Three of the assassins of Haitian PresidentJovenel Moïse, who was killed yesterday, are shot dead during a shootout with police in Port-au-Prince. Seventeen others are arrested, while six more are on the run. The attackers are identified as 26 Colombian mercenaries and two American-Haitians. The masterminds of the assassination and motive behind the assassination are unknown. (BBC News)
American diplomats and troops in Iraq and Syria are targeted in three rocket and drone attacks in the past 24 hours, including at least 14 rockets hitting an Iraqi airbase, wounding two American soldiers. (Al Jazeera)
A magnitude 5.9 MLearthquake strikes south of Lake Tahoe, near the California–Nevada state border, triggering a series of strong aftershocks. Though resulting in minimal damage and no casualties, it is the largest quake to hit the region in nearly 25 years. (USA Today)
Indonesia reports a record for the fourth consecutive day of 38,391 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 2.41 million. (Yahoo! News)
Malaysia reports a record 135 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 5,903. The country also surpasses 800,000 cases of COVID-19. (CNA)
South Korea reports a record 1,275 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 164,028. (Al Jazeera)
Hanoi suspends all public transport services to and from 14 provinces impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak and urges people to stay at home after the country reports a record 1,314 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. (Reuters)
LuxembourgPrime MinisterXavier Bettel is discharged from hospital after being in a serious but stable condition due to COVID-19 for several days. Bettel thanks the medical services and announces that he will resume activities through telework until the end of his isolation period. (RTL)
The United Kingdom reports a record for the second consecutive day of 32,551 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 5,022,893. (ITV News)
Nigeria reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a traveller following the routine travel test required of all international travellers and genomic sequencing at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Abuja. (AllAfrica)
The global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 4 million. (CNN)
Uruguayan Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo announces that his country will continue to negotiate with third parties or blocks independent of the MERCOSUR bloc, including extending preferential tariffs to other countries even if doing so contradicts the bloc's consensuses. PresidentLuis Lacalle Pou, while calling for the bloc to be reformed, states that Uruguay will still remain a full member of the bloc. (MercoPress)
Belarusian authorities block the website of Nasha Niva and detains two of the newspaper's journalists. The journalists' apartments are also searched by authorities. A spokesman for the website said that it is the latest crackdown on democracy activists and independent journalism in the country, conducted in the "worst way of the Soviet era". (AP)
The Faatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi party asks the Supreme Court to recognize the impromptu swearing-in of newly elected officials because, according to party leader Naomi Mataʻafa, all other venues were blocked when her party was locked out of Parliament. The Supreme Court had earlier rejected a similar petition but had granted a review. (RNZ)