2026 Labour Party leadership election Andy Burnham is elected as the new leader of the British Labour Party. He will formally succeed Keir Starmer as Prime minister on Monday.
Denmark A civilian dies and a police officer and the suspected gunman are wounded in a shooting in Nørresundby, North Jutland, Denmark, after officers responding to a reported fire are met with gunfire.
Drammen A large fire breaks out among terraced houses in Krokstadelva, Drammen, Norway, spreading rapidly between multiple housing blocks and prompting mass evacuations; the municipality declares a crisis and calls in fire crews from eight neighboring municipalities.
Landslide Eight people are killed, ten others are rescued and 34 are reported missing when a landslide buries multiple houses and residential buildings in Pengshui, Chongqing, China.
2026 Chiapas earthquake A strong w.3 earthquake strikes near the coast of Chiapas, Mexico. Tsunami warnings were issued and damage is unknown.
2026 Iran war Iranian state media reports that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have targeted a US special operations command center in Al-Tanf in response to the killing of Iranian soldiers in Iranshahr.
The Iranian Army says that it has launched a drone strike at the Al-Sakhir Air Base in Bahrain, where US military helicopters and P-8 reconnaissance aircraft are stored, as part of its 11th phase of a “Saegheh” operation.
Iranian drone strikes near Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan Region kill eight Kurdish rebels and injure several more.
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Dismissal of Mykhailo Fedorov Ukrainian Air Force deputy commander Pavlo Yelizarov resigns from his position in protest of Fedorov's removal as defense minister.
Protests take place in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine against president Volodymyr Zelenskyy's decision to replace defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov with major-general Yevhenii Khmara.
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.
War crimes during the Sudanese civil war Sudanese Justice Minister Abdallah Dirif says that the government will launch lawsuits against the United Arab Emirates in international courts for its role in supporting war crimes by the Rapid Support Forces in the ongoing civil war.
Huachicol fiscal Ernesto Ruffo Appel, former governor of Baja California, Mexico, is arrested on charges related to organized crime and fuel smuggling.
2026 United States cyclosporiasis outbreak The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reports that the amount of hospitalizations in the state linked to the cyclosporiasis outbreak has surpassed more than 100 people.
Taco Bell removes lettuce from some of their restaurants following reports that the Food and Drug Administration has opened an investigation into iceberg lettuce supplied to them.
"The Washington Post" links the iceberg lettuce produced by Taylor Farms and supplied to American fast food chain Taco Bell as a source of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak in the United States, which is caused by "Cyclospora cayetanensis".
2026 Ebola epidemic The Ugandan health ministry reports that Uganda has discharged its last patient diagnosed with Ebola, triggering a 42-day countdown clock on when it can be declared free of the virus.
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.
Cajamarca Fourteen people are killed and several others are injured after a minibus plunged into a deep ravine in Cajamarca, Peru.
Kapchorwa Twenty-one people are killed and several others are injured after a bus lost control and veered off the road in Kapchorwa, Uganda.
Sudanese civil war The Sudanese Armed Forces says that they have destroyed around 205 combat vehicles, military supply trucks, and four strategic drones belonging to the Rapid Support Forces in the past two weeks.
Around 1,000 Sudanese returnees in Egypt are reported by a local committee to have returned to Sudan.
2026 Iran war Tasnim News Agency reports that American fighter jets attacked the Iranshahr Airport in the Sistan and Baluchestan province.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei reports a U.S. strike near a children's cancer hospital in Ahvaz, prompting the evacuation of 211 cancer patients undergoing treatment, including chemotherapy.
Explosions are reported in Iran's Qeshm Island, Bushehr, Ahvaz, and Bandar Abbas, including a bridge in Bandar Khamir. A truck on the bridge is reported to be targeted, killing the driver.
The United States Central Command launches new strikes against Iran for a sixth consecutive night in an effort to degrade Iranian military capabilities.
The Kuwaiti defense ministry reports that the military intercepted and destroyed 32 drones entering the country's airspace.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that Iran is still interested in an agreement with the United States.
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 winning 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.
2026 FIFA World Cup In association football, Argentina and Spain are facing off in a World Cup final, with the highest-ranked teams in FIFA Men's World Ranking advancing to finals. For the first time ever top two FIFA-ranked teams are meeting in the final since the rankings were introduced in 1992.
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 explodes 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 Nirim kibbutz.
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.
The Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD) of the Kurdistan Region Security Council reports that international coalition forces have intercepted seven drones in Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
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.