Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
A fire on a bus travelling from Lâm Đồng province to Ho Chi Minh City kills 7 passengers and injures 5 others in southern Vietnam. (Reuters)
Monday, July 20th, 2026
Brent Crude oil surpasses US$90 per barrel as oil prices increase amidst the ongoing escalation, while West Texas Intermediate reaches $84.49. (CNBC)
Houthi-controlled Yemen declares a maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia effective immediately, after accusing it of an “aggressive siege” against Yemen for nearly 12 years. (Reuters)
Spain win their second FIFA World Cup title after defeating the defending champions Argentina 1–0 after extra time in the final held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. Spain’s captain Rodri is awarded the Golden Ball. (France 24)
A federal court in New York, U.S., sentences Sinaloa Cartel co-founder El Mayo to life imprisonment and orders $15 billion in forfeiture after he pled guilty to charges related to leading the cartel. (AFP via Le Monde)
The United States Central Command says that the U.S. military has redirected seven commercial vehicles and disabled one since the blockade on Iranian ports was reinstated on July 14. (Middle East Eye)
Greek shipping company Dynacom Tankers reports that two oil tankers, the Malta-flagged Panamax-sized tanker Kavomaleas and Liberian-flagged crude carrier Acheloos, were attacked off the coast of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz after being hit by unknown projectiles. (Reuters)
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims that two tankers have exploded after passing through the Strait of Hormuz. (The Hill)
Mediators Pakistan and Qatar propose a 10-day ceasefire in an effort to revive the Islamabad Memorandum signed last month. (Reuters)
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian says that Iran is in a “full-scale war”. (The Guardian)
The Jordanian military says air defences intercepted three Iranian missiles targeting Jordan. (AFP via Business Recorder)
The New York Times reports American soldiers were injured and several helicopters were damaged in Iranian strikes against Jordan. (The Jerusalem Post)
The Israeli military says that they have killed two Islamic Jihad militants in separate strikes in the Gaza Strip, in violation of the ongoing ceasefire. (The Jerusalem Post)
Hamas names Khalil al-Hayya as its new leader, replacing former leader Yahya Sinwar. (Reuters)
A plane operated by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center arrives in Khartoum, Sudan, with aid, food, and medical supplies amidst the civil war. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
The United States imposes new sanctions upon the Sudanese military junta, alleging the use of chemical weapons including chlorine gas in the civil war. (RFI)
In Calgary, Alberta, the search for missing 11-year-old Parker Wells enters its fifth day. (CTV)
The Iraqi military say that they have destroyed six ISIS hideouts in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Iraqi News)
U.S. president Donald Trump signs executive orders imposing 50% tariffs on many Canadian goods, including USMCA-covered products, citing discriminatory trade practices. The duties take effect in 30 days, with exemptions for energy, potash, and products under sector-specific tariffs. (CBC News)
The nationwide gas prices in the United States exceeds US$4 per gallon, the highest since June 17. (AP) (NBC News)
Twenty people are killed, 80 others are injured and more than 100 people remain missing after heavy rains caused flash floods in eastern Afghanistan. (Xinhua)
Heavy clashes erupts between police and protestors in Bologna, Italy, after 42-year-old Abderrahim Fakir was killed by police while being handcuffed the previous day. (Il Sole 24 ore)
Indian riot police baton-charge protesters marching toward the Parliament House in New Delhi over irregularities involving the NEET. Thousands demand education minister Dharmendra Pradhan‘s resignation, while Delhi Police restrict internet access and say the demonstration lacked permission. (AFP via RFI)
Sir Keir Starmer resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is succeeded by Andy Burnham. (CNN) (The Telegraph)
Santomean President Carlos Vila Nova wins a re-election with 55.94% of the vote, while his main opposition candidate Nito Abreu comes second with 41.42% of the vote (Reuters)
Nicaraguan co-president Daniel Ortega announces that the country will hold no further elections in order to “build a wall” against the political opposition. (The Guardian)
Sunday, July 19th, 2026
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that diplomatic solutions are “still on the table” if Iran ceases attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. (The Jerusalem Post)
The Kurdistan Freedom Party reports that eight Iranian Kurdish rebels have been wounded after a drone strike from Iran hit a camp near Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. (AFP via Arab News)
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announces that an American service member has been killed in northern Iraq during a “controlled” detonation of a downed Iranian drone, bringing the total amount of American casualties to 17. (Reuters)
The Israeli military uses the Iron Dome to shoot down fragments from an Iranian missile fired at Aqaba, Jordan, after the Aegis was reportedly used to shoot down the missile. (The Jerusalem Post)
The U.S. CENTCOM launches strikes against Iran for a ninth consecutive evening amidst a rise in American casualties. (CNBC)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that 530 people, including 76 civilians, have been killed in clashes between the post-Assad Syrian Army and the Syrian Democratic Forces over the past months. (Shafaq)
Around 50 Malian soldiers are reported to have been killed in Anéfis, Mali, by the Al-Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Tuareg Azawad Liberation Front rebels. (The Hindu)
Ukrainian officials say Russian forces struck a Guinea-Bissau-flagged cargo ship carrying corn off Odesa, killing at least five crew members. Eight are rescued and five remain missing, while the vessel continues burning. (Reuters)
At least six people are killed and 21 others are injured when a Mw 5.5 earthquake strikes the town of Pumpunya in Chongos Bajo District, Chupaca province, Department of Junín, Peru. (Reuters)
Four people are killed, four others are unaccounted for, and several houses are swept away after a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall hits Mon District, Nagaland, India. (NDTV)
Sixty-seven people are rescued and 66 others are reported missing when a passenger ferry capsizes and sinks near the Pomeroon River in Guyana. (AP)
Canada bars foreign nationals who have visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo within the previous 21 days, citing the Ebola epidemic. (Reuters)
Students hold protests in several cities across India after activist Sonam Wangchuk is arrested and taken to a hospital during his hunger strike calling for education minister Dharmendra Pradhan‘s resignation over the 2026 NEET exam paper leak, with a march on Parliament planned for the following day. (Al Jazeera)
Santomeans vote to elect the country’s president. Incumbent president Carlos Vila Nova seeks a second term in office. (Reuters)
Saturday, July 18th, 2026
The Bahraini military intercepts projectiles fired from Iran. (DPA via Yahoo News)
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) reports that two American troops have been “killed in action” in Jordan, bringing the total casualties for American troops to 16. (Reuters)
Kuwait says Iranian attacks have struck a second power and desalination plant in two days, causing a fire and shutting several generating units, while other attacks injure firefighters and a worker and temporarily disrupt flights from Kuwait International Airport. (AFP via Vanguard)
An oil facility is damaged, according to the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. (PBS)
Axios reports that Iran has launched a ballistic missile at a United States base in Saudi Arabia, making it the first direct attack by Iran on the country since targeting a petrochemical complex in Jubail. (Financial Times)
Iranian deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi says that the United States has violated the terms of the Islamabad Memorandum and that Iran is “no longer implementing them”. (PBS)
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in a statement published by IRNA, report that two oil tankers have exploded after hitting mines south in the Strait of Hormuz. However, the U.S. Central Command disputes the claims on X as “false”. (AFP via Arab News)
The Philippine foreign affairs department reports that four Philippine-registered vessels carrying 81 seafarers have safely transited through the Strait of Hormuz. The vessels are identified as the MV Lyng Trader, MV Western Doncaster, MV Vivian Trader, and MV Eva Fuji. (GMA Network)
In the seventh day of renewed U.S. strikes, civilian infrastructure, including a desalination plant in Jask, are damaged, cutting off the access to water for 10,000 civilians. (IRNA)
Communications services in Iran’s Hormozgan province are disrupted after U.S. strikes damaged 116 radio towers there. (BBC News)
The U.S. CENTCOM launches a new wave of strikes for an eighth consecutive night against IRGC targets in response to two American service members killed in Jordan. (The Hill)
An insurgent is killed and five others are injured during a counterterrorism operation that foiled a terrorist plot in Wana, South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Dawn)
Belgium approves an import ban on goods from Israeli settlements. (Al Jazeera)
Kuwait Airways reschedules most of its flights due to the country’s airspace being closed amidst ongoing Iranian attacks. (Middle East Eye)
Iran’s Hormozgan province water and wastewater company announces that United States airstrikes have damaged desalination equipment, cutting off water to about 10,000 people. (Middle East Eye)
Skyroot Aerospace successfully launches Vikram-1, India’s first privately built orbital rocket, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh, carrying small satellite payloads into low Earth orbit on its maiden flight. (AFP via Asharq Al-Awsat)
At the London Athletics Meet, British runner Josh Kerr sets a new world record of 3:42.66 for the mile. The previous record of 3:43.13 by Hicham El Guerrouj had been set in 1999. (BBC Sport)
Friday, July 17th, 2026
Taylor Farms recalls their iceburg lettuce, traced through a farm in Mexico, amidst the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak in the United States, which is caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis. (Forbes)
The Ontario Court of Appeal finds Canadian far-right activist and Freedom Convoy organizer Pat King “guilty of intimidation” and orders a re-sentencing. (CBC)
Iraq and Syria sign a memorandum of understanding to rehabilitate the Kirkuk–Baniyas pipeline to bypass to the Strait of Hormuz. (Middle East Eye)
Iranian state media reports that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have targeted a United States Special Operations Command in Al-Tanf in response to the killing of Iranian soldiers in Iranshahr, Sistan and Baluchestan province. (Arab News)
Iran says that it has launched ballistic missile and drone strikes at targets in Bahrain, including a drone vessel depot, an artificial intelligence center used for targeting, and the Al-Sakhir Air Base, as part of the 11th phase of its Saegheh operation. (AA)
Jordan reports having intercepted projectiles fired from Iran. (AA)
Iranian strikes damage a desalination plant and a power plant in Kuwait, according to the Kuwaiti energy ministry. (CNBC)
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy launches attacks on radar facilities in Oman. (AA)
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force launches an attack at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, and claims to have caused damage to equipment there, while Qatar’s armed forces claim to have intercepted Iranian attacks. (AA)
The U.S. military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) confirms that they have destroyed the Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port surveillance tower in Chabahar Port yesterday, which was allegedly used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for tracking commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. (The Times of Israel)
Iranian drone strikes near Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, kill eight Kurdish rebels and injure several more. (AFP via The Times of Israel)
The U.S. CENTCOM launches strikes against Iran for a seventh consecutive night. (The Guardian)
The U.S. state of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection deploys firefighters to assist with wildfire efforts in Quebec, Canada. (WVIT)
Four people are killed and nine others are injured after a head-on collision between two overspeeding cars along the N-25 National Highway, Wadh, Balochistan, Pakistan (Dawn)
A nine-vehicle pile-up in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, Indonesia kills at least four and injures eight others. (Xinhua)
A storm in Chile kills three people, injures seven others, damages more than 800 homes, displaces hundreds, and leaves around 400,000 people without electricity across 10 regions. (Reuters)
A nine-story building under construction near Conakry, Guinea, collapses due to heavy rainfall, killing three people and injuring several others. (Xinhua)
A large fire breaks out among terraced houses in Krokstadelva, Drammen, Norway, spreading rapidly between multiple housing blocks and prompting mass evacuations; the municipality declares a crisis and calls in fire crews from eight neighboring municipalities. (Reuters)
Michigan, U.S., surpasses 5,000 cases of cyclosporiasis. (The Detroit News)
Japan enacts a law criminalizing public damage, removal or defacement of the national flag, punishable by up to two years in prison or a ¥200,000 (US$1,200) fine. (AFP via France 24)
Andy Burnham is elected as the new leader of the British Labour Party. He will formally succeed Keir Starmer as prime minister on Monday. (CNN)
Protests continue for a second day in Kyiv, Ukraine, near the Presidential Office Building, demanding the return of Mykhailo Fedorov as Minister of Defence and the resignation of Oleksandr Syrskyi as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. (Reuters)
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