Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 21 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 11 people seeking aid assistance. (Al Jazeera)
    • The European Union European External Action Service finds that Israel may have breached its human rights obligations under the terms of the EU-Israel Association agreement governing its ties with the EU. (Al Jazeera)
    • President of Turkey Recep Edorgen announces the UNRWA will open an office in Turkiye’s capital, Ankara. (Al Jazeera)
  • Iran–Israel war
    • The death toll from Israel's strikes on Iran rises to more than 430, while 3,056 people have been wounded. (Al Jazeera)
    • Iran’s Health Minister Mohammadreza Zafarghandi says Israel has targeted three hospitals during the conflict, killing two health workers and a child, and has targeted six ambulances. (Al Jazeera)
    • Iran’s emergency organization head says Israeli strikes have targeted medical and relief facilities, in addition to residential areas across the country. Three relief bases and eight ambulances have been seriously damaged or destroyed. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Santa Catarina hot air balloon crash
  • At least eight people are killed and thirteen others are injured in a hot air balloon accident in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, Brazil. (CNN) (DW)
• At least three people are killed when a tornado passes through the town of Enderlin, North Dakota, United States. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Iran–Israel war
    • 2025 Iran–European nuclear talks
      • Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi meets with the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, Germany, France and European Union in Geneva for talks about its nuclear program. (AP News)
    • Hundreds of thousands of people protest against Israel on the streets of Tehran after weekly prayers, chanting slogans in support of Iranian leaders. Protests also took place in Tabriz in northwestern Iran and Shiraz in the south. (Al Jazeera)
    • Saudi Arabia's Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Commission says military strikes on civilian nuclear facilities violate international law in response to Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. (Al Jazeera)
  • Gaza war
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 82 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 34 people seeking aid assistance. (Al Jazeera)
    • The United Nations relists Israel on its blacklist of countries committing abuses against children in armed conflict in its annual Children in Armed Conflict report. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Odesa strikes
    • Russian forces launch a large-scale drone strike at Odesa, Ukraine, damaging buildings and public facilities, with one person killed and another 14 injured. (Ukrainska Pravda)

International relations

• France–Niger relations
  • The Nigerien government announces it will nationalize the controlling share of the SOMAIR mining company that previously belonged to French multinational nuclear fuel cycle corporation Orano, which is in turn controlled by the French government. (DW) (AP)

Law and crime

• The United Kingdom parliament votes to approve a bill allowing terminally ill adults to voluntarily end their lives, moving towards legalizing assisted suicide in England and Wales. (DW) (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
  • The parliament of the Netherlands recognizes the deportation of the Crimean Tatars carried out by the Soviet Union in 1944 as genocide. (Kyiv Independent)