July 7 2026 News

According to a report from The Christian Post, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States, has approved a measure that affirms support for medical interventions, including body-altering surgeries, for young people experiencing gender dysphoria. The decision came during the denomination’s 227th General Assembly, which convened from June 22 to July 2, 2026, at the Baird Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In a plenary session last week, commissioners voted overwhelmingly 441-30 in favor of overture GEN-02, titled “On Access to Healthcare.”

The opening of Spain’s annual running of the bulls festival in Pamplona featured anti-Israel demonstrations, continuing a pattern that has become increasingly visible at the event in recent years. Large crowds gathered for the festival’s traditional opening ceremony, known as the chupinazo, where anti-Israel slogans were shouted moments before the ceremonial fireworks were launched over Plaza Consistorial. Representing the group Yala Nafarroa con Palestina, Dyna Kharrat addressed the crowd with the chants, “Stop genocide” and “Free Palestine.” A large banner reading “Death to Israel” was also displayed during this year’s festivities.

Despite Hamas’s stated willingness to hand over authority to a technocratic committee, the terrorist group will not relinquish its power, according to Palestinians familiar with the matter.“ Hamas hasn’t declared an end to its rule in the Gaza Strip,” a senior Palestinian official in Ramallah told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. “What they have done is announce the dissolution of what they call the emergency committee. But at the same time, they immediately declared that another temporary governing body would run the [Gaza] Strip and appointed someone to head it.”Hamas seeks to maintain both its military capabilities and governmental authority in Gaza, the official said.

An island-wide blackout plunged Cuba into darkness Monday as the country’s deepening energy crisis continues to strain its fragile power system. The outage affected roughly 10 million people before limited electricity service was restored in some areas.“A total disconnection of the National Electric Power System is occurring,” Cuba’s state-run Electric Union said Monday morning. “The causes are being investigated.” Cuba has faced increasingly frequent power outages in recent years as the country struggles with chronic fuel shortages and deteriorating electrical grids. The crisis worsened when President Donald Trump imposed additional sanctions in January and threatened tariffs on countries that provide oil to the island.

Balinthazy, a New York City native, was filmed celebrating in the streets with a group of fans after the aforementioned victory, but decided to inform viewers, “This is the Islamic Republic of New Yorkistan.” “Islam will be in every household, Inshallah [God willing]. The whole world is Muslim. Welcome to Mamdani’s New York,” he said in a reference to New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim to hold the office.“You see this city? You see how it looks? Inshallah, your city looks just like this too.”

The exercise, dubbed “Joint Sea – 2026,” will begin near China’s port city of Qingdao in the eastern Shandong province. The last Russian ships involved in the exercise arrived in those waters over the weekend, and the exercises will reportedly be held from Monday, July 6 to Monday, July 13.

Two explosions—one from a car bomb and another hidden in a trash bin—detonated outside Damascus’s Four Seasons Hotel, where French President Emmanuel Macron was being hosted, wounding eighteen people.

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli compared Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Adolf Hitler and slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in a post on X on Monday. “We all know how narcissistic power-obsessed fanatics like you begin and how they end. The Jewish people have never feared mere flesh and blood, from Pharaoh until today,” Chikli wrote. “You are nothing but a pathetic blood soaked zero who history will soon forget.”