- Brazil dispatched 350,000 vaccine doses to Venezuela in response to recent earthquakes there.
- Peru’s judiciary archived criminal charges of illicit association against former President Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia in the Southern Gas Pipeline case. In a stranger story, a former public servant in Cusco was sentenced to prison for offering a bribe of 2,000 soles hidden inside a plate of cuy (guinea pig).
- Costa Rica continued dealing with flooding from Tropical Wave #19, with 174 people still sheltered across five locations.
- Taiwan’s military resumed “anti-communist” classes for graduates, citing the ongoing threat from China.
- Germany’s SPD leader Lars Klingbeil called for a “pragmatic implementation” of new sick-leave rules, telling workers: “You don’t have to drag yourselves to the doctor while sick.”
Walter Murrow
July 5, 2026
