U.S. president Donald Trump signs an executive order restoring the Presidential Fitness Test in all public schools nationwide.
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USA Today 
July 31
Health and environment
Law and crime
A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan, sentences opposition leader Omar Ayub and over 200 supporters of ousted prime minister Imran Khan to over ten years in prison each for their participation in the 2023 protests.
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AP
Conor McGregor loses his appeal against a civil court in the Republic of Ireland, finding that he raped Nikita Hand.
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RTÉ
Islamic terrorist Osama Krayem is found guilty at Stockholm District Court, Sweden, of involvement in a war crime in which Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh was burned alive inside a cage in Raqqa by the Islamic State on 3 January, 2015.
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BBC News
Science and technology
Italy and Vatican City agree to transform a 430-hectare (1,100-acre) field in Rome to a solar farm that will power the Vatican, with the goal of turning it into the first carbon-neutral state.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Armed conflicts and attacks
Russian forces launch drones and cruise missiles on Kyiv, Ukraine, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 145 others. At least one tower block completely collapses.
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Interfax-Ukraine
The military junta of Myanmar formally ends the country's four-year-long state of emergency and declares a December 2025 election for the country's new head of government and legislative members.
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AP
M23 rebels clash with various Mai-Mai groups in several villages in the Ufamandu group, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Radio Okapi
Arts and culture
Pope Leo XIV declares Saint John Henry Newman, a 19th-century Anglican convert who became a prominent English Catholic theologian, as a Doctor of the Church.
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Vatican News
Disasters and environment
The death toll from the flooding in Beijing, China, increases to over 70 as the government discovers 31 elderly people who were trapped in a nursing home in Miyun district.
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AP
International relations
South Korea and the United States reach a trade agreement that places a 15% tariff on U.S. imports from South Korea. South Korea also promises to invest US$350 billion into American biotech, semiconductors, and shipbuilding over an unspecified time.
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CBS News
U.S. president Donald Trump announces revised tariff rates set to start on August 1, including a new 35% tariff on Canada.
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Reuters
The Slovenian government announces a complete ban on the import, export, and transit of arms and military equipment to and from Israel.
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Arab News
July 30
Armed conflicts and attacks
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Garowe Online
At least 71 Palestinians are killed and dozens more are wounded while seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza.
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Al Jazeera
M23 rebels expel Wazalendo militia Decisive Movement for the Liberation of Congo from Kamakombe, Kabare Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Radio Okapi
At least four South Sudanese soldiers are shot and killed by Ugandan forces, who retaliated after a Ugandan soldier was killed by South Sudanese forces on Monday during border clashes. Both countries have agreed to an immediate ceasefire.
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AP
International relations
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognise Palestine as an independent country in September, conditional on the Palestinian Authority committing to certain reforms.
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CBC
Turkey announces it will start supplying natural gas to Syria via the Arab Gas Pipeline to help Syria generate new electricity, while Qatar will also help with the project's financing.
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AP
The U.S. Treasury Department imposes sanctions under the Magnitsky Act on Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes over alleged human rights violations and suppression of freedom of expression in his oversight of former president Jair Bolsonaro.
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Reuters
Science and technology
The government of Australia announces the inclusion of video-sharing site YouTube in its social media ban for teenagers starting in December, following a survey on harmful content being reported on the site.
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Reuters
Russian federal agency Rospotrebnadzor blocks web service Speedtest after identifying alleged threats to the security of the public communications network and a segment of the Internet in Russia.
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The Moscow Times
Disasters and accidents
A M 8.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Tsunami alerts have been issued along the Pacific coast of many countries.
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The New York Times
Five people are killed after a truck collides with a minivan on the A1 motorway in Slovenia.
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Slovenian Press Agency
July 29
Law and crime
Lebanon convicts and sentences six people who are accused of killing a United Nations peacekeeper in Beirut in 2023.
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AP
The Internal Security Agency of Poland detains 32 people, including a Pole, a Colombian, Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, who are suspected of coordinating with Russia to engage in sabotage.
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AP
International relations
Maltese prime minister Robert Abela announces that Malta will recognize the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly session in September, while Sammarinese foreign and political affairs secretary Luca Beccari announces that San Marino will recognize the State of Palestine by the end of 2025.
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GiornaleSM
United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer declares that the UK will formally recognize the State of Palestine should a ceasefire not be achieved by September.
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The Telegraph
Attendees of the conference issue a declaration committing to 15-month transition plan for a demilitarized, fully sovereign Palestinian state governed by the Palestinian Authority with the assistance of a United Nations peacekeeping force. The declaration additionally calls on Hamas to disarm and give up its rule over Gaza.
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Al Arabiya
The Netherlands bans far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich from the country and calls on the European Union to support a ceasefire in Gaza.
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AP
Politics and elections
Four people are killed and over 500 others are arrested in protests in Luanda, Angola, against the government's increase in fuel prices.
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DW
Disasters and accidents
At least 18 people making the Kanwar Yatra pilgrimage are killed in a bus accident in Deoghar, Jharkand, India.
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NDTV
Seven people are killed and three others are injured when a Venezuelan Air Force Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft carrying members of the Yanomami Indigenous community, medical personnel and crew crashes after a suspected technical failure in the Amazon Rainforest, Amazonas State, Venezuela.
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ASN
A dust explosion at a wood chip manufacturing plant in Fremont, Nebraska, United States, kills three people.
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AP
Armed conflicts and attacks
Russian forces launch drone strikes and cruise missile strikes across Ukraine, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens of others, including 16 inmates killed in an airstrike on a prison in Zaporizhzhia.
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BBC News
Wazalendo militia Human Rights Defense Forces and M23 rebels clash on a hill near Kazinga, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Radio Okapi
According to the Sudan Doctors Network, 13 children have died from malnutrition in a displacement camp in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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AP
Zaïre-FPAC militants attack Sanduku 1, Djugu Territory, DRC, killing two civilians.
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Radio Okapi
The Houthis launch a ballistic missile targeting Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, which was intercepted by Israeli forces.
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The Times of Israel