Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected President Trump’s 15-point Gaza peace plan in a public split with the U.S. leader. The proposal requires Hamas to disarm fully before Israel withdraws and Palestinians gain independence, but Netanyahu demanded complete disarmament upfront before any phased implementation begins. Here’s Netanyahu on Sunday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “As long as I am prime minister, a Palestinian state will not be established — not in Gaza and not in Judea and Samaria, not a 'Fatah-stan,' not a 'Hamas-stan.'”

Palestinians in Gaza responded to Netanyahu’s rejection of Trump’s 15-point peace plan.

Ahmed al-Wahidi: “We wished for the war to end and to live in peace. As they say Prime Minister Netanyahu agrees with peace and all this stuff, all of this is a lie. Netanyahu’s response was expected. We are used to this issue that he always rejects. He doesn’t care about peace. He doesn’t care about the people. He doesn’t care about anything. The most important thing is that he wins elections.”

A New York Times investigation into how the participants of the Global Sumud Flotilla were treated in Israeli detention details beatings, electric shocks and other abuse. Six activists produced medical records documenting serious harm: fractured ribs, broken vertebrae, a shattered tailbone, a gunshot wound and a collapsed lung. Four said Israeli forces shot them with rubber bullets or beanbag rounds while they were detained on a ship. Three reported being shocked with Tasers while beaten inside shipping containers. Back in May, Israel apprehended more than 400 activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla at gunpoint on the Mediterranean as they attempted to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza.

Iran says it’s close to a final pact with Oman to define new shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz. But Tehran insists the U.S. must act first by paying compensation, lifting sanctions and halting military threats. According to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, the U.S. and Iran are not engaged in direct talks and will not restart them as long as Washington continues to breach the interim deal. This is Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.

President Masoud Pezeshkian: “Instead of sitting down to resolve them then, we need to see how to resolve them now. If a solution is possible, which is currently being worked on in the Oman negotiations, God willing, we will reach a point where we can get out of this state of neither war nor peace.”

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis attacked a Saudi Aramco refinery on Sunday, two days after Saudi Arabia forged a defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan. The alliance pledges mutual defense, which means an armed attack on any one member counts as an attack on all. But after Sunday’s attack, it was not immediately clear whether Turkey or Pakistan would respond. The Houthis also attacked the Yemeni Red Sea port city ​of Mokha, close to the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, killing at least seven people. Last month, Houthi leaders declared a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia, claiming a Saudi siege on the militia group.

In Russia, a Ukrainian drone attack has killed at least 13 people, including one child, this morning. It’s one of the deadliest attacks on Russia since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This comes as Russia and Ukraine traded attacks on Sunday. A Russian strike hit an apartment block in Kharkiv, Ukraine, killing three people and wounding 37. Meanwhile, in Belgorod, Russia, a Ukrainian drone attack killed five people and wounded 25.

Here in the U.S., President Trump’s former personal lawyer Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general Saturday morning by a narrow 50-49 vote in the Senate. Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana cast the deciding vote to confirm Blanche. Republican Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted against Blanche’s nomination. Some Republican senators had questioned Blanche’s mismanagement of the release of the Epstein files and his role in creating President Trump’s $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund. Blanche eventually walked back the fund after two Republican senators threatened to withhold their votes.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Trump cannot build a ballroom to replace the White House East Wing without Congress approving it first. The court confirmed the lower court’s ruling that the president has no legal authority to tear down and rebuild White House sections without Congress’s approval. President Trump vowed to appeal the ruling, writing on Truth Social, “It is all tied together as one big, expensive, and very complex unit, which is vital for National Security and Military Operations of the United States of America! This unjust decision must be overturned by the Supreme Court in its entirety.”

In Colombia, right-wing President Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in Friday. King Felipe VI of Spain, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, FIFA President Gianni Infantino and right-wing Latin American presidents including Argentina’s Javier Milei, Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa and Chile’s José Antonio Kast were in attendance. This is Abelardo de la Espriella speaking from the city of Cali, where he vowed to crack down on armed groups and abandon peace efforts.

President Abelardo de la Espriella: “There will not be a single place in our territory where criminals can feel safe. I make my own words of Winston Churchill: Victory at all costs, victory in spite of terror, victory however long and hard the road may be, because without victory there is no survival.”

Temporary protected status, TPS, for thousands of immigrants from South Sudan and Burma is set to end after two federal judges sided with the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate the relief. The move will impact over 200 South Sudanese nationals and an estimated 4,000 immigrants from Burma who will now face deportation. This comes after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling ended TPS for immigrants from Haiti and Syria.

The Trump administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. military personnel in its immigration crackdown. That’s according to an investigation by the Associated Press which found more than 50 parents and spouses of U.S. service members have been arrested since Trump returned to office. At least six have been deported.

The nation’s two largest private prison companies, CoreCivic and GEO Group, reported a combined $1.4 billion in quarterly revenue between April and June, as immigrant detention skyrockets under Trump’s second term. A record 51,000 immigrants were arrested in July alone.

In Texas, rallies continued this weekend to mark one month since the July 7 ICE killing of 52-year-old Mexican father Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston. The agents involved have not been identified as his family and supporters demand justice.

In South Africa, more than 178,000 African immigrants have been forced to flee and return home in recent months amid growing violence and harassment. That includes an estimated 115,000 people who’ve returned to Zimbabwe since May. Advocacy groups report thousands of children have been removed from schools and HIV patients pulled from lifesaving treatment in South Africa.

Wildfires continue to burn across the western U.S. and Canada as firefighting crews struggle to contain the devastating blazes. Some 20,000 people in British Columbia were ordered to evacuate on Saturday as the massive Bald Range wildfire nearly doubled in size overnight near the regions of Summerland and Peachland. British Columbia’s premier said the fire was “like a bomb going off.” There are more than 100 active fires in the region, setting off a state of emergency. Scientists warn worsening heat waves and drought due to climate change has led to more frequent and intense fires worldwide.

In Japan, bells rang in Nagasaki Sunday as the city commemorated 81 years since the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb. The attack on August 9, 1945, killed 74,000 people — just three days after the U.S. dropped the first nuclear weapon ever used in war on the city of Hiroshima, killing 140,000 people. This is the mayor of Nagasaki.

Mayor Shiro Suzuki: “The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki forced us to confront the reality that humanity had crossed even the line of using nuclear weapons against human beings. … The theory of nuclear deterrence is extremely risky. Nuclear weapons are not a necessary evil, but an absolute evil, and humanity and nuclear weapons can never coexist.”

The anniversary came as the government of Japan’s ultraconservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has shifted defense policies to bolster militarization. Takaichi has been widely ambiguous about her long-term commitment to maintain Japan’s Three Non-Nuclear Principles, endorsed over 50 years ago.