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The U.N.'s International Maritime Organization (IMO) has launched a large-scale operation to evacuate more than 11,000 sailors stranded in the Strait of Hormuz, following a memorandum of understanding signed by the U.S. and Iran to end the conflict in the Gulf.

A study by the World Weather Attribution group released Friday found that Europe's current heatwave is the most severe ever recorded for the region and would have been "virtually impossible" 50 years ago without human-caused climate change.

Temperature records were broken in Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic on Sunday, as Germany reached 41.7°C, Poland hit 40.5°C in Slubice, and the Czech Republic recorded 41.9°C in Doksany, all-time national highs.

Following the blast on Rue Révérend Père Louis Frolla shortly before 9 p.m. local time, the AFP news agency, citing sources, identified one of the victims as Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Yermolaiev.

EU officials and representatives from 15 member states held a closed-door technical meeting in Brussels on Tuesday with a Taliban delegation — the first such gathering at EU institutions — to discuss the return of Afghan nationals without legal residency rights.

Social media platform X experienced a widespread outage on Monday, with Downdetector recording more than 35,000 user reports of issues around 10 a.m. ET. Service appeared to largely recover within about 45 minutes.

The U.S. Treasury issued a 60-day general license on Monday, waiving sanctions on Iranian oil, authorizing the production, delivery and sale of Iranian crude oil and petroleum products through Aug. 21. The move followed the first high-level talks in Switzerland under the Islamabad memorandum of understanding.

Uganda's parliament passed the Protection of Sovereignty Bill, 2026, which criminalizes actions deemed to promote "the interests of a foreigner against those of Uganda" and labels recipients of foreign funding for political purposes as "agents of foreigners." Those convicted face prison sentences of up to 20 years.