July 29, 2013 (Monday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- Iraqi insurgency (2011–13):
- War in North-West Pakistan:
- The Pakistani Taliban attacks a prison in the Pakistani city of Dera Ismail Khan with more than 300 prisoners freed. (Times of India)
Disasters and accidents
- 2013 Pacific hurricane season: Tropical Storm Flossie is predicted to make a rare landfall in the US island state of Hawaii with warnings of heavy rain with the potential for flooding and landslides. (AP)
- A building explosion and collapse in Philadelphia causes injuries to at least eight people. (CNN) (MyFoxPhilly)
- Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne resulting in dozens of injuries including four serious injuries. (RT)
- Seven people have been injured following a series of explosions at a propane plant in the US town of Tavares in central Florida. (Fox News), (BBC), (AP via Vancouver Post)
- Five people died and a woman was injured in a helicopter crash, in Romania (Puterea.ro)[clarification needed][unreliable source?]
International relations
- The New Zealand Ministry of Defence announces that it will investigate claims that it collected telephone metadata on Jon Stephenson, a freelance journalist for The McClatchy Company in Afghanistan. (AP via MyFox Phoenix)
Law and crime
- €103 million worth of diamonds and other jewels are stolen from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, in one of Europe's biggest jewelry heists in recent years. (AP via News24)
- FBI announces the arrests of 150 suspects, during a three-day sweep that took place in 76 cities across the United States, on charges of child sex-trafficking. (Reuters)
Sports
- In association football, former Birmingham City and Club América striker Christian Benítez dies of cardiac arrest complications in a hospital in Qatar. Having won the championship in Mexico, Benítez signed with El Jaish SC. (Excélsior)