At least 18 people are wounded in two explosions near the minister of tourism's headquarters in Damascus, Syria, during the state visit of French president Emmanuel Macron to the country, the first of a Western leader since Ahmed al-Sharaa took power in December 2024.
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July 7, 2026 (Tuesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
The Sudanese Army says that it has shot down a Chinese-made FH-95 drone in North Kordofan, the third model shot down by the army.
Disasters and accidents
Two people are killed and seven others are missing after a massive landslide triggered by heavy rains hit a bridge in Wayanad District, Kerala, India.
International relations
At the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, U.S. President Donald Trump renews his calls for the United States to control Greenland, and says that the U.S. could remove troops from Europe over the dispute.
U.S. President Donald Trump says that the U.S. will lift sanctions against Turkey that were imposed in 2020 over its purchase of Russian defense missiles.
July 6, 2026 (Monday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
The United Nations Human Rights Council orders an inquiry into alleged human rights violations around El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan, warning that civilians face a risk of mass atrocities as the Rapid Support Forces encircles the city amid Sudan's civil war.
At least 22 people are killed and 56 others are injured in a Russian ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Search and rescue efforts are underway in Kyiv to free civilians trapped under rubble.
Hamas announces that its government will step down to facilitate the transition of a technocratic administration in the Gaza Strip, as stipulated in the Gaza peace plan of October 2025. In response, the Board of Peace states that it will judge the implementation of these steps rather than mere statements.
The Israeli military states that they have killed five Hamas militants who allegedly attempted to restore underground infrastructure in the northern Gaza Strip, west of the Yellow Line, including Hudhayfah Hussein Abdullah al-Hawajri, a Nukhba militant from the East Jabalia Battalion command, despite the ongoing ceasefire.
Ukraine's General Staff reports that drones have struck Russia's Omsk refinery in Omsk, Omsk Oblast in the Siberia region.
According to shipping data from LSEG, around 10 Japan-linked ships, mostly managed by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, are reported to have transited through the Strait of Hormuz using the route proposed by Iran. Data also show that a supertanker carrying Saudi crude oil headed for South Korea left over the weekend.
Business and economy
Microsoft cuts roughly 4,800 jobs, primarily within its Xbox and commercial sales divisions, while divesting game studios Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs.
Disasters and accidents
At least nine people are killed, including children, and several others are injured in landslides at Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar District, Bangladesh.
Cuba experiences its third nationwide power outage of the year, with state utility Unión Eléctrica de Cuba reporting a total grid disconnection as the country faces severe fuel shortages and chronic failures in its electricity system.
Fifteen miners are killed and another is injured when part of a decommissioned gold mine collapses in Wadi Halfa, Northern State, Sudan, after miners entered the closed site.
Health and environment
The total number of deaths from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo exceeds 500.
International relations
Australia and Fiji sign a defence pact, making Fiji one of Australia's treaty-bound allies and committing both countries to consult on security threats and support mutual defence in the Pacific.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari begins a four-day visit to Kyrgyzstan after an invitation from Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, making it the first official visit by a Pakistani president to the country in 21 years.
Law and crime
A crude bomb explodes during a post-march rally in Savar, Dhaka District, Bangladesh, while National Citizen Party convener Nabila Tasnid was giving a speech, injuring three.
News outlet Telex.hu publishes the text of arrested Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) politician Gergő Czeglédy's 2024 testimony alleging the existence of a large corruption network involving members of the MSZP and Fidesz since 2006.
Anastasiia Berezovska, the suspect in a bombing targeting Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Iermolaiev and his family in Monaco on June 29, is found dead near Kyiv, Ukraine, with gunshot wounds to the head.
Philippine police separately arrest senator Rodante Marcoleta and three co-accused, including former party-list representative Mike Defensor, after an anti-graft court orders their arrest in relation to a plunder case filed by the Ombudsman.
Politics and elections
Riots between inmates from rival drug gangs at a prison in Negombo, Sri Lanka, kill 25 people, including four officers, and injure more than 100 others.
Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends former supreme leader Ali Khamenei's funeral amidst questions surrounding his fate in the aftermath of an Israeli–U.S. airstrike on his home during the early stages of the war.
Iranian state television reports that Khamenei's body arrives in Qom, where he studied, ahead of a planned procession.
Science and technology
Samsung Electronics announces that Samsung Messages is being discontinued in the US on July 6 and directs users who have Android 12 or above to switch to Google Messages.
Sports
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