Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli invasion of Gaza
  • Six Israeli soldiers are killed and ten others are critically injured during a Palestinian military operation. Palestinian forces detonated explosive devices on Israeli soldiers and later opened fire on Israeli forces evacuating their injured soldiers in Beit Hanoun, Palestine. (Palestine Chronicle) (The Times of India)

Disasters and accidents

• Trading on the Cairo stock exchange halted for the whole day, due to the consequences of yesterdays fire at the telecommunications building in Cairo, Egypt. (NOS)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Israeli attacks on Yemen
      • The Israeli Air Force strikes three ports and a power plant in Houthi-controlled Yemen in response to recent ballistic missile attacks on Israel. (ABC News) (Reuters)
    • Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
      • Two people are injured and two other people are missing after for the second consecutive day a ship is attacked in the Red Sea near Hodeida, Yemen by multiple boats and drones. (NOS)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Ukrainian Armed Forces launch a long-range drone strike on Krasnodar Krai, Russia, damaging the main oil refinery in Ilsky. (The Kyiv Independent)
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russia launches over 100 drones at areas across Ukraine, killing ten civilians and injuring 38 others. (PBS)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab militants recapture Moqokori, a town in the Hiiraan region of Somalia they lost in September 2022, following a local uprising led by Ma'awisley fighters. The heavy fighting resulted in the deaths of at least 40 Somali National Army and Ma’awisley fighters, who lost control of the town after a suicide bombing and a fierce attack by the militants. (Garowe Online)
• 2025 Kenyan protests
  • Eleven people are killed and 29 others are injured in clashes with security forces amid ongoing anti-government protests in Kenya, according to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. (Sky News) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2025 Central Texas floods
  • The death toll from the flooding in Central Texas, United States, increases to 104, including 28 children, with 41 other people still missing. Flash flood warnings have been issued for expected additional rainfall. (AP)
• Four people are killed and at least 22 others are injured in a fire at a telecommunications building in Cairo, Egypt. National connectivity data was brought down to 62% of ordinary levels including banking and phone calls. (CNN World News)
• Four people are killed, including two children, when a Cirrus SR22 crashes into a field near Raleigh Executive Jetport in Sanford, North Carolina, United States. (WTVD)
• One person is killed and ten others are injured after a restaurant's roof collapses in Terracina, Province of Latina, Italy. (Ansa)

Law and crime

• 2021–2022 Luzon sabungero disappearances
  • Philippine police chief Nicolas Torre announces that 15 police officers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in abducting and killing at least 34 cockfighters across Luzon, Philippines, from 2021 to 2022. (AP)
• 2023 Leongatha mushroom murders
  • Erin Patterson is found guilty on all charges regarding deaths from Amanita poisoning from a lunch at her home in Leongatha, Australia. (ABC News Australia)
• Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
  • Amnesty International says that Saudi Arabia executed a record 345 people last year, many of them over drug offenses. (AP)
• Death of Jeffrey Epstein
  • The United States Department of Justice announces that the alleged "Epstein client list" does not exist and reaffirms that Jeffrey Epstein's death was a suicide. (AP)
• Three people are killed and nine others are injured in a mass shooting in the Grays Ferry neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. (Metro Philadelphia) (CBS News)
• The perpetrator is killed and three people, two police officers and a border guard, are injured in a mass shooting when a 27-year-old man with a rifle and tactical gear opens fire on law enforcement officers before being fatally shot at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, United States. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Cabinet of Lee Jae Myung
  • South Korean prime minister Kim Min-seok is officially inaugurated at the Government Complex in Sejong City, four days after he was approved by the National Assembly. (The Korea Herald)
• Russian president Vladimir Putin dismisses Minister of Transport Roman Starovoyt, with his deputy Andrey Nikitin replacing him. Hours after his dismissal, Starovoyt is found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot. (ABC News)
• The Surinamese parliament elects Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as the country's first female president. (CNN) (France 24)