Fifteen tourists are killed and 21 others are rescued when a speedboat capsizes near Phú Quốc, Vietnam.
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CNN-News18 
July 11
Disasters and accidents
Business and economy
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, a legislation passed in the U.S. Congress to expand affordable housing and reduce housing costs in the United States, becomes law after U.S. president Donald Trump allows the bill to take effect without his signature.
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CBS News
International relations
India and New Zealand announce the formation of a strategic partnership during Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's visit to Auckland, expanding cooperation on defense, security, trade, diplomacy, culture, sport, science, and maritime issues in the Indo-Pacific.
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The Manila Times
Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk, marking the anniversary of "Volhynian Bloody Sunday", the deadliest day of the Volhynia genocide, announces plans to build a Wall of Remembrance and says Poland would continue to press for the exhumation of the victims. He also states that Ukraine must confront this chapter of its history as part of its broader path toward European integration.
Ukraine–European Union relationsNational Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Citizens of the Polish Republic Committed by Ukrainian Nationalists
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Rzeczpospolita
July 10
Sports
Kenyan middle-distance runner Emmanuel Wanyonyi breaks the men's 1,000 metres world record in two minutes and 11.83 seconds at the Herculis in Monaco.
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Reuters
International relations
Algeria says its ambassador will return to Mali, while both countries reopen their respective airspaces to each other, easing a diplomatic dispute that began after Algeria shot down a Malian drone in April 2025.
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Arab News Pakistan
Armed conflicts and attacks
The reports that a delegation from the United States Central Command has arrived in Lebanon to implement an agreement to end the conflict between Israel, Lebanon, and Hezbollah.
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Middle East Eye
The Israeli military says that it has killed an alleged Hezbollah militant emerging from a tunnel in Ali al-Taher.
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Israel National News
Nigerian president Bola Tinubu says military, police, and intelligence personnel have rescued all 46 students and staff abducted in May from schools in Oyo State, arresting eight suspects and killing some abductors during the operation.
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Le Monde
Law and crime
The High Court in London, England, dismisses claims that automakers Ford, Mercedes, Nissan, Renault, and Stellantis use prohibited diesel emissions defeat devices, while allowing damages issues over some specific strategies to proceed to a second trial.
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Gulf News
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.
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The Daily Telegraph
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.
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South China Morning Post
Disasters and accidents
Cuba suffers its second nationwide blackout in five days, with state utility UNE reporting a total grid collapse amid fuel shortages, aging power plants and continuing electricity rationing.
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Jamaica Observer
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.
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in Filipino
Ten people are killed when a Flamingo Air Cessna 402 crashes shortly after takeoff from San Andros Airport in North Andros, The Bahamas.
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BBC News
July 9
Health and environment
The death toll from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches 600.
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NPR
Disasters and accidents
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Xinhua
Twelve people are killed, eight others injured and 23 reported missing in a wildfire in Los Gallardos, Andalusia, Spain.
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Reuters
At least four people are killed in a building collapse in New Delhi, India, due to rains related to the monsoon season.
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Reuters
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.
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The New York Times
Khamenei's body arrives in the Imam Reza shrine for his burial.
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Al-Monitor
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.
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Radio New Zealand
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.
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AP
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.
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AFP via Indo Premier
Armed conflicts and attacks
The Kuwaiti General Staff of the Army reports that Kuwait air defenses has intercepted "hostile missile and drone attacks" on the country.
Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)2026 Iran war2026 Iranian strikes on Arab countriesKuwait in the 2026 Iran war
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The Times of Israel
A U.S. official says that technical talks will continue after two days of recent clashes between the two countries.
Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)2026 Iran war2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations2026 Iran war ceasefire
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Middle East Eye
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz says that Israel is ready to launch further strikes against Iran if necessary.
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Armen Press
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.
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The Jerusalem Post
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.
Sudanese civil war (2023–present)Kordofan campaign (2023–present)Siege of El ObeidSudan–European Union relations
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Sudan Tribune
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.
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AA
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.
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Reuters
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.
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AFP via France 24
Nigerian troops kill more than 300 suspected kidnapping and cattle-rustling gang members during an operation that began yesterday in Gummi, Zamfara State.
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New Straits Times
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.
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AA
Science and technology
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.
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Reuters
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.
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Reuters
July 8
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.
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CNBC
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.
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Arab News PK
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.
Aftermath of the Syrian civil warSyria–United States relationsUS-designated state sponsors of terrorism
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Al-Monitor
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.
Protests against the 2026 Iran warPakistan–United States relations2026 attack on the United States consulate in KarachiPakistan in the 2026 Iran war
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Dawn
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.
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Reuters
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.
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TVP World
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.
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Reuters
Two people are killed after an explosion in a fireworks factory in Borgorose, Rieti Province, Italy.
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Xinhua
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.
Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)2026 Iran war2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations2026 Iran war ceasefire
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Reuters
The Bahraini military intercepts projectiles from Iran.
Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)2026 Iran war2026 Iranian strikes on Arab countries2026 Iranian strikes on Bahrain
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Al Jazeera
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.
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Oman Observer
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.
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The Peninsula Qatar
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.
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Al Jazeera
The U.S. military conducts new airstrikes against Iran, with at least 14 people killed in the last two days.
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Al Jazeera
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.
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Israel National News
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Sudan Tribune
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.
Sudanese civil war (2023–present)War crimes during the Sudanese civil war (2023–present)Darfur genocide (2023–present)
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Al Jazeera
Human rights groups report that drone strikes in Sudan on civilian vehicles heading to social gatherings have killed 20 people in recent days.
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AP
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MENAFN
The toll from yesterday's bombings in Damascus, Syria, increases to one person killed and 36 people injured.
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Al Jazeera
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.
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Politico Europe
Politics and elections
State funerals for former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei are held in Iraq's Shi'ite holy cities of Karbala and Najaf.
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Middle East Eye
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.
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Reuters
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.
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The Star
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.
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The Columbus Dispatch
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.
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Tempo
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.
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Buenos Aires Times
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.
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South China Morning Post