Armed conflicts and attacks
Middle Eastern crisis
2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations
Axios reports that American and Iranian negotiators have agreed to a deal to extend the ceasefire. (AP) (Axios) (Reuters)
U.S. treasury secretary Scott Bessent says Washington will halt Iranian airlines’ access to landing spots until a deal is signed. (The Times of Israel)
U.S. treasury secretary Scott Bessent says that Oman will not participate in imposing tolls on ships and vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz after previously threatening to impose sanctions against them earlier in the day if it were to join Iran in doing so. (AA) (AFP via The Straits Times)
The Kuwaiti military says that they have activated air defenses to intercept a missile along with drones. (AP)
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps says that it targeted an American base in Kuwait in retaliation for the recent U.S. strikes near Bandar Abbas including yesterday's. (AA)
At least 19 people, including two children, are killed from Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, as Israel intensifies its assault and issues mass displacement orders across the region. The Israeli military alleges that it is a targeted attack. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders Israeli forces to seize 70% of the Gaza Strip. (Financial Times)
An Israeli military air raid kills ten people, including four children, in northern Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
The Israeli military announces that it has assassinated Ihab Khrizim, a leader of a central Hamas funds transfer network, in a strike in the Khan Yunis area of the Gaza Strip in Palestine. (BBC News) (The Jerusalem Post)
Colombian conflict
Clashes between FARC dissidents kill at least 48 people in Guaviare, Colombia, amid ongoing disputes over territorial and criminal control. (AFP via Abhiyan News)
Terrorism in Switzerland
2026 Winterthur stabbing attack
Three people are injured in a mass stabbing at a train station in Winterthur, Switzerland. The perpetrator is arrested and authorities declare the attack as an act of terrorism. (BBC News) (NBC News)
Disasters and accidents
Thirteen people are killed and three others are injured when an overloaded passenger bus crashes into a large truck on G40 Shanghai–Xi'an Expressway in Nanyang, Henan, China. (AFP via CNA) (Reuters)
Six people are killed and four others are trapped when an under-construction bridge collapses during a storm in Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India. (Azerbaijan) (NDTV)
Five people are killed while 22 others are injured after a truck overturns on Cong. Andres Acop Cosalan Road in Kabayan, Benguet, Philippines. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (Xinhua)
At least three people are killed, four others are injured, and 11 more are reported missing in an explosion at an apartment building in Dallas, Texas, United States. (The Guardian) (Newsweek)
2026 Longview, Washington paper mill implosion
The death toll from the implosion of a white liquor paper mill in Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington, U.S., rises to eight. (The New York Times)
2026 Gilgil school burning
Sixteen students are killed and 79 others injured in a fire in a dormitory at a girls school in Gilgil, Nakuru County, Kenya. (BBC News)