The day
Monday 6 July 2026
28 stories, biggest first.
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PoliticsState funeral of Ali Khamenei
Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends former supreme leader Ali Khamenei's funeral amidst questions surrounding his fate in the aftermath of an Israeli–U.S. airstrike on his home during the early stages of the war.
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CrimeÓbuda scandal
News outlet Telex.hu publishes the text of arrested Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) politician Gergő Czeglédy's 2024 testimony alleging the existence of a large corruption network involving members of the MSZP and Fidesz since 2006.
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SportSpain at the FIFA World Cup
In association football, Spain records its sixth consecutive FIFA World Cup clean sheet in a 1–0 win over Portugal in the round of 16, setting a tournament record, while goalkeeper Unai Simón extends his scoreless streak to 609 minutes.
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NewsGaza peace plan
Hamas announces that its government will step down to facilitate the transition of a technocratic administration in the Gaza Strip, as stipulated in the Gaza peace plan of October 2025. In response, the Board of Peace states that it will assess the implementation of these steps.
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News2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
According to shipping data from LSEG, around 10 Japan-linked ships, mostly managed by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, are reported to have transited through the Strait of Hormuz using the route proposed by Iran. Data also show that a supertanker carrying Saudi crude oil headed for South Korea left over the weekend.
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News2026 Mali offensives
The Al-Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Tuareg Azawad Liberation Front rebels seize the northern Mali town of Anéfis.
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News
At least nine people are killed, including children, and several others are injured in landslides at Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar District, Bangladesh.
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Crime2026 Monaco bombing
Anastasiia Berezovska, the suspect in a bombing targeting Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Iermolaiev and his family in Monaco on June 29, is found dead near Kyiv, Ukraine, with gunshot wounds to the head.
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Money2022–2026 video game industry layoffs
Microsoft cuts roughly 4,800 jobs, primarily within its Xbox and commercial sales divisions, while divesting game studios Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs.
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CrimeCorruption in the Philippines
Philippine police separately arrest senator Rodante Marcoleta and three co-accused, including former party-list representative Mike Defensor, after an anti-graft court orders their arrest in relation to a plunder case filed by the Ombudsman.
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PoliticsSecond impeachment of Sara Duterte
The impeachment trial of Philippine vice president Sara Duterte begins in the Senate.
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NewsGaza war
The Israeli military states that they have killed five Hamas militants who allegedly attempted to restore underground infrastructure in the northern Gaza Strip, west of the Yellow Line, including Hudhayfah Hussein Abdullah al-Hawajri, a Nukhba militant from the East Jabalia Battalion command, despite the ongoing ceasefire.
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NewsKyiv strikes
At least 22 people are killed and 56 others are injured in a Russian ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Search and rescue efforts are underway in Kyiv to free civilians trapped under rubble.
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NewsSiege of El Obeid
The United Nations Human Rights Council orders an inquiry into alleged human rights violations around El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan, warning that civilians face a risk of mass atrocities as the Rapid Support Forces encircles the city amid Sudan's civil war.
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News2026 Cuban crisis
Cuba experiences its third nationwide power outage of the year, with state utility Unión Eléctrica de Cuba reporting a total grid disconnection as the country faces severe fuel shortages and chronic failures in its electricity system.
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NewsAttacks in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian war
Ukraine's General Staff reports that drones have struck Russia's Omsk refinery in Omsk, Omsk Oblast in the Siberia region.
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News
Fifteen miners are killed and another is injured when part of a decommissioned gold mine collapses in Wadi Halfa, Northern State, Sudan, after miners entered the closed site.
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NewsAustralia–Fiji relations
Australia and Fiji sign a defence pact, making Fiji one of Australia's treaty-bound allies and committing both countries to consult on security threats and support mutual defence in the Pacific.
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NewsKyrgyzstan–Pakistan relations
Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari begins a four-day visit to Kyrgyzstan after an invitation from Kyrgyz president Sadyr Japarov, making it the first official visit by a Pakistani president to the country in 21 years.
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Crime2026 Monaco bombing
Riots between inmates from rival drug gangs at a prison in Negombo, Sri Lanka, kill 27 people, including four officers, and injure more than 100 others.
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CrimeCrime in Bangladesh
A crude bomb explodes during a post-march rally in Savar, Dhaka District, Bangladesh, while National Citizen Party convener Nabila Tasnid was giving a speech, injuring three.
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PoliticsState funeral of Ali Khamenei
Iranian state television reports that Khamenei's body arrives in Qom, where he studied, ahead of a planned procession.
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Science2026 Ebola epidemic
The total number of deaths from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo exceeds 500.
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Science
Samsung Electronics announces that Samsung Messages is being discontinued in the US on July 6 and directs users who have Android 12 or above to switch to Google Messages.
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Sport2026 Esports World Cup
The third edition of the Esports World Cup opens in Paris, France.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 6 July 2026, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.