- Mauritius lawmakers have voted to criminalize marital rape, a landmark reform for women's rights that brings an end to a colonial-era law.
- The building where Hitler was born officially began a new life as a police station on Wednesday, which Austria's government hopes will prevent it being a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.
- Seven tankers have changed course in the Red Sea to avoid the Bab el-Mandeb strait since the Houthis' threat to block Saudi oil exports, highlighting a new risk to global oil supplies.
- New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his office does not have the authority to carry out the ICC's arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, and called on US federal officials to step in.
- In an extremely rare and high risk pregnancy, an Australian woman has given birth to naturally conceived identical quadruplet daughters in Brisbane, described as a one in 15 million case.
- DUBAI/MANILA — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday the United States is still willing to negotiate an end to the Iran crisis but Tehran is not serious about talks, as the widening conflict disrupted two of the world's most critical energy chokepoints.
- The US military said late on Tuesday it began its latest strikes on Iran, marking the 11th consecutive night of American attacks.
- Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing will meet with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul over August 6 and 7 in Bangkok, Thailand's foreign minister told AFP on Tuesday.
- The death toll from a ferry that capsized off the coast of Guyana has risen to 41, with 14 more bodies recovered, the government said on Tuesday. The number of people who have been rescued has risen to 77, the government added.
- Some 77,000 fewer children worldwide received HIV treatment supported by the US after the Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid.