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.
2026 Bangladesh measles outbreak The death tolls from the measles outbreak in Bangladesh reaches 780 after one children is reported to have died from the disease by the Directorate General of Health Services.
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.
Gaza war The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet confirm that they have killed Hamas commander Anas Mahmoud Ahmad Hamdan, who served as a “right-hand man” of former Al-Qassam Brigades commander Mohammed Deif, in a airstrike in the Khan Yunis city of the southern Gaza Strip.
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.