Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2021 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan conflict
  • The Ministry of Emergency Situations reports that 136 houses and 84 facilities in the Batken region have been destroyed during clashes on the border. (AKIPress)
  • Tajikistan authorities say that 19 people were killed and 87 were injured during border clashes with Kyrgyzstan. (rferl)
• 2021 Malé bombing
  • Former president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed is injured along several more people during a bomb blast in the capital Malé. (BBC)
• 2021 Jersey dispute
  • France sends two patrol boats, the Athos and Le Themis, to Jersey in response to the British deployment of HMS Severn and HMS Tamar to Jersey. The dispute arose after French fishermen threatened to blockade the port of Saint Helier in protest of a new system to obtain fishing permits. (Bloomberg)
• Kivu conflict; Ituri conflict; Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo enacts a "state of siege" over the provinces of Kivu and Ituri for 30 days. During that time the provinces will be placed under military rule. The provincial governments and entities of these provinces will be replaced by offices of the FARDC or the national police. Civil jurisdictions will also be replaced by military jurisdictions. (France 24)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
      • COVID-19 vaccination in Russia
        • Russia authorizes the use of a single-shot "Sputnik Light" vaccine as it had an efficacy rate of 79.4%. (CNBC)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark
      • Gyms, theatres and cinemas are reopened in Denmark as part of restriction easing and reliance of "corona pass", which confirming that they have either tested negative in the past 72 hours, been vaccinated, or recently recovered from COVID-19. (France 24)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
      • Poland reports its first three cases of the Lineage P.1 variant, which first discovered in Brazil, in southern voivodeship of Silesia. (The First News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia
      • Cambodia ends a three-week blanket lockdown in Phnom Penh despite rising number of COVID-19 infections, but authorities retain a tighter restrictions in districts where infections have surged. (Reuters)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in India
      • India reports a world record of 412,262 new cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 21 million. The country also reports a record 3,980 deaths from COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 230,168. (ABC Australia)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
      • Due to public outrage, President Rodrigo Duterte apologizes for taking the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV COVID-19 vaccine that has not been authorized by the Philippines' Food and Drug Administration for emergency use. (BBC)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Uzbekistan
      • Uzbekistan reports 452 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single-day total for this year, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 93,176. (Xinhuanet)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
    • New South Wales government restricts the size of gatherings and reintroduces a mandatory mask wearing in indoor areas and public transport after the wife of a man aged 50s who tested positive for COVID-19 also tested positive. The restrictions take effect until Monday at 12:01 a.m. (The Sydney Morning Herald)

International relations

• Recognition of the Armenian Genocide
  • Latvia's Saeima votes to formally recognize the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as a genocide. (RFERL)

Law and crime

• 2021 Rio de Janeiro shootout
  • At least 25 people are killed in a shootout between police and drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (BBC)
• Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
  • The International Criminal Court sentences Ugandan warlord and member of the Christian terrorist group Lord's Resistance Army Dominic Ongwen to 25 years in prison for charges including murder, rape and sexual enslavement. The former child soldier's lawyers had asked for a lenient sentence considering his childhood trauma. (DW)
• Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong is sentenced to a further 10 months imprisonment for participating in an unauthorized assembly on June 4 last year to commemorate the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in 2020. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Elections in the United Kingdom, 2021 Senedd election, 2021 Scottish Parliament election
  • Wales and Scotland hold elections to their respective parliaments. (The Guardian)