Hezbollah–Israeli conflict Nine people, including two children, are killed and five others are injured in an Israeli airstrike against a residential building in Kfar Reman, Lebanon. Separately, in the same city, two medics are killed in another airstrike against a vehicle.
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The final day of the World Nomad Games is held, with hosts Kyrgyzstan defeating Kazakhstan, 12–0, to win the kok-boru final in Cholpon-Ata. Kyrgyzstan wins the gold medal in kok-boru, Kazakhstan wins the silver, and Russia wins the bronze.
2026 NASCAR Cup Series In NASCAR racing, Christopher Bell wins the Southern 500 race at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, U.S., snapping a 33-race winless streak.
2026 Formula One World Championship In Formula One racing, Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli wins the Italian Grand Prix, becoming the first Italian driver in 60 years to win on home soil after Ludovico Scarfiotti in 1966.
2026 Saxony-Anhalt state election Exit polls show the far-right Alternative for Germany party winning the Saxony-Anhalt state election in Germany, but failing to secure an absolute majority of seats.
Jakarta Jakarta's Soekarno–Hatta International Airport, Indonesia's busiest airport, suspends flight operations after volcanic ash from Anak Krakatoa reaches the airport.
Fuel tanker Eleven people are killed and seven others are injured when a fuel tanker hits other cars and explodes, reportedly due to a faulty brake system, near Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, Iran.
21 Air Flight 7598 A Boeing 767-300 operated by 21 Air on behalf of Amazon Air overshoots the runway and strikes vehicles while landing at Miami International Airport in Florida, United States, killing five people and injuring five others.
2026 Pacific typhoon season The death toll from mudslides caused by Typhoon Saudel in Suichuan County, Jiangxi, China, increases to three.
Sudanese civil war The International Committee of the Red Cross reports that over 11,000 people have been reported missing since the civil war.
The Sudanese Armed Forces and Joint Forces advance in Sudan's North Kordofan state, and recaptures the town of Hamrat al-Wiz.
Russo-Ukrainian war U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner make their first visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, to meet with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks amidst renewed efforts to end the war.
Middle Eastern crisis Seven people are killed and 20 more injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon.
An Israeli raid targeting a car in Al Nasr District, Gaza City, Palestine, results in the killing of a Palestinian and his daughter and the wounding of 6 others, in violation of the October 2025 Gaza war ceasefire.
Women's In women's boxing, Katie Taylor retires as the undisputed super lightweight champion after defeating previously unbeaten Flora Pili by unanimous decision before a crowd of 83,000 at Croke Park in Dublin.
2026 MLS season In association football, Major League Soccer's Columbus Crew wins their 400th game in franchise history.
2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup In women's basketball, the Mali women's national basketball team upsets Spain 82-73, making it Mali's second ever victory in the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup after its 2010 victory against Senegal.
2026 China GT Championship Dutch Loek Hartog rescues fellow driver Ollie Millroy from a burning car following an accident at the Shanghai International Circuit.
2026 Diamond League In track and field, Swiss athlete Audrey Werro wins the women's 800 metres at the Diamond League's Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, Belgium, with a meeting record of 1:54.75.
2026 Formula One World Championship At the same Grand Prix, Alpine driver Pierre Gasly achieves his maiden pole position after qualifying first, the first French driver to do so since Jean Alesi in 1997.
In Formula One, Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll becomes the first driver to be knocked out in Q1 100 times after doing so at the 2026 Italian Grand Prix.
Egypt In Egypt, twelve people are sentenced to death for drugs trafficking, including television presenter Sarah Khalifa.
Philippine Philippine vice president Sara Duterte posts ₱360,000 (US$5,740) bail on three counts of grave threats, prompting a regional trial court to lift her arrest warrant. The charges concern alleged threats against president Bongbong Marcos, first lady Liza Araneta Marcos, and former House speaker Martin Romualdez.
United Kingdom anti-immigration protests Hundreds of masked anti-immigration protesters block the Port of Dover in Kent, England, and chant "stop the boats", causing massive disruption to traffic and train services.
Peruvian security crisis Peru declares a 60-day state of emergency in five supermax prisons, authorizing police and military forces to control the facilities and surrounding airspace and communications to disrupt criminal organizations operating from prisons.
Parties The 128 parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons agree on a non-binding text defining lethal autonomous weapons systems, potentially enabling negotiations on international rules governing their use.
National Food Agency The National Food Agency of Indonesia reports that nearly 2,000 people, mostly students, have fallen ill across the country this week in suspected food poisoning outbreaks linked to president Prabowo Subianto's new Free Nutritious Meals program.
Zagreb Tens of thousands of people rally in Zagreb, Croatia, demanding the removal of about 37,000 tonnes of illegally dumped hazardous waste from Gospić and a ban on waste imports amid concerns over soil and groundwater contamination.
2026 Ebola epidemic Uganda's health ministry bans mourners from the Democratic Republic of the Congo from attending the burial ceremony of the late Tooro Kingdom king Rukidi IV amidst the Ebola outbreak.
Fireworks Ten people were killed and 64 were injuried after an accidental fireworks explosion during a religious celebration in the parish of the Santa María Canchesda community, Temascalcingo, State of Mexico, México.
Greek A Greek F-4 Phantom jet crashes during an air show at Tanagra Air Base near Athens, Greece, killing both pilots.
Hamedan Ten people are killed and six others are injured after a tanker truck suffers a brake failure and explodes on the Hamedan–Sanandaj highway, Iran.
Cape Verde bus crash At least 21 people are killed and several others are injured after a bus carrying mostly secondary school students plunges down a slope in Fogo island, Cape Verde.
2026 Indonesia wildfires Indonesia's disaster agency and air force conduct aerial firefighting operations to contain wildfires near the planned capital Nusantara in East Kalimantan, following a request from the Nusantara Capital City Authority.
2026 Pacific typhoon season One person is killed and eleven others are reported missing after a mudslide buries a village and damages 12 homes in Suichuan County, Jiangxi, China.
Mexican drug war Two federal agents were killed after an encounter in the municipality of Omealca, Veracruz. The agents were carriyng investigative tasks and they were attacked by alleged members of an unnamed criminal group, being confirmed by the Head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection Omar García Harfuch.
2026 Iran war The United States Central Command says its forces have destroyed three Iranian oil tankers linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including one in the Gulf of Oman, after alleged Iranian missile attacks on U.S. naval vessels.
Russo-Ukrainian war A Russian airstrike on Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, kills four people and injures five others, including one critically, according to Dnipropetrovsk governor Oleksandr Hanza.
A Russian missile strike kills two people and damages multiple residential buildings in Bucha, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
Russia and Ukraine agree to halt strikes on Kyiv and Moscow, respectively, during United States-mediated peace talks, as U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow before traveling to Kyiv.