International from Sunday, July 19th, 2026

A US service member was killed on Saturday "during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance" in northern Iraq, US Central Command said.

At least six people were killed and 21 injured after two earthquakes struck a mountainous region of Peru, the country's civil defense chief said on Sunday.

A ferry carrying 116 passengers sank off the coast of Guyana in South America late Saturday with 67 people, including 15 children, rescued so far, according to Guyana authorities.

Iranian attacks have hit Kuwait's power generation and water desalination plant for the second time in two days, causing damage to facilities, a fire, and the disruption of a large number of electricity generation units, Kuwaiti authorities reported on Sunday.

Indian authorities were within their rights to move hunger-striking activist Sonam Wangchuk to a government hospital because he had not admitted himself despite his deteriorating health, a court said on Sunday, declining to order his immediate discharge.

Jordanian authorities have not issued any decision on Sunday to evacuate the airport or seaport in Aqaba, the government's spokesperson told Reuters, after the US embassy in Amman said they had been evacuated due to a credible threat.

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 2,267, including 893 deaths, government data showed late on Saturday.

Russia battered Ukraine's capital Kyiv overnight with one of its biggest ballistic missile barrages of the war, killing at least one person and wounding 16 others, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday.

The US military has completed its eighth consecutive night of strikes against Iran, the Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday, hitting Iranian military coastal surveillance and air defence facilities.