Living news archive
Find the brief that matters.
Search verified English-language briefs by event, person, place, category or date. Results follow the latest development in each story.
- César Gastelum, 25, was shot in the head while broadcasting live on TikTok in Culiacán, Sinaloa.
- The attack occurred outside a fast-food restaurant as Gastelum and two friends took part in a delivery-outfit challenge.
- Two helmeted people on a motorcycle approached, and the passenger fired before both left the scene.
- Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the Gironde wildfire had been contained, indicating that its flames were no longer spreading.
- The Gironde blaze burned about 42,000 hectares during nine days and destroyed roughly 240 homes near Bordeaux, according to the existing report.
- Firefighters stopped a separate wildfire in southeastern Var after winds pushed it across approximately 1,000 hectares.
- Russian ballistic-missile strikes killed nine people and wounded 28 in Kyiv, including four children, Ukraine’s state emergency service said.
- The attack hit five Kyiv areas, damaging homes, vehicles and a five-storey residential building, while fires and rubble prompted rescue operations.
- Authorities reported seven deaths and 14 injuries in Darnytsky district, and two deaths and eight injuries in Solomiansky district.
- Authorities reported at least 23 deaths following an explosion at an Aeon mall in Kumamoto, while the number of injured people was not immediately specified.
- Vehicle-mounted video captured the blast roughly half an hour after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake hit the area.
- Military units joined rescue crews searching the destroyed mall and nearby sites as officials worked to determine how many people remained missing.
- The fire service reported that three firefighters died on Wednesday during wildfire operations in Greece.
- Near Rethymno, crews included 156 firefighters, eight ground units, 33 engines, four helicopters and four aircraft.
- Strong winds accelerated the Rethymno fire and made it harder for ground crews to contain the blaze.
- Fires in southwestern Crete forced villages in the Rethymno region and tourists near Agia Galini to evacuate.
- About 8,000 people were evacuated, Crete deputy governor Maria Lioni said.
- Three firefighters died while responding to separate blazes on Crete and mainland Greece.
- The U.S. military said it struck dozens of Iranian Revolutionary Guard targets, including command centers, missile and drone facilities, and coastal defenses.
- The strikes followed Iranian attacks on a Jordanian base hosting U.S. troops, while Jordan said its forces intercepted five Iranian missiles.
- U.S. and Saudi forces struck Iran-backed militia sites in Iraq; the U.S. military said at least 20 fighters and six Iranian advisers were killed.
- Ambrey said a drone struck Energos Winter, a gas-storage tanker owned by a U.S. company, at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta.
- Egypt’s petroleum ministry confirmed a port fire, saying it was quickly contained and caused no casualties; the ministry did not mention a drone attack.
- Three trading sources said the blaze spread from Energos Winter to another vessel before being dealt with.
- A van struck people near Berlin’s Christopher Street Day celebrations, killing one person and injuring 29, authorities said.
- Police fatally shot the suspected driver in Spandau after he approached officers carrying a bladed weapon, authorities said.
- Firefighters tried to resuscitate the suspect, who later died from his injuries, Berlin police said.
- French authorities evacuated 4,000 more people from Atlantic coast resorts, adding to roughly 220,000 already displaced by the southwest wildfire.
- Authorities deployed 23 aircraft and helicopters after new fires broke out near Grand Crohot, west of Bordeaux.
- Two major fires west of Madrid had at times approached one another, while Spanish authorities remained alert as temperatures were forecast to exceed 40 degrees Celsius.
- Spain’s interior ministry ended evacuation orders for 15 municipalities, allowing some residents west of Madrid to return to fire-damaged communities.
- France’s Gironde wildfire has displaced more than 220,000 people, destroyed 240 houses and prompted nearly 60,000 residents to return after officials reported stabilization.
- Spain’s AEMET forecast a heatwave from Wednesday, with temperatures reaching 42°C in the northeast and 39°C in central areas.
- The Interior Ministry said Tuesday that evacuation orders covering 13 municipalities in two wildfire-affected areas had been withdrawn.
- Government figures showed nearly 100,000 people affected across Castile and León, Madrid and Castile-La Mancha; over 63,000 evacuated and 35,000 confined.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said firefighting conditions had improved in some areas but warned that the next hours would remain difficult.