Indonesian rescuers search for 26 people missing after a boat capsizes on last Thursday in the Makassar Strait with 43 on board. News of the sinking reached authorities today.

Fifteen people are killed and three are missing after heavyrain brings flooding in southern China.

Russian forces say that they have captured the city of Lyman.

The Iranian IRGC Navy boards and seizes two Greek ships after the Supreme National Security Council condemned the US seizure of a Russo-Iranian ship.

The Mexican energy regulatory commission fines Spanish electric utility Iberdrola for US$467 million for violating local regulations that prohibit selling electricity to third parties.

A vehicle carrying 26 soldiers crashes in the Shyok River in Ladakh, India, killing seven soldiers.

An icefall kills two mountain climbers and injures nine others in the Alps of Valais, Switzerland.

Finland and Argentina confirm their first cases of monkeypox.

Bolivia and Ecuador report suspected cases of monkeypox.

North Dakota reports 960 cases of COVID-19 and confirms their first case of the Omicron BA.4 variant.

Canada reports 10 new cases of monkeypox, thereby bringing the total number of cases in the country to 26.

Russia expels five Croatian diplomats.

Fiji announces that it will become the 14th member of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity in order to counter Chinese influence in the Pacific. This comes amid a visit by Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi to Kiribati.

The Federal High Court in Yenagoa rules that former President Goodluck Jonathan is allowed to run in the next presidential election, stating that a 2018 amendment prohibiting vice presidents from serving more than one full-term upon succession did not apply to Jonathan.