Tuesday

July 29, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Russian forces launch drone strikes and cruise missile strikes across Ukraine, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens more, including 16 inmates killed in an airstrike on a prison in Zaporizhzhia. (BBC News)

Kivu conflict

M23 campaign

Wazalendo militia Human Rights Defense Forces and M23 rebels clash on a hill near Kazinga, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). (Radio Okapi)

Sudanese civil war

Famine in Sudan

According to the Sudan Doctors Network, thirteen children have died from malnutrition in a displacement camp in the Darfur region of Sudan. (AP)

Ituri conflict

Zaïre-FPAC militants attack Sanduku 1, Djugu Territory, DRC, killing two civilians. (Radio Okapi)

Red Sea crisis

Disasters and accidents

At least 18 people making the Kanwar Yatra pilgrimage are killed in a bus accident in Deoghar, Jharkand, India. (DW) (NDTV)

The death toll from the flooding in Hebei and Beijing, China, increases to 34, with eight others missing. (NPR)

International relations

2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza, International recognition of Palestine

Maltese prime minister Robert Abela announces that Malta will recognize the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly session in September. (TVM)

United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer declares that the UK will formally recognize the State of Palestine should a ceasefire not be achieved by September. (The Telegraph)

Israel–Netherlands relations

The Netherlands bans far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich from the country and calls on the European Union to support a ceasefire in Gaza. (AP)

Law and crime

Lebanon convicts and sentences six people who are accused of killing a United Nations peacekeeper in Beirut in 2023. (AP)

The Internal Security Agency of Poland detains 32 people, including a Pole, a Colombian, Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, who are suspected of coordinating with Russia to engage in sabotage. (AP)

Politics and elections

Four people are killed and over 500 others are arrested in protests in Luanda, Angola, against the government's increase in fuel prices. (DW)

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