The Israel Defense Forces said it killed two members of Hamas' Nukhba commando unit, Yasser Abu Khair and Muhammad Din. The IDF said the pair had plotted attacks on IDF personnel, helped restore the group's operational capability and had systematically violated the ceasefire.

Nepal's landslide disaster has killed 734 people and left 2,498 missing as of 0900 local time on the 30th, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said.

China held the 2026 National Social Science Fund annual project review in Beijing; Politburo member and head of the Central Propaganda Department Li Shulei attended and spoke. The meeting ordered priority on systematic theoretical and philosophical study of the Party’s innovation theory and faster construction of an autonomous Chinese philosophy and social-science knowledge system to tackle major theoretical and practical issues of Chinese-style modernization. It called for systemic reform of the National Social Science Fund and research management—sharpening academic evaluation, promoting rigorous academic conduct, reorganising funding and institutions to focus on solving real problems—and urged creative transformation of traditional Chinese culture and wider deployment of digital‑intelligence tools to empower social-science research.