Armed conflicts and attacks
Russo-Ukrainian war
Peace negotiations in the Russo-Ukrainian war, United States and the Russo-Ukrainian war
Russia and Ukraine agree to halt strikes on Kyiv and Moscow, respectively, during United States-mediated peace talks, as U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow before traveling to Kyiv. (AFP via Dawn)
A Russian missile strike kills two people and damages multiple residential buildings in Bucha, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. (UA News)
Russian occupation of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
A Russian airstrike on Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, kills four people and injures five others, including one critically, according to Dnipropetrovsk governor Oleksandr Hanza. (SANA)
2026 Iran war
The United States Central Command says its forces have destroyed three Iranian oil tankers linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including one in the Gulf of Oman, after alleged Iranian missile attacks on U.S. naval vessels. (AFP via France 24) (BBC News)
Mexican drug war
Two federal agents are killed in a shootout with an armed group in Omealca, Veracruz, Mexico. (Demócrata)
Disasters and accidents
Ten people are killed and 64 others are injured after an accidental fireworks explosion during a religious celebration in a parish in Temascalcingo, Mexico. (Al Jazeera)
Ten people are killed and six others are injured after a tank truck suffers a brake failure and explodes on the Hamedan–Sanandaj highway, Iran. (AFP via The Star)
A Greek F-4 Phantom jet crashes during an air show at Tanagra Air Base near Athens, Greece, killing both pilots. (Reuters)
A five-story hostel building collapses in New Delhi, India, killing seven people. At least 12 people are rescued from the rubble. (AP)
2026 Pacific typhoon season
One person is killed and eleven others are reported missing after a mudslide buries a village and damages 12 homes in Suichuan County, Jiangxi, China. (AP)
2026 Indonesia wildfires
Indonesia's disaster agency and air force conduct aerial firefighting operations to contain wildfires near the planned capital Nusantara in East Kalimantan, following a request from the Nusantara Capital City Authority. (AFP via Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Cape Verde bus crash
Twenty-five people are killed and several others are injured after a bus carrying mostly secondary school students plunges down a slope in Fogo island, Cape Verde. (AP)