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July 18

Science and technology

Skyroot Aerospace successfully launches Vikram-1, India's first privately built orbital rocket, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh, carrying small satellite payloads into low Earth orbit on its maiden flight.
Source: Asharq Al-Awsat external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Kuwait says Iranian attacks have struck a second power and desalination plant in two days, causing a fire and shutting several generating units, while other attacks injure firefighters and a worker and temporarily disrupt flights from Kuwait International Airport.
Source: Vanguard external link
reports that Iran has launched a ballistic missile at a United States base in Saudi Arabia, making it the first direct attack by Iran on the country since targeting a petrochemical complex in Jubail.
Source: AA external link
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in a statement published by IRNA, report that two oil tankers have exploded after hitting mines south in the Strait of Hormuz. However, the U.S. Central Command disputes the claims on X as "false".
Source: Arab News external link

Disasters and accidents

Eight people are killed and nine others sustained injuries after an unauthorized firecracker factory exploded in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Source: NDTV external link
Five people, including three women have drowned in the Godavari River whilst fishing near Polavaram district, India.
Source: The Hindu external link

July 17

International relations

The United States allows its national emergency over Hong Kong's national security law to expire while retaining the underlying executive order and most related sanctions.
Source: New Straits Times external link

Law and crime

A civilian dies and a police officer and the suspected gunman are wounded in a shooting in Nørresundby, North Jutland, Denmark, after officers responding to a reported fire are met with gunfire.
Source: TV2 external link
The Ontario Court of Appeal finds Canadian far-right activist and Freedom Convoy organizer Pat King "guilty of intimidation" and orders a re-sentencing.
Source: Toronto Star external link
Japan enacts a law criminalizing public damage, removal or defacement of the national flag, punishable by up to two years in prison or a ¥200,000 (US$1,200) fine.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link

Health and environment

The death tolls from the measles outbreak in Bangladesh reaches 780 after one child is reported to have died from the disease by the Directorate General of Health Services.
Source: Dhaka Tribune external link
Taylor Farms recalls their iceburg lettuce, traced through a farm in Mexico, amidst the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak in the United States, which is caused by .
Source: Forbes external link
Michigan, U.S., surpasses 5,000 cases of cyclosporiasis.
Source: The Detroit News external link

Politics and elections

Andy Burnham is elected as the new leader of the British Labour Party. He will formally succeed Keir Starmer as prime minister on Monday.
Source: The Guardian external link
Protests continue for a second day in Kyiv near the Office of the President of Ukraine, demanding the return of Mykhailo Fedorov as Minister of Defence and the resignation of Oleksandr Syrskyi as the Commander-in-Chief.
Source: Reuters external link
Japan's National Diet amends the Imperial Household Law to allow unmarried male descendants of former imperial branches to rejoin the family and permit royal women to retain status after marrying commoners, while preserving male-only succession.
Source: AFP via ABS-CBN News external link

Disasters and accidents

The United States Forest Service reports that wildfires in northern Minnesota has reached over 77,000 acres, prompting evacuations in the area.
Source: KAAL external link
Over 900 wildfires are reported across Canada, including 43 new active blazes, prompting evacuations across the country.
Source: BNN Bloomberg external link
The confirmed death toll from the doublet earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela rose to 5,069.
Source: AP external link
A strong M 7.3 earthquake strikes near the coast of Chiapas, Mexico. Tsunami warnings were issued and damage is unknown.
Source: The Weather Network external link
Eight people are killed, ten others are rescued and 34 are reported missing when a landslide buries multiple houses and residential buildings in Pengshui, Chongqing, China.
Source: India Today external link
Four people are killed and nine others are injured after a head-on collision between two overspeeding cars along the N-25 National Highway, Wadh, Balochistan, Pakistan
Source: Dawn external link
A large fire breaks out among terraced houses in Krokstadelva, Drammen, Norway, spreading rapidly between multiple housing blocks and prompting mass evacuations; the municipality declares a crisis and calls in fire crews from eight neighboring municipalities.
Source: VG external link

Business and economy

Iraq and Syria sign a memorandum of understanding to rehabilitate the Kirkuk–Baniyas pipeline to bypass to the Strait of Hormuz.
Source: Middle East Eye external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Iran says that it has launched ballistic missile and drone strikes at targets in Bahrain, including a drone vessel depot, an artificial intelligence center used for targeting, and the Al-Sakhir Air Base, as part of the 11th phase of its Saegheh operation.
Source: Middle East Monitor external link
Jordan reports having intercepted projectiles fired from Iran.
Source: AA external link
Iranian strikes damage a desalination plant and a power plant in Kuwait, according to the Kuwaiti energy ministry.
Source: CNBC external link
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy launches attacks on radar facilities in Oman.
Source: AA external link
Iranian state media reports that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have targeted a United States Special Operations Command in Al-Tanf in response to the killing of Iranian soldiers in Iranshahr, Sistan and Baluchestan province.
Source: Arab News external link
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force launches an attack at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, and claims to have caused damage to equipment there, while Qatar's armed forces claim to have intercepted Iranian attacks.
Source: AA external link
The U.S. military's Central Command (CENTCOM) confirms that they have destroyed the Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port surveillance tower in Chabahar Port yesterday, which was allegedly used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for tracking commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
Iranian drone strikes near Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, kill eight Kurdish rebels and injure several more.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
CENTCOM launches strikes against Iran for a seventh consecutive night.
Source: The Guardian external link
Around eight Palestinians are reported to be killed in an airstrike on a funeral in central Gaza.
Source: AA external link
The Israeli military and Shin Bet confirm that they have killed Hamas commander Anas Mahmoud Ahmad Hamdan, who served as a "right-hand man" of former Al-Qassam Brigades commander Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip.
Source: The Times of Israel external link

July 16

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
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

International relations

Taiwan says that its representative office in Port Moresby will continue operating and assisting Taiwanese nationals, rejecting Papua New Guinea's decision to close it and stating that the move was made without prior consultation. Papuan foreign minister Justin Tkatchenko says that his ministry informed Taiwan of the closure "weeks ago".
Source: The Straits Times external link
Sudanese justice minister Abdallah Dirif says that the government will launch lawsuits against the United Arab Emirates in international courts for its role in supporting war crimes by the Rapid Support Forces in the ongoing civil war.
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

The Thai interior ministry identifies irregularities in the mandatory examination results of 5,814 civil servants and considers suspensions, while police arrest three suspected organizers following a joint investigation with the anti-corruption commission.
Source: The Straits Times external link
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
South Korea's Supreme Court upholds People Power Party lawmaker Kweon Seong-dong's two-year prison sentence for accepting ₩100 million (US$67,400) in illegal political funds from the Unification Church, removing him from the National Assembly.
Source: The Straits Times 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

Disasters and accidents

Twenty-one people are killed and several others are injured after a bus lost control and veered off the road in Kapchorwa, Uganda.
Source: Xinhua external link
Fourteen people are killed and several others are injured after a minibus plunged into a deep ravine in Cajamarca, Peru.
Source: Xinhua external link
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

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
Zambia's health ministry declares an end to its cholera outbreak, which started in August of last year, after four weeks without a case.
Source: Lusaka Times external link

July 15

Sports

The ESPY Awards is held at the David H. Koch Theater in New York City, 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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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
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 U.S.
Source: The New York Times external link
The Directorate General of Counter Terrorism of the Kurdistan Region Security Council reports that international coalition forces have intercepted seven drones in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, 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

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
Kenya's High Court rejects a Rastafarian petition seeking a religious exemption from cannabis laws, ruling that the group does not show the laws violate religious freedom.
Source: AFP via NDTV 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

Health and environment

IQAir ranks Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as having the worst air quality among major cities worldwide as smoke from wildfires in northwestern Ontario reaches the city, prompting the Canadian environment ministry to advise residents to remain indoors.
Source: AFP via ABS-CBN News external link
The total amount of cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo exceed 2,000.
Source: Medical Xpress external link
Sudan's health ministry reports that the total amount of cholera cases in north and west Kordofan has increased to 1,547.
Source: Sudan Tribune 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

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
Source: Arab News external link
Papuan foreign minister Justin Tkatchenko announces the immediate closure of Taiwan's representative office in Port Moresby, citing Papua New Guinea's adherence to the One China policy, while saying the decision does not affect contracts between Taiwan's CPC Corporation and natural gas in Papua New Guinea.
Source: The Straits Times 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

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: Space.com external link
American technology company Amazon partners with South African internet provider Herotel to launch Amazon Leo satellite internet service in 2027, marking its first such African agreement.
Source: The Manila Times external link