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July 18

Politics and elections

Hungarian president Tamás Sulyok signs the 17th amendment to the nation's constitution, which will end his term in office at midnight the following day.
Source: BBC News external link
Jens Spahn resigns as leader of the governing CDU/CSU alliance in Germany's Bundestag amid criticism after he and his husband became parents through surrogacy, despite Germany’s ban and his party's opposition to the practice.
Source: AFP via Channels TV external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

The Bahraini military intercepts projectiles fired from Iran.
Source: Yahoo News external link
The U.S. Central ​Command (CENTCOM) reports that two American troops have been "killed in action" in Jordan, bringing the total casualties for American troops to 16.
Source: The Wall Street Journal external link
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
An oil facility is damaged, according to the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
Source: PBS 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: Financial Times external link
Iranian deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi says that the United States has violated the terms of the Islamabad Memorandum and that Iran is "no longer implementing them".
Source: PBS 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
The Philippine foreign affairs department reports that four Philippine-registered vessels carrying 81 seafarers have safely transited through the Strait of Hormuz.
Source: GMA Network external link
In the seventh day of renewed U.S. strikes, civilian infrastructure, including a desalination plant in Jask, are damaged, cutting off the access to water for 10,000 civilians.
Source: in Persian external link
Communications services in Iran's Hormozgan province are disrupted after U.S. strikes damaged 116 radio towers there.
Source: in Persian external link
CENTCOM launches a new wave of strikes for a eight consecutive night against IRGC targets in response to two American service members killed in Jordan.
Source: The Hill external link
Source: AP external link
Arab League Secretary General Nabil Fahmy and U.S. envoy Massad Boulos reaches an agreement to establish a regular framework for joint coordination for a ceasefire in the ongoing civil war in Sudan.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link
An insurgent is killed and five others are injured during a counterterrorism operation that foils a terrorist plot in Wana, South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Source: Dawn external link

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

Sports

England beats France 6–4 in the highest-scoring third-place playoff in FIFA World Cup history, securing their best result since winning the tournament in 1966.
Source: BBC Sport external link
Kylian Mbappé scores twice to become the highest-scoring player in World Cup history, and the first player to score 10 goals in a single World Cup since Gerd Müller in 1970.
Source: BBC Sport external link

Disasters and accidents

Eight people are killed and nine others are injured after an unauthorized firecracker factory explodes in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Source: NDTV external link
Five people, including three women, drown in the Godavari River whilst fishing near Polavaram district, India.
Source: The Hindu external link
Four people are killed, four more are missing, and seven others are injured after torrential rains and flash floods hit a mountainous village in Lai Châu province, Vietnam.
Source: AA external link

Business and economy

Kuwait Airways reschedules most of its flights due to the country's airspace being closed amidst ongoing Iranian attacks.
Source: Middle East Eye external link
Iran's Hormozgan province water and wastewater company announces that United States airstrikes have damaged desalination equipment, cutting off water to about 10,000 people.
Source: Middle East Eye external link

July 17

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

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

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

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

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 U.S. state of Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection deploys firefighters to assist with wildfire efforts in Quebec, Canada.
Source: WVIT 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
Chilean authorities report that a storm system that began affecting the country on Thursday has killed three people, injured seven others, damaged more than 800 homes, displaced hundreds and left around 400,000 people without electricity across 10 regions.
Source: Reuters external link
A nine-storey building under construction near Conakry, Guinea, collapses due to heavy rainfall, killing three people and injuring several others.
Source: Xinhua 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

July 16

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

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 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

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

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

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