Saturday 1 August 2026

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says an overnight Russian missile attack has killed at least nine people and injured 24 others, while damaging buildings and causing fires across several districts of the Ukrainian capital.

U.S. president Donald Trump cancels a planned attack against Iran, citing progress in ceasefire negotiations.

Israeli airstrikes kill three Palestinians in Gaza City, bringing the total casualties in the past 24 hours to seven.

Moroccan security forces clash with hundreds of migrants as they attempt to storm the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Several Moroccan security personnel are reportedly injured while more than 50 migrants are detained.

The Israeli military says it has killed several Hezbollah fighters in an Israeli-held area of southern Lebanon, despite a ceasefire framework between Israel and Lebanon.

The Washington Post reports that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu blocked a request by former United States senator Lindsey Graham to transfer an Iron Dome system from the U.S. to Ukraine.

Ukrainian forces sink a Rosatom-owned container ship in the Black Sea, forcing its 17-member crew to abandon it. Rosatom says it had been transporting civilian goods, including frozen food and construction materials.

Egypt and Sudan reach an agreement on a 16-month plan to rehabilitate the Jebel Aulia Dam south of Khartoum, including the construction of a temporary bridge, after the dam was damaged in November 2023 during shelling by the Rapid Support Forces.

A woman attempts to set off a bomb inside a coffeehouse in Moscow, Russia, but is stopped at the entrance and detonates the explosive. Three people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 21 more are injured.

A tanker near Oman is hit by an unknown projectile.

The Kuwaiti defense ministry reports that its military has detected and intercepted Iranian drones entering the country's airspace.

United States embassies in the Middle East warn Americans to depart the region amidst fears of a potential escalation in the war.

A Board of Peace official reports that Hamas will disarm its weapons in the coming days.

The Houthis in Yemen deny reports of imposing tolls on vessels passing through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait.

A truck bomb explodes beside a police station in Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia, injuring eleven police officers and three civilians.

The U.S. FBI opens an investigation after the U.S. state of Michigan reports a cyberattack on its water systems, including whether Iran was behind the cyberattack, a day after Minnesota reported a similar breach.

Four workers are killed in a mass shooting in Nyanga, Western Cape, South Africa, while they were repairing a flat tyre.

The Old Trails wildfire in northwestern Spokane, Washington, United States, burns over 3,000 acres (12 km2), destroying many structures. Residents near Fort Spokane are told to evacuate.

Cuba reports a partial collapse of the national power grid, leaving western provinces without electricity after transmission lines fail between Matanzas and Pinar del Río.

Thirteen people, including eleven tourists, are killed when a small aircraft crashes near the Nazca Lines, Peru, after departing Pisco, Ica.