontinued in the US on July 6 and directs users who have Android 12 or above to switch to Google Messages.
Source: 9to5Google external link

Business and economy

Microsoft cuts roughly 4,800 jobs, primarily within its Xbox and commercial sales divisions, while divesting game studios Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs.
Source: The Verge external link

Sports

In association football, Spain records its sixth consecutive FIFA World Cup clean sheet in a 1–0 win over Portugal in the round of 16, setting a tournament record, while goalkeeper Unai Simón extends his scoreless streak to 609 minutes.
Source: ANI external link
The third edition of the Esports World Cup opens in Paris, France.
Source: TNT Sports external link

International relations

Australia and Fiji sign a defence pact, making Fiji one of Australia's treaty-bound allies and committing both countries to consult on security threats and support mutual defence in the Pacific.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link
Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari begins a four-day visit to Kyrgyzstan after an invitation from Kyrgyz president Sadyr Japarov, making it the first official visit by a Pakistani president to the country in 21 years.
Source: Pakistan Observer external link

Health and environment

The total number of deaths from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo exceeds 500.
Source: ModernGhana external link

Law and crime

Anastasiia Berezovska, the suspect in a bombing targeting Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Iermolaiev and his family in Monaco on June 29, is found dead near Kyiv, Ukraine, with gunshot wounds to the head.
Source: Pravda external link
Riots between inmates from rival drug gangs at a prison in Negombo, Sri Lanka, kill 27 people, including four officers, and injure more than 100 others.
Source: Daily Tribune external link
Philippine police ⁠separately arrest senator Rodante Marcoleta and three co-accused, including former party-list representative Mike Defensor, after an anti-graft court orders their arrest in relation to a plunder case filed by the Ombudsman.
Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer external link
A crude bomb explodes during a post-march rally in Savar, Dhaka District, Bangladesh, while National Citizen Party convener Nabila Tasnid was giving a speech, injuring three.
Source: The Business Standard external link
News outlet Telex.hu publishes the text of arrested Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) politician Gergő Czeglédy's 2024 testimony alleging the existence of a large corruption network involving members of the MSZP and Fidesz since 2006.
Source: Daily News Hungary external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Hamas announces that its government will step down to facilitate the transition of a technocratic administration in the Gaza Strip, as stipulated in the Gaza peace plan of October 2025. In response, the Board of Peace states that it will assess the implementation of these steps.
Source: The Jerusalem Post external link
The Israeli military states that they have killed five Hamas militants who allegedly attempted to restore underground infrastructure in the northern Gaza Strip, west of the Yellow Line, including Hudhayfah Hussein Abdullah al-Hawajri, a Nukhba militant from the East Jabalia Battalion command, despite the ongoing ceasefire.
Source: Israel National News external link
According to shipping data from LSEG, around 10 Japan-linked ships, mostly managed by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, are reported to have transited through the Strait of Hormuz using the route proposed by Iran. Data also show that a supertanker carrying Saudi crude oil headed for South Korea left over the weekend.
Source: Japan Times external link
The Al-Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Tuareg Azawad Liberation Front rebels seize the northern Mali town of Anéfis.
Source: AFP via RFI external link
At least 22 people are killed and 56 others are injured in a Russian ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Search and rescue efforts are underway in Kyiv to free civilians trapped under rubble.
Source: BBC News external link
Ukraine's General Staff reports that drones have struck Russia's Omsk refinery in Omsk, Omsk Oblast in the Siberia region.
Source: Reuters external link
The United Nations Human Rights Council orders an inquiry into alleged human rights violations around El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan, warning that civilians face a risk of mass atrocities as the Rapid Support Forces encircles the city amid Sudan's civil war.
Source: Macau Business external link
UNICEF reports that over 330 children have been killed in Sudan's civil war in the first six months of 2026.
Source: UCICEF external link

Politics and elections

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends former supreme leader Ali Khamenei's funeral amidst questions surrounding his fate in the aftermath of an Israeli–U.S. airstrike on his home during the early stages of the war.
Source: RFE/RL external link
Iranian state television reports that Khamenei's body arrives in Qom, where he studied, ahead of a planned procession.
Source: Al-Ahram external link
Source: BBC News external link

July 5

Sports

In association football, FIFA declares American forward Folarin Balogun eligible to face Belgium following an intervention by U.S. president Donald Trump. FIFA suspends his ban under Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code, placing it on a one-year probationary period while allowing the red card itself to stand. It became the first time since the introduction of FIFA's automatic suspension system that a World Cup red card suspension is overturned rather than served.
Source: The New York Times external link
Norway advances to the quarterfinals of a FIFA World Cup for the first time after defeating Brazil 2–1 in the round of 16. Brazil's loss also marks the team's earliest elimination from the tournament since 1990.
Source: AFP via RFI external link

International relations

Puntland government issued a statement saying exclusive control over its marine resources, citing its constitution and Somalia's federal framework to block SOMTURK. a joint venture between Somalia's fisheries ministry and Turkey's OYAK fund, from operating without approval. The firm holds a federal licence for fishing permits across Somalia's economic zone, signed in Ankara last December to regulate fishing and curb illegal activities, following as leverage in stalled political talks as rich tuna grounds remain underdeveloped.
Source: Hiiraan Online external link

Science and technology

The satellite conducts a flyby of the asteroid 98943 Torifune.
Source: NHK external link

Health and environment

Seven more children are reported to have died from measles, bringing the death toll from the disease in Bangladesh to 738.
Source: The Business Standard external link
A complaint is filed in a Dhaka court against former interim Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, former health adviser Nur Jahan Begum, and two other health officials from the Yunus ministry over their roles in the measles epidemic in the country including child deaths.
Source: Daily Sun Bangladesh external link
Around 25 deaths are reported in heat waves in the United States, with 40 million people under heat alerts across the East Coast, Southeast, and Southwest regions of the country.
Source: NBC News external link
The reports 800 cases of cholera, including 30 deaths, in the West Kordofan communities of Wad Banda and Al-Nahud in western Sudan.
Source: Middle East Monitor external link
The Sudan Doctors Network reports 200,000 people in the North Kordofan town of Bara are facing a cholera outbreak alongside measles, including 100 cases of measles in children at health care facilities in Bara.
Source: AA external link

Business and economy

Seven OPEC+ members agree to raise oil production quotas by 188,000 barrels per day in August, as oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz gradually resume after disruptions linked to the Iran war.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link
Qatar resumes all maritime activities, reversing a June 29 advisory suspending sailing and fishing boats following the death of a Qatari national from shrapnel linked to regional military operations.
Source: Reuters external link

Disasters and accidents

The Venezuelan information ministry reports that the death toll from the earthquakes in Venezuela has risen to 3,342.
Source: Reuters external link
Ten people are killed and six others are injured after a truck and a bus collided in Ogun State, Nigeria.
Source: Daily Review external link
Six people are killed and one injured after a three-story residential building collapses due to heavy rains in Mumbai, India.
Source: Xinhua external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that there will be no reconstruction in the Gaza Strip until Hamas is disarmed and the strip is demilitarized.
Source: Ynetnews external link
Medics say that two Palestinians have been killed in airstrikes at the Omar Al-Mokhtar street in Gaza City.
Source: Reuters external link
Netanyahu says some Christian-majority villages in southern Lebanon asked to be annexed by Israel for protection from Hezbollah, while villages in the Marjayoun District deny seeking annexation.
Source: Arab News external link
The Israeli military says that the Commando Brigade targeted Hezbollah operatives riding motorcycles near Nabatieh.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations and British military's Royal Navy reports that a cargo ship was attacked by "unknown armed assailants" off the coast of Yemen's port city Hodeidah at the Red Sea.
Source: DW external link