Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Plumpang oil depot fire
  • Seventeen people are killed and fifty others are injured in a fire at a fuel storage station in Koja, Jakarta, Indonesia. (Reuters)
• Sixteen people are killed when a pipeline explodes in Emohua, Rivers State, Nigeria. (AP)
• One person is killed in Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States, and more than 310,000 people are left without power across five states due to a system of storms affecting the area. (WAPT-TV) (CNN)

Law and crime

• A court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, sentences opposition figure Kem Sokha to 27 years in prison on charges of "collusion with foreigners" and treason. (The Guardian)
• A court in Minsk, Belarus, sentences human rights activist and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison on charges of "financing actions violating public order" and smuggling. (AP)