Israel began its ground offensive in Gaza City,a U.N. commission said that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza,the U.S. vetoed a U.N. Security Council Gaza ceasefire resolution,and Qatar convened an emergency summit over Israel's recent strike on Doha.This comes as the U.S. and Qatar neared an enhanced defense deal,Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a mutual defense pact,and a defense agreement between Australia and Papua New Guinea stalled.Meanwhile, the EU weighed the use of further frozen Russian assets to provide Ukraine with more loans,the U.S. approved a weapons aid package for Ukraine under a NATO-funded mechanism,Estonia alleged that Russian jets violated its airspace,and the U.K. approved the use of RAF Typhoon jets in NATO's Eastern Sentry mission over Poland.Elsewhere, Venezuela held Caribbean military exercises,U.S. President Donald Trump announced a second and third strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boats,and vessels from China and the Philippines collided in the South China Sea.

Trump made his second state visit to the U.K.,where he met with Prime Minister Keir Starmer,China's Xi Jinping held a phone call with Trump,and the U.S. and China reached a framework deal over TikTok.Meanwhile, the U.S. decertified Colombia as a drug-fighting ally,Israel seized over 180 crypto wallets linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,and the U.K.'s MI6 spy agency launched a dark web recruitment portal.This comes as former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was diagnosed with skin cancer,Romania charged former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu with planning a coup,and hundreds of thousands participated in anti-austerity strikes across France.In other news, Germany's Christian Democratic Union won North Rhine-Westphalia's municipal elections,French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte said they would present evidence of her womanhood in a U.S. court,and the U.K. High Court blocked an asylum seeker's deportation to France.

FBI Director Kash Patel testified before the Senate,ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live over his Charlie Kirk comments,and Trump suggested that television networks with programming critical of him should have their licenses revoked,as he moved to designate antifa a major terrorist organization.In other news, an immigration judge ordered the deportation of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil,a judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan minors,and Trump threatened to declare a national emergency to federalize Washington, D.C., again.This comes as an appeals court halted Trump's effort to fire Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook,a judge dismissed Trump's$15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times,and the U.S. Department of Justice sued Maine and Oregon over alleged voter registration violations.Meanwhile, the Senate rejected two funding bills,Utah's Supreme Court upheld a ruling requiring a new congressional map,and the Education Department announced a new civics effort in partnership with dozens of conservative groups.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department would "target" people who use hate speech,two Norfolk, Virginia, residents sued over the city's use of Flock Safety cameras,and the U.K.'s MI5 admitted to unlawfully obtaining a journalist's phone data.Meanwhile, Afghanistan's Taliban banned hundreds of university textbooks,and a British couple was released after eight months in Taliban custody.

The suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk was formally charged,a judge dismissed terrorism charges against suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione,and the FBI arrested a man who allegedly rammed his car into its Pittsburgh office gate.Meanwhile, British police detained four individuals after Trump-Epstein photos were projected onto Windsor Castle,three people were arrested in the U.K. on suspicion of spying for Russia,and the prime suspect in the kidnapping of Madeleine McCann was released from jail in Germany.

Erika Kirk was named the new CEO of Turning Point USA,Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield resigned over allegations of censorship,China found that Nvidia violated its antitrust laws,and Penske Media Corporation filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google.

The U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter-point,and New Zealand's economy shrank 0.9% in the last quarter.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed five new members to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) vaccine advisory panel,which voted to limit MMRV vaccines for young childrenand end its universal recommendation of the COVID-19 vaccine for all adults,and former CDC chief Susan Monarez alleged that Kennedy demanded she approve all vaccine recommendations without review.

A study estimated that climate change cost Europe over $50 billion this year,as researchers predicted that climate change caused 16,500 heat-related deaths across the continent this summer,and Spain recorded its hottest summer since 1961.This comes as a report suggested that wildfire smoke currently causes over 41,000 excess deaths in the U.S. every year,and Australia set a 2035 emissions reduction target of 62-70% below 2005 levels.

OpenAI launched teen safety features for ChatGPT,Meta launched AI-powered smart glasses,and DeepMind and OpenAI won gold at the "coding Olympics."Meanwhile, Italy became the first EU nation to pass regulations that align with the AI Act,and scientists created an AI-designed virus.

Apple launched live translation capabilities for its latest AirPods,researchers mapped the brain’s "mileage clock" for distance tracking,scientists announced a breakthrough in a dodo de-extinction project,and the world's oldest-known mummies were found in Southeast Asia.

Two flying cars collided mid-air at a Chinese airshow rehearsal.

Astronomers in Hawaii discovered a new "quasi-moon" orbiting near Earth.

Oscar-winning actor and director Robert Redford died.