Aug 2, 2026 · 13 stories

Evening Edition · 2 August 2026

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 13 people across Gaza in a second straight night of attacks, days after Hamas accepts a US-backed disarmament plan

Israeli aircraft struck Gaza City, Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah overnight, killing at least 13 Palestinians, including a nine-year-old boy, the territory's Civil Defence Authority said. The Israeli military said it had targeted Hamas military operatives and killed two commanders, while Israel's energy minister, Eli Cohen, said no deal had been reached to stop the strikes even after Hamas this week accepted a plan to hand its weapons to a US-led 'Board of Peace.' More than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed since a supposed ceasefire took effect last October, in a territory now roughly 70% under Israeli control.AP, BBC · Aug 2, 2026

Two men dig through the broken concrete and rubble of a destroyed tiled room after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

Historical

Literary

Musical / Artistic

Politics

Official 2023 presidential portrait of Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wearing a dark suit and the presidential sash.

Brazil's President Lula, 80, launches a bid for a fourth term as officials warn of foreign interference

AP, France 24Aug 2, 2026

A laden crude-oil supertanker, the AbQaiq, riding low and alone across open sea.

An Italian-led EU naval force boards a sanctioned tanker from Russia's 'shadow fleet' in the Mediterranean

Reuters, The Kyiv IndependentAug 2, 2026

Conflict

A deserted American shopping-center parking lot at dusk cordoned off with police tape under cold overhead lights.

A shooting at a fast-food restaurant in an Idaho shopping center kills 3 people and wounds 7 before the gunman takes his own life

AP, ReutersAug 2, 2026

A deserted fortified checkpoint on a dusty road at dusk with concrete blast barriers and a thin column of smoke rising against an orange sky.

A suicide bombing in northwestern Pakistan kills at least 14 people, officials say

AP, ReutersAug 2, 2026

Economy

Rows of stacked shipping containers and gantry cranes at Wuhu Port on the Yangtze River in Anhui province, China.

China draws 'red lines' around its state-led economic model ahead of trade talks with the EU and US

Reuters, DevdiscourseAug 2, 2026

A Holcim cement plant at Portland, Colorado, its kilns, storage silos and conveyors standing against a dry western landscape.

Switzerland's Holcim agrees to sell its Philippines cement business to China's Huaxin Cement for about $807 million

Reuters, Inquirer.netAug 2, 2026

Climate

A firefighting helicopter releases a load of water from a suspended Bambi bucket over a burning forest.

Two crew are killed when two firefighting helicopters collide near Athens as wildfires burn across southern Europe

AP, ReutersAug 2, 2026

Science

Sun-baked, cracked and fissured dry mud of a drought-stricken reservoir bed under a bright sky.

South Korea records its highest temperature ever, 42.5C in Yangsan, breaking a 122-year national record

The Japan Times, Korea JoongAng DailyAug 2, 2026

Culture

'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' opens to $355 million in North America and $927 million worldwide, one of the biggest debuts ever

AP, ReutersAug 2, 2026

Exterior of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Richard Wagner's festival theatre on the Green Hill above Bayreuth, seen from the front.

An AI-assisted staging draws sustained boos at Germany's Bayreuth Festival of Richard Wagner's operas

AP, WRBLAug 2, 2026

An aerial view of a domed, shingle-clad concert hall nestled among autumn woodland, with a long dark-roofed timber walkway leading to it.

French studio PCA-Stream completes La Source Vive, a domed, copper-clad chamber-music hall above Lake Geneva in Evian

Dezeen, RIBA JournalAug 2, 2026

An archival black-and-white portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan 'Yoni' Netanyahu, who was killed leading the 1976 Entebbe rescue.

Uganda unveils a statue of Yonatan Netanyahu, the Israeli commander killed in the 1976 Entebbe rescue, on the raid's 50th anniversary

BBC, The Times of IsraelAug 2, 2026