Armed conflicts and attacks
Russo-Ukrainian war
Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
Russian missile and drone strikes kill at least five people and wound ten others across Ukraine, including three people in Sumy when a drone struck their apartment building. (Al Jazeera)
Ukraine declares a day of mourning for the victims of the Russian bombardment of Kyiv on July 2 as the death toll rises to 30. (DW)
Ukrainian forces strike nine substations across Russian-occupied Crimea causing power outages as part of a campaign to make the peninsula "unusable" for the Russian military. Saky air base and Gvardeyskoye air base are also targeted with seven jets destroyed or damaged. (The New Voice of Ukraine) (Reuters)
Sudanese civil war
Sudanese Foreign Minister Mohi El-Din Salem says that the Sudanese government is ready to engage in "sincere initiatives" aimed at ending the civil war that started in April 2023. He also says that initiatives set by Sovereign Council chairman and SAF head Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to the UN last year. (AA)
Kordofan campaign, Siege of El Obeid
United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk issues a "red alert" warning in El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan, of an "catastrophe" and violence in the city. (ABC News) (ModernGhana)
Gaza war
The Israeli military and Shin Bet state that Hamas militant Muhammad Na'im Jandiya, who allegedly took part in taking hostages during the attack on the Nahal Oz kibbutz in the October 7 attacks on Israel, has been killed in an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip, violating the ongoing ceasefire. (The Jerusalem Post) (Ynetnews)
Disasters and accidents
In Pakistan, a bus en route from Quetta to Islamabad plunges into a deep roadside ditch in Sherani District, Balochistan, killing 40 people and injuring eight others. (Reuters)
Four people are killed, ten are missing and eight more injured during the collision of a car with a bus, carrying Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan, on the Kabul–Nangarhar highway in Laghman Province, Afghanistan. (Caliber.az) (Pajhwok)
Health and environment
2026 heat waves
Health officials in Belgium report a 39% increase of deaths, compared to the week prior, from heat waves in the country during June, while France saw a 29.1% increase. (Euronews)
The French National Public Health Agency reports that over 2,025 people in France have died in heat waves last month between June 22 and June 28. (Le Monde)
Heat waves are reported across the eastern and central United States, with 23 U.S. states placed under heat warnings by the National Weather Service. (Reuters) (KGW)
Politics and elections
Impact of the 2026 Iran war on Iran
The state funeral of former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike on his compound by Israel and the United States during the first day of the Iran war on February 28, begins as his body lies in state at Tehran's Grand Mosalla. The funeral is expected to draw millions of attendees, including foreign dignitaries. (AFP via France 24) (The Guardian) (The New York Times) (Reuters)
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