Tuesday

Hundreds of Russian troops enter the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast with heavy street-to-street fighting underway. (Reuters)

Twelve people are killed and 27 injured in a suicide bombing outside a court in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)

Israeli settlers set fire to dozens of vehicles and other property in Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf in the West Bank and attack Israeli soldiers who were dispatched to the area, injuring four Palestinians, while four Israelis are arrested. (DW)

Twenty people are killed when a Turkish Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo plane crashes near the Azerbaijan–Georgia border. (Euronews) (AP)

The Dominican Republic experiences a rare countrywide blackout, which officials blame on a failure in the power transmission grid. (AP)