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Disasters and accidents

At least seven people are killed and five others are injured when a cloud burst causes flash flooding and landslides in Kathua district, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Source: Daily Excelsior

Business and economy

Canadian jobs minister Patty Hajdu orders binding arbitration between Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees after the airline's flight attendants launched a strike, leading to the suspension of hundreds of flights and disruptions affecting more than 100,000 passengers per day.

2025 Air Canada flight attendants strike

Source: BBC News

Disasters and accidents

Hurricane Erin intensifies to Category 5 strength while affecting several Caribbean islands.

2025 Atlantic hurricane season

Source: NBC News

The death toll from yesterday's floods in Pakistan increases to 321, 307 of whom in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

2025 Pakistan floods

Source: Al Jazeera

Seven people are killed when an Air Kasaï Antonov An-2 aircraft crashes while being ferried near Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

2025 Air Kasaï Antonov An-2 crash

Source: Aviation24

At least one person is killed and four others are injured, including two seriously, when a Mil Mi-8 military helicopter makes a hard landing during a rescue operation on Jengish Chokusu in Kyrgyzstan.

Source: ASN

Law and crime

Three people are killed, including the perpetrator, and another is injured in a mass shooting near a bar in Forio, Campania, Italy.

Source: Leggo

Law and crime

One person is killed and another is injured in a shooting outside a mosque in Örebro, Närke, Sweden. The suspect fled the scene and is at large.

Terrorism in Sweden

Source: Euronews

Liz Murrill, the attorney general of Louisiana, United States, files a child protection lawsuit against Roblox Corporation, alleging the platform to be a "perfect place for pedophiles".

Source: The Independent

Arts and culture

The Taliban organises multiple parades across Afghanistan, dropping flowers from helicopters in Kabul to celebrate its successful retaking of the city and ending of the war.

2021 fall of Kabul

Source: Al Jazeera

International relations

Russian president Vladimir Putin travels to Alaska to meet with United States president Donald Trump to discuss pathways to bring an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was not invited to the summit.

Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine2025 Russia–United States Summit

Source: CNN

Guinea-Bissau expels representatives of Portuguese news agency Lusa and public broadcaster RTP from the country. Portugal summons the Guinea-Bissauan ambassador over the move.

Guinea-Bissau–Portugal relations

Source: TRT World

Disasters and accidents

Five people are killed when a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in bad weather while carrying relief goods to rain-affected areas of Bajaur District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

2025 Pakistan floods

Source: The Times of India

At least 189 people are killed, dozens are injured, dozens are reported missing, and structures are damaged and destroyed in flooding across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

2025 Pakistan floods

Source: Euronews

The first hurricane of the 2025 season, Hurricane Erin, forms near the Leeward Islands.

2025 Atlantic hurricane season

Source: CBS News

Eighteen people are killed and nine others are injured when a bus plunges into a valley in Algiers, Algeria.

Source: Bahrain News Agency

Eleven people are killed and 130 others are injured in an explosion and fire at a gunpowder plant in Shilovsky District, Ryazan Oblast, Russia.

Source: The Kyiv Independent

A bus collides with a stationary truck in Bardhaman, West Bengal, India, killing ten people and injuring 35 others.

Source: Hindustan Times

Two people are killed and three others are injured when a stage truss collapses at a beer festival in Mianzhu, Sichuan, China.

Source: China Daily

One person is killed and 27 others are injured, including two airlifted, when a train collides with a slurry tanker on a level crossing and derails between Tinglev and Sønderborg in the Region of Southern Denmark.

Source: BBC News

Politics and elections

South Korean president Lee Jae Myung holds a "" inauguration ceremony, known as the "People's Mandate Ceremony", coinciding with the 80th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, where he receives letters of appointment from 80 selected individuals. Lee took office on June 4 after winning the 21st presidential election without an official inauguration ceremony.

Gwangbokjeol2025 South Korean presidential election

Source: Anadolu Ajansı

Health and environment

The leaders of Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico announce the establishment of a tri-national nature reserve to preserve the Maya Forest. It will be the second-largest nature reserve in Latin America behind the Amazon rainforest.

Source: AP

Armed conflicts and attacks

Puntland Defense Forces take full control of the strategic Wangable Well, following a series of operations that drove ISIS fighters out of the Well, which for years had served as an important base for the group’s senior leaders, militants, and their families. Ceelka Wangable is located in the northern Qandala district of the Bari region of Puntland.

Islamic State insurgency in PuntlandPuntland counter-terrorism operations

Source: Hiiraan Online

Armed conflicts and attacks

At least 21 people are killed and seven others are injured in a Tatmadaw airstrike on Mogok, Mandalay Region, Myanmar, controlled by the Ta'ang National Liberation Army, with homes and religious buildings also damaged.

Myanmar civil war (2021–present)

Source: AP

At least three people are killed amid fierce clashes between security forces and local militants in Somalia's capital city Mogadishu due to tensions over residential building evictions and demolitions.

Somali Civil War

Source: Garowe Online

Health and environment

According to the Sudanese government, at least 40 people have died of cholera in the Darfur region over the last week in the country's worst outbreak in years.

2024–2025 Sudanese cholera epidemic

Source: MSN

International relations

Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un, states in a KCNA article that the rumour that North Korea had removed the loudspeakers in the Korean Demilitarized Zone is false.

North Korea–South Korea relations

Source: The Independent

Disasters and accidents

At least 65 people are killed, while more than 167 others are injured, including 38 critically, and over 220 are reported missing following a massive cloudburst in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

2025 Kishtwar district flash flood

Source: Hindustan Times

Three people are killed, including a child, and 109 others are injured, including three critically, by celebratory gunfire during Independence Day in Pakistan. Police arrest 86 suspects for their involvement and seize 68 illegal weapons.

Source: Dawn

Law and crime

Mali announces the arrest of two generals, other military officers, civilians, and a French national accused of plotting to destabilize the state, with authorities stating the alleged conspiracy began on August 1 and that investigations are ongoing.

Source: AP

Pampanga State University officials suspend graduation ceremonies following a reported bomb threat in Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer

Former Peruvian president Martín Vizcarra is arrested after a judge investigating him for corruption orders five months of preventive detention.

Source: Infobae