• Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
  • At least seven people are dead after a car bomb blast south of Baghdad. (AP via Irish Times)
• War in Somalia
  • al-Shabab gunmen enter the Higher Education Ministry building in Mogadishu after a large explosion is reported. (Voice of America)

• The Wall Street Journal reports that European Union regulators have announced plans to file charges against American Internet company Google following a European Union investigation. (CNBC)

• An Asiana Airlines Airbus A320 en route from South Korea to Japan skids off the runway at Hiroshima Airport injuring 20 of the 74 passengers. (AP via News24)
• 2015 Libya migrant shipwreck
  • Up to 400 people may have died as a boat capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy with up to 550 passengers on board. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)

• More than 100 passengers out of 1,100 on the cruise ship Crown Princess may be suffering from symptoms of Norovirus. (Reuters)

• President of the United States Barack Obama endorses a proposal to remove Cuba from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism. (New York Times)
• Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
  • The United Nations Security Council votes to impose sanctions on Yemen's Houthi rebels. (Los Angeles Times)

• A court in Japan's Fukui Prefecture issues a landmark injunction against restarting reactors 3 and 4 of the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant. (AFP via Yahoo! News Australia)

• SpaceX's latest attempt at recycling its Falcon 9 rocket by landing it on an ocean platform fails. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
• Stone tools found at Lomekwi 3 are dated to 3.3 million years ago, which, if confirmed, would represent the oldest known stone tools. (Science)