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Tadej Pogačar
- An 8.8-magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean.
- In cycling, Tadej Pogačar (pictured) wins the Tour de France.
- In association football, the UEFA Women's Euro concludes with England defeating Spain in the final.
- American professional wrestler Hulk Hogan dies at the age of 71.
August 2, 2025 (Saturday)
August 1, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia–United States relations
- U.S. president Donald Trump orders the deployment of two United States Navy nuclear submarines near Russia for potential military action against Russian forces, in response to statements made by Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and current deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, regarding Trump's previously-stated deadline for ending the war in Ukraine. (Reuters) (BBC)
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia–United States relations
Business and economy
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- U.S. tariffs on more than 90 countries enter force following a 90-day pause to allow the countries to prepare, including a 35% tariff on some Canadian goods and a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods. (BBC News)
- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the American organization responsible for funding the television network PBS and radio network NPR, announces it will shutter by January 2026. (CNN)
International relations
- France–Palestine relations
- France temporarily suspends its programme for receiving Palestinian refugees fleeing the Gaza Strip, following the deportation of a Palestinian student accused of making antisemitic social media posts. (Le Monde)
Law and crime
- 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
- The Seoul Central District Court issues an arrest warrant to former interior minister Lee Sang-min for charges allegedly conspiring with former President Yoon Suk Yeol in his failed martial law attempt on December 3, 2024, becoming the second Yoon cabinet minister to be arrested after Kim Yong-hyun. (Yonhap)
- Mass shootings in the United States
- At least four people are killed in a mass shooting at a bar in Anaconda, Montana, United States. A 45-year-old suspect fled the scene and remains at large. (AP) (NBC News)
- One teenager is killed and five other people are wounded, including two seriously, in a mass shooting at a nightclub in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. (ABC News)
- Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto pardons former trade minister Thomas Lembong and secretary general of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle Hasto Kristiyanto, two prominent opposition figures sentenced under controversial corruption charges. (Jakarta Globe)
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 31 people and injuring more than 150 others. At least one tower block completely collapses. (Reuters) (BBC News) (AP)
- Kyiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 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
- 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)
- New People's Army rebellion
- Eight alleged members of the New People's Army are killed in clashes with the Philippine Army in Las Navas, Northern Samar, Philippines. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
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)
- Six people are killed and nine others are injured after a Mw 4.2 earthquake causes a collapse at the El Teniente copper mine near Machalí, O'Higgins Region, Chile. (Tiempo Sur)
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 State 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, Syria by the Islamic State on January 3, 2015. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador abolishes presidential term limits, increased presidential terms from 5 to 6 years, and moves the date of the next presidential election from 2029 to 2027. (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
- Five South Sudanese soldiers, one Ugandan soldier, and one civilian are killed in a shooting at two villages in Yumbe District, Uganda, in a retaliatory strike against the South Sudan People's Defence Forces after the killing of a Uganda People's Defence Force soldier during border clashes on Monday. Both countries have agreed to an immediate ceasefire. (AP) (Daily Monitor)
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)
- At least nine people are killed and two others are critically injured in an explosion at a fireworks workshop in Ban Pho Tha Sai, Suphan Buri province, Thailand. (AP) (Bangkok Post)
- Five people, including four Ukrainian nationals, are killed after a truck collides with a minivan on the A1 motorway near Slovenske Konjice, Slovenia. (Slovenian Press Agency) (Sloboden Pečat)
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)
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