Portal:Current events/2025 June 14

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • Iran–Israel war (list of airstrikes)
      • Iran and Israel continue to launch missiles and drones at each other after the preemptive strike on Iran yesterday. Israel targeted Iran's Ministry of Defence headquarters while Iran retaliated by launching missiles at Tel Aviv and Haifa. (AP)
      • At least 13 Israelis are killed and over 200 others are injured in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on Bat Yam. (The Times of Israel)
• Gaza war
  • Rafah aid distribution killings
    • At least 79 Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire across the Gaza Strip, including 15 people near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) site, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. (Al Jazeera)
• Herder-farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • At least 100 people are killed, including many who were burned to death, hundreds of others are injured, and dozens are still missing, in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Guma, Benue State, Nigeria. (Star Tribune) (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 South Africa floods
  • The death toll from flooding caused by a winter storm in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, earlier this week increases to 86, as police continue to find bodies in the water. (AP) (TV360 Nigeria)
• At least 19 people are killed in floods and landslides caused by heavy rainfall in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP) (Niagara Falls Review)
• At least six people are killed and two others are missing in flash floods in Ohio County, West Virginia, United States. (WVPB)

Law and crime

• 2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators
  • Minnesota state senator John Hoffman, state representative and former speaker Melissa Hortman, and their spouses are shot in two targeted spree shootings at their homes in Brooklyn Park and Champlin, Minnesota, United States. Hortman and her husband are killed, while the conditions of the Hoffmans are "grave". (ABC News) (BNO News) (KMSP-TV)

Politics and elections

• Protests against Donald Trump
  • Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump
    • A series of protests occur across the United States in all 50 states, the same day as the United States Army military parade in Washington DC. (Politico) (The New York Times)
• 2025 Northern Ireland riots
  • Anti-immigration protestors use fireworks and Molotov cocktails against riot police across Northern Ireland, injuring at least 63 police officers. Police deploy water cannons in return to control the protestors. (Reuters) (DW)

Science and technology

• Internet censorship in Iran
  • Elon Musk announces on X (formerly Twitter) that Starlink will provide internet access to citizens in Tehran, Iran after the Iranian government shut down the internet in the country due to Israeli strikes against the nation. (The Times of Israel)