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(Al Jazeera Media Network) IRGC says it targeted US bases in Kuwait and Jordan after US forces bombed a building on Iran’s Qeshm Island, killing a couple and their two-year-old child. Explosions from US attacks were also heard on Kish Island, in Bushehr, and in four locations in Khuzestan province. Kuwait says one worker has been killed in an Iranian attack on a building of a Chinese company in the north of the country. Iran says three IRGC members were...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) European football’s governing body, UEFA, has voted to boycott FIFA events – including the World Cup – if proposed sale of event to private investors goes ahead. The unanimous vote by UEFA member federations agreed on Thursday to boycott all FIFA competitions in protest at Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in the World Cup. “UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions,” the European football body said after...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) Authorities in Uganda have declared the country free of Ebola, as infections from the viral haemorrhagic disease continue to surge in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ugandan Health ⁠Minister Chris Baryomunsi on Tuesday announced the “successful completion ⁠of the mandatory 42-day monitoring period which begun after the discharge of the last Ugandan national, a locally transmitted patient, on the 16 of June, 2026.” “Throughout this ⁠period, the Ministry of Health maintained intensive...

(BBC News) Ukraine has dismissed Iranian threats of retaliation, following Kyiv's targeting of an Iranian cargo vessel in the Caspian Sea on Saturday. The incident marked the first direct link between the wars in Iran and Ukraine. "Iran's threats are unjustified and groundless," Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha posted on X this afternoon. "The regime in Tehran is a direct accomplice to Russian aggression against Ukraine, fuelling Moscow's criminal war with weapons that have killed Ukrainians since...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) Chad has joined a growing list of countries as it announced plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The military government declared on Monday that Chad had begun the process to leave the court, which prosecutes war crimes and other violations of humanitarian law and is based in The Hague in the Netherlands. The northern African nation is the fifth state in recent months to quit the international tribunal, as...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Lebanese army has accused Israel of obstructing its efforts to take over control of security in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese military said in a statement on Sunday that the Israeli army was continuing to conduct shelling and clearance operations, preventing Lebanese troops from fully taking over villages as agreed. The Lebanese army on Tuesday deployed troops to the first of three “pilot zone” villages. The move for local forces to take over security...

(BBC News) The Iranian-backed Houthis have claimed a missile attack on Saudi Arabia, after Riyadh launched strikes on targets linked to the group on Friday. Early on Saturday, the Houthis' Ansarollah media said on Telegram that a "Yemeni missile strike" had caused fires in the Saudi city of Jizan. Saudi authorities had issued emergency alerts for the province. The group had vowed retaliation after Saudi Arabia launched air strikes on Houthi targets in the Yemeni port...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukraine replaced its top military and political defence personnel in the past week even as its armed forces arguably achieved their best performance in three years. Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov’s ouster on July 15 was followed six days later by the replacement of Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskii. Both men were followed out the door by some of their most capable lieutenants. Ukraine seemed to have found a winning formula, making 2026 Russia’s worst...

(BBC News) At least 15 people have been killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine, including 10 dead in ballistic missile strikes on an exhibition near Kyiv showcasing drone technology. Writing on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said some 100 people had been injured in the daytime attack on the exhibition, attended by prominent members of the defence sector. Elsewhere, five people were killed in the eastern city of Sloviansk by Russian glide bombs. And on Friday evening,...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) The European Union has fined Google 890 million euros (US$1 billion), saying the technology giant broke digital antitrust rules by steering users of Google Play and its search engine towards its own services and apps at the expense of rivals. Thursday’s penalty is the latest in Brussels’ crackdown on Big Tech, which has seen the bloc lead the world in reining in the largest firms from Silicon Valley to Beijing. Google had...