Multiple reports indicate that 21 dead dogs have washed up on the beaches of Guemes Island in Washington state this week, and no one has been arrested yet in connection with the incident. In Tel Aviv, hundreds of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against Israel's war and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite tightened restrictions on public gatherings due to the Iran war. Alon-Lee Green and several other demonstrators were later arrested during the protest.
Meanwhile, the ship Flora 1, which was boarded in Ystad after an oil spill, is allowed to leave Sweden, as the preliminary investigation into related crimes has been closed and the suspicions do not lead to prosecution. In Germany, a new law has been introduced that prevents men of combat age, 17 to 45 years, from leaving the country for more than three months without the defense ministry's approval, as part of the law on modernization of conscription that came into force on January 1, 2026. The government aims to increase the number of soldiers from about 184,000 to between 255,000 and 270,000 by 2035.
In Lebanon, the number of dead in the ongoing Israeli attacks against Iran-backed Hezbollah has risen to over 1,400, with new raids against the capital Beirut as well as Tyre carried out on Saturday.