Start your day informed with the AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top stories for the 6th of July, covering the latest developments you need to know.
Iran has begun several days of funeral ceremonies for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, with a major procession taking place in Tehran on Monday, 6 July. His remains will then travel to Qom before being flown to the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala. They will return to Iran on Thursday for a final procession in Mashhad, where he will be buried. Authorities expect millions of mourners to attend.
The death toll from Venezuela's twin earthquakes has risen to 3,342, with 16,470 people injured and more than 17,000 left homeless, according to officials. The updated figures come as interim President Delcy Rodriguez defended the government's response to the disaster, insisting security forces were deployed immediately, despite growing criticism over the speed and effectiveness of relief efforts.
More than 100 people were detained following an anti-NATO protest in Ankara ahead of next week's alliance summit, the Communist Party of Türkiye said. Riot police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators, while opposition politicians criticised the crackdown, accusing the government of using the summit to restrict basic rights.
At least nine people have been killed and 24 injured after Russia launched an overnight missile and drone attack on Kyiv, hitting apartment buildings across the city. Rescue teams are still searching for survivors, with officials warning the death toll could rise further.
The United States have been handed a major boost ahead of their World Cup last-16 clash with Belgium after FIFA suspended Folarin Balogun's automatic one-match ban following his red card against Bosnia and Herzegovina. The decision came after U.S. President Donald Trump urged FIFA president Gianni Infantino to review the case, a move that prompted criticism from Belgium and raised questions over FIFA's disciplinary process.
Russian strikes killed two people in southeast Kyiv overnight, local officials said on Wednesday....
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will make his debut at an expanded meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Turkmenistan...
Kosovo's parliament has elected economist and academic Justina Shiroka Pula as the country's new presid...
Australian counterterrorism authorities are examining the links of the co-pilot accused of attacking the captain and attempting to take control of a flydubai flight bound for Israel. Authorities in New Zealand have also said they are investigating reports the suspect had spent time in that country.
Russia's health watchdog said on Tuesday that no cases of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week, and locals said their lives had barely been disrupted.
An Azerbaijani citizen died and another is missing after a cargo ship was attacked by a drone in the Black Sea, near the coast of Romania on Monday, 5 October, Baku's Foreign Ministry has said.
The German-Azerbaijani Connectivity Conference 2026 commenced on 6 October in Baku under the title “Mobilising Finance for Infrastructure, Transport, Logistics, Green Energy, and Digitalisation along the Middle Corridor.”
A large Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow and the surrounding region has killed two people, damaged homes and sparked a major fire at a key fuel facility, according to Russian officials and military bloggers.
Russian strikes killed two people in southeast Kyiv overnight, local officials said on Wednesday.
Kosovo's parliament has elected economist and academic Justina Shiroka Pula as the country's new president, concluding a dramatic political process just hours before a constitutional deadline that threatened to dissolve the legislature.
The U.S. military has tightened restrictions on its personnel in Okinawa following the arrest of a Marine on suspicion of murder, a case that has reignited long-standing tensions over the American military presence on the southern Japanese island.
The arrest of former German intelligence chief August Hanning on espionage-related charges has drawn renewed attention to his past connections with Israeli security figures and a controversial cross-border child custody case generating significant public scrutiny.
Russia's health watchdog said on Tuesday that no cases of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week, and locals said their lives had barely been disrupted.
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