Morning World News Summary for July 30: US Strikes Iran, a Russian Missile Lands in Poland, Kumamoto's Toll Reaches 34 and Ebola Passes 1,500

US Central Command said American forces struck dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets across Iran in a two-hour wave overnight, hitting military command centres, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and defence sites and maritime capabilities in retaliation for an intercepted Iranian missile attack on US forces.

https://aje.news/xe5e7f?update=4815387

Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service declared a major incident after a wind-driven wildfire broke out on Dunwich Heath near Leiston shortly after 5.30pm Wednesday, drawing roughly 90 firefighters overnight and forcing evacuations that included preparations to clear 200 caravans at the nearby Cliff House Holiday Park.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78gnj1qqyyo

Poland scrambled fighter jets to secure its airspace as Russia launched a mass barrage at Ukraine that reached as far west as Lviv, with Polish forces reporting at least a dozen missiles fired over western Ukraine close to the Polish border.

https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/swiat/zmasowany-atak-rosji-na-ukraine-polska-poderwala-mysliwce/7zm87g0

Russia fired more than 70 missiles and over 280 attack drones at Ukraine overnight, killing at least eight people including two parents and three children whose home in Radushne near Kryvyi Rih was destroyed, with Zelenskyy saying air defences downed more than 260 of the drones despite a critical shortage of interceptors.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/81354

Emergency crews in Argentina’s Mendoza province have rescued more than 100 people stranded by heavy Andean snowfall that dropped over three metres in places, shuttered the Puente del Inca border crossing into Chile and left almost 1,000 trucks stalled on blocked roads.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260727-border-crossings-shut-as-heavy-snow-coats-argentine-andes

The death toll from Tuesday’s magnitude 7.1 Kumamoto earthquake rose to 34 including deaths authorities are still confirming as quake-related, with seven killed in the explosion that brought down the Aeon mall in Kashima and eight at Nippon Paper Industries’ Yatsushiro mill, while almost 9,500 people remained in evacuation centres.

https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/81058

https://topics.smt.docomo.ne.jp/article/asahi/nation/ASV7Z269VV7ZPTIL001M?fm=topics&fm_topics_id=974a56679406b7f5c87a019d9686d037

A 105-kilogram adult male bear that holed up in a disused boiler room at the Tateyama Chikusan livestock and cooking oil firm in Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture was shot dead by local hunters on Wednesday morning after the town mayor authorised an emergency cull, with no injuries reported.

https://www.fnn.jp/articles/-/1084900

Three Greek firefighters died on Wednesday, two of them trapped by flames near their vehicle while fighting a wind-driven blaze at Krya Vrysi in Rethymno on Crete and a third after tackling a separate fire in the Peloponnese, as evacuations emptied villages and thousands of tourists from southern Crete.

https://www.itv.com/news/2026-07-30/wildfires-greece-crete-france-spain-deaths-heatwave

Prime Minister Donald Tusk said all indications point to a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile as the object that crashed overnight into a field near Tarnawa-Kolonia in Lublin province, leaving a roughly 10-metre crater about 70 kilometres inside Poland with no casualties, and said Polish forces had been ready to shoot it down had it continued its flight.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwymkgenv2ro

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Thursday that it will punish the aggressor today and warned that countries assisting the United States could face a harsh response, while insisting it retains full control of the Strait of Hormuz.

https://aje.news/xe5e7f?update=4816098

Israeli forces fired three artillery shells at the area surrounding Tal al-Ahmar al-Sharqi in the southern Quneitra countryside on Thursday, causing no casualties, according to Syrian state news agency SANA.

https://aje.news/xe5e7f?update=4815914

Jordan’s military said its air defences intercepted and destroyed five missiles launched from Iran early Wednesday, reporting no casualties.

https://aje.news/xe5e7f?update=4815778

Congo’s government said 1,521 people have died out of 3,442 recorded cases in the Bundibugyo outbreak declared on May 15, a jump of roughly 50 percent in deaths in about a week that confirms it as the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.

https://apnews.com/article/congo-ebola-death-toll-bundibugyo-virus-response-treatment-269eac4d8a93be912459486428ef2f94