Armed conflicts and attacks
Middle Eastern crisis
U.S. president Donald Trump says that the U.S. military will not attack Iran before the midterm elections next month. (AP)
2026 United States military buildup in the Middle East
The USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego, California, U.S., at the North Island Naval Air Station following its nearly seven-month deployment in the Middle East. (The Guardian) (Los Angeles Times)
The Israel Defense Forces announce that they have killed Muhammad Muhsen Nimr Yazji, a Hamas militant who took part in holding Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Matan Angrest during an airstrike in Gaza City. (The Jerusalem Post)
Russo-Ukrainian war
Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
Russian forces launch a ballistic missile attack on two buses in the city of Kramatorsk in Ukraine, killing at least 30 people, while 18 others are wounded. (Al Jazeera)
Mexican drug war
Infighting in the Sinaloa Cartel
Twelve people, including a 2-year-old, are killed and 16 more injured during a shootout between different factions of the Sinaloa Cartel at El Castillo Penitentiary Centre in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. The incident is believed to have been an assassination attempt on Eduardo Jonathan Martínez Larios, a leader of Los Chapitos who was reportedly amongst the dead. (Mexico News Daily)
Arts and culture
The Bank of England announces that the Atlantic puffin, barn owl, buff-tailed bumblebee, and European hedgehog will feature on the next set of pound sterling notes to be issued in the United Kingdom. It will be the first time animals have replaced people on banknotes in England, which is intended to increase awareness of British wildlife. (BBC News)
2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
Canadian poet Anne Carson is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature". (BBC News)