Armed conflicts and attacks
Middle Eastern crisis
Oman's navy says that they have rescued 16 crew members from a Saudi Arabia-flagged oil tanker SIDR that was attacked a week ago in the Strait of Hormuz. (MENA via The New Arab)
2026 Lebanon war, Israeli attacks on the Lebanese health sector during the Israel-Hezbollah conflict
Nine people, including two children, are killed, and five others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Kfar Reman, Lebanon. Separately, in the same city, two medics are killed in another airstrike on a vehicle. (Al Jazeera)
Ecuadorian conflict
Operation Southern Spear, United States strikes on alleged drug traffickers during Operation Southern Spear
The United States Southern Command says that they have sunk a vessel allegedly belonging to the Los Choneros. (AP)
Yemeni civil war
More than 300 people are killed amid the deadliest fighting in the war since 2022. (AFP via Barron's)
Amid the offensive, Saudi Arabia launches an airstrike against a prison in Al-Jawf Governorate, killing seven people, including a child, and trapping 35 more under the rubble. (AP)
Business and economy
Tourism in Tokyo
The government of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, announces plans to prohibit more than half of its vacation rentals in residential areas and near schools after complaints increase over noise, smoking, trespassing, and improper waste disposal. (AFP via France 24)