International relations

• South Korea–Ukraine relations
  • South Korea withdraws additional embassy staff from Ukraine following a dispute over two captured North Korean soldiers who were transferred to South Korea. (AFP via RFI)

Science and technology

• Japanese space program
  • JAXA launches the Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft from the Tanegashima Space Center toward Phobos aboard an H3 rocket, aiming to collect at least 10 grams of surface material from the Martian moon and return the samples to Earth in 2031. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Yemeni civil war
  • 2026 Yemen offensives
    • 2026 Shabwah missile attack
      • A missile attack by the Houthis kills 58 soldiers and injure over 200 at a training center in Shabwah Governorate, Yemen. There are 14 missing. (Reuters)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Rapid Support Forces atrocities in Khartoum
    • Three children are killed in an alleged Rapid Support Forces drone strike in Khartoum, Sudan. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • Twelve migrants, including an infant, are killed when two separate speedboats capsize off the coast of the Lesbos and Samos islands in Greece. (AP)
• Fourteen miners are killed and seven more injured during the collapse of an open pit gold mine in Nariño Department, Colombia. (AP)

International relations

• Andorra–European Union relations, San Marino–European Union relations, Potential enlargement of the European Union
  • Andorra and San Marino each sign an association agreement with the European Union. (The Brussels Times)
• Gaza Strip famine, Palestine and the United Nations
  • The World Food Programme cuts monthly food aid for about 500,000 people in the Gaza Strip because of funding shortages, reducing the number of recipients from 1.6 million to 1.1 million. (AFP via France 24)

Law and crime

• Cuba–United States relations
  • 1996 shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue aircraft, United States embargo against Cuba
    • A judge in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, issues a no-bail bond arrest warrant for former Cuban president Raúl Castro after Florida attorney general James Uthmeier charged Castro with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder by directing spies to infiltrate Brothers to the Rescue and ordering the attack on their planes in 1996. (Al Jazeera)
• Israeli settler violence
  • Israel Police arrest 10 people in the occupied West Bank over attacks on American photojournalist Heidi Levine and the mayor of Aulnoye-Aymeries, France, who were travelling with European diplomats, and seize vehicles and other evidence during raids. (AFP via France 24) (Reuters)
• Shakahola Forest incident
  • A Kenyan court convicts Good News International Ministries leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie of murdering 190 children and an adult whose deaths were linked to starvation in Shakahola Forest. (Reuters)
• A driver deliberately strikes with car independent Australian MP Helen Haines outside her office in Wangaratta, Victoria, leaving her in critical condition and without a leg. Police arrest the driver, while Haines is airlifted to a hospital. (AFP) (Reuters)
• A teacher and a student are injured in a stabbing attack at a school in Bistrița, Romania. The 13-year-old suspect is arrested. (Internazionale)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Alberta referendums, 2026 Alberta independence referendum
  • Albertans vote on ten referendums, including one to decide if Alberta should seek separation from Canada. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2026 Iran war
  • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
    • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reports that an oil tanker has caught on fire and exploded in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz after striking a naval mine. (Middle East Eye)
• Haitian conflict
  • Armed gang members ambush Salvadoran Air Force personnel serving with Haiti's Gang Suppression Force in Port-au-Prince, using gunfire and explosives. Four Salvadoran service members remain missing after escaping their burning armored vehicle. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• A truck loses control and runs over devotees outside a temple in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, killing at least 13 and injuring nearly 40 others. (AFP via Dawn) (The Indian Express)
• At least eight people are killed and eight others are injured after a mortar shell explosion in Zawiya, Libya. (Xinhua)
• A light aircraft crashes into a dry riverbed in Kondariotissa, in Pieria region of northern Greece. Two people are killed. (Xinhua)

Health and environment

• Equatorial Guinea announces that it will expand its program combating malaria to the mainland and Annobón. The program has already heavily reduced malaria cases on Bioko Island. (The Independent)

International relations

• Cross-strait relations
  • The Taiwanese coast guard drives away 16 Chinese coast guard, research, and fishing vessels operating near Taiwan and the Pratas Island, including some that entered restricted waters. (AFP via The Hindu)
• Free trade agreements of Vietnam
  • Vietnam signs a free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) that reduces or eliminates tariffs on industrial, agricultural, and fish products and covers services, intellectual property, and sustainable development. (AFP)

Politics and elections

• Water scarcity in Mexico
  • Protests continue for the second week in Guadalajara, the seventh largest city in Mexico, over water shortages and widespread contamination. A study in June found that at least 93% of households' water systems contained no residual chlorine, but had elevated levels of lead, mercury, nitrates, and E. coli. (Türkiye) (Reuters)
• The Iranian parliament appoints Mehrdad Akhlaghi as Minister of Defence, replacing acting minister Majid Ebn-e-Reza. (Reuters)