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On 3 July 2026 it emerged that, back in April, Washington used Pakistan and Qatar to alert Iran that Israel might assassinate Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, exposing a widening rift in U.S.–Israeli war aims.
Between 1–4 July 2026, the Israeli army bulldozed roads, blew up houses in at least five border towns and erected new checkpoints south of the Litani, signalling a bid to carve out a fresh buffer zone despite the 19 June ceasefire.
On 29 June 2026 President Trump publicly declared that U.S. and Iranian officials would hold denuclearisation talks in Doha the next day—but within hours Iran’s Foreign Ministry insisted no such meeting with Americans was scheduled, revealing a glaring disconnect in the just-agreed cease-fire process.
On 2 July 2026, indirect US-Iran negotiations in Doha—mediated by Qatar and Pakistan—closed with both sides declaring “positive progress” on the 14-point June 17 Memorandum and scheduling the next session after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s July 4-9 funeral rites.
In the early hours of 2 July 2026, Russia launched its heaviest missile-and-drone strike on Kyiv this year—74 missiles and almost 500 drones—overwhelming defenses, killing at least 17 people and injuring 80-plus, and triggering fresh Ukrainian appeals for Patriot systems.
In an 11-hour overnight assault on 2 July 2026, Russia attacked Kyiv from multiple directions with almost 500 drones and dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles, leaving at least 13 civilians dead and more than 85 wounded.
On 29 June 2026, President Trump publicly announced a U.S.–Iran negotiating session in Doha for the next day, but within hours Iran’s Foreign Ministry rejected the existence of any such talks, exposing a stark, real-time contradiction between the two sides.
On 2 July 2026, indirect US-Iran meetings in Doha—run separately by Qatari and Pakistani mediators—agreed to keep implementing the 18 June Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding and to reconvene after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s burial on 9 July.
On 30 June 2026 Peru’s electoral board closed the June 7 runoff count, showing conservative Keiko Fujimori beating leftist Roberto Sanchez by just 0.27 percentage points, with formal proclamation set for 3 July.
On 26 June 2026, Israel and Lebanon, under U.S. mediation, inked a framework that ties any phased Israeli pull-back from its 10-km security zone to the Lebanese Army’s verified dismantling of Hezbollah and all other non-state armed groups.
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