Portal:Current events/2024 July 26

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Israeli airforce strikes multiple Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon in retaliation for previous wildfire causing rocket strikes. (Haaretz)
  • Hezbollah launches rockets at Upper Galilee, northern Israel. (Haaretz)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Gillette Pilatus PC-12 crash
  • A plane crashes in Campbell County, Wyoming, United States, just north of Gillette, starting a wildfire and killing all seven people onboard, including three members of the gospel group The Nelons. (WSB-TV)

International relations

• China–India relations, Sino-Indian border dispute
  • China and India agree to cooperate in withdrawing all their troops from their disputed border, with aims of peacefully achieving "complete disengagement" from the border conflict as quickly as possible. (AP)
• European Union–Russia relations, International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • The European Union sends its first transfer of €1.5 billion (US$1.63 billion) in proceeds from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine for military and infrastructure support. The Kremlin denounces the transfer as "illegal" under international law and pledges legal retaliation. (AP) (Reuters)
• Finland–Russia relations
  • Finland reports that a Russian Navy Baltic Sea fleet vessel trespassed on Finnish territorial waters in the eastern Gulf of Finland. (Reuters)
• Italy–Syria relations
  • Italy appoints an ambassador to Syria after 12 years, becoming the first G7 country to do so. (Reuters)
• Philippines–United States relations, ChinaAngVirus disinformation campaign
  • A former top United States official states that the Department of Defense covertly admits to conducting a mass disinformation campaign targeting the Philippines using social media bots and fake accounts to discredit the safety of Chinese CoronaVac vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic, following public denial of involvement in June. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 France railway arson attacks
  • Arson attacks on TGV infrastructure disrupt rail services in France. (The Guardian)
• International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine
  • The United Kingdom drops its challenge to the International Criminal Court's issuance of arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • U.S. President Joe Biden adds Lebanon to the Deferred Enforced Departure list, temporarily protecting Lebanese citizens residing in the United States from deportation for 18 months, in response to growing tensions between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. (Detroit Free Press)
• Former BBC news presenter Huw Edwards is charged with making child pornography. (The Guardian)

Sports

• 2024 Summer Olympics
  • The opening ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Olympics take place on the banks of the River Seine and the Jardins du Trocadéro in Paris, France. (NBC News)