Armed conflicts and attacks
2025 CambodiaThailand clashes Cambodian and Thai troops exchange fire near the Prasat Ta Muen Thom site near the border . Fourteen people are killed and 46 more are injured in Thailand. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
Angara Airlines Flight 2311 An Angara Airlines Antonov An-24 operating as Angara Airlines Flight 2311 en route to Tynda crashes into a forested area in Amur Oblast , Russia , killing all 48 occupants, including five children. ( The Guardian ) (Reuters)At least twelve people are killed, several others are missing, and 157 are injured in a explosion at an ammunition depot in Maarrat Misrin , Idlib Governorate , Syria . (Xinhua News Agency) (AP)
International Relations
International recognition of Palestine French president Emmanuel Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state starting September, citing reasons such as an immediate end to the war and helping the humanitarian crisis . (France 24) (AP)
Law and crime
Central African Republic Civil War The International Criminal Court convicts Patrice-Edouard Ngassona and Alfred Yekatom , leaders of the Anti-balaka militia alliance, of multiple counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentences them to 12 and 15 years in prison respectively for their roles in various massacres against civilians throughout the civil war in the Central African Republic . (AP)HungaryIsrael relations , HungaryUnited Kingdom relations Hungary bans Irish rap trio Kneecap for three years ahead of a music festival, citing a national security threat over their alleged support for Hamas and Hezbollah . ( The Times of Israel )
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