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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Operation Southern Spear
  • United States strikes on alleged drug traffickers during Operation Southern Spear
    • The U.S. military Southern Command's Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere launches a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on alleged drug traffickers, killing two people. The strike is the first reported in two months. (PBS) (CNN)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine–United Kingdom relations
    • During a visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, British prime minister Andy Burnham confirms that he has approved supplying Ukraine with the classified blueprints to produce Storm Shadow cruise missiles despite Russian threats against such a move, which will give Ukrainian forces the ability to strike key targets deep-inside Russian territory. (BBC News)
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • A Russian missile strike on the outskirts of Kharkiv kills three people and leaves eight others wounded. (TRT World)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Darfur campaign
    • Drone strikes by the Sudanese Armed Forces hits several Rapid Support Forces Paramilitary targets in Nyala, South Darfur, Sudan, hours after a cargo aircraft landed in the area. (Sudan Tribune)
• South Sudanese Civil War
  • Jonglei clashes
    • Two peacekeepers from Ethiopia of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan are killed in an ambush by unknown gunmen in Jonglei State, South Sudan. Three more peacekeepers, two policemen and two civilians are also wounded. (RFI in French)
• Haitian conflict
  • At least 47 people are killed and 22 others are injured in an overnight gang raid on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2026 Iran war
  • International sanctions against Iran, United States sanctions against Iran
    • U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announces Operation Economic Outcast, a campaign involving new sanctions against Iran in a effort to isolate the regime. (The Wall Street Journal) (Politico)
  • Iranian economic crisis
    • The Iranian rial reaches 2.02 million rials ahead of the U.S. dollar, a record-low, ahead of U.S. sanctions. (Time)

Health and environment

• 2026 United States cyclosporiasis outbreak
  • The Arkansas Department of Health reports seven new cases of cyclosporiasis in the state including the first cases in Ashley and Cleburne counties, which is caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis, amidst a decline in the outbreak across the United States. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

International relations

• Armenia–European Union relations
  • Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan announces that the country will soon formally apply for membership of the European Union. (TASS)

Law and crime

• Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun is found guilty of committing war crimes spanning nearly 14 years of civil war under Bashar al-Assad’s former regime and is sentenced to life in prison. (AP) (Al Jazeera) (DW)
• Former British snooker player Graeme Dott is found guilty of sexually abusing two primary school children. (The Guardian) (Sky News)
• South African police arrests four people in connection of the murder of former professional boxer Zolani Tete. (Sahara Reporters) (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Kazakh legislative election
  • The Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan declares the preliminary results from yesterday's election, stating that Ädilet secured 71% of the vote. (Reuters)
• Syria–United States relations
  • The United States formally removes Syria from its designated state sponsors of terrorism list. (The Straits Times) (The Jerusalem Post)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
      • Iran claims to have blacklisted 45 tankers in the Strait of Hormuz that breached its rules for crossing the waterway, with the Persian Gulf Strait Authority on X threatening fines, detainments, and confiscations against the named vessels. (Reuters)
      • The Iran parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission approves a draft allowing Iran to charge ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. (Middle East Eye)
  • Gaza war, Gaza genocide
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Two Israeli airstrikes kill two people, including a four-year-old boy, in the Gaza Strip in violation of the October 2025 ceasefire. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • Controversies of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
    • At least ten people are killed and several others injured in clashes between federal forces and residents protesting a controversial demolition and forced eviction in Yaaqshid neighbourhood of Mogadishu. (FTL Somalia) (Garowe Online) (Shabelle Media)
  • The Turkish Armed Forces carries out an airstrike in Garmaal, Puntland, killing at least four people, in response to the previous hijacking of a Cameroon-flagged vessel by Somali pirates, which was transporting military equipment to the Camp TURKSOM in Mogadishu. The authorities of Puntland identified the victims as civilian fishermen. (Somali Guardian)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23 rebel group agree on a roadmap for further peace negotiations under the Doha Framework Agreement after talks in Switzerland. (AFP via The Hindu)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Sudan's defence ministry says that the country's armed forces (SAF) have shot down a "hostile" drone from Ethiopia entering its airspace, which was seen flying over the Blue Nile region. (Saudi Gazette) (Sudan Horizon)
  • The SAF-allied Joint Forces says that they have destroyed a Rapid Support Forces convoy in the northern desert bordering Libya, along with capturing several vehicles and drone equipment. (Sudan Tribune)
• Mali War
  • The Tuareg-led Azawad Liberation Front releases 22 Malian soldiers, some held for more than three years, in exchange for at least eight of its fighters and several civilian detainees. (AFP via Macau Business)
• Mexican drug war
  • Iván Manjarrez, a La Línea ringleader, is killed during a security operation in Bocoyna Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico. He was accused of controlling illegal logging in the Chihuahua Mountains. (El Heraldo de Chihuahua in Spanish)

Disasters and accidents

• 2026 United States wildfires
  • 2026 Nevada wildfires
    • The Hawk Fire near Reno, Nevada, U.S., grows to more than 20 square miles (53 sq. km.) and spreads across the Peavine Peak of Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest, prompting evacuations. (PBS) (Reuters)
• A M_w 5.9 earthquake strikes southern Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan, injuring 45 people. (The Nikkei) (FNN)
• At least 30 people are killed and six more are wounded when a landfill collapses in Conakry, Guinea. (BBC News)
• The Indian Coast Guard and Navy's Eastern Naval Command reports that two crew members from the Panama-flagged MV Ocean Winner have been rescued after it sank off the coast of Bay of Bengal in eastern India. (Times of India) (New Indian Express)

Law and crime

• The Israel Defense Forces's Duvdevan Unit says that they arrested four Palestinians over the weekend, including two allegedly affiliated with the Islamic State. (The Times of Israel)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Kazakh legislative election
  • Kazakhstanis vote to elect 145 members to the 1st convocation of the unicameral Kurultai following the passage of the new constitution on 15 March. Contesting parties must get at least five percent of the vote in order for lists to gain proportional representation. (AP) (DW)

Sports

• 2026 IndyCar Series
  • Freedom 250 Grand Prix
    • In open-wheel racing, American auto racing driver Kyle Kirkwood wins the IndyCar Freedom 250 Grand Prix event at the National Mall in Washington D.C., United States. (The Athletic via The New York Times) (The Indianapolis Star)
• 2026 WNBA season
  • In basketball, former National Basketball Association player Enes Kanter Freedom is ejected from a WNBA game between the Chicago Sky and Indiana Fever at Wintrust Arena after being confronted by Natasha Cloud. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Aftermath of the Syrian civil war
    • Israeli invasion of Syria
      • The Israeli Army Radio reports that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a drone strike against a militant in southern Syria whom they accuse of prepping an improvised explosive device (IED) attack against Israeli troops currently occupying the region. (The Jerusalem Post)
    • Syrian state media reports that an IED struck a bus carrying security forces on the Maarounah–Al-Tall road near Damascus, injuring several passengers. (AFP via Arab News Japan)
  • Gaza war
    • Tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip
      • The IDF says that Sharif al-Hasanat, an alleged Hamas company commander affiliated with the Deir al-Balah Battalion of the Al-Qassam Brigades, was killed in an airstrike in Gaza, violating the ongoing ceasefire. (The Times of Israel) (JFeed)

Business and economy

• Canada–United States relations
  • 2025–2026 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
    • The United States imposes 50% tariffs on about US$20 billion of Canadian goods after trade talks fail to produce an agreement. Canadian prime minister Mark Carney says Canada will impose equivalent retaliatory tariffs. (AFP via Daily Tribune)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Sudan's industry ministry establishes a high-level committee to rehabilitate industrial zones in Khartoum State that were damaged during the ongoing civil war along with helping shuttered factories resume production. (Sudan Tribune)

Disasters and accidents

• The Central African Republic's government closes down a gold mine site in Zamboye that killed over 100 people after it collapsed, citing non-compliance with regulatory procedures. (AP)
• The Indian Coast Guard launches a rescue operation after a Panama–flagged cargo bulk carrier sunk off the coast of eastern India. (Reuters)
• Seven people are killed, including two police officers, and several others are injured in a three-vehicle collision on the A66 road in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. (BBC News) (Reuters)
• Five people are killed in a head-on road collision along the Lagos–Badagry Expressway near Lagos, Nigeria. (The Daily Post Nigeria)

Law and crime

• The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency reports that authorities in Kiribati, Palau, and Papua New Guinea have detained four Chinese and Indonesian fishing vessels for alleged illegal fishing or licence violations during a regional enforcement operation across the Pacific Ocean. (AFP via Daily Tribune)
• American far-right activist Jake Lang, who was pardoned last year for his role in the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol, is arrested during a protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. (The Detroit News) (Minnesota Star Tribune)

Science and technology

• A humanoid robot at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China, runs 100 meters in 9.39 seconds, surpassing a record set by Usain Bolt of 9.58 seconds at the World Athletics Championships in 2009. (NBC News)

Sports

• 2026 IndyCar Series
  • In open-wheel racing, the Freedom 250 Grand Prix kicks off in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, with former NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon winning the International Race of Champions. (The Athletic via The New York Times) (Motorsport)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Kryvyi Rih strikes
      • Russian drone strikes on a shopping center in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, kill at least 16 people and injure more than 130 others, including 22 children. (Reuters)
    • Mykolaiv strikes
      • A Russian strike on a neighborhood in Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine, kills four people, including three children, according to Ukrainian interior minister Ivan Vyhivskyi. (Ukrinform)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Pakistani forces raid multiple hideouts and kill 49 militants allegedly belonging to the Pakistani Taliban and the Balochistan Liberation Army in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Myanmar civil war
  • Resistance fighters and a local activist say Myanmar's military deployed hundreds of troops around the proposed Dawei Special Economic Zone in the Tanintharyi Region, burning villages and pushing resistance groups back as the government seeks to revive the project. (Reuters)
  • At least 14 people are reportedly killed and 20 others are injured after Myanmar's military launched an airstrike on a Buddhist monastery compound in Myaung Township during a religious gathering. (AFP via CNA)

Arts and culture

• Ethiopian civil conflict
  • The annual Ashenda festival in Mekelle, Tigray Region, Ethiopia, is cancelled over drone strike fears. (BBC News) (Binance)
• American fantasy film The Odyssey reaches US$1.35 billion at the worldwide box office to become the highest-grossing R-rated film, surpassing Deadpool & Wolverine. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

• The Panama Canal announces it will limit the number of ships allowed to cross the passage over the next month due to El Niño causing droughts in the region. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll of a boat capsizing off the coast of Zambezia Province, Mozambique from August 16 rises to 12 after five bodies of those unaccounted for are found by search teams. (Club of Mozambique)
• Three people are killed and six more wounded in an explosion at a house in the Ain al-Qasab village of Idlib, Syria. (AA) (Middle East Eye)

Health and environment

• Project Elephant
  • India's Supreme Court orders states to protect elephant corridors, identify and remove obstructions, and prohibit groups from using fire to drive wild elephants away amid increasing habitat loss and human-elephant conflict. (AFP via France 24)
• Around 16 people in Sudan's Red Sea state have reportedly died from a heat stroke amidst a rise in temperatures in the state. (Middle East Monitor)

Law and crime

• 2026 Fagersta school stabbing
  • A person is killed and three other people are injured in a mass stabbing, carried out with a sword, at a high school in Fagersta, Sweden. The perpetrator is arrested at the scene. (Reuters)
• Capital punishment in Japan
  • Japan executes a 58-year-old man for a 2009 arson attack that killed five people at a pachinko parlor in Osaka. It is the first execution under Sanae Takaichi's premiership. (AFP via The Star) (The Japan Times)
• Lawsuits involving TikTok
  • TikTok agrees to pay $400 million to settle a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit alleging violations of federal children's privacy law through the collection of personal data from users under 13 without parental consent. (AFP via France 24)
• War crimes in the Gaza war, Humanitarian aid during the Gaza war, Gaza genocide
  • Turkish justice minister Akın Gürlek announces that Turkey has issued an Interpol arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his role in attacks on activists seeking to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. (France 24) (Reuters)
• The Hong Kong Court of First Instance convicts Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung of incitement to subversion over their leadership of a group that organized annual Tiananmen crackdown vigils. They face up to 10 years in prison. (AFP via RFI)
• The Russian justice ministry designates independent news outlet Mediazona a "foreign agent" for a second time, accusing it of publishing false information about law enforcement. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• In Mexico, Sinaloan governor Rubén Rocha Moya resumes office after a four-month suspension while contesting U.S. drug-trafficking charges and an extradition request. Mexican prosecutors say they find insufficient evidence linking him to criminal conduct. (AFP via France 24)

Sports

• 2026–27 Malaysia Super League
  • In association football, Johor Darul Ta'zim claims a world record for the longest unbeaten run in top-flight league play, reaching 109 matches after defeating Kuching City 3–0 in Malaysia's Super League. (AFP via RFI)
• 2026–27 DFB-Pokal
  • 85 people were injured, including 35 police officers, after Kaiserslautern fans launched flares towards the main stand, while Mannheim fans stormed the pitch, causing the match between Kaiserslautern and Mannheim to be temporarily interrupted. (Goal)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2026 United States military buildup in the Middle East
      • The USS George Washington arrives in the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln amidst a nine-month deployment and reports of mental health challenges among the crew and supply shortages on the aircraft carrier during the Iran war. (AP) (The Guardian)
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
      • Data from Kpler shows that seven ships have passed through the Strait of Hormuz, with four entering and three exiting the waterway. (Reuters)
  • Gaza war, Palestinian war crimes
    • The Israel Defense Forces accuses Hamas of using the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis to carry out interrogations and torture Palestinians. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Mali War
  • 2026 Mali offensives
    • Human Rights Watch reports that Africa Corps forces summarily killed nine civilians, including four children, in Mali last month. (Al Jazeera) (HRW)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Kordofan campaign
    • The Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North led by Abdelaziz al-Hilu regains control of Kauda, South Kordofan, following two days of clashes with Otoro fighters. (Sudan Tribune)
• Myanmar civil war
  • Unexploded ordnance from past fighting is detonated after being tampered with in Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State, Myanmar, injuring ten children. (Burma News International)

Business and economy

• LSEG data shows that a vessel in France is loading wheat destined for Sudan, marking the first export of wheat from France to Sudan since August 2008. (Baird Maritime)

Disasters and accidents

• Security Aviation Flight 45
  • Eight people are killed when a Cessna 441 Conquest II aircraft crashes at the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site in Western Alaska, United States. (AA) (AP) (KTUU-TV)
• A M_w 6.7 earthquake strikes the Parinacochas province in Peru. (AP)
• Four railway workers on the Tōbu Nikkō Line are killed after being struck by a Limited express train in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. (BBC News) (The Japan Times)
• Mauritania's coast guard rescues more than 300 migrants, including 40 children, from an overcrowded boat off the country's coast after finding them in distress. (AFP via L'Orient–Le Jour)
• At least 13 Tunisians are missing and two are rescued after their boat capsized off Tunisia while sailing toward Italy, according to the Tunisian Observatory for Human Rights. One survivor is in critical condition. (Reuters)
• Five people are reported missing and eight others are injured after a fire at a restaurant with apartments in Thusis, Grisons, Switzerland. (AFP via Kuwait Times) (BBC News)

Health and environment

• 2026 Ebola epidemic
  • The World Health Organization says that the Democratic Republic of the Congo will receive 70,000 doses of the Ebola vaccine candidate developed by Merck to combat the Ebola outbreak in the country. (CNBC) (Africanews)

International relations

• Ecuador–United States relations, Mexico–United States relations
  • The U.S. Treasury Department issues sanctions on 15 people allegedly involved in a drug trafficking network shipping thousands of kilograms of cocaine from Ecuador through Mexico to the United States. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2025 Mexican fuel smuggling scandal, Argentina–Mexico relations
  • Argentina deports a Mexican Rear Admiral accused of leading a fuel-smuggling network inside the Mexican Navy to Mexico after the Mexican government withdraws its extradition request. He is taken to the Altiplano maximum-security prison, where his brother and alleged co-leader, Vice Admiral Manuel Roberto Farías Laguna, is also imprisoned. (Infobae in Spanish)
• Corruption in China, Chinese real estate crisis
  • A Chinese court sentences Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan to life imprisonment for financial fraud, bribery, and embezzlement, and fines Evergrande and its real estate arm a combined ¥15.8 billion (US$2.35 billion). (AFP via CNA)
• Two ANC members including a former Knysna councillor are shot dead, one day after a sitting Knysna councillor is shot dead in a suspected internal ANC faction fight in Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa. (Knysna-Plett Herald)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Bangladeshi presidential election
  • The Jatiya Sangsad elects Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as the President of Bangladesh in the first contested presidential election in 35 years. Alamgir will take office tomorrow. (Al Jazeera) (AP) (Dhaka Tribune)
• Cameroon President Paul Biya returns to the country following a two-and-a-half-month absence. (Africanews)
• Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi says the integration of Kurdish military, security, and administrative institutions into the Syrian state is complete following an agreement reached with president Ahmed al-Sharaa in January. (AFP via France 24)

Sports

• In American football, the National Football League fines the Dallas Cowboys and the New Orleans Saints $500,000 each after they started a brawl after a joint practice session at the Cowboys' facility in Oxnard, California, United States. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
      • 2026 Strait of Hormuz campaign
        • Axios reports that the U.S. military has created a new shipping lane in the Strait of Hormuz to help ships transit through the waterway, including the facilitating of 10 million barrels of oil per day. (The Jerusalem Post) (Axios)
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza peace plan, Qatar as a mediator in conflict
      • Qatari prime minister and foreign minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani meets with Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya and other senior leaders in Doha, Qatar, to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip and other occupied Palestinian territories. (Doha News)
    • War crimes in the Gaza war, Gaza genocide
      • The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launches an investigation into troop conduct for their roles in the 2024 killing of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, her family, and 15 paramedics. (AP)
    • Around ten people are reported killed in an Israeli airstrike on a police station in Gaza City. (Middle East Eye)
    • The IDF says that the Air Force have targeted two Hamas commanders, including one who participated in the October 7 attacks, along with Hamas tunnels in the Gaza Strip. (The Jerusalem Post)
    • The IDF also confirms that they have killed four Nukhba force commanders from the Al-Qassam Brigades wing of Hamas in an airstrike on a cafe yesterday in Gaza City. (The Jerusalem Post) (The Times of Israel)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kyiv strikes
    • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that a Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv killed at least 15 people and injured 40 others, damaging residential buildings, a children's hospital, and a school. (ABC News) (BBC News)
• Mexican drug war
  • Nine CJNG members, including four ringleaders, are arrested during a military operation in Tinaja de Vargas y Colesio, municipality of Tanhuato and Ecuandureo. Among the detained is Heraclio Guerrero aka "Tio Lako", leader identified as behind the operation of cartel training camps and the offensive during the 2026 Jalisco operation. (CNN en Español in Spanish) (Democrata)
• The United Nations reports that 36 humanitarian workers and contractors in South Sudan have been killed since the start of the year, surpassing the 31 killed last year. (AP)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2026 Iran war
  • Iranian economic crisis, Economic D-Day
    • U.S. president Donald Trump announces an economic war against Iran, along with new sanctions for countries trading with Iran. (The Hill)
  • The Office for National Statistics reports that inflation in the United Kingdom rose to 2.9% last month amidst the Iran war. (The Guardian)
• Economy of the United States
  • The United States Department of the Treasury reports that the national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time the previous day, and is currently at $40.047 trillion. (Reuters) (CNBC) (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2026 Mount Ololokwe helicopter crash
  • Six passengers, including Ecuadorian intelligence head Michele Sensi-Contugi and his wife, and the pilot are killed in a helicopter crash on Mount Ololokwe in Samburu County, Kenya. (NBC News)
• At least 52 people are killed when a boat carrying farm workers capsizes in Goronyo, Sokoto State, Nigeria. (Lagos Television)
• Twenty-three people are killed and five others are injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the BR-373 near Ipiranga, Paraná, Brazil. (Reuters) (UOL)
• Nine people, including eight Bangladeshi nationals, are killed and six others are injured in a hotel fire in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. (AP) (The Independent)

Health and environment

• 2026 Bangladesh measles outbreak
  • Amidst the ongoing measles outbreak in Bangladesh, health minister M. A. Muhit says that the outbreak will need 2-3 months for it to be under control. (Jagonews24)
  • In a study from the Bangladesh Shishu Hospital & Institute, around 82% of children who died from measles during the outbreak in Bangladesh did not receive adequate or exclusive breastfeeding during their first 6 months of their life. (Dhaka Tribune) (The Business Standard)
  • Four more children are reported to have died from measles in 24 hours, bringing the death toll in the country from the outbreak past 922. (The Business Standard)
• Merck and Moderna report that their cancer vaccine candidate showed positive results in their late-stage trial in preventing a recurrence of melanoma, including in high-risk patients. (AFP via France 24) (CNBC)

Law and crime

• Former Liberian vice president Jewel Taylor is charged for drug trafficking, money laundering ‌and other offenses as part of an investigation of a transnational narcotics network. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• A U.S.-led research team grows human brain organoids for seven years, the longest reported period, and finds that their cells continue maturing in patterns similar to normal brain development. (AFP via France 24)

Sports

• 2026 Sydney Swans player investigation
  • In Australian football, the Sydney Swans suspend five of their players for the remainder of the season who are under police investigation over allegations of sexual assault against multiple women. (ABC News Australia)