Fidel Castro Fidel Castro makes his first public appearance at a Cuban cheese factory since February 2015.
Abdul Gani Patail Abdul Gani Patail, the Attorney General of Malaysia, says that a probe of troubled state owned investment bank 1Malaysia Development Berhad has uncovered documents that show the transfer of money into private accounts of the Prime Minister Najib Razak.
South Korean navy A South Korean navy officer is charged with leaking confidential information to China.
Wenling At least nine people have been killed and 30 injured following a factory collapse in the city of Wenling in Zhejiang province.
UNESCO UNESCO adds new sites to the World Heritage List: Tusi Sites (China), Susa, Cultural Landscape of Maymand (both in Iran), Singapore Botanic Gardens (Singapore), Baekje Historic Areas (Republic of Korea), Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape (Mongolia), and the French wine producing regions of Champagne and Burgundy.
Kuomintang The Republic of China (Taiwan) holds a large military parade in Taipei to commemorate World War II in support of its claims that Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-Shek played a leading role in the defeat of the Empire of Japan with the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Tse-Tung playing a minor role.
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict The Azerbaijani military shoots down two Armenian drones over Azeri positions according to Azerbaijan's defense ministry.
Syrian civil war A mosque bombing in northern Syria kills 15 members of Al Qaida's affiliate Nusra Front.
Sinai insurgency A shell kills a woman and her two children as fighting continues on the Sinai Peninsula between the Egyptian Army and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants.
Second Libyan Civil War At least ten civilians are killed when three separate car bombs explode simultaneously in the eastern coastal city of Derna.
Saudi-led coalition Yemen's Houthi rebels shell the Saudi Arabian cities of Jizan and Najran with claims of several Saudi soldiers being killed.
War in Donbass A rally of war veterans in Kiev calls for Ukraine to abandon the Minsk II ceasefire agreement and to declare war on pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass region. Despite two ceasefire agreements since September, combat operations, including the use of heavy artillery and ballistic missiles, never stopped.