Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu restated his rejection of Donald Trump’s latest Gaza plan in televised remarks to his right-wing government on Sunday, even as Israel’s military has effectively halted attacks in the territory under pressure from ‌the U.S. President, Reuters reports.

Israel has scaled back attacks in Gaza since Monday, when Nikolay Mladenov, the Gaza envoy for Trump’s Board of Peace that oversees the ceasefire, met with Netanyahu.

A source familiar with Israel’s position told Reuters it had agreed that the military would only act against what it perceives as immediate threats in Gaza and no longer carry out targeted assassinations as it had been doing on a near-daily basis.

Mladenov said on Sunday that discussions on ⁠the new roadmap were ongoing.

Trump announced last month that there had been a breakthrough in his plan to end the war, to which both Israel and Hamas agreed, with Israeli forces withdrawing as Hamas disarms and an International Stabilization Force working with a new Palestinian police force to secure the enclave.

But complications have swiftly emerged with questions over the plan’s timeline.

“Israel does not accept the 15-point document,” Netanyahu said at the start of a meeting with cabinet ministers. The military “will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is disarmed … it means heavy weaponry, lighter weaponry, all weaponry.

Netanyahu made similar remarks in a social media post on Tuesday and Israeli officials have said reservations have been shared with Washington.

He added that Israel was in talks with the United States on the plan. “They (the U.S.) have ideas, some of which are acceptable to us and some of which are unacceptable to us and we know how to stand firm against these things,” Netanyahu said.

In an interview with Israeli N12 News, Mladenov said Israel would be required to withdraw “sector by sector” once weapons have been taken from Hamas ‌and rendered ⁠unusable.

Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official, told Reuters on Sunday that the group remained committed to the roadmap agreed in Cairo 10 days ago.

“We expect the mediators and the U.S. guarantor to press Netanyahu and his government to adhere to the roadmap and not obstruct the process for internal political and electoral reasons,” he said.

Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich praised Netanyahu. “We went to war with a central goal: the destruction of Hamas,” he said in a statement. “The (military) cannot withdraw even a millimetre from the Gaza Strip.”

A major fire at a sofa manufacturing factory in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, ‌killed 16 Bangladeshi migrant workers, Reuters reported citing officials in Dhaka.

The fire broke out on Sunday in the Musa Sanaiya industrial ⁠area.

Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is monitoring the situation, while officials from the Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh are working with Saudi authorities to complete the repatriation formalities.

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Ariful ‌Haque ⁠Choudhury has instructed officials to bring back the bodies as soon as possible and ensure necessary government assistance and ⁠compensation for the bereaved families.

With around 3.5 million Bangladeshis living in Saudi ⁠Arabia, the country remains the largest destination for Bangladeshi migrant workers, ⁠who sent home more than $2.7 billion in remittances last year.

The heat waves roiling Western Europe this summer toppled an average temperature record for the June-July period set in 2022, AP reported citing the European climate agency Copernicus.

The extreme heat began in May and has contributed to major wildfires, prolonged drought and new national temperature records across the region, as well as thousands of projected heat-related deaths.

Globally, so far this is the third-hottest year, behind 2024 and 2025, AP reported citing climate statistics.

But 2026 still has time to catch up. Thanks to the one-two punch of accelerated human-caused global warming and a supersized El Niño, a periodic warming of parts of the Pacific that leads to temperature variations around the globe, there’s an increasing chance that by the end of the year, 2026 could become the hottest year on record, beating out 2024 — or at least come close, scientists said.

Last month saw the highest average sea surface temperature ever recorded for July across the extra-polar oceans, or the oceans free of seasonal sea ice, Copernicus said.

That was partially fueled by developing El Niño conditions in the equatorial Pacific, the service said. The new average record for July is 20.96 degrees Celsius (69.73 degrees Fahrenheit), which beat the 2023 record of 20.89 C (69.60 F).

But last month’s average surface air temperature globally was 16.90°C (62.42 F), making it only the joint second warmest July on record and tied with July 2024, Copernicus reported.

Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated in east China as Typhoon Dolphin brought heavy rain and flooding, with authorities warning that risks remained even as the storm weakened after making landfall, Xinhua news agency reports.

As of Monday morning, about 167,900 people had been moved from vulnerable areas on land and at sea in Fujian Province. By late Sunday, Shanghai had evacuated around 215,600 people from areas considered at risk.

Heavy rain was forecast to persist on Monday in parts of Fujian, including the cities of Ningde and Nanping, with the potential for torrential downpours in some areas.

The storm caused widespread disruptions to transportation and tourism. In Fujian, authorities suspended 686 road passenger routes and 658 train services. A total of 234 major tourist attractions were also shut down and dozens of cultural and tourism events canceled.

In Shanghai, LEGOLAND Shanghai Resort temporarily closed around noon Monday as Typhoon Dolphin lashed the city with heavy rain. Authorities in the district where the resort is located issued the highest-level rainstorm alert and warned of possible urban waterlogging.

Dolphin, the 13th typhoon of the year, made two landfalls in Zhejiang Province on Sunday, according to the National Meteorological Center (NMC).

The NMC renewed a blue typhoon alert Monday morning, forecasting that the storm would move northwest at 15 to 20 kilometers per hour and gradually weaken.

China has a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, with red representing the most severe, followed by orange, yellow and blue.

A former Thai MP allegedly shot dead a local official in the southern province of Nonthaburi, then dialled into a YouTube livestream to inform the host – a political pundit – of what he had done, the BBC reported.

Former Nonthaburi MP Chalong Reawraeng told the shocked host, Anchalee Paireerak, that he had shot Thongchai Yenprasert, a former police official, outside Thongchai’s office.

Thongchai, who was hit in the neck, died in hospital. His driver was shot in the arm and hand.

Chalong was arrested but then allowed to hold a press conference at a police station where he attempted to explain what had happened while smoking a cigarette.

He told the reporters there that Thongchai was “angry” at him, but did not explain why. He also said he did not intend to shoot Thongchai, whom he described as a “good friend”.

Chalong said he told Thongchai that he wanted to talk to him. According to local media reports, the two were involved in a personal dispute.

“He [Thongchai] then pushed me, saying ‘I don’t want to talk, I don’t want to talk.'”

Chalong said he then followed Thongchai towards his car.

“When I pulled the gun out, I didn’t intend to shoot him. But then [Thongchai’s driver] pulled his gun out and pointed it at me, so I fired.”

Thongchai, a retired police colonel, was president of the Nonthaburi Provincial Administrative Organisation or PAO, a local government body.

Earlier, Chalong had called political commentator Anchalee Paireerak, who was livestreaming on YouTube at the time, to confess to the incident.

Anchalee was filmed picking up a call midway through her programme. “I’ll call you back… Oh, something big [happened]? Go ahead, what’s that?” she said.

Viewers could not hear what the caller said next, but Anchalee was seen reacting in shock.

“Did he die? Did he die? You shot him in the head? You need to wait there for the cops,” she said on the video, which was seen by the BBC. “Don’t go anywhere.”

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen have published a joint document calling for tighter migration controls, Euronews reports.

“We do not accept uncontrolled immigration into Europe and pursue a strict migration policy. No one can deny the negative impact of illegal immigration on our society, namely the increase in crime, the growing pressure on public services and the erosion of public trust,” the statement said.

The issue of migrant arrivals in Europe has recently moved to the centre of political debate, first following the crisis in the Spanish city of Ceuta and the subsequent border tensions between Madrid and Rome, and later because of disagreements over a demand by the German government that Italy take back migrants who had used the peninsula as a “springboard” to reach other European countries.

A powerful earthquake has struck Colombia, killing at least 22 people. Dozens of buildings have collapsed in the city of Cali, and local authorities say people may still be trapped under the rubble, Euronews reports.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the earthquake at magnitude 7.4, despite the fact that it occurred at a considerable depth. The epicentre was located near San José del Palmar, approximately 400 kilometres west of Bogotá.

The earthquake was preceded by two successive tremors of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 recorded in Venezuela in late June. At the time, the tremors destroyed hundreds of buildings and claimed the lives of more than 5,000 people.

Moldova’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recalled the country’s ambassador in Moscow for consultations, Deutsche Welle reports, citing a statement from the ministry’s press service.

The decision followed an incident in which a strike drone crashed on Moldovan territory, for which Chișinău holds Russia responsible. Moldova’s Foreign Ministry condemned the incident.

“This incident constitutes a serious violation of Moldova’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and endangered the safety of our citizens. Moldova condemns the Russian Federation’s war of aggression against Ukraine and its consequences for the security of our country and the entire region,” the statement said.

The ruling Civil Contract parliamentary faction said on Monday that it will provide the votes needed to confirm Aram Vardevanyan, the opposition Strong Armenia faction’s candidate for the third vacant Deputy Speaker position reserved for the opposition.

The confirmation vote will take place today.

Arusyak Manavazyan, head of the Civil Contract parliamentary faction, made the statement during the parliamentary session.

“The Civil Contract faction has decided to provide enough votes for this election. We also took into account the absence of Artur Sargsyan, who is under house arrest,” Manavazyan said, referring to another opposition candidate for the post from the Hayastan (Armenia) faction. 

“I would only add that you did not cast a single vote for any of our three candidates, even though they were more than deserving,” Manavazyan said, referring to the confirmation votes for Ruben Rubinyan as Speaker, as well as Hayk Konjoryan and Vahagn Aleksanyan as Deputy Speakers.

The opposition Strong Armenia faction’s MP Aram Vardevanyan passed a confirmation vote on Monday and was elected deputy speaker of parliament.

Fifty-three of the 105 MPs took part in the secret ballot, and all voted in favor.

The ruling Civil Contract parliamentary faction said on Monday that it would provide the votes needed to confirm Vardevanyan, Strong Armenia faction’s candidate for the third vacant deputy speaker position reserved for the opposition.

Strong Armenia holds 29 seats in parliament.