Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israel orders mandatory evacuations across the Gaza Strip, including sections of the heavily populated Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone. (AP)
• Somali civil war
  • At least 35 Somali soldiers and over 80 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed after Al-Shabaab attempted to overrun three army bases near Kismayo, Jubaland, Somalia. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • A court in the United Arab Emirates sentences 57 Bangladeshis to prison, including three life sentences, for holding protests against the Bangladesh government in the UAE, where protesting is illegal. (BBC News)
• 2024 Daruvar shooting
  • Six people are killed and five others are injured during a mass shooting at a nursing home in Daruvar, Croatia. The perpetrator is arrested. (Reuters)
• Chinese gambling workers in the Philippines
  • Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announces a ban on Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators in his recent State of the Nation Address. (Inquirer)
• A court in Russia sentences Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva to six and a half years in prison in a secret trial. (DW)
• A Canadian citizen is shot and killed by Israeli police after he allegedly tried to stab Israeli soldiers and security personnel at the entrance of Netiv HaAsara, near the border with the Gaza Strip. (Anadolu Agency)

Sports

• 2024 Summer Olympics
  • French president Emmanuel Macron opens the 142nd IOC Session in Paris, France. (Francs Jeux)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea crisis
  • 2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen
    • The death toll from yesterday's Israeli airstrikes on Al Hudaydah, Yemen, increases to six. (Al Jazeera)
  • The Houthis target Eilat, Israel, with multiple ballistic missiles, in response to yesterday's airstrikes in Yemen. (Sky News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian forces capture the villages of Andriivka in Luhansk Oblast and Pishchane in Kharkiv Oblast. (Anatolia Agency) (RTL)
• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • The Supreme Court of Bangladesh reduces the government job quota reserved for families of veterans who fought in the Bangladesh Liberation War from 30% to 5%, leaving 93% of jobs to be allocated on merit and 2% set aside for ethnic minorities, transgender, and disabled people. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Canadian wildfires
  • Wildfires continue to spread in northern Alberta, Canada, prompting emergency evacuations in John D'Or Prairie 215, Fox Lake and Garden River. At least 55 of the 158 active wildfires are reported as "out of control". (Reuters)
• Six people, including two children, are killed in a multiple-vehicle collision in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. (Sky News)

International relations

• China–Philippines relations, Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • The Philippines announces an agreement with China on resupply missions to the beached naval ship Sierra Madre on Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea following an incident in June. (The Guardian)
• Iran–Sudan relations
  • Iran and Sudan receive each other's ambassadors for the first time in eight years, after resuming diplomatic relations in October 2023. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Conscription of yeshiva students
  • Israel begins issuing call-up notices for military conscription to Haredi Jews amid mass protests in Jerusalem. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election
    • Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign
      • Incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden announces that he will not seek a second term in office and ends his presidential campaign, while endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. (NBC News)
      • Several prominent Democrats endorse Kamala Harris for president. (New York Times)
• 2024 anti-tourism protests in Spain
  • Thousands of people protest in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, against overtourism in the country. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024 Formula One World Championship
  • 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix
    • In auto racing, McLaren driver Oscar Piastri wins his first Formula One race at the Hungarian Grand Prix, becoming the first driver born in the 2000s to win a Formula One race. (AP)
• 2024 Tour de France
  • Tadej Pogačar wins the Tour de France for the third time in his career. (TSN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 39 Palestinians are killed and 54 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters) (Anadolu Ajansi)
• Red Sea crisis
  • 2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen
    • In response to the prior day's Houthi drone attack on Tel Aviv, Israeli airstrikes hit oil refineries and power stations in the Yemeni port of Al Hudaydah, killing six people and injuring over eighty others. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Five people, including a child, are killed in Russian missile strikes on Mykolaiv and Kherson, Ukraine. (Euronews) (The Moscow Times)
• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • The death toll from the ongoing protests in Bangladesh increases to 110 people. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 China floods
  • At least 12 people are killed and 31 others are missing when a bridge collapses due to flash flooding in Zhashui County, Shaanxi, China. (CNN)
• At least 16 people are killed and 14 others are injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a passenger bus on a highway between Patacamaya, Bolivia, and Tambo Quemado, Chile. (RTÉ)

Politics and elections

• The government of Equatorial Guinea suspends internet and telephone services on the separatist island of Annobón, with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization condemning the suspension. (Agencia NOVA)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Ukrainian forces retreat from Urozhaine in Donetsk Oblast. (The Independent)
    • The Russian Ministry of Defence announces that its troops captured the village of Yuryivka in Donetsk Oblast. (Al Arabiya)
• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • Police in Dhaka, Bangladesh, ban all public rallies and protests in the city and impose a nationwide curfew, one day after protestors set fire to government buildings in the city. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
  • The government of Bangladesh cut off internet, mobile phone, and TV broadcast services in the country, instituting a media blackout. (France 24)
• Red Sea crisis
  • At least one person is killed and ten others are injured when a kamikaze drone strikes central Tel Aviv, Israel, near the United States embassy. The Houthis claim responsibility for the attack, and also issue an announcement that that they will be providing details on a planned military operation on Tel Aviv soon. (The Times of Israel) (Axios)

Business and economy

• Jadar mining project
  • The European Union and Serbia sign a deal to develop a lithium mining project and production chains for batteries for electric vehicles. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• Haitian crisis
  • At least 40 Haitians are killed and several others are injured when a boat travelling to the Turks and Caicos Islands catches fire. (Al Arabiya)
• Thirty-six people are rescued after fires break out onboard the São Tomé and Príncipe-flagged tanker Ceres I and Singapore-flagged tanker Hafnia Nile following a collision near Pedra Branca, Singapore. The remaining 26 Ceres I crew members remain onboard to conduct fire-fighting operations. (The Straits Times) (CNA)

International relations

• Israeli allegations against UNRWA
  • The United Kingdom announces the resumption of funding to the United Nations agency UNRWA. (Al Jazeera)
• Palestine–European Union relations
  • The European Commission announces loans and grants totalling €400 million (US$435.5 million) to the Palestinian Authority to prevent the government's financial collapse. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Belarus
  • The Minsk Regional Court in Belarus, in a secretive trial, sentences a German national Rico Krieger to death over alleged crimes including terrorism and mercenary activity. (DW)
• Gaza humanitarian crisis, Societal breakdown in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war
  • The United Nations reports that " anarchy" and societal breakdown is expanding across the Gaza Strip due to Israeli military destabilization, citing an increase in looting and extrajudicial killings of police and humanitarian workers. (Reuters)
• ICJ case on Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, Israel and apartheid
  • The International Court of Justice rules that Israel's land annexation and settlement construction in East Jerusalem and the West Bank is unlawful, and demands an end to these practices "as soon as possible". The Court also rules that Israel's occupation in the West Bank amounts to apartheid. (AP) (Middle East Eye)
• A court in Yekaterinburg, Russia, convicts American journalist Evan Gershkovich of spying and sentences him to 16 years in prison. (CNN)
• Communist Party general secretary and paramount leader of Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng dies at the age of 80, and is succeeded on an acting basis by President Tô Lâm. (BBC News)
• Pakistani counter-terrorism authorities arrest Amin al-Haq, a high-ranking member of Al-Qaeda and a close confidant of Osama bin Laden. (Times of India)
• A Tunisian court sentences opposition party leader Lotfi Mraïhi [ fr], a potential presidential candidate, to eight months in prison on a charge of vote buying, and also bans Mraïhi from running in presidential elections. (Reuters)
• Ukrainian linguist, nationalist politician, and former People's Deputy Iryna Farion is shot and killed in Lviv, Ukraine by an unknown assailant. (Reuters)
• WazirX [ hi], an Indian cryptocurrency exchange owned by Binance, announces a security breach in which $234 million USD in cryptocurrency was stolen, amounting to half of the platform's total assets. (Business Standard)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Tunisian presidential election
  • Incumbent Tunisian president Kais Saied announces his candidacy for a second term. (Le Monde)

Science and technology

• 2024 CrowdStrike incident
  • Numerous organizations worldwide experience service disruptions due to a faulty CrowdStrike update resulting in blue screens of death on Microsoft Windows computers. (The Verge)
  • American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines order a temporary global ground stop of many of their flights in response to the widespread computer outages. (ABC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Dnieper campaign
      • Ukrainian forces withdraw from the village of Krynky in Kherson Oblast. (Bloomberg)
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Five people are killed and three others are injured in Russian attacks on villages in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
      • Both the Gaza Health Ministry and the Israeli Health Ministry report traces of type 2 polio in Gaza's sewage system, caused by "severe overcrowding" and Israel's blockade of hygiene products from entering the enclave. (France 24)
    • At least five Palestinians are killed and fifteen others are injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Nuseirat and al-Bureij refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera) (Anadolu Ajansi)
• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • The death toll from the protests in Bangladesh increases to 32, with the government shutting down internet access across the entire country, and protesters setting fire to the headquarters of the main state broadcaster in Dhaka. (France 24)
• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Two Indian soldiers are killed and four others are injured in an IED attack by Maoists in Chhattisgarh, India. (The Hindustan Times) ('India Blooms')

Arts and culture

• Stegosaurus skeleton Apex is auctioned for $44.6 million (£34 million) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City, United States, the most ever paid for a fossil. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• 2024 Nigerian general strike
  • The Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress, and the Nigerian government agree on a new minimum wage of ₦70,000 ( US$43) per month, ending prolonged negotiations amid high inflation and a weakening currency. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Egypt's Suez Canal reports a 23.4% drop in revenues attributed to disruptions in Red Sea shipping over the past year, marked by attacks from Yemen's Houthi militia on Israeli-linked vessels. (Al Arabiya)
• The Saudia Airlines group signs a binding sales agreement with Lilium GmbH to purchase 50 electric Lilium Jets, with the option to purchase 50 more. (Flight Global)

International relations

• Sudan–United States relations, Sudanese civil war
  • The United States announces it will give an additional $203 million to help civilians affected by the war in Sudan. (Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in South Korea
  • The Supreme Court of South Korea rules that same-sex couples are eligible to receive the same health insurance benefits as heterosexual couples. (AP)
• Seven people from the same family, including three young children and a teenager, are killed, another is injured and thirty suffer smoke inhalation in an arson attack in Nice, France. (BBC News)
• The Southwark Crown Court sentences five Just Stop Oil activists, including co-founder Roger Hallam, to prison terms ranging from four to five years for organizing protests that blocked the M25 motorway in London, England, United Kingdom, in 2022. (CNN)
• Five people, a mother and four children, are killed in a mass shooting near West Blocton, Alabama, United States. (AP)
• A riot erupts in the suburb of Harehills, Leeds, United Kingdom. BBC News

Politics and elections

• Ursula von der Leyen is re-elected as president of the European Commission. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 42 Palestinians are killed and more than 70 others are injured in Israeli strikes on a United Nations-run school in the Nuseirat refugee camp and on a designated "safe zone" in al-Mawasi, Rafah. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • Police fire tear gas and rubber bullets at students and professors occupying Dhaka University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to protest against the ruling Awami League party and its government job quotas. (Al Jazeera) (CBC News)

Arts and culture

• Archaeologists unearth remains of a medieval papal palace in the square outside the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, Italy. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• The European Union General Court dismisses ByteDance's lawsuit against the European Commission's designation of the company as a " gatekeeper" under the Digital Markets Act, citing ByteDance's significant global market value. (Bernama)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Effects of Hurricane Beryl in Texas
    • The confirmed death toll from Hurricane Beryl in Texas, United States, increases to 22, with several deaths in the Greater Houston area caused by heat illness due to prolonged power outages amid an ongoing heat wave. (NPR) (KRIV-TV)
• At least 16 people are killed in a fire at a shopping mall in Zigong, Sichuan, China. (AP)
• Comoros-flagged oil tanker Prestige Falcon capsizes off the coast of Oman. The Indian Navy rescues nine crew members, with seven others missing. (AP)
• At least six people are killed by storms in Brest, Gomel, and Mogilev Regions, Belarus. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2024 European heatwaves
  • Italian authorities place thirteen cities throughout the Italian Peninsula under rare severe heat warnings due to predicted heat indexes reaching as high as 44°C (111.2°F) throughout the week. (AP) (Sky News)

International relations

• Germany–Ukraine relations, Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Germany issues plans to halve its military aid to Ukraine in 2025. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Eugenics in Japan
  • Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida formally apologizes to 130 victims of forced sterilization under the Eugenics Protection Law which was declared unconstitutional on July 3, and approves compensation measures for more than 25,000 affected victims and their relatives. (NHK)
• Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces measures to reduce the spread of fake news and harmful content in all forms of media, which the People's Party claims is an act to censor and control critical media. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Joe Biden 2024 presidential campaign
    • U.S. President Joe Biden temporarily suspends his re-election campaign to recover at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, after being diagnosed with COVID-19. (CNN)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israel's Knesset passes a resolution 68–9 stating that it opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state. (Haaretz)

Science and technology

• NASA cancels its lunar water-seeking rover mission with the VIPER rover, citing cost overruns and launch delays, after spending $450 million on the project. (AP) (NASA)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 57 Palestinians are killed by Israeli bombardments in Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Rafah. (Reuters)
• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • Six people are killed during clashes in Bangladesh as opposition demonstrators protesting government job quotas, which benefit pro-government families, clashes with police and pro-government supporters. (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Muscat mosque shooting
  • The Islamic State claims responsibility for the prior day's mass shooting at a Shi'ite mosque in Muscat, Oman. This is the first attack carried out by the Islamic State in the country. (BBC)
• Hezbollah–Israel conflict
  • Three Syrian children are killed by an Israeli airstrike on the village of Umm al-Tut in southern Lebanon, while two others are killed during a strike on the Kfar Tebnit- Khardali road. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 25 people are killed and 17 others are injured when a bus veers off a cliff and crashes in Ayacucho Region, Peru. (Reuters)
• Heavy rainfall across the Midwestern United States causes a dam failure in Washington County, Illinois, prompting an immediate evacuation order in the nearby city of Nashville. (USA Today)
• A malfunction causes an emergency shutdown of one of the four reactors at the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant in Rostov Oblast, Russia. Background radiation levels are reported as normal. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2024 European heatwaves
  • Ukrainian state electrical grid operator Ukrenergo begins emergency power shutdowns in seven eastern and central oblasts amid a record heat wave and equipment failures worsened by ongoing Russian attacks. (Reuters)
• Romania approves the culling of 481 bears in the country, after a 19-year-old woman was killed by a bear last week in the Carpathian Mountains. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Czech Republic–Ukraine relations
  • The Czech Republic announces plans to facilitate Colt CZ Group assault rifle production and the construction of an ammunition factory in Ukraine. (RFE/RL)
• Estonia–Russia relations, Latvia–Russia relations, Lithuania–Russia relations
  • The Baltic states announce their exit from Russia's and Belarus's electricity grid along with plans to synchronize their grid with the continental Europe grid on February 9, 2025. (AP)

Law and crime

• Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
    • An investigation by the Associated Press and Israeli investigative organization Shomrim finds that the United States and Israel allowed tax-deductible donations totaling over US$200,000 to multiple Israeli far-right extremist groups involved in blocking and disrupting humanitarian aid delivery to the Gaza Strip. (AP)
• Kosovo War
  • War crimes in the Kosovo War
    • The Kosovo Specialist Chambers criminal tribunal sentences former Liberation Army member Pjetër Shala to 18 years in prison for war crimes committed during the war. (Al Jazeera) (Koha Ditore)
• Six Vietnamese and American people are found dead at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, in a suspected cyanide poisoning incident. (AP)
• American senator Bob Menendez is found guilty on all counts, including acting as a foreign agent, in a federal corruption trial. (ABC News)
• Former governor of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, and director of the Adra Prison Samir Ousman al-Sheikh is arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles, California, United States. Al-Sheikh has been accused of torturing and killing political dissidents while serving as prison director and governor. (The New York Times)
• German authorities in four states search the properties of management and shareholders of the right-wing extremist magazine Compact, seizing assets and evidence after the magazine was banned by the interior ministry. (Reuters)
• Police in Paraguay seize more than four tons of cocaine, worth $240 million, at a river port in Asunción, the largest cocaine seizure in the country's history. (AP)
• Chinese businessman Guo Wengui is found guilty by a U.S. jury on multiple fraud charges, accused of running a racketeering enterprise from 2018 to 2023 that defrauded thousands of investors out of over $1 billion. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2024 French legislative election
  • French President Emmanuel Macron approves the resignation request of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who will continue to serve as head of the transitional caretaker government. (AP)
• 2024 Welsh government crisis
  • Six weeks after losing a vote of no confidence in the Senedd, Vaughan Gething resigns as First Minister of Wales. (The Guardian)
• Kenya Finance Bill protests
  • Police fire tear gas and water cannons at anti-government protestors as demonstrations continue in cities across Kenya, calling for the removal of President William Ruto. (Al Jazeera)
• Roberta Metsola is re-elected as President of the European Parliament with the highest number of votes ever registered for a candidate in the history of the European Parliament. (Times of Malta)