Our daily voyage around the world

🇯🇵 Nearly 400 people were safely evacuated after a Japan Airlines plane collided with a Coast Guard aircraft. The passenger plane was cleared to land at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday, while the Coast Guard craft entered the runway despite being ordered to taxi, causing both planes to crash and catch fire. The pilot of the Coast Guard plane escaped, but explosions killed five of the six crew members. All 379 passengers and crew on board the passenger plane were safely evacuated following the fiery collision.

🇮🇱 Israel’s Supreme Court struck down a key part of the government’s controversial judicial reform law. In Monday’s 8-7 decision, the court narrowly voted to overturn a law passed in July that prevents Israeli judges from striking down government decisions they deem “unreasonable.” The law was the first in a planned overhaul of Israel’s justice system by PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, which drew widespread public protests last year. Separately, a top Hamas leader was killed on Tuesday in an apparent Israeli airstrike, though Israel’s government declined to comment.

🇮🇷 Two bombs exploded at a memorial for former Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. The first bomb was detonated near his burial site, where people gathered to commemorate the anniversary of his 2020 death at the hands of a US drone strike, while the second blast went off about 20 minutes later near the same area. At least 95 people were killed and an additional 211 wounded, in what appears to be the deadliest militant attack to hit the country since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iranian officials are still investigating who is responsible for the attacks.