Armed conflicts and attacks

Shipping data from Kpler reports that only 11 vessels have crossed the Bab-el-Mandeb strait yesterday. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/red-sea-shipping-slows-after-houthi-attack-saudi-arabia-data-shows-2026-07-27/

Law and crime

Three women are wounded in a mass stabbing on a street in Paris, France. The perpetrator is detained. (The Telegraph)

• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/27/three-women-stabbed-in-paris/

Disasters and accidents

French president Emmanuel Macron calls a crisis meeting as wildfires near Bordeaux. (BBC)

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2350zlyy1yo

Law and crime

Five people are killed and another is injured in a home break-in shooting in Gugulethu, Cape Town, South Africa. (News24)

• https://www.news24.com/southafrica/crime-and-courts/five-killed-one-wounded-in-early-morning-cape-town-shooting-20260727-0400