Autostrade per l'Italia Former Autostrade per l'Italia (ASPI) CEO Giovanni Castellucci is convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in the 2018 collapse of the Ponte Morandi in Genoa, Liguria, Italy, which killed 43 people.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province Six members of a family are killed after a fire engulfed their house in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan.
Care facility Eleven people are killed and 19 more injured in a fire at a care facility in Algiers, Algeria.
Sudanese civil war Around 1,000 Sudanese returnees in Egypt are reported by a local committee to have returned to the country.
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, in a press release reports that US Chargé d’Affaires in Egypt Robert Silverman announced that $24 million will be provided to the World Food Programme to support Sudanese refugees in Egypt.
Articles The post-truth and the contextMost of the daily information we see on the mainstream media today is the news equivalent of fast-food.
2026 ESPY Awards The ESPY Awards is held at the David H. Koch Theater in New York City, New York, U.S., with the 2025–26 New York Knicks win five awards, including the Best Team award after winning their first NBA championship since 1973, while point guard Jalen Brunson wins the Best Male Athlete and Best Championship Performance awards.
Discoveries of exoplanets Astronomers directly image the exoplanet Beta Pictoris d next to its star, located 63 light-years away, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. It is also reported to be fainter than its sibling Beta Pictoris b. The discovery is published in the "The Astrophysical Journal".
France France's National Assembly gives final approval to a bill allowing eligible adults with incurable, life-threatening illnesses to obtain lethal medication under strict conditions. The measure awaits Constitutional Council review before taking effect.
U.S. president U.S. president Donald Trump announces that American citizen Dena Karari has been released from Iran after being detained on espionage charges since 2024. Her lawyer, Jared Genser, also confirmed her release.
Moroccan Moroccan prosecutors release journalist Ali Lmrabet after questioning him over online posts allegedly defaming unnamed individuals and institutions, while the criminal investigation continues.
Detention of Craig and Lindsay Foreman The family of British national Craig Foreman says an Iranian court has added two years to his 10-year espionage prison sentence for speaking to the media, as he and his wife Lindsay continue a hunger strike.
Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict The Democratic Republic of the Congo establishes a council composed of mostly international war crimes lawyers to advise state institutions seeking accountability and reparations for victims of violence in the country's east.
Bhutanese refugees scam A district court in Kathmandu, Nepal, sentences former deputy prime minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi to four years in prison and former home minister Bal Krishna Khand to two years for roles in forging documents for a fraudulent Bhutanese refugee resettlement scheme.
United Kingdom–European Union relations The United Kingdom and the European Union remove the land-border fence between Gibraltar and Spain under a post-Brexit treaty, allowing free movement while introducing joint British-Spanish checks at Gibraltar's airport and port.
Sudanese cholera epidemic Sudan's Federal Ministry of Health reports that the total amount of cholera cases in north and west Kordofan has increased to 1,547.
2026 Ebola epidemic The total amount of cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo exceed 2,000.
Sulawesi One person is killed and 24 others are missing after a passenger boat sank off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Liaoning Province Seven people are killed and one person is missing after a rubber dinghy exploded near Liaoning Province, China.
Sudanese civil war A drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces hits a power station in the town of Al Dabbah in Sudan's Northern State.
The Sudanese Armed Forces-allied Joint Forces announce that they have recaptured the Orshi Reservoir area in North Darfur, a month after the Rapid Support Forces seized the area.
Middle Eastern crisis Israel's military claims to have killed a militant from the Hamas branch Al-Qassam Brigades that participated in the abduction of soldiers Col. Asaf Hamami, St.-Sgt. Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, and Sgt. Kiril Brodski during the October 7 attacks on the Kibbutz Nirim.
Morocco signs an agreement with the Board of Peace to join the International Stabilization Force for Gaza.
CENTCOM announces the U.S. has launched new strikes against Iran for a fifth consecutive day aimed at coastal defense systems, cruise missile storage, and launch sites in the Greater Tunb Island.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed "until the United States ends its acts of aggression".
India's Directorate General of Shipping warns companies not to deploy Indian sailors onto vessels transiting through the Strait of Hormuz after two Indian seafarers were killed in separate ship attacks in the waterway.
CENTCOM says that American forces disabled the Curaçao-flagged oil tanker "M-T Belma" as it was heading towards an Iranian port in the Persian Gulf amidst the blockade. An 18 second video confirms that a U.S. aircraft disabled the vessel.
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) says that American forces have redirected two commercial vessels since the blockade resumed.
Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says that ceasefire negotiations aimed at ending the war have not closed despite renewed fighting between Iran and the United States.
AI boom Japan approves election rules requiring AI-generated images and videos on social media to be labeled and prohibiting false or distorted information about candidates, with the measures taking effect in March.
International Criminal Court investigation in Darfur A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court drop charges against former rebel leader Abdallah Banda over his role in a 2007 attack on African Union peacekeepers during Sudan's Darfur conflict.
Shootings by U.S. immigration agents in the second Trump administration The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement suspends vehicle stops related to immigration enforcement following the recent fatal shootings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine.
2026 United States cyclosporiasis outbreak The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reports 3,300 cases in the state, up from 2,640 the previous day.
The U.S. CDC reports 7,000 cases nationwide of cyclosporiasis, which is caused by "cyclospora cayetanensis".
2026 Ebola epidemic The World Health Organization reports that 80% of cases of Ebola in eastern DRC are from unknown chains of transmission. Additionally, the death toll from Ebola reaches 700.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announces that it will test the Gilead Sciences antiviral for the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus.
2026 Bangladesh measles outbreak The Directorate General of Health Services reports that seven more children have died from measles in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll from the disease in the country to 766.
Collided head-on Seven people are killed and three others are injured after two vehicles collided head-on just outside Ramadi, Iraq.
2024–2026 Cuba blackouts Cuba suffers its third nationwide blackout in less than 10 days and fifth of 2026, as the state utility reports a complete grid failure amid fuel shortages caused by the ongoing U.S. imposed blockade, that complicate power restoration.
Colombian conflict Colombia's military says it has rescued 39 civilians kidnapped by the National Liberation Army on a highway in Chocó Department, with two soldiers killed during the operation.
Sudanese civil war The Sudanese Armed Forces say that the 4th Infantry Division's 13th Brigade have taken control of the Blue Nile town of Fashfoun following days of clashes with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North.
Iraqi conflict Iraqi prime minister Ali al-Zaidi and the U.S. defense department says that all remaining American troops will withdraw from Iraq by September 30, ending a 23-year presence in the country that started with the 2003 U.S. invasion.
Middle Eastern crisis The Israeli military strikes a police station in Gaza, killing eight people, according to Gaza's civil defence agency and Al-Shifa Hospital, violating the ongoing ceasefire.
The first day of direct negotiations and the sixth round of peace talks between Israel and Lebanon begins at the U.S. embassy in Rome, Italy.
Explosions are reported in the Iranian cities of Ahvaz and Bandar Abbas, and the islands of Kish and Qeshm.
Kuwait's military says that Iran struck a navy vessel, injuring four personnel, while its air defences intercept one ballistic missile, five cruise missiles, and 33 drones aimed at civilian facilities.
U.S. president Donald Trump cancels a proposal to implement a 20% fee on cargo ships transiting through the strait.
Iran fires projectiles at two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz associated with the United Arab Emirates, killing two mariners and injuring 14 others.
The United States Central Command launches a new round of strikes against Iran in an effort to degrade capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz ahead of the naval blockade.
The United States military reimposes the naval blockade of Iran that ended on June 17 last month in response to ship attacks.