Portal:Current events

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukraine infrastructure
    • Russia launches 597 drones and 26 cruise missiles across Ukraine, killing two civilians in Chernivtsi, injuring 20 others, and damaging infrastructure in several cities. (ABC News) (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• List of World Heritage Sites in Australia
  • UNESCO lists the rock art gallery at Murujuga National Park in Western Australia as a World Heritage Site. (The Guardian)

International relations

• United States president Donald Trump announces a 30% tariff increase on imported items from Mexico and the European Union to take effect on August 1. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2025 Wimbledon Championships
  • In tennis, Iga Świątek defeats Amanda Anisimova in the women's singles final 6–0, 6–0 to win her first Wimbledon title, becoming the first Pole to do so. This is the third major final to have a double bagel scoreline and the first since 1988. (The Independent) (WTA)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • United States president Donald Trump confirms plans to sell weapons to NATO allies to be provided to Ukraine after the Pentagon previously paused weapon shipments. (Axios) (PBS)
• Israeli settler violence
  • Israeli settlers kill two Palestinians near Ramallah in the West Bank. One of the victims, identified as a Palestinian-American, was beaten to death whilst the other victim was shot in the chest. (Reuters)
• Myanmar civil war
  • At least 23 civilians, including four children, are killed and about 30 others are injured, with ten critically injured, in an Air Force strike on a Buddhist monastery in the District of Sagaing, located in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. (ABC News)

Law and crime

• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Los Choneros gang leader José Adolfo Macías Villamar agrees to a request of Ecuador's National Court for extradition to the United States to face trial for drug trafficking and arms smuggling. (CNN) (Reuters)
• Mexican drug war
  • Ovidio Guzmán López, son of the former drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, pleads guilty to two counts of drug distribution and two counts of participation in a continuing criminal enterprise. He is expected to cooperate with the U.S. government by providing information on criminal networks. (Reuters) (Chicago Tribune)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli airstrikes kill at least 15 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, queuing for nutritional supplements near a medical point in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. They were among at least 82 killed in strikes in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it struck a member Hamas's elite Nukhba forces who took part in the October 7 attacks. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)
  • Palestinian political violence
    • Two Palestinians kill a 20-year-old Israeli settler in a combined shooting and stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Mall in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. (YNet)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kyiv strikes
    • An overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, kills two people, injures 16 others, and causes fires across the capital with multiple districts targeted. At least 400 drones and 18 missiles are launched in total. (BBC News)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • At least 30 bandits, five security officers and one civilian are killed during an insurgent attack on villages in the district of Faskari, located in the state of Katsina in Nigeria. (AP) (Reuters)

International relations

• Armenia–Azerbaijan relations, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev meet in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, for peace talks regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. (Reuters)
• France–United Kingdom relations
  • French president Emmanuel Macron and United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer announce a joint migration deal for the UK to deport illegal migrants to France in exchange for accepting asylum seekers with British family connections. (DW)

Law and crime

• Irish Amateur Swimming Association abuse scandal
  • Former swimming coach George Gibney agrees to be extradited from the United States to Ireland to face trial for indecent assault and rape. (RTÉ)
• The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency arrests four people for conducting cyberattacks as part of an organized crime ring against national retailers Marks & Spencer, Harrods, and Co-op Food. (AP)
• In a case concerning regulations requiring the South African athlete Caster Semenya to decrease her natural testosterone levels to be allowed to participate in the female category, the European Court of Human Rights finds that Switzerland violated her right to a fair hearing, requiring the case to be sent back to Swiss courts. (ECHR) (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Labour in India
  • Sporadic clashes occur in East India between trade unionists and left-wing groups against police and Trinamool Congress supporters during a current general strike opposing the "Special Intensive Revision". (ABP)
• Von der Leyen Commission II
  • European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen survives a vote of confidence at the European Parliament. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • 2025 Jaalle Siyaad military academy bombing
      • Several people are killed and injured in a suicide bombing targeting the 14th October Brigade of the Somali Armed Forces at a military academy in Mogadishu, Somalia. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack. (Reuters) (Hiiraan Online) (Somali Guardian)
    • At least seven Kenyan police officers are injured after an al-Shabaab roadside bomb strikes their patrol truck on a highway east of Mandera in Kenya, near the border with Somalia. (Hiiraan Online)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
    • Attacks on the Eternity C
      • The Eternity C, a Liberian-flagged ship, sinks in the Red Sea after being attacked by the Houthis on Monday. At least four people are killed, seven others are rescued and fourteen are reported missing. A rescue operation is underway. (The Guardian) (NOS)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russian forces launch 728 Geran-2 drones at Ukraine overnight in the largest single drone attack of the war to date. (Newsweek)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces a 50% tariff on most imports into the United States from Brazil starting August 1, in a letter addressed to Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and citing the trial of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. (Reuters)
  • President Trump also announces a new set of tariff rates on imports from Algeria, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka, assigning country-specific duties ranging from 20 to 30% following the expiration of a 90-day negotiation period. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Guatemala earthquakes
  • At least six people die when a M_w 5.7 earthquake strikes Guatemala and causes widespread damage. (ABC News)
• At least thirteen people are killed and nine others are injured after a section of the Gambhira Bridge in Gujarat, India, partially collapses during morning rush hour. (The Times of India) (NDTV)

International relations

• United States and the United Nations
  • The United States issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. (NPR)
• The Syrian minister of foreign affairs Asaad al-Shaibani announces the country's readmission to the Union for the Mediterranean after 13 years of its suspension. (ARK News)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • The Seoul Central District Court issues an arrest warrant for former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol over five key charges related to his short-lived martial law declaration on December 3, 2024, placing him in custody for the first time since March due to concerns of evidence tampering. (Yonhap)
• Censorship in Turkey
  • Turkey partially bans certain contents from X (formerly Twitter)'s AI chatbot Grok amid a criminal probe over insults to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the country's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • Five Israeli soldiers are killed and two others are seriously injured in an ambush in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. (The New York Times) (The Washington Post)
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict
    • An Israeli airstrike kills at least three people and injures 13 others in an attack on Tripoli, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• German economic crisis
  • German vehicle manufacturer Daimler Truck announces it will cut around 5,000 jobs in the country by 2030 in an effort to save €1 billion following a drop in sales. (DW)
• Bulgaria and the euro
  • The European Parliament and the European Council approve Bulgaria's request to adopt the euro, which will replace the lev as Bulgaria's official currency on 1 January 2026. (Euronews) (European Council)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2025 Southern New Mexico floods
  • At least three people are killed, four people are trapped, including a father and his two children, and 85 others are rescued when they are washed away in flash floods in Ruidoso, New Mexico, United States. (AP) (LBC)
• Ten people are killed and some others are injured when a fire and explosion cause eight rooms to collapse at a fireworks factory in Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, India. (The Star)

Law and crime

• Treatment of women by the Taliban
  • The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants against Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and Taliban official Abdul Hakim Haqqani over alleged persecution of girls, women and the LGBTQ+ community. (AP)
• Two people are killed, including the perpetrator, and six others are injured, including three police officers and three seriously, in a shootout at a house in Calldetenes, Catalonia, Spain. (Ara)
• A 9-year-old is killed and two others are injured in a mass stabbing attack by a 16-year-old at a school in Estação, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. (CTV News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
      • Attacks on the Eternity C
        • At least four people are killed, two people are injured and two other people are missing after the Eternity C, a Liberian flagged ship, is attacked in the Red Sea near Hodeida, Yemen, by multiple Houthi boats and drones. The ship later sinks. (NOS) (NOS)
    • Israeli attacks on Yemen
      • The Israeli Air Force strikes three ports and a power plant in Houthi-controlled Yemen in response to recent ballistic missile attacks on Israel. (ABC News) (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Ukrainian Armed Forces launch a long-range drone strike on Krasnodar Krai, Russia, damaging the main oil refinery in Ilsky. (The Kyiv Independent)
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russia launches over 100 drones at areas across Ukraine, killing ten civilians and injuring 38 others. (PBS)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab militants recapture Moqokori, a town in the Hiiraan region of Somalia. The heavy fighting resulted in the deaths of at least 40 Somali National Army and Ma'awisley fighters. (Garowe Online)
• 2025 Kenyan protests
  • Eleven people are killed and 29 others are injured in clashes with security forces amid ongoing anti-government protests in Kenya, according to the National Commission on Human Rights. (Sky News) (Reuters)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Over 70 vigilante group members are killed and others are missing in an ambush by bandits in two villages in Kanam and Wase, Plateau State, Nigeria. Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) denied the initial account and reported eight deaths and several missing. (Daily Post) (Vanguard News) (The Punch)

Business and economy

• Paschal Donohoe is re-elected President of the Eurogroup. (RTE.ie)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2025 Central Texas floods
  • The death toll from the flooding in Central Texas, United States, increases to 104, including 28 children, with 41 other people still missing. Flash flood warnings are issued for expected additional rainfall. (AP)
• Ramses Exchange fire
  • Four people are killed and at least 22 others are injured in a fire at the Ramses Exchange building in Cairo, Egypt. National connectivity data is brought down to 62% of ordinary levels, including banking and phone calls. Trading on the Cairo Stock Exchange is halted the following day. (NOS) (CNN)
• Four people are killed, including two children, when a Cirrus SR22 crashes into a field near Raleigh Executive Jetport in Sanford, North Carolina, United States. (WTVD-TV)

Law and crime

• 2021–2022 Luzon sabungero disappearances
  • Philippine police chief Nicolas Torre announces that 15 police officers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in abducting and killing at least 34 cockfighters across Luzon, Philippines, from 2021 to 2022. (AP)
• 2023 Leongatha mushroom murders
  • Erin Patterson is found guilty on all charges regarding deaths from Amanita poisoning from a lunch at her home in Leongatha, Australia. (ABC News Australia)
• Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
  • Amnesty International says that Saudi Arabia executed a record 345 people last year, many of them over drug offenses. (AP)
• Death of Jeffrey Epstein
  • The United States Department of Justice announces that the alleged "Epstein client list" does not exist, in contradiction of Attorney General Pam Bondi's claims of possessing it, and reaffirms that Jeffrey Epstein's death was suicide. (AP)
• The perpetrator is killed and three people, two police officers and a border guard, are injured in a mass shooting when a man opens fire on law enforcement officers before being fatally shot at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, United States. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Cabinet of Lee Jae Myung
  • Kim Min-seok is officially inaugurated as the prime minister of South Korea at the Government Complex in Sejong City, four days after he was approved by the National Assembly. (The Korea Herald)
• Russian president Vladimir Putin dismisses Minister of Transport Roman Starovoyt, with his deputy Andrey Nikitin replacing him. Hours after his dismissal, Starovoyt is found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot. (ABC News Australia)