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July 17

Disasters and accidents

Multiple houses and residential buildings are buried after a landslide in Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County, Chongqing, China. Nine people are rescued with multiple people still reportedly trapped and unknown casualties.
Source: ABC News external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Iranian drone strikes near Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan Region kill eight Kurdish rebels and injure several more.
Source: Times of Israel external link
The Iranian Army says that it has launched a drone strike at the Al-Sakhir Air Base in Bahrain, where US military helicopters and P-8 reconnaissance aircraft are stored, as part of its 11th phase of a “Saegheh” operation.
Source: AA external link
Iranian state media reports that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have targeted a US special operations command center in Al-Tanf in response to the killing of Iranian soldiers in Iranshahr.
Source: Arab News external link

July 16

Disasters and accidents

Eleven people are killed and 19 more injured in a fire at a care facility in Algiers, Algeria.
Source: BBC News external link
Six members of a family are killed after a fire engulfed their house in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan.
Source: Xinhua external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that Iran is still interested in an agreement with the United States.
Source: Reuters external link
The Kuwaiti defense ministry reports that the military intercepted and destroyed 32 drones entering the country's airspace.
Source: Arab Times Kuwait external link
The United States Central Command launches new strikes against Iran for a sixth consecutive night in an effort to degrade Iranian military capabilities.
Source: Middle East Eye external link
Explosions are reported in Iran's Qeshm Island, Bushehr, Ahvaz, and Bandar Abbas, including a bridge in Bandar Khamir. A truck on the bridge is reported to be targeted, killing the driver.
Source: Turkiye Today external link
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei reports a U.S. strike near a children's cancer hospital in Ahvaz, prompting the evacuation of 211 cancer patients undergoing treatment, including chemotherapy.
Source: Arab News external link
Source: MTV external link
Around 1,000 Sudanese returnees in Egypt are reported by a local committee to have returned to Sudan.
Source: Middle East Monitor external link
The Sudanese Armed Forces says that they have destroyed around 205 combat vehicles, military supply trucks, and four strategic drones belonging to the Rapid Support Forces in the past two weeks.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link

Politics and elections

Protests take place in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine against president Volodymyr Zelenskyy's decision to replace defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov with major-general Yevhenii Khmara.
Source: Reuters external link
Ukrainian Air Force deputy commander Pavlo Yelizarov resigns from his position in protest of Fedorov's removal as defense minister.
Source: BBC News external link

Law and crime

Ernesto Ruffo Appel, former governor of Baja California, Mexico, is arrested on charges related to organized crime and fuel smuggling.
Source: Gringo Gazette external link
Sudanese Justice Minister Abdallah Dirif says that the government will launch lawsuits against the United Arab Emirates international courts for its role in supporting war crimes by the Rapid Support Forces in the ongoing civil war.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link
Former Autostrade per l'Italia (ASPI) CEO Giovanni Castellucci is convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in the 2018 collapse of the Ponte Morandi in Genoa, Liguria, Italy, which killed 43 people.
Source: TrasportoEuropa external link

Health and environment

The Ugandan health ministry reports that Uganda has discharged its last patient diagnosed with Ebola, triggering a 42-day countdown clock on when it can be declared free of the virus.
Source: Reuters external link
links the iceberg lettuce produced by Taylor Farms and supplied to American fast food chain Taco Bell as a source of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak in the United States, which is caused by .
Source: The Washington Post external link
Taco Bell removes lettuce from some of their restaurants following reports that the Food and Drug Administration has opened an investigation into iceberg lettuce supplied to them.
Source: The Hill external link
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reports that the amount of hospitalizations in the state linked to the cyclosporiasis outbreak has surpassed more than 100 people.
Source: ABC News external link

July 15

International relations

The United Kingdom and the European Union remove the land-border fence between Gibraltar and Spain under a post-Brexit treaty, allowing free movement while introducing joint British-Spanish checks at Gibraltar's airport and port.
Source: AP external link

Sports

In association football, Argentina and Spain are facing off in a World Cup final, with the highest-ranked teams in FIFA Men's World Ranking advancing to finals. For the first time ever top two FIFA-ranked teams are meeting in the final since the rankings were introduced in 1992.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
The ESPY Awards is held at the David H. Koch Theater in New York City, New York, U.S., with the 2025–26 New York Knicks winning five awards, including the Best Team award after winning their first NBA championship since 1973, while point guard Jalen Brunson wins the Best Male Athlete and Best Championship Performance awards.
Source: Reuters external link

Law and crime

A district court in Kathmandu, Nepal, sentences former deputy prime minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi to four years in prison and former home minister Bal Krishna Khand to two years for roles in forging documents for a fraudulent Bhutanese refugee resettlement scheme.
Source: Reuters external link
The Democratic Republic of the Congo establishes a council composed of mostly international war crimes lawyers to advise state institutions seeking accountability and reparations for victims of violence in the country's east.
Source: Reuters external link
The family of British national Craig Foreman says an Iranian court has added two years to his 10-year espionage prison sentence for speaking to the media, as he and his wife Lindsay continue a hunger strike.
Source: CBS News external link
Moroccan prosecutors release journalist Ali Lmrabet after questioning him over online posts allegedly defaming unnamed individuals and institutions, while the criminal investigation continues.
Source: Reuters external link
U.S. president Donald Trump announces that American citizen Dena Karari has been released from Iran after being detained on espionage charges since 2024. Her lawyer, Jared Genser, also confirmed her release.
Source: NBC News external link

Science and technology

Astronomers directly image the exoplanet Beta Pictoris d next to its star, located 63 light-years away, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. It is also reported to be fainter than its sibling Beta Pictoris b. The discovery is published in the .
Source: ABC News external link

Disasters and accidents

Seven people are killed and one person is missing after a rubber dinghy explodes near Liaoning Province, China.
Source: Xinhua external link
One person is killed and 24 others are missing after a passenger boat sank off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Source: Xinhua external link

Politics and elections

France's National Assembly gives final approval to a bill allowing eligible adults with incurable, life-threatening illnesses to obtain lethal medication under strict conditions. The measure awaits Constitutional Council review before taking effect.
Source: AP external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says that ceasefire negotiations aimed at ending the war have not closed despite renewed fighting between Iran and the United States.
Source: The New York Times external link
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) says that American forces have redirected two commercial vessels since the blockade resumed.
Source: AA external link
CENTCOM says that American forces disabled the Curaçao-flagged oil tanker as it was heading towards an Iranian port in the Persian Gulf amidst the blockade. An 18 second video confirms that a U.S. aircraft disabled the vessel.
Source: Stars and Stripes external link
India's Directorate General of Shipping warns companies not to deploy Indian sailors onto vessels transiting through the Strait of Hormuz after two Indian seafarers were killed in separate ship attacks in the waterway.
Source: Reuters external link
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed "until the United States ends its acts of aggression".
Source: Euractiv external link
The Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD) of the Kurdistan Region Security Council reports that international coalition forces have intercepted seven drones in Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Source: Kurdistan24 external link
Three drones are reportedly shot down near the U.S. Consulate in Erbil.
Source: Shafaq external link
CENTCOM announces the U.S. has launched new strikes against Iran for a fifth consecutive day aimed at coastal defense systems, cruise missile storage, and launch sites in the Greater Tunb Island.
Source: Politico external link
Morocco signs an agreement with the Board of Peace to join the International Stabilization Force for Gaza.
Source: Reuters external link
Israel's military claims to have killed a militant from the Hamas branch Al-Qassam Brigades that participated in the abduction of soldiers Col. Asaf Hamami, St.-Sgt. Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, and Sgt. Kiril Brodski during the October 7 attacks on the Nirim kibbutz.
Source: Haaretz external link
The Sudanese Armed Forces-allied Joint Forces announce that they have recaptured the Orshi Reservoir area in North Darfur, a month after the Rapid Support Forces seized the area.
Source: AA external link
A drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces hits a power station in the town of Al Dabbah in Sudan's Northern State.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link

Health and environment

The total amount of cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo exceed 2,000.
Source: Medical Xpress external link
Sudan's Federal Ministry of Health reports that the total amount of cholera cases in north and west Kordofan has increased to 1,547.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link

July 14

Health and environment

The Directorate General of Health Services reports that seven more children have died from measles in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll from the disease in the country to 766.
Source: The Business Standard external link
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announces that it will test the Gilead Sciences antiviral for the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus.
Source: CNBC Africa external link
The World Health Organization reports that 80% of cases of Ebola in eastern DRC are from unknown chains of transmission. Additionally, the death toll from Ebola reaches 700.
Source: AP external link
The U.S. CDC reports 7,000 cases nationwide of cyclosporiasis, which is caused by .
Source: NBC News external link
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reports 3,300 cases in the state, up from 2,640 the previous day.
Source: The Detroit News external link

Disasters and accidents

Cuba suffers its third nationwide blackout in less than 10 days and fifth of 2026, as the state utility reports a complete grid failure amid fuel shortages caused by the ongoing U.S. imposed blockade, that complicate power restoration.
Source: AFP via RFI external link
Seven people are killed and three others are injured after two vehicles collided head-on just outside Ramadi, Iraq.
Source: Xinhua external link
Six workers are killed in a fire at a building under construction in Brussels, Belgium.
Source: BBC News external link

Law and crime

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement suspends vehicle stops related to immigration enforcement following the recent fatal shootings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine.
Source: Reuters external link
A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court drop charges against former rebel leader Abdallah Banda over his role in a 2007 attack on African Union peacekeepers during Sudan's Darfur conflict.
Source: Arab News external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

The United States military reimposes the naval blockade of Iran that ended on June 17 last month in response to ship attacks.
Source: France 24 external link
The United States Central Command launches a new round of strikes against Iran in an effort to degrade capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz ahead of the naval blockade.
Source: CNBC external link
Iran fires projectiles at two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz associated with the United Arab Emirates, killing two mariners and injuring 14 others.
Source: Xinhua external link
U.S. president Donald Trump cancels a proposal to implement a 20% fee on cargo ships transiting through the strait.
Source: BBC News external link
Kuwait's military says that Iran struck a navy vessel, injuring four personnel, while its air defences intercept one ballistic missile, five cruise missiles, and 33 drones aimed at civilian facilities.
Source: Arab News Pakistan external link
Explosions are reported in the Iranian cities of Ahvaz and Bandar Abbas, and the islands of Kish and Qeshm.
Source: Middle East Eye external link
The first day of direct negotiations and the sixth round of peace talks between Israel and Lebanon begins at the U.S. embassy in Rome, Italy.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
The Israeli military strikes a police station in Gaza, killing eight people, according to Gaza's civil defence agency and Al-Shifa Hospital, violating the ongoing ceasefire.
Source: AFP via CNA external link
Iraqi prime minister Ali al-Zaidi and the U.S. defense department says that all remaining American troops will withdraw from Iraq by September 30, ending a 23-year presence in the country that started with the 2003 U.S. invasion.
Source: DW external link
The Sudanese Armed Forces say that the 4th Infantry Division's 13th Brigade have taken control of the Blue Nile town of Fashfoun following days of clashes with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North.
Source: Yeni Şafak external link
Colombia's military says it has rescued 39 civilians kidnapped by the National Liberation Army on a highway in Chocó Department, with two soldiers killed during the operation.
Source: Vanguard external link

Politics and elections

Japan approves election rules requiring AI-generated images and videos on social media to be labeled and prohibiting false or distorted information about candidates, with the measures taking effect in March.
Source: The Straits Times external link