Haitian President Jovenel Moise was “fatally injured” (Miami Herald) and his wife was shot in an attack on their home at around 1 a.m. this morning, interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said. The attack came amid a monthslong political crisis that included mounting gang violence and large protests against Moise’s government.
 
Joseph said a group of unidentified individuals carried out the attack (NYT), and Reuters reported that gunshots were heard throughout the capital in its wake. It came one day after Moise named a new prime minister, Ariel Henry, to prepare the country for presidential, parliamentary, and local elections slated to occur in the next two months. Moise had been ruling Haiti by decree since January 2020. Joseph said Haiti’s security situation was under control, while the Dominican Republic announced it would close its border with the country.

Israel sent seven hundred thousand doses (Yonhap) of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine that were set to expire soon (NYT) to South Korea. South Korea is due to return the same number of Pfizer-BioNTech doses to Israel later this year.  
 
This Backgrounder looks at global COVID-19 vaccination efforts.
 
Singapore: Singapore’s health minister and its manpower minister gave speeches defending the government’s openness (Bloomberg) to foreign workers after opposition politicians criticized such openness due to job losses and COVID-19.

U.S. Central Command said the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, which is due to conclude by September 11, is more than 90 percent complete (Politico).
 
India: Indian human rights campaigners and international human rights groups mourned (Hindustan Times) an eighty-four-year-old Jesuit activist who died in state custody (FT). Stan Swamy was arrested nine months ago for allegedly having ties to Maoist rebels. He was never put on trial and was repeatedly denied bail despite having severe Parkinson’s disease.

Saudi Arabian Deputy Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman is in Washington (Al Jazeera) this week for meetings with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and U.S. State and Defense Department officials. The meetings come months after a U.S. intelligence report linked bin Salman’s brother, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
 
Iran: Iran informed the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog that it has begun the process of producing enriched uranium metal (BBC). The United States called the development “an unfortunate step backwards,” and three European countries said it threatened talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.
 
This Backgrounder discusses what’s next for the Iran nuclear deal.

The World Food Program called for $121 million to fund food aid (AFP) in Mozambique through the end of the year, saying that without the funds, 730,000 displaced people could face a hunger emergency. The country has been rocked by extremist violence since 2017.
 
Eswatini: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for dialogue and restraint (UN News) in Eswatini after dozens of people were reportedly killed or injured in protests calling for democratic reforms. The UN human rights office said it received reports that police used live ammunition during the protests.

The Spanish government approved a law that defines all non-consensual sex (Reuters) as rape, increases penalties for sexual harassment, and requires greater support for victims of sexual offenses. Spain’s legislature is expected to approve the changes by the end of the year.
 
Brussels: European governments have pressed the European Commission to spend the next nine months coming up with “high impact and high visibility projects” to rival China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), according to a Politico report.
 
CFR’s Jennifer Hillman and Alex Tippett look at BRI’s problematic labor practices for the Internationalist blog.

Colombia’s transitional justice court, established as part of the government’s 2016 peace deal, charged 10 service members and a civilian with forcibly disappearing 24 people, killing at least 120 more (Guardian), and falsely claiming the victims were guerilla fighters who died in combat.

The Pentagon announced it is canceling a $10 billion cloud-computing contract (CNN) awarded to Microsoft that had been legally contested by Amazon, which alleged that the Donald Trump administration’s 2019 decision to award the contract was motivated by bias against then Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The Pentagon said the cancellation was due to evolving requirements and industry advances and that it will accept new proposals from cloud service providers, including Microsoft and Amazon.