Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The second-season finale of Wistoria: Wand and Sword ended by announcing a third season of the fantasy action anime, along with a promo and celebratory visual.

A Leonardo AW139 carrying oil workers back from Aramco's offshore fields crashed on approach to Ras Tanura at about 6 a.m., killing its two pilots and 12 passengers, all Saudi nationals.

Bug Films' adaptation of Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier was renewed for a second season right after its first season finished, with Crunchyroll again streaming.

France's Senate cast the final vote on 29 June 2026 to definitively adopt the anti-fast-fashion law targeting Shein and Temu, after the National Assembly's own final vote on 24 June and a joint committee compromise reached on 17 June. The law introduces a rising eco-penalty on ultra-fast-fashion garments, from €5 today to €10 by 2030, capped at 50% of the pre-tax price.

Cypic's The World Is Dancing begins streaming, a coming-of-age drama fictionalizing the early life of Zeami Motokiyo, the boy who would grow up to found Noh theater in 14th-century Japan.

Gabriel Martinelli's stoppage-time goal sealed a comeback for Brazil after Kaishu Sano put Japan ahead and Casemiro levelled.

Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter returned to Weekly Shonen Jump with chapter 411 in issue 31, on sale 29 June 2026, the first new chapter since chapter 410 on 9 December 2024; it will not run on a strict weekly schedule.

Julio Enciso's header put Paraguay ahead and Kai Havertz levelled; after a disallowed Tah goal in extra time, Paraguay won the shootout 4-3 to knock out four-time champions Germany.

SanMar closes its acquisition of Bella+Canvas, separating the blank T-shirt maker from its sister brand Alo Yoga, a step Reuters says readies Alo for a public offering or sale.

The regional transit district certified an estimated 235,503 valid signatures, above the 205,831 needed, putting a 14-year sales tax for BART, Muni, Caltrain and AC Transit (1 cent in San Francisco, half a cent in four other counties) before voters on 3 November.

China exported more than one million vehicles in June 2026, a first, taking first-half exports to 5.096 million, up 65.3%, as Chinese brands surged into Europe and the Global South.

Crews finished installing a base-isolation system beneath the 19th-century Salt Lake Temple as part of an estimated $2.4 billion project to let the building float free of the ground during a major earthquake.

Britain's Defence Investment Plan commits GBP 298 billion over four years, including GBP 15 billion more than the previous spending review, raising defence to 2.7% of GDP by 2029 with money for GCAP, the nuclear deterrent, submarines and drones.

Etihad Rail began passenger service in the UAE, launching an introductory Abu Dhabi-to-Fujairah route ahead of its full national network opening.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic Sonnet, which comes close to Opus 4.8 on coding and computer use at $2 per million input tokens and becomes the default model for Free and Pro users.

From 30 June 2026 large listed companies across the EU are expected to have at least 40% of non-executive board seats, or 33% of all board seats, held by the underrepresented sex, the target date set in the Women on Boards Directive.

Sable launched and priced a stock sale at $3.08 a share and 6.5% convertible notes due 2031, which with a $675 million, 15% term loan paid off roughly $991 million it owed ExxonMobil for the Santa Ynez Unit. The shares lost about half their value on the day.