Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says an overnight Russian missile attack has killed at least nine people and injured 24 others, while damaging buildings and causing fires across several districts of the Ukrainian capital.
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August 1, 2026 (Saturday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Ukrainian forces sink a Rosatom-owned container ship in the Black Sea, forcing its 17-member crew to abandon it. Rosatom says it had been transporting civilian goods, including frozen food and construction materials.
The Bermuda-flagged LNG tanker Gaslog Shanghai, which was carrying LNG oil from Qatar, is reported to have been among the two vessels hit yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz.
The Kuwaiti defense ministry reports that its military has detected and intercepted Iranian drones entering the country's airspace.
United States embassies in the Middle East warn Americans to depart the region amidst fears of a potential escalation in the war.
A truck bomb explodes beside a police station in Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia, injuring eight police officers and three civilians.
Three Palestinians are reportedly killed in Gaza City, bringing the total casualties to 7 in the past 24 hours.
The Houthis in Yemen denies reports of imposing tolls on vessels passing through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait.
The Israeli military says it has killed several Hezbollah fighters in an Israeli-held area of southern Lebanon, despite a ceasefire framework between Israel and Lebanon.
The Washington Post reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blocked a request by former U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham to transfer an Iron Dome system from the U.S. to Ukraine.
Arts and culture
The Arba'in Shia Islam pilgrimage in Iraq is held amidst the Iran war, with Iranian pilgrims attending the event.
Disasters and accidents
All ten climbers, including Nirmal Purja, are confirmed deceased after an avalanche at Broad Peak in Pakistan on July 30.
At least three people are killed and 15 others are injured in an explosion at a coffeehouse in Moscow, Russia.
International relations
Sports
UEFA gives FIFA president Gianni Infantino an ultimatum to resign or face an emergency no-confidence vote following Infantino's plan to sell stakes in FIFA Forward Enterprise, which he has rescinded amidst backlash.
July 31, 2026 (Friday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Hamas says that they will disarm if Israel withdraws from and ends its military campaign in the Gaza Strip and if Israel and the U.S. honors the ceasefire agreement signed in October 2025.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says that it struck two tankers trying to pass the Strait of Hormuz with aerial protection from the United States, and forced four others to turn around.
Human Rights Watch reports that a Sukhoi Su-24 airstrike by the Russian paramilitary group Africa Corps in Mali's Mopti region killed eight civilians in June.
The IDF says that killed two Hamas operatives accused of smuggling weapons into the Gaza Strip in separate strikes.
At least 11 Palestinians, including four children, are injured during a raid by Israeli settlers and soldiers in Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Israeli soldiers also detain at least ten people from Bethlehem, Nablus, Salim, and Tell.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirms that they have killed a Mujahideen Brigades militant who was involved in the abduction of Avinatan Or and his girlfriend Noa Argamani during the Nova music festival massacre, and directing the abduction of Sudthisak Rinthalak during the October 7 attacks.
Two warehouses in Volgograd and Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, are attacked and set on fire, causing damage estimated at US$1.5 billion, in the latest of a series of Ukrainian drone strikes targeting the Russian online retailer Wildberries.
A migrant worker is fatally shot and another is injured by insurgents in Kulgam district, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
The Sudan News Agency reports that the Group 26 unit of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group has surrendered its personnel and military equipment to the Sudanese Armed Forces.
Recent evidence by The New York Times show that a U.S. strike yesterday on Qeshm Island has hit a family home, killing three people.
Business and economy
South Korea's KOSPI index rises by 18%, its largest single-day gain in history, amid a surge of investment in AI.
Disasters and accidents
Two bodies and a body part are recovered after an avalanche on the Broad Peak in Pakistan buried ten climbers yesterday, including Nirmal Purja, who remains missing.
Twelve people, including five children, are killed and 66 others are injured after a bus overturns on the N1 highway near Trompsburg, Free State, South Africa.
International relations
Videos on social media appear to show the Spanish Army deploying military vehicles towards the border with Morocco.
French interior minister Laurent Nuñez announces that he has ordered increased controls at the border with Spain amid fears the thousands of migrants entering Ceuta could make their way to France.
Spanish authorities close the Melilla border crossing with Morocco after around 400 migrants stormed the border barrier. RTVE reports the sound of gunfire and explosions.
Ceutan mayor-president Juan Jesús Vivas says that around 60,000 undocumented migrants have entered the Spanish exclave in North Africa in the last 24 hours, as the death toll rises to 57.
Austrian chancellor Christian Stocker and Finnish interior minister Mari Rantanen join Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni in calling for Spain to be suspended from the Schengen Area in response to the mass arrival of migrants in Ceuta over the last 24 hours.
Italy suspends Schengen border-free travel with Spain, introducing checks on air and sea passengers and strengthening controls with France along the France–Italy border.
Spain's interior ministry says authorities have returned about 48,300 of roughly 50,000 migrants who entered Ceuta from Morocco.
Law and crime
A Sri Lankan court sentences former police chief Pujith Jayasundara to death for negligence in failing to prevent the 2019 Easter bombings, which killed 279 people. Sri Lanka has not carried out an execution since 1976.
Indonesian authorities announces it arrested a Malaysia Airlines pilot for allegedly smuggling over 26 kg (57 lb) of ecstasy and a package of methamphetamine into Jakarta International Airport.
Politics and elections
Sports
Carlos Cordeiro, senior FIFA executive and adviser to FIFA president Gianni Infantino, resigns in protest of Infantino's plans to sell stakes in FIFA Forward Enterprise to private investors, including American banking institution JPMorgan Chase, calling them "a bad deal for FIFA's members, a bad deal for football, and a bad deal for the long-term future of the game".
The Asian Football Confederation joins UEFA in opposing Infantino's plans and vows to boycott the next tournament if they go ahead.
Infantino reverses his plan to sell stakes in the FIFA World Cup amidst backlash.
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