• 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine
  • A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board. (CNN)
• Syrian Civil War
  • A bomb explodes in the town of al-Mayadin in Deir al-Zor province near the Iraqi border killing eight. (Reuters)

• Alexander Stubb is elected new leader of the National Coalition Party and thus the new prime minister of Finland, the first Swedish-speaking Finn to hold the post since 1959. (Hufvudstadsbladet)
• 2014 Afghan presidential election
  • Voters in Afghanistan go to the polls for the second round of voting with the Taliban threatening polling booths. Dozens of people are killed across the country. (al-Jazeera), (USA Today)