Disasters and accidents
Seven people are killed in a multiple-vehicle collision in Hoskote, Karnataka, India. (The Hindu)
Four people are killed after an Epic E1000 aircraft crashes at Steamboat Springs Airport in Colorado, United States. (Aviation Safety Network)
Politics and elections
2026 Bangladeshi general election
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party wins a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections, winning 209 seats in the first election since the July Revolution that toppled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. (Reuters)
2026 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill
Angus Taylor replaces Sussan Ley as Leader of the Opposition following a leadership spill in the Liberal Party, symbolizing a power shift from the Moderate to the National Right faction. Ley subsequently resigns from politics, triggering a by-election in her Farrer seat. (The Guardian)
2027 Salvadoran legislative election
Milagro Navas, the mayor of La Libertad Este and El Salvador's only opposition-aligned mayor, announces that she will run for re-election in 2027. (El Mundo)
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