Armed conflicts and attacks

• Nearly 100 people have been abducted or disappeared in Syria since January, according to the UN. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• At least three people are killed, two others are missing and two are presumed dead when a large structure being prepared for demolition at a power plant collapses in Ulsan, South Korea. (Reuters)
• At least four people are killed and three are injured when a Kamov Ka-226 passenger helicopter crashed in Achi-Su, Dagestan, Russia. (ASN)

International relations

• Australia–Nauru relations, Nauru Regional Processing Centre
  • Australia begins to deport hundreds of "non-citizens" to Nauru, as part of a bilateral agreement between both countries, in which Australia will pay Nauru $2.5 billion over 30 years in exchange for Nauru issuing visas to these individuals deported from Australia. (RNZ)

Law and crime

• 2025 Tanzanian general election, 2025 Tanzanian election protests
  • Prosecutors in Tanzania charge 98 people with treason over their alleged participation in violent protests against the re-election of president Samia Suluhu Hassan last week. (Reuters)
• SMAN 72 Jakarta explosion
  • Fifty-four people are injured, some critically, in a bombing explosion at a mosque inside a school in Jakarta, Indonesia. Two toy guns are found at the site, one of which had the inscription of far-right terrorists Alexandre Bissonnette, Luca Traini and Brenton Tarrant. A 17-year-old male is identified as the perpetrator and is recovered at a hospital. (Reuters) (BBC News)
• Police in Spain arrest 13 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in a coordinated operation in five cities. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Sudanese civil war
  • Darfur campaign
    • The Rapid Support Forces state that they accept a humanitarian ceasefire proposed by international mediators after capturing El Fasher in Darfur, while the Sudanese army signals plans to continue the conflict. (AFP via Courthouse News Service)
• 2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers, War on drugs
  • Three people are killed in a United States airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on the Philippines rises to at least 142, with 127 others missing. The storm has left the country's territory and made landfall in central Vietnam. (Al Jazeera)
  • Philippine president Bongbong Marcos declares a national state of calamity in relation to the devastation caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi and in anticipation of the upcoming tropical cyclone Fung-wong. (ABS-CBN News)

International relations

• International sanctions against Syria
  • The United Nations Security Council votes to lift sanctions on Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa and interior minister Anas Khattab through a United States-drafted resolution. (Reuters)
• Israel–Kazakhstan relations
  • Kazakhstan formally joins the Abraham Accords, with the aim to enhance bilateral cooperation with Israel. (AP)
• Mexico–Peru relations
  • Peru's Congress declares Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum a persona non grata after Peru cut diplomatic ties with Mexico for granting asylum to former prime minister Betssy Chávez, who faces conspiracy charges related to former president Pedro Castillo's attempt to dissolve Congress. (Reuters)
• Khaled El-Enany is elected director-general of UNESCO by the General Conference held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, succeeding Audrey Azoulay. (UNESCO)

Law and crime

• 2019 Bolivian political crisis
  • Former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez is freed from prison after the Supreme Court annulled her sentence the previous day. (AP)
• Crime in Germany
  • The Hesse State Police announce an investigation in Hanau after swastikas made of human blood are found painted on dozens of buildings and cars. (AP via ABC News)
• International Criminal Court investigation in Uganda
  • The International Criminal Court confirms 39 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against fugitive Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony in absentia, including murder, rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, and the use of child soldiers. The court rules that he can stand trial once arrested, upholding the 2005 arrest warrant. (Reuters)
• War crimes in the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • A court in Russian-occupied Donetsk sentences two Colombians to 13 years in prison for fighting with Ukraine's armed forces, after they were detained while traveling home through Venezuela and transferred into Russian custody. (AFP via Kyiv Post)
  • A court in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, finds a Russian soldier guilty of killing a surrendered Ukrainian soldier in January 2024 and sentences him to life imprisonment, marking the first conviction of a Russian soldier for killing a captured Ukrainian since the war began. (CNN)

Arts and culture

• The United Methodist Church ratifies a constitutional amendment restructuring the denomination, enabling each region of the church worldwide to have equal autonomy. Other amendments involve expanding membership allowances to account for gender and ability, and condemning white supremacy and colonialism. (UMNews) (The Tennessean)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on Visayas and Mindanao, Philippines, rises to at least 114, with search and rescue operations ongoing. (AP via CBC News) (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2025 United States listeriosis outbreak
  • An outbreak of listeriosis linked to recalled pasta products in 18 U.S. states kills at least six people and causes 25 hospitalizations. (NPR) (Health)

Law and crime

• 2025 Island of Oléron car ramming
  • Five people are injured, two critically, in a vehicle-ramming attack on the French island of Oléron. The perpetrator attempts to set the car on fire, before being arrested by the gendarmerie. (The Guardian)
• Human rights in Malaysia
  • A Malaysian high court rules that police and the government are responsible for the enforced disappearances of activist Amri Che Mat and pastor Raymond Koh in 2016 and 2017, respectively, ordering investigations to be reopened and awarding damages exceeding RM 33 million (US$8 million) to their families. The decision marks the first judicial finding of state involvement in enforced disappearances in Malaysia. (AP)
• Bolivia's Supreme Court overturns the 10-year prison sentence of former president Jeanine Áñez, ruling that she should have been tried by a special judicial body responsible for cases involving officials and ordering her release. (AFP via France 24)
• A court in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, sentences a 44-year-old palliative care nurse to life imprisonment for murdering 10 patients and attempting to murder 27 others with lethal injections at a hospital in Würselen between December 2023 and May 2024. (AFP via CBS News)
• Japanese defense minister Shinjiro Koizumi says that troops were sent to Akita Prefecture after a series of more than 50 bear attacks since April, which resulted in 12 deaths and over 100 injuries. Governor requested aid, saying that local authorities lack manpower to handle the situation. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Japanese-born Tomio Okamura of the Freedom and Direct Democracy party is elected president of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic, marking the first major appointment under prime minister-designate Andrej Babiš's new coalition government. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025–26 NHL season
  • In ice hockey, Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin becomes the first player in National Hockey League history to score 900 goals. (NHL.com)