Armed conflicts and attacks
Middle Eastern crisis
Iraq's Oil Tankers Company says that they have transported 2 million barrels of oil from the country through a very large crude carrier in the Strait of Hormuz. (Reuters) (Arab News)
Eight people, some of them civilians, are killed and several more are injured in an Israeli airstrike against a residential building in Gaza City, in violation of the ongoing ceasefire. (Al Jazeera)
Aftermath of the Syrian civil war
Unknown gunmen open fire against a vehicle in Ras al-Maara, Syria, killing three people and wounding seven more. (Hawar News Agency)
Disasters and accidents
Ten people are injured, including some critically, in an motor vehicle hooning incident in Newcastle, Australia, during a Newcastle Knights procession before the NRL Grand Final. The driver is arrested at the scene. The incident is considered unintentional. (Nine News)
A Latitude Air Ambulance Gulfstream G100, flying from Bermuda to Boston, goes missing over the Atlantic Ocean with six people on board. Search operations are ongoing. (News 18)
Politics and elections
2026 Latvian parliamentary election
Latvians vote to elect 100 seats of the Saeima amid an uptick of airspace incursions and hybrid warfare during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Exit polls project the centrist United List, led by incumbent prime minister Andris Kulbergs, in first place. The right-wing Latvia First and the left-wing Progressives follow in second and third place respectively. (Reuters)
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