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July 3

Politics and elections

The state funeral of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike on his compound by the United States and Israel during the first day of the Iran war on February 28, begins as his body lies in state at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla.
Source: Reuters external link

Disasters and accidents

In Pakistan, a bus en route from Quetta to Islamabad plunges into a deep roadside ditch in Sherani District, Balochistan, killing 40 people and injuring eight others.
Source: Reuters external link
Four people are killed, ten are missing and eight more injured during the collision of a car with a bus, carrying Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan, on the Kabul–Nangarhar highway in Laghman Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Pajhwok external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Ukraine declares a day of mourning for the victims of the Russian bombardment of Kyiv on July 2 as the death toll rises to 30.
Source: DW external link
Russian missile and drone strikes kill at least five people and wound ten others across Ukraine, including three people in Sumy when a drone struck their apartment building.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
Ukrainian forces strike nine substations across Russian-occupied Crimea causing power outages as part of a campaign to make the peninsula "unusable" for the Russian military. Saky air base and Gvardeyskoye air base are also targeted with seven jets destroyed or damaged.
Source: Al Arabiya external link

July 2

Sports

In tennis, Alexandra Eala becomes the first Filipino woman to reach the third round of a Grand Slam tournament after defeating Australian player Maya Joint in the Wimbledon women's singles tournament. She will face reigning Wimbledon champion Iga Świątek next.
Source: WTA external link

International relations

The United Nations announces that it will close its human rights office in Burkina Faso after the country's military junta indefinitely suspends its operations, preventing the office from carrying out its mandate.
Source: Reuters external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Source: Reuters external link
Israeli defense minister Israel Katz reports that the military has demolished 83% of Hamas tunnels in the Gaza Strip. The assessment comes as the war enters its 1,000th day following the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel.
Source: Ynetnews external link
Seven Palestinians are injured in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
Source: Middle East Eye external link
The Israeli military says that the Egoz Unit commando group has killed a Hezbollah militant who emerged from a underground tunnel in Ali al-Taher in southern Lebanon.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
Nine people are killed and 22 others are injured in a bombing at a coffeehouse in Damascus, Syria. No group has claimed responsibility.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
Russian forces launch a major ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, killing at least 30 people and injuring 98 others, and forcing more than 50,000 civilians to shelter underground.
Source: Kyiv Independent external link
The West Papua National Liberation Army says it set fire to a plane that landed with eight people in Highland Papua, Indonesia, after shooting and killing its American pilot. The Indonesian military announces the recovery of his body and that the plane's seven Papuan passengers returned unharmed.
Source: Reuters external link

Health and environment

Source: BBC News external link
The World Health Organization says that Uganda has confirmed a Marburg virus case in a toddler in the Kyegegwa District during Ebola surveillance, with authorities monitoring contacts and reporting no symptoms among them.
Source: Jamaica Observer external link

Law and crime

Taiwanese prosecutors detain two Supermicro employees in an investigation into alleged document forgery and shipments of Nvidia artificial intelligence servers to China in violation of U.S. export controls.
Source: The Manila Times external link
Spain's National Court charges the Civil Guard's director-general Mercedes González Fernández and her deputy with the offences of abuse of office and obstruction of justice in connection with the ruling PSOE's alleged operation against judges and prosecutors investigating cases of corruption involving party members.
Source: Demócrata external link
Police clash with demonstrators in Albania during a protest against the government and the Sazan Island Resort project.
Source: AP external link

Politics and elections

Algerians vote for 407 seats of the People's National Assembly amid a cost-of-living crisis and candidate bans upon the Hirak movement.
Source: AP external link
A man protesting against the annexation of Tibet by China lights himself on fire outside of the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City, United States. He is transported to Bellevue Hospital where he dies from his injuries.
Source: CTV News external link

Disasters and accidents

Sixteen people are killed and 20 others are injured when a passenger bus overturns in Dutywa, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Source: CTV News external link
Eleven people are killed in a collision between a truck and two cars on the Dushanbe-Kulob-Khorog highway near Vahdat, Tajikistan.
Source: Xinhua external link
Nine monks are killed and 13 others are injured, including three critically, when an 11-year-old boy drives a pickup truck into a pilgrimage walk in Mukdahan province, Thailand.
Source: AP external link

Arts and culture

The Holy See excommunicates the entire clergy of the Society of St. Pius X for consecrating four bishops yesterday without the Pope's permission, barring the group from officiating marriages and hearing confessions. The Catholic laity are also warned that they will also be excommunicated if they attend SSPX masses.
Source: Vatican News external link

July 1

Law and crime

Four people are reportedly killed in the early morning hours of Wednesday during celebrations in Mexico City following Mexico's victory against Ecuador in the knockout round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Source: Reuters external link
Sweden's Market Court orders Google to pay PriceRunner about 14.3 billion kr (US$1.5 billion) in damages, Sweden's largest competition-related award, after ruling that Google unlawfully favored its own price comparison service over rivals in search results.
Source: Firstpost external link
A firebombing on the homes of ruling New Democracy party members in Thessaloniki, Greece, kills one person and injures three others.
Source: AP external link

Health and environment

The Directorate General of Health Services reports that one child has died from measles symptoms in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll of the outbreak in Bangladesh to 719.
Source: Dhaka Tribune external link
The United States announces a pandemic response team amidst the ongoing Ebola outbreak.
Source: Bloomberg external link
The World Health Organization reports that 120 people have been killed in cholera outbreaks in Sudan since May in isolated war zones, alongside suspected 1,102 cases of the disease.
Source: The New Arab external link
The African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention confirms an isolated case of the Marburg virus in Uganda amidst the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the country.
Source: CNBC Africa external link
In Canada, Ontario lowers the eligibility age for routine colorectal cancer screenings from 50 to 45, joining Prince Edward Island as the second province to do so.
Source: Toronto Star external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

United States vice president JD Vance says that Iran and the U.S. have held technical talks based on the recent 14-point memorandum of understanding in Doha, Qatar, to discuss the Strait of Hormuz. He also states that the U.S. will not return to military action unless necessary.
Source: Reuters external link
South Korea's ocean ministry says that the Panama–flagged cargo vessel HMM will leave the Strait of Hormuz in mid-July once major repair is complete on the vessel after it was attacked in a explosion on May 4 while it was stranded in the waterway.
Source: Reuters external link
Iranian state television reports that a foreign container ship was grounded in shallow water after using an unapproved route through the strait.
Source: MS Now external link
The Israeli military confirms that that they have launched strikes in the northern Gaza Strip that killed four militants of the Hamas military wing Al-Qassam Brigades and destroyed several missile launchers used by the organization.
Source: The Jerusalem Post external link
ACLED reports that more than 100,000 people have died from the civil war in Myanmar since the military junta took power in the coup d'état in 2021.
Source: SBS News external link

Disasters and accidents

Venezuelan acting president Delcy Rodríguez declares seven days of national mourning for the victims of the earthquakes as the death toll rises to 2,295.
Source: The Standard external link
Five people are killed and a number of others injured in a fire at an apartment block in Antwerp, Belgium.
Source: Reuters external link
A United States Navy aviator is reportedly missing after a Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk helicopter carrying four crew members assigned to the USS made an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea. The U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and U.S. Fifth Fleet rules out hostile activities in the accident.
Source: Reuters external link

Business and economy

The International Transport Workers' Federation and the Joint Negotiating Group of shipping owners announce they will continue to designate the Strait of Hormuz as a warzone, which doubles the pay of mariners there and gives them other benefits.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
Saudi Aramco and Algerian oil company Sonatrach announce that they will cut prices for liquefied petroleum gas for July, with Saudi Aramco reducing it between 24% and 27% and Sonatrach reducing it between 2% and 10%.
Source: Reuters external link
Ukraine approves a mechanism for exporting domestically produced weapons and military technologies to raise funds for its defense effort against Russia and attract foreign investment, while requiring that the Ukrainian military's supply needs remain the priority.
Source: The Straits Times external link
The World Bank classifies the Philippines as an upper-middle-income economy, up from lower-middle-income status, after its per capita gross national income exceeds the fiscal year 2026 threshold of US$4,496 to $13,935.
Source: Agenzia Nova external link
U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer says that the United States will not renew the USMCA trade agreement signed during president Donald Trump's first term. The U.S. will conduct annual reviews of the trade agreement and will conduct negotiations and amendments to it.
Source: Mexico News Daily external link

Arts and culture

The Emirate of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates reopens its Catholic churches, including St. Mary's and St. Francis of Assisi in Jebel Ali, after three months of closure amidst the Iran war.
Source: Gulf News external link
Sony says it will stop releasing new PlayStation games on physical optical discs from January 2028, citing consumer preference for digital media, and will offer new titles through the PlayStation Store and other digital retailers.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link

June 30

Disasters and accidents

At least 14 schoolchildren are killed and nine others are hospitalized after the roof of an under-construction tuition centre collapses in Lahore, Pakistan.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
A truck veers off a road in River Nile State, Sudan, and collides with a passenger vehicle, killing 18 people and wounding another.
Source: Xinhua external link
Five people are killed and fifteen others missing after monsoon rains cause a jade mine to collapse in Kachin State, Myanmar.
Source: The Hindu external link
Nine children are killed when a motorized tricycle plunges into a canal in Abu Tig, Asyut Governorate, Egypt.
Source: AP external link
At least 24 people are killed in floods and landslides caused by torrential rain in Accra, Ghana, and Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Source: AP external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

The Qatari foreign ministry confirms that United States envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have arrived in Doha for technical indirect talks with Iran and talks with mediators regarding negotiations with Iran. However, they also state that no high-level talks have occurred.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
South Korean president Lee Jae Myung says that all but two Korean vessels have successfully transited through the Strait of Hormuz after previously being stranded in the waterway amidst the war.
Source: Korea Herald external link
Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that 10 out of 11 ships have successfully departed the Strait of Hormuz after previously being stranded since the war started on February 28. Additionally, the ministry says that the only ship remaining in the waterway is the Hatthaya Naree, which is expected to depart the region once cargo is loaded on the ship.
Source: Middle East Eye external link
The Israeli military and Shin Bet in a joint statement says that Israel has killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Talal Jaber Mohammad Abd al-Aal, who was involved in taking hostages during the October 7 attacks including Rom Braslavski.
Source: JNS external link
The newspaper reports that the Board of Peace will begin managing humanitarian shelter centers in areas of the Gaza Strip not under Hamas control.
Source: AA external link
Ukrainian forces launch a major drone attack on Moscow Oblast, Russia, striking the Dubna Space Communications Center to the north of Moscow. Russian authorities say a Ukrainian drone struck a residential building in Yegoryevsk, killing an infant, while another drone strike reportedly kills a 61-year-old woman in Tver Oblast.
Source: CNN external link
Somalia's defence ministry says a Turkish F-16 conducted an airstrike in the Godey area of Lower Shabelle region, South West State, killing 35 Al-Shabaab militants and injuring more than 20 others.
Source: Somali Guardian external link
Sudan's army says that it has destroyed two tanks and 224 combat vehicles used by Rapid Support Forces and seized 36 others in two weeks of military operations including in Blue Nile State and the Darfur and Kordofan regions.
Source: AA external link

Science and technology

Ford issues a recall order of over 741,000 vehicles, mainly F-150, Explorer, Expedition, Lincoln Aviator, and Navigator models, in the U.S. due to a transmission issue that may damage the park system.
Source: Reuters external link

Law and crime

A coalition of human rights lawyers file a lawsuit against Ghana at the ECOWAS Court of Justice, accusing the country of violating non-refoulement by accepting deportees from the U.S. and forcing them back to the home countries they had fled.
Source: AP external link
The Supreme Court of the United States rules 6–3 that president Donald Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship violates the 14th Amendment, with chief justice John Roberts writing that citizenship "was the right to have rights."
Source: Reuters external link
Former Indonesian education minister Nadiem Makarim, who co-founded the super app Gojek, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption.
Source: BBC News external link
According to witnesses, one person is killed and two others are injured when Kenyan police open fire during a protest in Mathare, Nairobi against reported abductions, amid concerns over security abuses.
Source: Reuters external link

Politics and elections

More than 14,000 people participate in rallies organized by the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) in Metro Manila, Philippines, mainly to support senator and INC member Rodante Marcoleta who is under investigation for plunder. Five people are arrested at the People Power Monument in Quezon City and three police officers are injured.
Source: The Philippine Star external link
The South Korean National Assembly approves the nomination of Han Seong-sook as the country's new prime minister, succeeding Kim Min-seok as the country's first female prime minister in 20 years. The main opposition People Power Party boycotted the vote.
Source: Yonhap News Agency external link

Business and economy

CNBC reports that the Brent Crude oil price declined by 21% during June 2026, its largest monthly decline since March 2020, amidst the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the United States.
Source: CNBC external link
The U.S. treasury department announces sanctions on two men and nine companies accused of being involved in transportation, financial services, and real estate for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Source: AP external link
Scandinavian Airlines signs an order to purchase more than 40 Airbus A330-900neo aircraft, the largest investment in the company's history.
Source: AA external link

Sports

In association football, the Mexican soccer team defeats Ecuador, winning their first game in the knockout round of a FIFA World Cup since 1986.
Source: ESPN external link
Paraguayan president Santiago Peña declares a national holiday after Paraguay defeated Germany 4–3 on penalties, following a 1–1 draw, in the FIFA World Cup round of 32.
Source: Tanzania Insight external link

Health and environment

Hungary and Slovakia set national temperature records during a central European heat wave, reaching 42 °C (108 °F) and 41.3 °C (106.3 °F) respectively, as some municipalities impose water restrictions and tank trucks supply areas facing water scarcity.
Source: AFP via CNA external link
The Sudanese health ministry reports that the total number of cases of cholera in the West and North Kordofan states in the Kordofan region reaches 911, alongside 127 deaths.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link