Iran holds its first joint committee meeting with Oman in Muscat to discuss future management of the Strait of Hormuz following a preliminary agreement with the United States to end the war. U.S. officials say shipping can resume freely.
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June 29, 2026 (Monday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Pakistani information minister Attaullah Tarar says that Pakistan has carried out airstrikes in Afghanistan targeting alleged Jamaat-ul-Ahrar headquarters, killing 25 militants in border regions and the eastern provinces of Paktia, Paktika, and Kunar.
The Sudanese Armed Forces announces that they have retaken the towns of Sirkum and Mugaja in Sudan's Blue Nile State.
Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi summons the chargé d'affaires at the Pakistani embassy in Kabul over the airstrikes.
The National News Agency reports that over 40,000 displaced people have returned to Lebanon since the ceasefire.
The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data publishes an article accusing the Rapid Support Forces of killing more civilians in Sudan, including in 2025, than other rebel groups.
The joint forces allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces recapture the West Darfur town of Kulbus, two years after it was captured by the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces in October 2024.
Five aid workers are killed and four more injured in an ambush against a convoy by unknown gunmen in Duk County, Jonglei State, South Sudan. Several civilians are also killed and wounded.
Indian petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri says that 12 LPG vessels from India have successfully transited through the Strait of Hormuz without paying tolls.
Human rights organizations led by the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights reportedly file a complaint with the International Criminal Court against officials from Libya and the United Arab Emirates for their role in atrocities committed in the civil war, most notably the Darfur region.
Gunmen abduct 36 students and a staff member from a secondary school in Lassa, Borno State, Nigeria, while authorities say eight others have been rescued.
Gunmen kill two members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and injure two others outside a residence in Paveh, Kermanshah province. Kurdish rights group Hengaw says an armed group called Xori Hiwa claims responsibility.
The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab reports that the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) 5th Infantry Division has established checkpoints, defensive berms, and trenches in El-Obeid, North Kordofan.
Arts and culture
American film Michael grosses to US$977 million in worldwide box offices, surpassing Oppenheimer as the highest-grossing biopic.
Disasters and accidents
Malaysia extends the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared in 2014 with 239 people aboard, until June 30, 2027, under a contingent fee agreement with Ocean Infinity.
Fifteen people are killed and one injured after the collision of a vehicle with a cargo truck in Mamou Region, Guinea.
A Seventh Day Adventist church in San Francisco, California, U.S., built in 1892, catches fire during renovations.
Health and environment
Sudan's health ministry and World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declares a new cholera outbreak, with 117 deaths in the West Kordofan state, four months after declaring an end to a previous outbreak that started in July 2024.
International relations
Australia and Vanuatu sign the Nakamal Agreement, which expands Australian economic support and bars foreign military bases in Vanuatu. Vanuatu also commits to rejecting the militarisation of infrastructure.
China adds 20 Japanese organizations to a dual-use export blacklist and places 20 others on a watchlist, citing concerns over Japan's military capabilities amid worsening relations between China and Japan.
Law and crime
Six people are killed and several more injured in a mass shooting at a mother-child group home facility in Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany. Two people are arrested, including the alleged gunman.
Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Iermolaiev is critically injured alongside his wife and daughter after the explosion of a parcel bomb at a building in Monaco, in what seems like an assassination attempt.
Rough sleeping is formally decriminalized in England and Wales following the repeal of the Vagrancy Act 1824 by the government of the United Kingdom.
Politics and elections
South Korea holds joint burial ceremonies in Seoul and Daejeon for the remains of seven soldiers killed in the Korean War, after recovery efforts from 2007 to 2025 and DNA identification with surviving relatives.
The National Office of Electoral Processes confirms the victory of Popular Force's candidate Keiko Fujimori in the presidential election after 22 days of vote counting. Fujimori becomes the first elected female president of Peru.
Over 150 demonstrators gather at the presidential palace in Cyprus over a Board of Peace multi-day meeting in the country.
Science and technology
Palaeontologists identify a fossil vertebra collected on James Ross Island in 1985 as the earliest-known dinosaur bone collected in Antarctica, which was identified to be a tail bone from a titanosaur.
Sports
The International Weightlifting Federation announces that Russian and Belarusian weightlifters can return to competition under their national symbols.
In association football, Paraguay defeats Germany in penalty shoot-outs during the round of 32, the largest upset since 2018 and the fourth-largest in World Cup history.
The Palestinian Football Association confirms that Palestinian goalkeeper Saleem Khader Al-Ashqar waas killed by Israeli forces in the Khan Yunis Governorate town of Al-Qarara.
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