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- An 8.8-magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean.
- In association football, the UEFA Women's Euro concludes with England defeating Spain in the final (player of the match Hannah Hampton pictured).
- In cycling, Tadej Pogačar wins the Tour de France.
- American professional wrestler Hulk Hogan dies at the age of 71.
August 1, 2025 (Friday)
July 31, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kyiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian forces launch drones and cruise missiles on Kyiv, Ukraine, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 145 others. At least one tower block completely collapses. (BBC News) (AP) (Interfax-Ukraine)
- Kyiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Myanmar civil war
- The military junta of Myanmar formally ends the country's four-year-long state of emergency and declares a December 2025 election for the country's new head of government and legislative members. (AP)
- Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign
- M23 rebels clash with various Mai-Mai groups in several villages in the Ufamandu group, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Radio Okapi)
- M23 campaign
Arts and culture
- Canonisation of John Henry Newman
- Pope Leo XIV declares Saint John Henry Newman, a 19th-century Anglican convert who became a prominent English Catholic theologian, as a Doctor of the Church. (AP) (Vatican News)
Disasters and environment
- The death toll from the flooding in Beijing, China, increases to over 70 as the government discovers 31 elderly people who were trapped in a nursing home in Miyun district. (AP)
Health and environment
- U.S. president Donald Trump signs an executive order restoring the Presidential Fitness Test in all public schools nationwide. (AP) (USA Today)
International relations
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration, Liberation Day tariffs
- South Korea–United States relations
- South Korea and the United States reach a trade agreement that places a 15% tariff on U.S. imports from South Korea. South Korea also promises to invest US$350 billion into American biotech, semiconductors, and shipbuilding over an unspecified time. (Yonhap) (CBS News)
- U.S. president Donald Trump announces revised tariff rates set to start on August 1, including a new 35% tariff on Canada. (Reuters)
- South Korea–United States relations
- Israel–Slovenia relations, Arms embargoes on Israel since 2023
- The Slovenian government announces a complete ban on the import, export, and transit of arms and military equipment to and from Israel. (Arab News)
Law and crime
- A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan, sentences opposition leader Omar Ayub and over 200 supporters of ousted prime minister Imran Khan to over ten years in prison each for their participation in the 2023 protests. (AP)
- Conor McGregor loses his appeal against a civil court in the Republic of Ireland, finding that he raped Nikita Hand. (RTÉ)
- Islamic terrorist Osama Krayem is found guilty at Stockholm District Court, Sweden, of involvement in a war crime in which Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh was burned alive inside a cage in Raqqa by the Islamic State on 3 January, 2015. (BBC News)
Science and technology
- Italy and Vatican City agree to transform a 430-hectare (1,100-acre) field in Rome to a solar farm that will power the Vatican, with the goal of turning it into the first carbon-neutral state. (AP) (Bluefield Daily Telegraph)
July 30, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Constitutional crisis in Somalia
- Jubaland crisis
- Federal troops capture Beled Hawo, Somalia, from forces loyal to Jubaland. (Garowe Online)
- Jubaland crisis
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
- At least 71 Palestinians are killed and dozens more are wounded while seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
- Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign
- M23 rebels expel Wazalendo militia Decisive Movement for the Liberation of Congo from Kamakombe, Kabare Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Radio Okapi)
- M23 campaign
- South Sudan–Uganda relations
- At least four South Sudanese soldiers are shot and killed by Ugandan forces, who retaliated after a Ugandan soldier was killed by South Sudanese forces on Monday during border clashes. Both countries have agreed to an immediate ceasefire. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake
- A Mw 8.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Tsunami alerts have been issued along the Pacific coast of many countries. (The New York Times)
- Five people are killed after a truck collides with a minivan on the A1 motorway in Slovenia. (Slovenian Press Agency)
International relations
- 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza, Canada–Palestine relations
- Canadian prime minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognise Palestine as an independent country in September, conditional on the Palestinian Authority committing to certain reforms. (CBC)
- Syria–Turkey relations, Qatar–Syria relations
- Turkey announces it will start supplying natural gas to Syria via the Arab Gas Pipeline to help Syria generate new electricity, while Qatar will also help with the project's financing. (AP)
- 2022 Brazilian coup plot
- The U.S. Treasury Department imposes sanctions under the Magnitsky Act on Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes over alleged human rights violations and suppression of freedom of expression in his oversight of former president Jair Bolsonaro. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Internet censorship in Australia
- The government of Australia announces the inclusion of video-sharing site YouTube in its social media ban for teenagers starting in December, following a survey on harmful content being reported on the site. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- Internet censorship in Russia
- Russian federal agency Rospotrebnadzor blocks web service Speedtest after identifying alleged threats to the security of the public communications network and a segment of the Internet in Russia. (The Moscow Times)
July 29, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian forces launch drone strikes and cruise missile strikes across Ukraine, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens of others, including 16 inmates killed in an airstrike on a prison in Zaporizhzhia. (BBC News)
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign
- Wazalendo militia Human Rights Defense Forces and M23 rebels clash on a hill near Kazinga, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). (Radio Okapi)
- M23 campaign
- Sudanese civil war
- Famine in Sudan
- According to the Sudan Doctors Network, 13 children have died from malnutrition in a displacement camp in the Darfur region of Sudan. (AP)
- Famine in Sudan
- Ituri conflict
- Zaïre-FPAC militants attack Sanduku 1, Djugu Territory, DRC, killing two civilians. (Radio Okapi)
- Red Sea crisis
- The Houthis launch a ballistic missile targeting Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, which was intercepted by Israeli forces. (The Times of Israel)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 18 people making the Kanwar Yatra pilgrimage are killed in a bus accident in Deoghar, Jharkand, India. (DW) (NDTV)
- The death toll from the flooding in Hebei and Beijing, China, increases to 34, with eight others missing. (NPR)
- Seven people are killed and three others are injured when a Venezuelan Air Force Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft carrying members of the Yanomami Indigenous community, medical personnel and crew crashes after a suspected technical failure in the Amazon Rainforest, Amazonas State, Venezuela. (The Times of India) (ASN)
- A dust explosion at a wood chip manufacturing plant in Fremont, Nebraska, United States, kills three people. (AP)
International relations
- 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza
- International recognition of Palestine
- Maltese prime minister Robert Abela announces that Malta will recognize the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly session in September, while Sammarinese foreign and political affairs secretary Luca Beccari announces that San Marino will recognize the State of Palestine by the end of 2025. (TVM) (GiornaleSM)
- United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer declares that the UK will formally recognize the State of Palestine should a ceasefire not be achieved by September. (The Telegraph)
- Attendees of the conference issue a declaration committing to 15-month transition plan for a demilitarized, fully sovereign Palestinian state governed by the Palestinian Authority with the assistance of a United Nations peacekeeping force. The declaration additionally calls on Hamas to disarm and give up its rule over Gaza. (AP) (Al Arabiya)
- International recognition of Palestine
- Israel–Netherlands relations
- The Netherlands bans far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich from the country and calls on the European Union to support a ceasefire in Gaza. (AP)
Law and crime
- Lebanon convicts and sentences six people who are accused of killing a United Nations peacekeeper in Beirut in 2023. (AP)
- The Internal Security Agency of Poland detains 32 people, including a Pole, a Colombian, Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, who are suspected of coordinating with Russia to engage in sabotage. (AP)
Politics and elections
- Four people are killed and over 500 others are arrested in protests in Luanda, Angola, against the government's increase in fuel prices. (DW)
July 28, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign
- Congolese government–aligned Wazalendo militias, including Resisting Congolese Patriots and the Alliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo, clash with M23 rebels in Shoa and Shamarambo villages, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The villages are captured by the M23. (Radio Okapi) (Radio Okapi)
- Wazalendo militia Collective of Movements for Change clashes with M23 rebels in the villages of Mashango and Mudugudu, Rutshuru Territory. (Radio Okapi)
- M23 campaign
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli attacks kill more than 80 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Red Sea crisis
- Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
- The Houthis release a video showing ten crewmembers of the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C, which the group attacked and sunk earlier this month, in captivity. (Reuters)
- Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- U.S. president Donald Trump issues a new 12-day ultimatum to Russia to end the war in Ukraine. (BBC News)
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Constitutional crisis in Somalia
- Jubaland crisis
- Clashes occur in Dolow, Somalia, between Jubaland forces and the Somali National Army. (Garowe Online)
- Jubaland crisis
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- The Indian military announces they have killed three militants in the Dachigam area of Jammu and Kashmir. (AP)
- The Pakistani Counter Terrorism Department kills three suspected militants accused of orchestrating an attack in Karachi last year. (AP)
Arts and culture
- The Polisario Front formally condemns the recent filming of Christopher Nolan's upcoming film The Odyssey in Moroccan-occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara. (Forbes)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 30 people are killed and several others are missing due to heavy rain and flooding in Hebei and Beijing, China. (AP)
- Three people are killed and hundreds of others are evacuated during floods across nine counties in northeastern Romania. (AP) (Reuters)
International relations
- 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza
- A peace conference opens in New York City, United States, aimed at reviving the two-state solution and renewing diplomatic efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2025 New York City shooting
- Five people are killed, including an NYPD officer and the perpetrator, and five others are injured, including four with non-gunshot injuries, in a mass shooting at the 345 Park Avenue skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City, United States. (CNN) (BNO News)
- Grand Sierra Resort shooting
- Three people are killed and eight others are injured, including the perpetrator and an officer that sustained non-gunshot injuries, in a mass shooting at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, United States. (Reno Gazette-Journal) (KRNV-DT)
- Or Tor Kor Market shooting
- Six people are killed, including the perpetrator, and two others are injured in a mass shooting at Or Tor Kor Market in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters) (Thairath)
- Two people are killed and two others are injured, including the perpetrator, in a mass stabbing on business premises on Long Lane in Southwark, London, United Kingdom. (Sky News)
- A court in Bogotá, Colombia, convicts former president Álvaro Uribe of witness tampering and bribery. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2025 State of the Nation Address
- Philippine president Bongbong Marcos orders a nationwide audit of flood control projects across the country, alongside a crackdown on corruption on these projects, in response to widespread damage caused by recent flooding resulting from Tropical Storm Wipha and the monsoon season. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
July 27, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
- At least 73 Palestinians are killed while seeking humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip. (Sky News)
- Gaza Strip famine
- The Israeli Air Force begins humanitarian aid drops over the Gaza Strip amid growing international pressure to allow food into the Palestinian enclave. (BBC News)
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
- Somali Civil War
- 2025 Shabelle offensive
- Al-Shabaab seizes control of the central Somalia town of Mahaas in the Hiiraan region following a ground offensive. The attack began with multiple suicide bombings just outside the town, followed by heavy gunfire, prompting the army and local Ma'awisley militias to withdraw. (The Somali Digest) (AP)
- 2025 Shabelle offensive
- 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
- Cambodia and Thailand agree to negotiate a ceasefire following mediation efforts by United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio the previous day. However, both sides accuse the other of violating the ceasefire. (AP)
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
- Allied Democratic Forces militants attack the city of Komanda, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 43 people, including 20 during a vigil in a Catholic church. (Radio Okapi)
- New People's Army rebellion
- Seven New People's Army guerrillas are killed in a military operation in Uson, Masbate, Philippines, as Philippine troops pursue remaining insurgents. (AP)
- Ecuadorian Drug War
- Seventeen people are killed and 14 others are injured after gunmen open fire on a bar in El Empalme, Ecuador. The shooting is believed to be linked to a conflict between local drug cartels for control of drug trafficking routes. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Baden-Württemberg train derailment
- At least three people are killed, including a railway employee and the driver, and around 50 others are injured, including 25 seriously, when a Deutsche Bahn Regional-Express train carrying 100 people derails in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (ARD)
- Twenty-five people are killed, 26 others are rescued, and 49 are reported missing when a large wooden boat capsizes in Niger State, Nigeria. (CJNI-FM) (Reuters)
- At least six people are killed and 27 others are injured in a stampede when a high-voltage electric wire falls on a path at the Mansa Devi Temple in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. (AP) (The Independent via Yahoo! News Canada)
International relations
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- United States–European Union relations
- U.S. president Donald Trump and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announce a trade deal that would set a reciprocal 15% tariff on all exports and promise to boost European Union investment into the U.S. by $600 billion. The EU also promises to purchase $750 billion in American energy products over an unspecified period of time. (BBC News)
- United States–European Union relations
- North Korea–Russia relations
- Russian airline Nordwind launches the first commercial flight from Moscow to Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in Iran
- Iran executes two members of the exiled terrorist group Mojahedin-e-Khalq on charges of carrying out attacks on residential, education, and government buildings. (AP)
- Three people are killed and ten others are injured in a mass shooting in Turks and Caicos, whose authorities are deeming it the first mass shooting in recent history, due to an increase in violence spilled over from the gang war in Haiti. (AP) (CBS News)
Sports
- UEFA Women's Euro 2025
- In association football, England defeats Spain 3–1 on penalties in the UEFA Women's Euro final to win their second major football championship and successfully defending their title. Spain's Aitana Bonmatí is named the tournament's best player. (Reuters)
July 26, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
- 2025 Cambodia–Thailand clashes
- Cambodia's ambassador to the United Nations, Chhea Keo, calls for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire with Thailand. (BBC News)
- Twelve more deaths are reported in Cambodia while a Thai soldier is shot dead on the border as both countries exchange artillery fire. (AP)
- Around 38,000 civilians in Cambodia and almost 140,000 in Thailand flee their homes as fighting intensifies. (Al Jazeera)
- Cambodia closes its airspace over the regions in the country where the conflict is being fought. (Phnom Penh Post)
- Royal Cambodian Army major general Duong Somneang is killed in an artillery strike on the frontline. (Nation Thailand)
- The Royal Thai Navy engages Cambodian forces in the Gulf of Thailand after they launched attacks on Trat province, Thailand. (Thai PBS World)
- 2025 Cambodia–Thailand clashes
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Dnipro strikes
- Russian forces launch an overnight drone and cruise missile attack on Dnipro, Ukraine, killing at least three people and damaging multiple residential buildings. (Reuters)
- Dnipro strikes
- Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
- At least nine people are killed, including three attackers and a child, and 22 others are injured, including several critically, in a terrorist mass shooting and grenade attack at a courthouse in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Sunni jihadist separatist militant group Jaysh al-Adl claims responsibility for the attack. (Kurdistan 24) (RFERL) (DW)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
- The United Nations World Food Programme says 90,000 children and women are in need of urgent treatment in Gaza. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 18 people are killed and 48 others are injured when a bus overturns on a highway in the Andes mountains in Junín Department, Peru. (CP24)
Law and crime
- 2025 Traverse City stabbing attack
- At least eleven people are injured, several critically, in a mass stabbing attack at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan, United States. A suspect is in custody. (BNO News) (WPBN-TV)
Sports
- 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations
- In association football, the Nigerian women's team wins a record-extending 12th Africa Cup of Nations title after defeating the host nation Morocco 3–2 in the final. Nigerian forward Rasheedat Ajibade is named the tournament's best player. (The Guardian)
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