Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali Civil War
  • Three Al-Shabaab fighters, including a senior commander, are killed in a coordinated operation by the Somali National Army in Jowle, Mudug, Puntland. (Garowe Online)

Disasters and accidents

• Fourteen people are killed and four others are hospitalized after drinking poisoned alcohol in Amritsar, Punjab, India. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Sussan Ley is elected as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Australia following the party's defeat at Saturday's federal election. Ley is the first woman to hold the post. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander is released by Hamas after being kept in captivity in Gaza for 19 months since the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel. (Reuters)
• Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
  • The 12th Congress of the Kurdistan Workers' Party announces an immediate ceasefire of insurgency activities in Turkey and plans for a formal disbandment. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
• Myanmar civil war
  • The National Unity Government of Myanmar says that an airstrike by junta forces killed 17 students and injured 20 others at a school in Tabayin, Sagaing Region. (Reuters)
• Libyan crisis
  • 2025 Tripoli clashes
    • Clashes erupt between rival militia gunmen from the 444th Brigade and the Stability Support Apparatus (SAA) in Tripoli, Libya, after the assassination of Commander Abdel Ghani al-Kikli. Six people are injured, and a state of emergency is declared by authorities. (The Jerusalem Post) (Al Jazeera English)
• Syrian civil war
  • The remains of 30 people believed to have been killed by Islamic State militants are found in a search by Qatar and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the remote town of Dabiq, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (CTV News)
• Unknown gunmen attack a Chinese artisanal gold mine in Narena, Koulikoro Region, Mali, killing one Malian and two others from Ghana, and abducting two Chinese nationals. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Thirteen people are killed after an expired ammunition explosion in Garut Regency, West Java, Indonesia. (Jakarta Globe)

International relations

• Immigration policy of the second Donald Trump administration, South Africa–United States relations
  • The first group of Afrikaners arrive in the United States after U.S. president Donald Trump grants refugee status to the white minority group, who Trump says face a "genocide" in the South African farm attacks. The government of South Africa rejects the claims. (AP)
• China–United States trade war
  • The U.S. and China agree to a trade deal in which, for 90 days, U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods will drop from 145% to 30%, while China's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods will drop from 125% to 10%. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Philippine general election
  • Filipinos vote to elect all 317 members of the House of Representatives and 12 members of the Senate, in addition to local elections. (Asian Journal) (Reuters)