Armed conflicts and attacks
Somali Civil War
At least seven Kenyan police officers are injured after an al-Shabaab roadside bomb strikes their patrol truck on a highway east of Mandera in Kenya, near the border with Somalia. (Hiiraan Online)
2025 Jaalle Siyaad military academy bombing
Several people are killed and injured in a suicide bombing targeting the 14th October Brigade of the Somali Armed Forces at a military academy in Mogadishu, Somalia. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack. (Reuters) (Hiiraan Online) (Somali Guardian)
Red Sea crisis
Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
The Eternity C, a Liberian-flagged ship, sinks in the Red Sea after being attacked by the Houthis on Monday. At least four people are killed, seven others are rescued and fourteen are reported missing. A rescue operation is underway. (The Guardian) (NOS)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
Russian forces launch 728 Geran-2 drones at Ukraine overnight in the largest single drone attack of the war to date. (Newsweek)
Colombian conflict
A donkey packed with explosives blasts near a military outpost in Las Cruces sector, Valdivia, Antioquia Department, killing one soldier and injuring two. Authorities blamed the ELN of being behind the attack. (Radio Caracol)
Business and economy
Tariffs in the second Trump administration
U.S. president Donald Trump announces a 50% tariff on most imports into the United States from Brazil starting August 1, in a letter addressed to Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and citing the trial of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. (Reuters)
President Trump also announces a new set of tariff rates on imports from Algeria, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka, assigning country-specific duties ranging from 20 to 30% following the expiration of a 90-day negotiation period. (Al Jazeera)