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Broad Peak An avalanche on Broad Peak (pictured) in Pakistan kills 10 climbers. About 60,000 migrants cross the Morocco–Spain border at Ceuta, leading to at least 72 deaths. A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, leaving at least 38 people dead. In Gaelic football, the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship concludes with Mayo defeating Kerry in the final. Ongoing: Iran war (Lebanon war) Russo-Ukrainian war timeline Recent deaths: Nirmal Purja Kavinsky Samara Colina Lucy López Billy Ray Smith Jr. Bill McGlaughlin view — page history — related changes — edit

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August 4

Portal:Current events/2026 August 4

August 4, 2026 (2026-08-04) (Tuesday)

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August 3

Portal:Current events/2026 August 3

August 3, 2026 (2026-08-03) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza peace plan
      • A Board of Peace envoy meets Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and urges a halt in strikes across the Gaza Strip. However, they also announce that Israel will not withdraw from the enclave until Hamas completely disarms. (The New Region) (The Washington Post)
    • Casualties of the Gaza war
      • The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that dozens of children and civilians have been killed in weekend attacks in Gaza. (Xinhua)
      • Two Palestinians are reported to have been killed in an Israeli missile strike near a mosque at a civilian vehicle southwest of Gaza City. (Middle East Eye)
    • The Israel Defense Forces says that they have killed two Hamas militants in separate airstrikes in central Gaza and the Shati camp in Gaza City respectively, including a Nukhba Force commander who took part in the October 7 attacks. (The Times of Israel)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Shipping data shows that two tanker ships carrying oil from Saudi Arabia, the Suezmax Malta-flagged Lesvos and the VLCC Desh Vaibhav, have exited the Red Sea through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait. (Reuters)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • At least seven people are killed, including three children, and 40 others are injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on a crowded beach in Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• 2026 Venezuela earthquakes
  • The death toll from the two earthquakes that hit Venezuela in June exceeds past 6,000 according to figures from lawmaker Jorge Rodríguez. (Reuters)
• At least fourteen people are killed in a series of floods in southern India. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• 2020–2026 H5N1 outbreak
  • Scotland's NatureScot denies a 2026 licence for hunting northern gannets (known locally as "gugas") on Sula Sgeir, citing possible harm to the local gannet population after recent bird-flu deaths. (AFP via RFI)
• 2026 European heatwaves
  • Italy experiences its fourth heatwave of the summer with the health ministry issuing red alerts for a record 25 cities. (AA)
• 2026 United States cyclosporiasis outbreak
  • Michigan, U.S., reports the first two deaths of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak, which is caused by cyclospora cayetanensis. (AP)

Law and crime

• COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
  • Poland's health ministry appeals a Brussels court ruling ordering the country to accept and pay approximately €1.3 billion for unwanted COVID-19 vaccine doses produced by Pfizer and BioNTech. (Politico EU)

Politics and elections

• Human rights in Russia
  • Russian opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin, who attempted to contest the 2024 presidential election on a platform against the Russo-Ukrainian war, announces that he has fled the country to France following growing pressure on him and his family. (The Moscow Times)

Sports

• 2026 WTA Tour
  • 2026 Mubadala DC Open
    • In tennis, Alexandra Eala becomes the first Filipino player to win a WTA Tour title after defeating Jessica Pegula 4–6, 6–4, 6–0 to win the women's singles title at the 2026 Washington DC Open. (AFP via RFI)
• In horse racing, Churchill Downs Incorporated and the New York Racing Association announce a new championship series for 3-year old Thoroughbreds beginning in 2027, involving the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, but notably omitting the traditional middle leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes. (Courier Journal) (The Daily Gazette)
• Major League Soccer, the top flight of men's soccer in the U.S. and Canada, announces that Larry Berg, currently a co-owner of Los Angeles FC (LAFC) in that league, will succeed Don Garber as league commissioner at the start of 2027. Berg will sell his interest in LAFC before assuming his new position. (AP) (The Guardian)

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RD: Mateusz Bąk

Article: Mateusz Bąk (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)Credits:

• Nominated by Abcmaxx (talk · give credit)

Article needs updating
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: Polish footballer, Lechia Gdańsk legend. Article very undercited and I have orange tagged it, needs updating on his post-playing years and death, but plenty of sources available if any of the footballing editors would like to expand the article. Abcmaxx (talk) 08:15, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

RD: Jimmy Cricket

Article: Jimmy Cricket (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)

News source(s): BBC News

Credits:

• Updated and nominated by ItsShandog (talk · give credit)

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: Northern Irish comedian. ItsShandog (talk) 16:36, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

• Comment style section totally unsourced, but if his act had several motifs for several decades, it's bound to be mentioned in sources. Unknown Temptation (talk) 18:13, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

  Cited. ItsShandog (talk) 08:47, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

August 2

Portal:Current events/2026 August 2

August 2, 2026 (2026-08-02) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations
      • 2026 Iran war ceasefire
        • Iranian lawmaker Hassan Ghashghavi says that efforts to restore the Islamabad Memorandum deal between Iran and the United States are underway. (AFP via Arab News)
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
      • Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi says that Iran and Oman are nearing a deal to manage the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. halted its recent strikes against the country. (Al Jazeera)
  • Gaza war
    • The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirms that they have killed three militants in separate strikes last week, including a Jaish al-Islam militant in Gaza City, a Hamas commander in the Jabalya Battalion, and a Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant. (The Jerusalem Post)
  • Hezbollah–Israel conflict
    • The IDF's 401st Brigade says that they have destroyed 1,200 Hezbollah tunnels and concluded their mission in southern Lebanon, ending their eight-month deployment. (Israel National News) (The Jerusalem Post)
• Ethiopian civil conflict
  • Ethiopia-TPLF clashes
    • New clashes are reported across the Tigray Region in northern Ethiopia between the Ethiopian federal army and Tigray People's Liberation Front, four years after the previous war in the region ended, prompting hundreds to flee to war-torn Sudan amidst fears of a new civil war. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
    • Several Ethiopian refugees are reportedly killed after projectiles have hit refugee camps across the Ethiopia–Sudan border. (Sudan Tribune)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Darfur campaign, Darfur genocide
    • A drone strike hits a customary court in Kabkabiya District, North Darfur, Sudan, killing at least 37 people. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Police say a suspected suicide bombing outside a police station in Kabal, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killed at least 17 people, including seven officers and the suspected bomber, and injured at least 34 others. (Reuters)
• Mali War, Mali–Russia relations
  • The BBC reports that Russia has shipped military equipment on the sanctioned cargo vessel Mikhail Britnev last month to the Malian government. (BBC News) (RBC-Ukraine)

Disasters and accidents

• 2026 Greece wildfires
  • Two people are killed when two firefighting helicopters collided near Athens, Greece. (BBC News)
• 2026 Morocco–Spain border incident
  • Spanish officials say at least 72 people died during the mass migrant crossing from Morocco into the autonomous city of Ceuta. (Reuters)
• Six people are killed and 27 more injured in a traffic collision between a bus, a camper, and three cars in Colli sul Velino, Province of Rieti, Italy. (Xinhua)
• A ferry catches fire off the coast of Madura, Indonesia, leaving at least five people dead and 41 others missing. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• South Korea's weather agency records 42.5 °C (108.5 °F) in Yangsan, South Gyeongsang, the country's highest temperature since observations began. (AFP via France 24)

International relations

• Foreign relations of the Dominican Republic, Foreign relations of Venezuela
  • The Dominican Republic and Venezuela agree on a framework to gradually restore diplomatic relations, which deteriorated after the Dominican Republic questioned the results of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election. (AFP via Jamaica Observer)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Brazilian general election
  • Incumbent Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva formally announces his candidacy for a fourth term as the Workers' Party's nominee in October’s presidential election. (AFP via France 24)

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RD: Rod Liddle

Article: Rod Liddle (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)

News source(s): Guardian

Credits:

• Nominated by Black Kite (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: Controversial journalist whose later writings were provocative (to say the least) along with some, er, interesting events in his personal life. Article is orange-tagged for neutrality but no serious discussion on talk page for nearly two years so that can probably be removed (and I note his most famous outrageous quote isn't even mentioned in the article!). Article is pretty-well sourced, there may be a few odd statements. Black Kite (talk) 14:34, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

POV tag was removed a matter of minutes before you posted here and the "shag the kids" quote had been removed about an hour ago. I readded it in a way that was actually due. I also added a couple of cn tags.--Launchballer 15:02, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

RD: Kay Granger

Article: Kay Granger (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)

News source(s): CBS News

Credits:

• Nominated by Flipandflopped (talk · give credit)
• Updated by TDKR Chicago 101 (talk · give credit)

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: Texas congresswoman who once was the Chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Very fresh news, so article may need further updating. Flip^andFlopped ㋡ 01:40, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

• Well sourced, but would like to see more information on her tenure as Mayor of Fort Worth. Natg 19 (talk) 01:01, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

Agreed, more info about her tenure as mayor of Fort Worth is needed. TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 01:25, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

August 1

Portal:Current events/2026 August 1

August 1, 2026 (2026-08-01) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
      • The Bermuda-flagged LNG tanker Gaslog Shanghai, which was carrying LNG oil from Qatar, is reported to have been among the two vessels hit yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz. (Arab Times Kuwait) (Bloomberg)
      • A tanker near Oman is hit by an unknown projectile. (CNBC)
    • 2026 Iranian strikes on Kuwait
      • The Kuwaiti defense ministry reports that its military has detected and intercepted Iranian drones entering the country's airspace. (Kuwait Times)
    • United States embassies in the Middle East warn Americans to depart the region amidst fears of a potential escalation in the war. (AFP via Arab News)
    • U.S. president Donald Trump cancels a planned attack against Iran, citing progress in ceasefire negotiations. (Axios) (The Japan Times)
  • Gaza war
    • Casualties of the Gaza war, Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli airstrikes kill three Palestinians in Gaza City, bringing the total casualties in the past 24 hours to seven. (Al-Ahram) (Al Jazeera)
    • Gaza peace plan
      • A Board of Peace official reports that Hamas will disarm its weapons in the coming days. (The Times of Israel)
  • Hezbollah–Israel conflict
    • 2026 Lebanon war
      • The Israeli military says it has killed several Hezbollah fighters in an Israeli-held area of southern Lebanon, despite a ceasefire framework between Israel and Lebanon. (AFP via South China Morning Post)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • The Houthis in Yemen deny reports of imposing tolls on vessels passing through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Foreign involvement in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • The Washington Post reports that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu blocked a request by former United States senator Lindsey Graham to transfer an Iron Dome system from the U.S. to Ukraine. (Haaretz)
  • Kyiv strikes
    • Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says an overnight Russian missile attack has killed at least nine people and injured 24 others, while damaging buildings and causing fires across several districts of the Ukrainian capital. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
  • Naval warfare in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Ukrainian forces sink a Rosatom-owned container ship in the Black Sea, forcing its 17-member crew to abandon it. Rosatom says it had been transporting civilian goods, including frozen food and construction materials. (BBC News)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • Egypt and Sudan reach an agreement on a 16-month plan to rehabilitate the Jebel Aulia Dam south of Khartoum, including the construction of a temporary bridge, after the dam was damaged in November 2023 during shelling by the Rapid Support Forces. (Sudan Tribune)
• Terrorism in Colombia
  • 2026 attack on the Norte de Santander Police Command
    • A truck bomb explodes beside a police station in Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia, injuring 11 police officers and three civilians. (AFP via France 24)
• Terrorism in Russia
  • 2026 Moscow bombing
    • A woman attempts to set off a bomb inside a coffeehouse in Moscow, Russia, but is stopped at the entrance, detonating the explosive. Three people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 21 more are injured. (CNN)

Arts and culture

• Iraq in the 2026 Iran war
  • The Arba'in Shia Islam pilgrimage in Iraq is held amidst the Iran war, with Iranian pilgrims attending the event. (Al-Monitor)

Disasters and accidents

• 2026 United States wildfires
  • 2026 Washington wildfires
    • The Old Trails wildfire in northwestern Spokane, Washington, United States, burns 3,000+ acres, destroying many structures. Residents near Fort Spokane are told to evacuate. (CNN) (News.az)
• 2024–2026 Cuba blackouts
  • Cuba reports a partial collapse of the national power grid, leaving western provinces without electricity after transmission lines fail between Matanzas and Pinar del Río. (Xinhua)
• 2026 Aerodiana Cessna 208 crash
  • Thirteen people, including 11 tourists, are killed when a small aircraft crashes near the Nazca Lines, Peru, after departing Pisco, Ica. (Firstpost)
• 2026 Broad Peak avalanche
  • All ten climbers, including Nirmal Purja, are confirmed deceased after an avalanche at Broad Peak in Pakistan on July 30. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• 2026 heat waves
  • Protesters block parts of the main highway connecting Port Sudan and Khartoum in Suakin and Jubayt over severe power cuts amidst a heat wave reported by the Sudan Meteorological Authority in Sudan's Red Sea State. (Sudan Tribune)

International relations

• Morocco–Spain relations
  • 2026 Morocco–Spain border incident
    • Moroccan security forces clash with hundreds of migrants as they attempt to storm the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Several Moroccan security personnel are reportedly injured while more than 50 migrants are detained. (Yeni Safak)

Law and crime

• 2026 Twin Falls shooting
  • At least four people are killed, including the perpetrator, and others are injured in a mass shooting at an In-N-Out restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, United States. (CNN) (Reuters)
• Cyberwarfare during the 2026 Iran war
  • The U.S. FBI opens an investigation after the U.S. state of Michigan reports a cyberattack on its water systems, including whether Iran was behind the cyberattack, a day after Minnesota reported a similar breach. (Al Jazeera) (ABC News)
• Four workers are killed in a mass shooting in Nyanga, Western Cape, South Africa, while they were repairing a flat tyre. (The Witness)

Sports

• 2030 FIFA World Cup controversies
  • UEFA gives FIFA president Gianni Infantino an ultimatum to resign or face an emergency no-confidence vote following Infantino's plan to sell stakes in FIFA Forward Enterprise, which he has rescinded amidst backlash. (BBC Sport) (The Telegraph)

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(Posted separate blurb and RD) 2026 Broad Peak avalanche & RD: Nirmal Purja

Articles: Nirmal Purja (talk · history · tag) and 2026 Broad Peak avalanche (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination
Blurb:  In Pakistan, an avalanche on Broad Peak kills ten climbers, including Nepalese-British mountaineer Nirmal Purja (pictured). (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ Nepalese-British mountaineer Nirmal Purja is killed along with nine others following an avalanche in the Pakistani Himalayas.
Alternative blurb 2: ​ In Pakistan, an avalanche on Broad Peak kills ten climbers. (This leaves Nirmal Purja, Nadhira Al Harthy, Pur Bahadur Gurung and others for the RD line as separate ITN candidates.)

News source(s): The Kathmandu Post

Credits:

• Updated and nominated by ItsShandog (talk · give credit)
• Updated by ArionStar (talk · give credit)

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: Nepali mountaineer known for record‑setting speed ascents. ItsShandog (talk) 11:16, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• Support The disaster itself is notable and receives media coverage, so the nomination should focus on the story instead of Purja. --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 15:31, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Merged nom - ArionStar (talk · contribs) nominated the broader avalanche article a few hours later, so I've merged it in here. Support, receiving sustainable news coverage, in the news, Purja seems to be a "top of his field" sort of character, so both the incident and his article should be bolded per WP:ITNRDBLURB. — Knightoftheswords 15:32, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Support alt blurb as the avalanche and Purja are notable. Bloxzge 025 (talk) 15:58, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• Support blurb articles are ok. Grimes2 16:22, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
• Comment I think focusing on Purja is wrong. Its not clear he would meet the "major figure", but if we treat this as "death as the story", then yes, this fits. That said, there are also two other people that died that have blue-linkes. Yukta's was created in the wake of this event and likely does not meet BLP1E (all sources are from this event's coverage), but the other one Al Harthy is definitely beyond BLP1E and in decent shape if that was just an RD. So to include Purja (featured or not) and not Al Harthy is a problem. Hence why the first blurb is a better start, "In Pakistan, an avalanche on Broad Peak kills ten climbers, including mountaineers Nirmal Purja and Nadhira Al Harthy." Masem (t) 16:41, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

  I don't see the need for the Nirmal Purja article to be bolded. ArionStar (talk) 17:02, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

  Agreed Bloxzge 025 (talk) 17:38, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

  Agreed. --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 17:50, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• Comment / Suggestion: Let's consider a blurb with a bolded link to 2026 Broad Peak disaster a separate nom from the RD now for Nirmal Purja, shall we? --PFHLai (talk) 20:52, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

  I prefer his article being mentioned in the blurb, only. ArionStar (talk) 23:58, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

  It makes more sense to me to have a blurb on 2026 Broad Peak avalanche without mentioning specific victims, and have Nirmal Purja and Nadhira Al Harthy on the RD line. That would be three separate ITN candidates, to be evaluated and promoted to ITN separately. --PFHLai (talk) 18:10, 2 August 2026 (UTC) Pur Bahadur Gurung may be counted as a 4th candidate, but maybe not long enough (yet)? --PFHLai (talk) 03:29, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

• Support bolded disaster since that is the notable event. Good nomination, notable as event, so the RDB is acceptable This post was made by orbitalbuzzsaw gang (talk) 22:12, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Support Article is of sufficient quality for ITN. --MtPenguinMonster (talk) 01:25, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

• Split noms. No need to single out Purja if we have two other individuals with articles who were killed as well. DarkSide830 (talk) 01:43, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

  Please feel free to nominate the other wikibios for RD as separate candidates. --PFHLai (talk) 18:27, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

  I'm not going to unmerge without consensus considering they were already merged. DarkSide830 (talk) 00:32, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

  Excuse me, what does "unmerge" mean? Not bolding the link seems like not recognizing the linked article as an ITN candidate. Would that be "unmerging the noms"? The "other individuals with articles who were killed as well" can go to the RD line instead of staying on the blurb. --PFHLai (talk) 08:43, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

• Support The original blurb seems ok. My main qualm is that Purja's article has some controversial sections about sexual assault allegations and The Himalayan Times. These need careful scrutiny to ensure accuracy and compliance. They could also use some clarification as I'm not fully understanding the fuss about the newspaper coverage. Andrew🐉(talk) 09:32, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
• Posted blurb and separate RD No consensus to combine Purja into blurb.—Bagumba (talk) 04:55, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

RD: Vincent Pastore

Article: Vincent Pastore (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)

News source(s): The Guardian

Credits:

• Nominated by CantBelieveINeedAnAccount (talk · give credit)

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: American actor. Best known for his role in The Sopranos. CantBelieveINeedAnAccount (talk) 02:15, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Not yet ready Several unsourced paragraphs and unsourced acting credits section. --MtPenguinMonster (talk) 13:19, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

July 31

Portal:Current events/2026 July 31

July 31, 2026 (2026-07-31) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
      • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says that it struck two tankers trying to pass the Strait of Hormuz with aerial protection from the United States, and forced four others to turn around. (The Guardian)
    • Recent evidence by The New York Times show that a U.S. strike yesterday on Qeshm Island has hit a family home, killing three people. (The New York Times)
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war, Israeli settler violence
      • At least 11 Palestinians, including four children, are injured during a raid by Israeli settlers and soldiers in Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Israeli soldiers also detain at least ten people from Bethlehem, Nablus, Salim, and Tell. (Al Jazeera)
    • Gaza war hostage crisis
      • The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirms that they have killed a Mujahideen Brigades militant who was involved in the abduction of Avinatan Or and his girlfriend Noa Argamani during the Nova music festival massacre, and directing the abduction of Sudthisak Rinthalak during the October 7 attacks. (The Jerusalem Post) (The Times of Israel)
    • Gaza peace plan
      • Hamas says that they will disarm if Israel withdraws from and ends its military campaign in the Gaza Strip and if Israel and the U.S. honors the ceasefire agreement signed in October 2025. (Middle East Eye) (The Washington Post)
    • The IDF says that killed two Hamas operatives accused of smuggling weapons into the Gaza Strip in separate strikes. (The Times of Israel)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Two warehouses in Volgograd and Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan, are attacked and set on fire, causing damage estimated at US$1.5 billion, in the latest of a series of Ukrainian drone strikes targeting the Russian online retailer Wildberries. (AFP via France 24) (Kyiv Post)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • A migrant worker is fatally shot and another is injured by insurgents in Kulgam district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (The Indian Express)
• Mali War
  • Human Rights Watch reports that a Sukhoi Su-24 airstrike by the Russian paramilitary group Africa Corps in Mali's Mopti region killed eight civilians in June. (Africanews) (AP)
• Sudanese civil war
  • The Sudan News Agency reports that the Group 26 unit of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group has surrendered its personnel and military equipment to the Sudanese Armed Forces. (Middle East Monitor)

Business and economy

• AI boom
  • South Korea's KOSPI index rises by 18%, its largest single-day gain in history, amid a surge of investment in AI. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• A bus en route to Algiers, Algeria, plunges into a deep ravine in El Kerma after skidding off the road, killing 25 people and injuring 44 others. (AP)
• Twelve people, including five children, are killed and 66 others are injured after a bus overturns on the N1 highway near Trompsburg, Free State, South Africa. (IOL)
• Two bodies and a body part are recovered after an avalanche on the Broad Peak in Pakistan buried ten climbers yesterday, including Nirmal Purja, who remains missing. (BBC News)

Health and environment

• A cancer patient at the Christie hospital in Manchester, United Kingdom, becomes the first to receive the ZI-MA4-1 therapy. (BBC) (The Independent)

International relations

• Morocco–Spain relations
  • 2026 Morocco–Spain border incident
    • Ceutan mayor-president Juan Jesús Vivas says that around 60,000 undocumented migrants have entered the Spanish exclave in North Africa in the last 24 hours, as the death toll rises to 57. (The Guardian) (BBC News)
    • Videos on social media appear to show the Spanish Army deploying military vehicles towards the border with Morocco. (Reuters)
    • French interior minister Laurent Nuñez announces that he has ordered increased controls at the border with Spain amid fears the thousands of migrants entering Ceuta could make their way to France. (Politico)
    • Austrian chancellor Christian Stocker and Finnish interior minister Mari Rantanen join Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni in calling for Spain to be suspended from the Schengen Area in response to the mass arrival of migrants in Ceuta over the last 24 hours. (AA)
    • Spanish authorities close the Melilla border crossing with Morocco after around 400 migrants stormed the border barrier. RTVE reports the sound of gunfire and explosions. (AA)
    • Italy suspends Schengen border-free travel with Spain, introducing checks on air and sea passengers and strengthening controls with France along the France–Italy border. (Reuters)
    • Spain's interior ministry says authorities have returned about 48,300 of roughly 50,000 migrants who entered Ceuta from Morocco. (CBS News)
• Belarus–Latvia relations
  • Latvia announces the sudden closure of its border with Belarus, citing "technical reasons". (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
  • A Sri Lankan court sentences former police chief Pujith Jayasundara to death for negligence in failing to prevent the 2019 Easter bombings, which killed 279 people. Sri Lanka has not carried out an execution since 1976. (AFP via The Star)
• Indonesian authorities announces it arrested a Malaysia Airlines pilot for allegedly smuggling over 26 kg (57 lb) of ecstasy and a package of methamphetamine into Jakarta's Soekarno–Hatta International Airport. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Bulgarian presidential election
  • The Bulgarian National Assembly sets 25 October as the date for the presidential election. (AP)

Sports

• 2030 FIFA World Cup controversies
  • Carlos Cordeiro, senior FIFA executive and adviser to FIFA president Gianni Infantino, resigns in protest of Infantino's plans to sell stakes in FIFA Forward Enterprise to private investors, including American banking institution JPMorgan Chase, calling them "a bad deal for FIFA's members, a bad deal for football, and a bad deal for the long-term future of the game". (Sky News)
  • The Asian Football Confederation joins UEFA in opposing Infantino's plans and vows to boycott the next tournament if they go ahead. (The Independent)
  • Infantino reverses his plan to sell stakes in the FIFA World Cup amidst backlash. (ESPN)

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RD: Pepe Villalobos

Article: Pepe Villalobos (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)

News source(s):

Credits:

• Updated and nominated by GreenLipstickLesbian (talk · give credit)

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: Composer and musician José Villalobos Cavero, better known as Pepe Villalobos. The so-called "King of Festejo", he was an important figure in Peru's música criolla/Afro-Peruvian music scene. GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 08:55, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• Support everything is sourced. Jaguarnik (talk) 01:19, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Support Article is of sufficient quality for RD. --MtPenguinMonster (talk) 03:08, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

RD: Glenn A. Baker

Article: Glenn A. Baker (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)

News source(s): ABC News

Credits:

• Nominated by Hawkeye7 (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Laterthanyouthink (talk · give credit)

Article updated
Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: Music journalist. Edited Billboard magazine for 20 years. Article is in surprisingly good shape. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:48, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support Article quality is sufficient. QuicoleJR (talk|edits) 23:08, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support (After doing a bit more work on the article.) Laterthanyouthink (talk) 01:32, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Not yet ready Article still has a couple of CN tags. --MtPenguinMonster (talk) 04:16, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Done. All cited now. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 05:54, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

RD/Blurb: Franco Baresi

Article: Franco Baresi (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination
Blurb:  Former Italian footballer and manager Franco Baresi dies at the age of 66. (Post)

News source(s): MSN, Gazzetta dello Sport, The Guardian

Credits:

• Nominated by Shakya2007 (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Messirulez (talk · give credit)

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: Italian footballer. One of the greatest defenders to ever grace the game Shakya2007 (talk) 05:55, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support Excellent quality article, everything is cited and it is comprehensive. He seems like a very big name in football - might I suggest a blurb? Chorchapu (talk | edits) 15:54, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

  Sure you can! Shakya2007 (talk) 16:30, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support citation problems solved by one dedicated user, now credited. I would lean blurb due to achievements, honours and legacy but I probably read more about football than most users here. Then again, if the article has conveyed to others his importance, then it is evident. Unknown Temptation (talk) 16:22, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Comment I cannot vouch for where he would sit in terms of greatest players, but I will note the article does describe why he may be considered one, as to be appropriate for a "major figure" blurb consideration. Masem (t) 16:41, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose blurb OLDMANDIES. Manner of death not notable. Death has no direct notable impact. Let's try to be serious here. This post was made by orbitalbuzzsaw gang (talk) 18:23, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• He was 66. What are the parameters for your OLDMANDIES (which every closing admin ignores anyway)? Black Kite (talk) 18:55, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

  Ignore OLDMANDIES. ArionStar (talk) 20:35, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

What do you mean "let's be serious here", @Orbitalbuzzsaw. He's listed as Vital 5, and we blurb a lot of people who are Vital 5. There's a case to be made that he shouldn't be blurbed, but it's 100% arguable that he should be blurbed. So don't stay stuff like that, save it for those that we don't consider vital. Nfitz (talk) 04:26, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

His death is not notable, and whatever his vital status may be he is not a household name anywhere except maybe Italy. That should be our standard and even then “household name” should be interpreted very conservatively - Thatcher, Mandela, Jane Goodall is the marginal case This post was made by orbitalbuzzsaw gang (talk) 15:28, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• Support RD 18213 characters (2960 words) "readable prose size" and sourced. Grimes2 18:37, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support RD, neutral on blurb Article looks good, but it doesn't really demonstrate how the subject was top of his field or how exactly he was seen as the greatest defends in the sport. A well written and sourced legacy section might do it justice, and could sway me. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 18:48, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

  There is one, its under the player career section. Masem (t) 22:59, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support on quality because all requirements are met. Neutral on the blurb proposal. QuicoleJR (talk|edits) 18:53, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Regarding a blurb Baresi is right on the grey area for this, and I actually thought of including him in that list I posted recently of footballers that would qualify for a blurb, but eventually didn't. I can see RS calling him "one of the greats", "a legend", an "icon" and so on. If you made me choose I'd edge just against it, but I couldn't make a strong argument against it either. Black Kite (talk) 18:55, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

  You finally agree with me, for once lmao Shakya2007 (talk) 20:08, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support RD & blurb - Article is well written and properly sourced. He was one of the best ever in his position so would be fine with a blurb especially given the quality of this article. Morogris (✉ • ✎) 22:17, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support blurb One of the best players of all time and a world cup winner. He is also described as a legend by news such as NYT. Sharrdx (talk) 23:14, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose blurb. RD blurbs should be reserved for cases where the death and/or funeral itself could support its own article. Example; Death of Jeffrey Epstein. Abductive (reasoning) 07:51, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
• Comment Kevin Keegan won the Ballon d'Or twice and didn't even get an RD. If this guy is so good, how come he didn't win it at all? Andrew🐉(talk) 13:24, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

  As I'm sure you know, User:Andrew Davidson, there's always a huge bias towards high-scoring forwards. He was runner-up in 1989. Do you know who else never won it - Thierry Henry and David Beckham. Keegan's article remained problematic. You were the first person to call for Keegan to be blurbed. Nfitz (talk) 15:09, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose blurb A great player but I don't think any sports deaths beyond the likes of Pelé or Tom Brady should make it -- I don't think that Baresi was quite up there. Sheila1988 (talk) 20:54, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose blurb per Abductive. Subject is not a household name like Maradona or Mandela. CantBelieveINeedAnAccount (talk) 02:11, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

July 30

Portal:Current events/2026 July 30

July 30, 2026 (2026-07-30) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations
      • 2026 Iran war ceasefire, Pakistan in the 2026 Iran war
        • Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman Tahir Andrabi reaffirms that talks between Iran and the United States are still ongoing despite recent strikes by the U.S. military. (The Times of Israel)
    • 2026 Iranian strikes on Arab countries
      • 2026 Iranian strikes on Jordan
        • Jordanian air defenses shoot down five missiles from Iran. (AP)
      • 2026 Iranian strikes on Kuwait
        • Kuwaiti authorities confirm that an Iranian attack targeted a building belonging to a Chinese company and killed one person. (AFP via The Times of Israel) (Kuwait Times)
    • Egypt in the 2026 Iran war
      • 2026 Damietta drone strike
        • The Egyptian cabinet confirms a drone has hit two vessels yesterday at a port in Damietta, Egypt, including the LNG storage tanker Energos Winter. (Reuters)
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
      • Data shows that the QatarEnergy-controlled LNG tanker Al Areesh exited the Strait of Hormuz, becoming the first LNG vessel from Qatar visible on ship-tracking data to do so since July 11, when Al Hamra exited the strait from Das Island, United Arab Emirates. (Reuters)
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza peace plan
      • Mediators and Hamas reach an agreement to implement the second phase of a United States-backed ceasefire signed in October last year during a meeting in Cairo, Egypt. (Egyptian Gazette)
      • U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the Board of Peace has reached a deal for a complete disarmament of Hamas. (BBC News) (Jewish Insider)
      • Amidst reports of a new plan to disarm Hamas, Israel reaffirms that it will not withdraw from the Gaza Strip, including the Yellow Line, until the militant organization is completely disarmed. (The Jerusalem Post)
    • The Gaza Health Ministry reports that four people, including children, are killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, in violation of the ongoing ceasefire. (Al Jazeera)
    • The Israeli military claims it has killed two Hamas militants in separate strikes in the Gaza Strip, including a Nuseirat Battalion commander and a Hamas platoon commander, violating the ongoing ceasefire. (The Times of Israel)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Saudi Arabia's government announces the establishment of the Multinational Maritime Defense Alliance with 14 countries signing the founding document in an effort to keep the Bab-el-Mandeb strait open. (Middle East Eye) (Saudi Press Agency)
    • About 25 vessels cross the Bab-el-Mandeb strait according to data from Kpler shipping data. (Reuters)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Russian forces launch hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 50 others, including six people killed in a ballistic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih. (NBC News) (Fana News)
  • 2026 missile explosion in Poland, Violations of non-combatant airspace during the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • An armed Russian Kh-101 cruise missile enters Polish airspace around Lublin, prompting NATO to scramble fighter jets in response. It later explodes in the countryside near Tarnawa-Kolonia. (The Kyiv Independent) (Al Jazeera) (DW) (TVN24 in Polish)
• Sudanese civil war
  • War crimes during the Sudanese civil war
    • The Associated Press reports that two former child soldiers said they were trained by Colombian mercenaries after being conscripted by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during the ongoing civil war in Sudan. (AP) (The Washington Post)
  • Kordofan campaign
    • The Sudanese Air Force launches a series of airstrikes against RSF mobilizations and military positions in the north and west Kordofan. (Sudan Tribune)
• Terrorism in Pakistan
  • The death toll from yesterday's attack in the Hangu district of northwest Pakistan rises to at least eleven police officers. (AP via ABC News)

Business and economy

• The Intergovernmental Authority on Development trade bloc reopens its office in Khartoum, Sudan, resuming operations for the first time since the start of the country's civil war in April 2023. (Sudan Horizon) (Sudan Tribune)

Disasters and accidents

• 2026 Kumamoto earthquake
  • The casualty toll from the M_w 6.8 earthquake in Kumamoto on Kyushu, Japan, earlier this week rises to 35 people killed and over 134 injured. (Reuters)
• 2026 Quetta coal mine explosion
  • At least 34 miners are killed and more are reported missing after a methane gas explosion at a coal mine near Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AFP via Arab News)
• At least nine people are killed and several others are trapped after an explosion at a four-story building in Bhiwandi, Maharashtra, India. (Hindustan Times)
• Five people are critically injured and six are missing after a residential building collapses during a gas leak explosion in Messina, Sicily, Italy. (SkyNews24)
• Ten climbers are reported missing, including Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja, after an avalanche on the Broad Peak in Pakistan. (CNN) (The Indian Express)

Health and environment

• 2026 Ebola epidemic
  • The death toll from the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo rises to over 1,500 people killed. (AP)
  • Singapore-based Hilleman Laboratories announces plans to advance an rVSV-based vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola into human trials after World Health Organization experts identified it as the most promising candidate for the epidemic. (AFP via CNA)
• 2026 United States cyclosporiasis outbreak
  • The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reports that the U.S. state has surpassed 10,000 cases of cyclosporiasis, which is caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis. (CBS News MI)
• Nuclear power in Hungary
  • The Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary shuts down for the first time in 44 years amid a drought across the country and extremely low water levels on the Danube river. (BBC News) (DW)

International relations

• Morocco–Spain relations
  • 2026 Morocco–Spain border incident
    • Thousands of undocumented immigrants cross into the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta from neighboring Morocco. The city's mayor-president, Juan Jesús Vivas, requests the Spanish government to declare a national emergency, but is refused by the interior ministry. (AP)
    • Senior Italian politicians, including prime minister Giorgia Meloni, deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, and foreign minister Antonio Tajani, call for Spain to be kicked out of the Schengen Zone or the suspension of the Schengen Agreement entirely, citing the alleged threat of undocumented immigrants spreading throughout the European Union. (Politico EU)
• Chile–Venezuela relations
  • Chile and Venezuela restore diplomatic relations after a two-year suspension following Chile's call for a review of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election results. (AFP via The Manila Times)
• International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
  • Naoero announces it has withdrawn its recognition of Georgia's breakaway states Abkhazia and South Ossetia, terminating diplomatic relations with these entities "with immediate effect". (Civil Georgia)

Politics and elections

• Argentine president Javier Milei issues a decree seeking parliamentary approval to bar or expel foreigners accused of inciting hatred against Argentina or its people, while exempting protected political, academic, and ideological expression. (AFP via Vanguard)

Science and technology

• Cyberwarfare during the 2026 Iran war, 2026 Minnesota water system cyberattack
  • The Minnesota IT Services reports a cyberattack across 30 municipal community water systems across the state, with American authorities accusing Iran of being behind the cyberattack. (Al Jazeera) (The New York Times)

Sports

• 2026 FIFA crisis, 2030 FIFA World Cup controversies
  • In association football, UEFA announces that it will boycott the 2030 FIFA World Cup, scheduled to be hosted by current champions Spain along with Morocco and Portugal, if FIFA president Gianni Infantino proceeds with plans to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors. (Sky Sports)
• International sporting sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • In boxing, World Boxing lifts all restrictions on Russian athletes, allowing them to compete with their national symbols. (Reuters)
  • In ice hockey, the International Ice Hockey Federation extends Russia's ban to the 2027 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, and says that a decision will be made in November for the 2027 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships. (ESPN)

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RD: Beto Cabrera

Article: Beto Cabrera (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)

News source(s):

Credits:

• Updated and nominated by GreenLipstickLesbian (talk · give credit)

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: Argentine actor and comedian, best known during the 1960s and 1970s as one half of a comedy duo with es:Mario Sánchez (actor). GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 07:25, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

RD: Kazimira Prunskienė

Article: Kazimira Prunskienė (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)

News source(s): LRT English

Credits:

• Nominated by Mr. Lechkar (talk · give credit)

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: First prime minister of Lithuania after its independence from the Soviet Union. Mr. Lechkar (talk) 07:27, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Comment as the first post-Soviet prime minister of a newly independent country, a blurb might be appreciated. In any case, the article needs work: more sources and probably more detail on her political career, especially as prime minister. _-_Alsor ⭐️⭐️ (talk) 09:17, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Support blurb per above. Kevinishere15 (talk) 09:59, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose blurb The fact she was the first post-Soviet prime minister of Lithuania isn't a compelling argument for a blurb. In its current shape, the article contains only one paragraph about her premiership, which explains that she was elected to the office by the Supreme Council of Lithuania, she immediately faced troubles as Gorbachev set an economic embargo, she travelled around the world to gain diplomatic support for negotiations with Gorbachev regarding the embargo, and she eventually resigned as a prime minister after nine months. This clearly fails to demonstrate any notability for a blurb. --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 14:03, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support The article is decently long and in good enough shape. As far as I can see the original nomination was not for a blurb but a RD, which seems reasonable. Yakikaki (talk) 20:24, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Support RD Article is of sufficient quality. --MtPenguinMonster (talk) 01:05, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• Two {CN} tags remaining. Please add more REFs. Also, what did she do as Minister of Agriculture.... etc. -- if it's important enough to be mentioned in the intro (which actually mentioned quite a few jobs), one may expect at least some prose on these parts of her career in the main body of the wikibio. The long intro makes this reader feel that many important details are missing from the wikibio. Glaringly missing was her candidacy and campaigning in the 2004 Lithuanian presidential election. --PFHLai (talk) 19:02, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

(Closed) UEFA boycott of FIFA

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Articles: UEFA (talk · history · tag) and FIFA Forward Enterprise (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ UEFA votes to boycott all FIFA tournaments due to the proposed creation of FIFA Forward Enterprise, a $20 billion commercial subsidiary. (Post)

News source(s): BBC CNN The Guardian

Credits:

• Nominated by ArionStar (talk · give credit)

 ArionStar (talk) 23:16, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose it is a threat IF it is carried out (did you read the last sentence?). Which, with UEFA against, is even more unlikely even if OFC and other small states votes for it (the biggest, AFC, has spoken against it and if CONMEBOL votes against, it is done).Psephguru (talk) 00:12, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose If it comes to fruition, yes. But for now it is just a threat. I agree with Psephguru, the FIFA-private equity thing is unlikely to pass anyways so the threat will end up being meaningless. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 00:27, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose An intention/threat. Perhaps if something tangible takes place (would still be a stretch at best). CoatCheck (talk) 01:58, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose Unless this actually goes somewhere, simply rejecting a proposal isn't a big deal. We didn't blurb the European Super League - though it was a DYN. Nfitz (talk) 02:38, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose, as others have said, this is a threat IF it is carried out.

I'm for a speedy snow close for this one as there is a consensus already forming against posting this.~2026-42382-87 (talk) 02:53, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

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(Posted) 2026 Morocco–Spain border incident

Article: 2026 Morocco–Spain border incident (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ Thousands of migrants overwhelm the Spanish border with Morocco at Ceuta. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ Thousands of migrants from Morocco cross the border with the Spanish city of Ceuta, leaving at least 57 people dead and causing an incident between the countries.
Alternative blurb 2: ​ Tens of thousands of migrants attempt to cross the Moroccan border with Spain at Ceuta, leaving at least 57 migrants dead.
Alternative blurb 3: ​ Sixty thousand migrants cross the Morocco–Spain border at Ceuta, with at least fifty-seven deaths.

News source(s): NYT, Reuters, El Pais

Credits:

• Nominated by Andrew Davidson (talk · give credit)
• Created by Kokoo (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Axios512 (talk · give credit)

Article updated

Nominator's comments: This seems to be quite a crisis and dozens have drowned in the attempt. Andrew🐉(talk) 21:36, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

Major support. This is being talked about worldwide and is being called worse than the 2021 incident. Over a dozen deaths have been reported today with dozens more possibly caused by it to. Article needs expansion and more citations though. Also sections. Bloxzge 025 (talk) 21:42, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

Lean support on notability While incidents at the border between Morocco and Spain aren't new, the current incident is international and is also receiving major sustained coverage. The estimates of the undocumented immigrants that have crossed the Ceuta border have ranged from 2,000 per TVE to about 40,000 per Antena 3. The article needs a bit more expansion before it meets adequate quality for posting. CastleFort1 (talk) 21:55, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

Adequate quality met The bolded article now meets sufficient quality for potential posting on ITN. CastleFort1 (talk) 14:52, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Trout slap for labeling it an "invasion" ffs. I changed the heading. Neutral on merits but yes the article is too short now. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:06, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

I think that the flagrantly racist original headline deserves more than a trout. GenevieveDEon (talk) 22:21, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

The word "incident" seems too bland and vague while the word "irruption" is too obscure. See WP:EUPHEMISM, Do not assume that plain language is inappropriate. Andrew🐉(talk) 22:22, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

Well, calling it an "invasion" is racist. Do better. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:27, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

See you at WP:ANI. GenevieveDEon (talk) 23:24, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

I’ll second that. The Kip ^(contribs) 00:17, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Strong support I was about to nominate it, but Andrew was faster. ArionStar (talk) 22:39, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support It's not only significant geopolitically, it also has many casualties. I would say this incident is not just a routine morocco-spain border incident given the scale. Although the article should probably be longer. Vetrenarisisum (talk) 23:17, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose the current blurb at least, which is a highly sensationalist and partial depiction of an incident in which (according to El Pais) at least 18 people have died. GenevieveDEon (talk) 23:28, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

And to add - 'Thousands of migrants... cross massively the border...' needs a serious grammar tidy-up. GenevieveDEon (talk) 23:39, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

Why? ArionStar (talk) 23:44, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

Both because in English it would be typical to put the adjective either before the verb or after the object - "they quickly cross the border" or "they cross the border quickly", but not *"they cross quickly the border", and because the English adverb massively is not generally used to mean 'en masse'. GenevieveDEon (talk) 23:49, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

"massively", in Wiktionary, means: "In a massive manner, in a way that appears large, heavy or imposing. ArionStar (talk) 23:55, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

I have resolved all this I hope agreeably by simply removing "massively". Either way, we tend to avoid such editorialism when writing blurbs. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 00:18, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose blurb, needs further rewriting. The crossing of the border did not "cause" an incident, it was the "incident". There is also no guarantee the migrants were "from Morocco" in an ultimate origin sense, as the blub is written (if it is intended to be geographical, "to Ceuta from Morocco" or similar wold be clearer). No current view on the significance. CMD (talk) 01:53, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Comment Added Altblurb 2 in response to the criticisms of blurbs proposed insofar. I’ll stay undecided on my support or oppose for now considering there’s clearly a lot of discourse around this nom specifically that I do not want to get tangled up in. --SpectralIon 04:57, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

That's better, but I think the mention of the death toll still misses a key point: all those who have died are migrants who have died in their attempt to reach (perceived) safety. GenevieveDEon (talk) 08:17, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Updated Altblurb 2 again based on the new comments while I was sleeping. Altblurb 3 seems to be gaining traction though, so this might not be very impactful. --SpectralIon 17:00, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Support on notability/coverage etc but Oppose the current blurbs for some of the issues above. Small fixes without making it too long could be referring to the dead as "migrants" which would get across the point they died attempting to cross. Salmon Of Ignorance (talk) 09:25, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Wait The scale of this crossing is the largest of any single movement across the Morocco-Spain border in years, but key quantitative metrics are still unconfirmed among reliable sources, and the proposed blurbs are too vague to fully capture the full scale of the crossing at present. There is a vast discrepancy in the number of migrants who made the crossing being reported in reliable sources, ranging from 1,000 to more than 50,000 in the past few days. Similarly, the fatalities arising from migrants who tragically died while attempting to make the same crossing is unclear, with Spanish police reports suggesting the total will rise in coming days. Given the mass deployment of Guardia Civil and Army units to Ceuta, I expect we'll have a clearer picture of the full scale of the crossing and related casualties over the weekend. This also gives a good opportunity to improve the quality of the article and flesh out the body as it currently lacks any coherent sections or structure despite being decently well sourced. Oppius Brutus (talk) 10:30, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Wait per Oppius Brutus. I also think it would be good if any blurb specified that Ceuta is in Africa, because a lot of the heat and rhetoric about this tragic situation is eliding that. For instance, Italy is calling for Spain to be suspended from the Schengen Agreement, as though people can just walk from Ceuta to Madrid. GenevieveDEon (talk) 10:34, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support in principle, oppose these blurbs. This is an unusual incident - official estimates are 49,000 illegal border crossings in one afternoon - and the death toll is substantial. It's a major humanitarian incident. The article is short but does meet our minimum requirements. However all the proposed blurbs are dehumanising and anti-migrant; I particularly dislike 'overwhelm'. The blurb should be a plain factual statement, without emotive terms. Modest Genius ^talk 10:59, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Comment A key part of a blurb should mention this came after Spain's top court ruled migrants from Morocco crossing into these territories cannot be returned to Morocco. Masem (t) 11:52, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

  That seems appropriate to explain in the article, but too much detail for the blurb. Modest Genius ^talk 12:03, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• I've proposed altblurb3, as "crossed" is used by several news outlets (The Guardian, CNN, BBC). An alternative could be "breached" (Al Jazeera, DW, Reuters). Nice4What (talk · contribs) ♥ 12:31, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support Altblurb3 it is simple and to the point. We always should be very cautious when reporting on these kinds of incidents, as we don't want to become a mouthpiece for hateful people. Altblurb3 is the most neutral one. The event seems very notable, and the article seems good enough. I normally would say that we should list the reason for the incident, but it might be a bit too complex to list out in the short blurb.

Gaismagorm (talk) 12:42, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Forty-three deaths now. ArionStar (talk) 15:08, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Support altblurb3 This blurb is more concise, simple, and neutral than the other blurbs. CastleFort1 (talk) 15:20, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support A border incident involving illegal migrants with casualties is a very big deal, and the story receives widespread media coverage globally. --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 17:08, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support Very significant border incident, with several EU countries threatening to "suspend" free travel from Spain. Article looks very complete now. Also significant casualties. Would prefer a blurb that mentions both the currently accepted number of migrants involved, as well as the current number of casualties. Khuft (talk) 18:55, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support Massively impactful situation, both politically for European relations and in terms of death count. As for the blurb, I think altblurb 3 should be the one that is posted. QuicoleJR (talk|edits) 19:05, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Major support Main talk in European news. Support blurb 1. PalleyCov2030 (talk) 20:20, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support blurb 3. Some migrants say they were told to attempt to cross the border by Morocco; one country using refugees/migrants as a weapon is certainly noteworthy. Morocco opposes Spanish possession of those two cities. 331dot (talk) 20:33, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Support. Covered prominently by major media outlets, article is in decent shape. NICHOLAS NEEDLEHAM (talk) 20:42, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support A major humanitarian and diplomatic crisis. Widely covered in the news, and the article is thoroughly sourced and not too stubby with no orange tagged sections.  Vanilla  Wizard 💙 21:47, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Support blurb 3. It gives the most specific number of migrants and has the most neutral tone. Snosibsnob (talk) 21:50, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support blurb 3, but the blurb should mention that these migrants are predominantly men. Some1 (talk) 00:11, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Why? GenevieveDEon (talk) 08:01, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• Posted Alt 3. Spencer^T•C 02:13, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
• Comment Shouldn't a blurb note that most went straight home again - about 80%. Just a day out on the beach. Nfitz (talk) 04:28, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

  Them crossing the border in the first place is the main story, the blurb is long enough as it is. Greenflipper (talk) 12:09, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

@Spencer: the death toll has now raised to sixty-seven. Could you please update the ITN? Yacàwotçã (talk) 17:07, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

@Yacàwotçã: Thanks for the notice. The death toll has just been updated to 67. Next time, you may get a quicker response from WP:ERRORS. --PFHLai (talk) 20:58, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

July 29

Portal:Current events/2026 July 29

July 29, 2026 (2026-07-29) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Attacks on religious sites during the Israeli invasion of Gaza
      • Israeli forces strike a mosque in Gaza City in violation of the ongoing ceasefire and accuses Hamas of using it to store weapons. (The New York Times)
  • Hezbollah–Israel conflict
    • 2026 Lebanon war
      • Israeli forces accuse Hezbollah of launching a drone attack on its forces in the Ali al-Taher ridge of southern Lebanon, in violation of the ceasefire. (AFP via Arab News)
    • Israeli forces also claim that their 401st Brigade Combat Team and Yahalom Unit have destroyed an underground headquarters belonging to Hezbollah, located near a UNIFIL post. (Israel National News)
  • 2026 Iran war
    • Saudi Arabia in the 2026 Iran war, Iraq in the 2026 Iran war
      • The Saudi Arabian Armed Forces and United States Central Command (U.S. CENTCOM) launch strikes against Iran–backed militias in Iraq in response to Iranian drone attacks against oil facilities in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province. (Iraqi News) (Reuters)
      • The Popular Mobilization Forces reports that 20 militants have been killed in joint Saudi–U.S. strikes. (The Defense Post)
      • Several members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are also confirmed to have been killed in the Saudi–U.S. strikes in Iraq. (The New Region)
    • Egypt in the 2026 Iran war
      • 2026 Damietta drone strike
        • A drone strike targets the LNG storage tanker Energos Winter, which is leased by the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company, at the port of Damietta, Egypt. Additionally, another vessel is also targeted. The group responsible for the strike is currently unknown. (The New York Times)
    • July 2026 United States strikes against Iran
      • The U.S. CENTCOM launches strikes against Iran in retaliation of a attempted attack by Iran against Jordan. (AP)
      • A senior officer in U.S. CENTCOM issues an internal email requesting troops to suggest "new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran". (CNN)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Data from Kpler shows that 39 commercial vessels have transited through the Bab el-Mandeb yesterday, the highest since July 19, while another five transited it today, including the VLCC Sophia and the Aframax tanker ​Ocean Laureate. (Reuters)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Kordofan campaign
    • The Sudan Tribune reports that Rapid Support Forces militants retreating from Umm Sayala, Jabrat al-Sheikh, and Barah have launched retaliatory strikes in North Kordofan. (Sudan Tribune)
• Somali Civil War
  • Five soldiers are killed in a shootout with Al-Shabaab gunmen in Mandera County, Kenya. (Garowe Online)
• Terrorism in Pakistan
  • Ten police officers are killed in a drone attack and ambush in Hangu district of northwest Pakistan. Pakistani authorities claim that 15 of the attackers were killed. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Wildfires in 2026
  • Two firefighters are killed while battling a wildfire near Rethymno, Crete, Greece, while a third dies near Gytheio, Laconia, during a separate operation. (AFP via Malay Mail)
• A Bell 412 helicopter crashes while on a fire-fighting training operation in San Juan, Argentina, killing all seven occupants. (AFP via NDTV)

Health and environment

• Kenya Wildlife Service says preliminary tests indicated cyanide-contaminated tomatoes may have killed 15 elephants near Amboseli National Park over the past month, warning that livestock grazing in the area could also be exposed. (AFP via The Manila Times)

Law and crime

• 2026 Bolivian protests
  • Bolivian prosecutors issue an arrest warrant for former president Evo Morales for allegedly organizing protests and roadblocks across the country in May and June. The investigation follows complaints alleging armed uprising and terrorism. (AFP via Firstpost)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russia's Federal Security Service ​issues an arrest warrant on Telegram founder Pavel Durov for facilitating terrorist activity, alleging that Telegram helps Ukraine plan attacks in Russia. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• China–Holy See relations, Catholic Church in China
  • Pope Leo XIV consecrates Fr. Francis Xavier Duan Yongkun as the coadjutor bishop of Bameng in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region under the 2018 provisional framework that cedes authority over its bishops to the Chinese government. (Vatican News)
• The government of Nauru announces the official change of name of the country from Nauru to Naoero. (RNZ)

Sports

• 2026 FIFA World Cup
  • Argentina at the FIFA World Cup
    • FIFA opens an investigation into the Argentina national football team over altercations during the World Cup final and the display of a banner of the Falklands. (The Athletic via The New York Times)

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(Posted) RD: Billy Ray Smith Jr.

Article: Billy Ray Smith Jr. (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)

News source(s): Houston Chronicle

Credits:

• Updated and nominated by Chorchapu (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Bagumba (talk · give credit), Strattonsmith (talk · give credit) and Salmon of Knowledge (talk · give credit)

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: American football player and College Football Hall of Famer. Article is in pretty good shape bar a section about his broadcasting career. I'll try to sort that out shortly. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 15:24, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support Sourcing cleaned up. Quality and breadth is sufficient.—Bagumba (talk) 23:52, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

Support Article is of sufficient quality for RD. --MtPenguinMonster (talk) 00:41, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support, quality is sufficient. CMD (talk) 01:57, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Posted to RD. Spencer^T•C 02:10, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

(Ready) RD: Glen Hansard

Article: Glen Hansard (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)

News source(s): Today FM Newstalk TheJournal.ie

Credits:

• Nominated by Finnfrog99 (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Greenflipper (talk · give credit), Floremipsum (talk · give credit) and ItsShandog (talk · give credit)

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: Irish musician. Died on this date. Could be a blurb Froglord (Finnfrog99) (talk) 10:54, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

Comment Surprised to hear this - I will Support after the citation issues are fixes. Salmon Of Ignorance (talk) 11:17, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

Last CN tag removed - happy to support RD now, the article looks a lot better than when this was posted. Salmon Of Ignorance (talk) 15:30, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

Support outside of the last few tags left. No need for blurb. Greenflipper (talk) 12:06, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

• Article is not ready due to some uncited text in prose, such as in the influence section. I strongly oppose blurbing as he is not an international household name. ~2026-42137-24 (talk) 15:41, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

  Prose now blurbed. The only CN tags now were added to the names of singles which is an issue we ran into with Penelope Keith, however it was mostly agreed that per WP:V that sources aren't necessary. Salmon Of Ignorance (talk) 08:33, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

  No, seems that Keith was mostly sourced when posted. —Bagumba (talk) 15:02, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

  If you look at the discussion around it, WP:V came up in this context. On the article you can see some of the unsourced appearances are still not cn tagged.

  I do know that by the time it was posted a lot of citations were added, I remember finding a few. Salmon Of Ignorance (talk) 15:34, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

  Regarding sourcing, MOS:LISTOFWORKS reads: Complete lists of works, appropriately sourced to reliable scholarship (WP:V), are encouraged ... WP:CIRCULAR says: Do not use articles from Wikipedia (whether English Wikipedia or Wikipedias in other languages) as sources ... Content from a Wikipedia article is not considered reliable unless it is backed up by citing reliable sources. Confirm that these sources support the content, then use them directly. —Bagumba (talk) 00:01, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

  Thanks for linking MOS:LISTOFWORKS, I hadn't read it before. Not sure why you linked WP:CIRCULAR as I'm not suggesting using wikipedia as a source for his songs. Salmon Of Ignorance (talk) 07:28, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

  Not sure why you linked WP:CIRCULAR ...: Maybe it wasn't the case for Penelope Keith, but it's sometimes argued that blue links to works or a "main" link to a discography are exemptions for citations. —Bagumba (talk) 08:34, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support Article has been expanded and the cn tags are resolved. Ceoil (talk) 21:07, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support Article offers decent coverage, and reasonably sourced. SeoR (talk) 23:13, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support - ready for RD. Good work.BabbaQ (talk) 08:57, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose Discography sections § The Frames and § The Swell Season remain unsourced. § Films and television sparsely cited too. See sourcing discussion above.—Bagumba (talk) 16:13, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

  Ok, doing, as if there will be anything to be doubted. Ceoil (talk) 20:01, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Surely this is ready to be posted now. ItsShandog (talk) 07:32, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

July 28

Portal:Current events/2026 July 28

July 28, 2026 (2026-07-28) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza peace plan
      • A Hamas delegation visits Cairo, Egypt, to resume negotiations on the implementation of the next phase of its ceasefire with Israel. (The Jerusalem Post)
  • 2026 Iran war
    • The United States Central Command says that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces have launched multiple ballistic missiles from Iran in a "surprise attack" against U.S. forces in the Middle East, and that all missiles were successfully intercepted. (Politico)
• Mali War
  • 2026 Mali offensives
    • Malian Armed Forces launch strikes against two armed vehicles and Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Azawad Liberation Front militants in the Ségou Region near Dagabory as part of Operation Dougoukoloko. (APA)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Kordofan campaign
    • Human rights group Emergency Lawyers reports that recent airstrikes have targeted multiple locations in North Kordofan, Sudan, including a water station and civilian vehicles, killing dozens of civilians. (Sudan Tribune)
  • Sudanese refugee crisis, Darfur campaign
    • The United Nations reports that over 20,000 people have been displaced in Sudan's Darfur region over insecurity and violence. (Middle East Monitor)

Arts and culture

• 2026 Booker Prize
  • The longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize is announced. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2026 Kumamoto earthquake
  • A M_w 7.1 earthquake strikes central Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, causing a tsunami alert for the western Kyūshū coast. At least 13 people are killed. (CNN)
• Three more people are rescued from the Vietnamese cargo ship Khoi Nguyen 18 that sank on Saturday. Fourteen others remain missing with a multinational search still underway. (AFP via The Canadian Press) (South China Morning Post)

International relations

• International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, United States and the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • The United States Senate votes 86–12 to advance legislation imposing sanctions on Russia's energy revenues, financial institutions, officials, and shadow fleet, while authorizing tariffs of up to 100% on major buyers of Russian oil and gas. (Politico) (Kyiv Post)

Law and crime

• 2024 Apalachee High School shooting
  • The gunman convicted of carrying out a school shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, United States, in 2024, receives four sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole. (AFP via Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• Myanmar's military-backed parliament passes a law allowing the death penalty when coercion, unlawful detention, torture, or other abuse used to force victims into online scams results in death. The law also imposes severe penalties on scam-centre operators. (AFP via France 24)
• Taiwanese prosecutors detain an Nvidia employee in an investigation into alleged smuggling of advanced artificial intelligence chips to China through falsified transport documents. Authorities hold seven people over shipments of about 50 Supermicro servers that may violate U.S. export controls. (AFP via France 24)

Politics and elections

• 2026 Peruvian general election
  • Keiko Fujimori is sworn in as President of Peru after winning the general election in June. (AP) (Reuters)
• 2026 Victorian Labor Party leadership election
  • In Australia, Victorian premier Jacinta Allan resigns, triggering a leadership spill. Ben Carroll is elected unanimously as the new Premier and Victorian Labor Party leader. (ABC News Australia) (Reuters)
• Women in Algeria
  • Khalida Boufedeche is elected the first woman president of the People's National Assembly of Algeria. (France24)

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(Posted) 2026 Kumamoto earthquake

Article: 2026 Kumamoto earthquake (talk · history · tag)
Blurb: ​ A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes Kyushu, Japan, killing at least 34 people and injuring at least 123 others. (Post)
Alternative blurb: ​ A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes Kumamoto, Japan, killing 34 people and injuring at least 123 others.
Alternative blurb 2: ​ A M_w 6.8 earthquake strikes Kyushu, Japan, killing at least 34 people and injuring at least 123 others.

News source(s): Al Jazeera Reuters

Credits:

• Nominated by ~2026-41912-68 (talk · give credit)
• Created by Dora the Axe-plorer (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Quake1234 (talk · give credit) and Bloxzge 025 (talk · give credit)

Nominator's comments: There is a rather significant number of worldwide outlets reporting on this story (currently frontpage on BBC, The Guardian, Reuters, Al Jazeera, NYT, Washington Post etc.), even more so with the ongoing drama with people trapped inside the mall. ~2026-41912-68 (talk) 12:19, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

• Wait for now for more in info, but this seems to be a major earthquake due to the extensive damage reported. NotKringe (talk) 12:59, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support. Many people killed/missing, with hundreds injured. The quake has already received international coverage. Bloxzge 025 (talk) 13:46, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
• Wait. Not enough information yet and only two deaths reported so far, though I expect that will rise. I recommend we wait 24 hours for more information to become available and incorporated into the article before making an assessment of significance & article quality. Modest Genius ^talk 14:31, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

  Neutral. 48 hours later, this seems borderline. The death toll is surprisingly low for such an intense quake, but I'm seeing different numbers reported in different places. Neither 20 deaths nor 387 injuries (as stated in the blurb) appear in the article, which contradicts itself in places. International media attention has dropped away. I don't object to posting this, but I'm not particularly supportive either. If it is posted, the blurb should be vague about casualties (e.g. 'dozens' and 'hundreds'), to avoid a back and forth over the exact figures. Modest Genius ^talk 10:26, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

• Wait - USGS is reporting this is 6.8. But clearly there is damage, but how localized? Need more information. Nfitz (talk) 15:16, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

  Neutral. Agree with User:Modest Genius. It's borderline on notability, enduring coverage, and damage. Support alt-blurb 2. Nfitz (talk) 16:59, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

• Wait per above, Likely to become a bigger story and more casualties. Vetrenarisisum (talk) 17:07, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
• wait as several sections (impacts, response) need expansion and some cleanup, then support for a major quake that caused significant damage and whose effects are receiving int'l coverage >>scourgezoned (it/its) 19:45, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
• Wait also per above. — ♠ Ixtal ^{( T / C )} ⁂ Non nobis solum ♠ 19:43, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

  Support if scourgezoned's criteria is met. — ♠ Ixtal ^{( T / C )} ⁂ Non nobis solum ♠ 22:28, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

• Wait for details to become clear + article to be fleshed out, but support on notability. The Kip ^(contribs) 20:22, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support I think the article has enough at this point and also PAGER system estimates >80% probability of at least 100 deaths (especially given that mall collapse since PAGER only estimates direct seismic casualties) and a 37% chance of over 1000. TaqPCR (talk) 23:30, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

  Context for anyone else wondering why people are still using pagers - PAGER Nfitz (talk) 20:18, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

  Where's the references for the deaths User:TaqPCR? CBC says 18 deaths with several more missing, including 3 at the mall. This doesn't sound like 100 deaths. Nfitz (talk) 20:29, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

  I believe that this is the website TaqPCR is referring to. So, while only 18 deaths have so far been confirmed, the USGS thinks that 100+ fatalities is likely. Chorchapu (talk | edits) Chorchapu (talk | edits) 21:42, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

  That is correct, I was only discussing modeled casualties instead of reported casualties. TaqPCR (talk) 00:20, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

  With only two sites appearing to cause the deaths, only so few left missing, I think we are beyond modelled casualties. Nfitz (talk) 03:37, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

• Strong support Confirmed multiple casualties, international news coverage, hundreds affected. User:WoodElf 19:17, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
• Comment I expressed concern about the 7.1 magnitude in the blurb yesterday, but no comment. We usually (always?) report the magnitude in an international scale - this one was 6.8. But in our blurb we are using instead the Japan Meteorological Agency magnitude scale, with no indication of units. The media is using the 6.8 number generally, why would we blurb using the Japan scale? Nfitz (talk) 20:34, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

  I agree, we're not a Japanese site, we should use the international scale. TaqPCR (talk) 00:18, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

  I think the prudent thing is to nominate an altblurb but making sure to denote "M_w" instead of "magnitude". Edit: Boldly added. ~2026-41987-58 (talk) 00:24, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

  I think we should we consider using "magnitude 6.8 (M_w)" since I think the language is more commonly understood while still clarifying the exact unit and being one of the supported ways for it to be written. TaqPCR (talk) 01:18, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support Casualties are expected to be very large, and receiving lots of news coverage. Vetrenarisisum (talk) 20:40, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support but omit mention of the magnitude from JMA or USGS because of the above debate; key takeaway is the damage and casualties it resulted. Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 07:28, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

  What debate, @Dora the Axe-plorer? I don't see anyone supporting the use of the 7.1 number. Nfitz (talk) 16:54, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

  Why not? That's what the media are predominantly using. And that's what we've always used AFAIK, @Dora the Axe-plorer. Nfitz (talk) 17:27, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

  Incorrect. A quick search reveals the media using both magnitudes and attributing to either agencies; so either the blurb omits the magnitude or mentions both value. Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 17:31, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

  I think we could use "magnitude 6.8 (M_w)". People using English Wikipedia will generally be familiar with that scale so it's appropriate to use it over the Japanese scale and the wording is still familiar (instead of just putting Mw 6.8). TaqPCR (talk) 20:02, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

  "familiar with that scale", the mainstream media does not even identify the specific scales used to calculate them Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 00:53, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

  It is not common for blurbs to include the magnitude if there are two or more widely-reported readings. This ITN entry for the 2024 Noto earthquake is an example. Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 01:09, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

  I can't find whether removal of magnitude there was a one-person decision or a broader consensus. —Bagumba (talk) 17:57, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

• Posted Stephen 01:39, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

(Posted) RD: Kavinsky

Article: Kavinsky (talk · history · tag)
Recent deaths nomination (Post)

News source(s): Variety

Credits:

• Nominated by Greenflipper (talk · give credit)
• Updated by Harizotoh9 (talk · give credit)

Recent deaths of any person, animal or organism with a Wikipedia article are always presumed to be important enough to post (see this RFC and further discussion). Comments should focus on whether the quality of the article meets WP:ITNQUALITY.

Nominator's comments: French DJ. Found dead on this date. Greenflipper (talk) 10:37, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: the prose part of the article is fine, but the discography is mostly unreferenced. That should be addressed before I could support this nomination. Modest Genius ^talk 12:19, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

  The discography section is now fully sourced Golan1911 (talk) 05:13, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• Not ready Sourcing issues in prose in addition the discography sourcing issue mentioned above. ~2026-42137-24 (talk) 13:46, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

  Prose and discography section fully sourced Golan1911 (talk) 05:15, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• Support: Most of the Discography has sources now, only missing in the EP and Remixes sections. --NoonIcarus (talk) 20:51, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

Oppose for now as there is an orange tag for unsourced material. Bloxzge 025 (talk) 19:19, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

That orange banner was deleted, the discography is now sourced Golan1911 (talk) 05:13, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• Posted. --PFHLai (talk) 00:20, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

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