• 2015 Bangkok bombing
  • Thai police say they have discovered bomb-making material in a raid in an apartment in an outer side of Bangkok. (AP)

• Denali, the highest mountain peak in North America, officially regains its original Alaska Native name through an executive order issued by American President Barack Obama. Previously, since 1917, it had been known as Mount McKinley. (The New York Times)

• 2015 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Fred hits Cape Verde causing flooding and the closure of airports. (AP via The New York Times)

• Turkey–PKK conflict
  • A judge in Turkey charges two reporters and a support worker for Vice News with being members of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, following their arrest a few days prior. (Al Jazeera)
• Minsk II implementation
  • Riot police clash with protesters armed with firecrackers and petrol bombs outside the parliament building, in Kiev, Ukraine, leaving one national guardsman dead and around 100 people injured. (Al Jazeera), (The News Hub), (BBC)
• Syria–North Korea relations
  • Syrian authorities name a park in Damascus after the North Korean founding leader Kim Il-Sung. (Al Jazeera)

• Czech authorities extradite from the United States Kevin Dahlgren, who is suspected of killing four Czech family members. (AP via Yahoo), (AP via Fox news),
• A Kansas court convicts white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. (also known as Frazier Glenn Cross) of three counts of murder outside two Jewish centers. (AP via Yahoo)
• Riots in the Churachandpur district of India's Manipur State after the passage of three bills in the Manipur Legislative Assembly yesterday leave at least three people dead and three people injured. (New Delhi TV)

• Conservationists report in Oryx, the International Journal of Conservation that the Sumatran Rhino is now considered extinct in the wild in Malaysia. No new wild animals have been spotted since 2007, elsewhere fewer than 100 Rhinos remain in the wild. (MSN)