Portal:Current events/2025 June 30

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
      • Israeli forces kill at least 74 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 23 who were attempting to get humanitarian aid. (NPR)
    • Al-Baqa Cafe airstrike
      • At least 39 people are killed and dozens of others injured by an airstrike on the al-Baqa internet café in Gaza City. Multiple sportspeople and multiple journalists were killed, including Ismail Abu Hatab. (NOS)

Business and economy

• 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
  • National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett announces that the United States will restart trade talks with Canada after they cancel their digital services tax on American technology firms. (CBC)

Disasters and accidents

• Telangana chemical factory explosion
  • Thirty-six people are killed and several others are injured in an chemical factory explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in Sangareddy, Telangana, India. (AP)
• Wildfires break out in Turkey resulting in İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport cancelling or diverting all flights. (The Independent)

International relations

• International sanctions against Syria, Syria–United States relations
  • United States president Donald Trump signs an executive order lifting all American sanctions on Syria that were imposed during the now-overthrown Assad family's regime. (White House)

Law and crime

• 2022 University of Idaho killings
  • Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students, pleads guilty to all charges, avoiding the death penalty. (ABC News)
• 2025 Boulder fire attack
  • The death of an 82-year-old woman who was severely injured in the firebombing attack earlier this month is announced by leaders of the Boulder Jewish Community Center. (AP)
• 2025 Kenyan protests
  • A civilian vendor shot at close range by police during protests over the death of Albert Ojwang in Nairobi, Kenya, succumbs to his injuries in hospital after being declared brain-dead, bringing the death toll from nationwide protests in Kenya to 20. (CTV News) (DW)
• Murder of Louisa Dunne
  • Ryland Headley, a 92-year-old man, is convicted for the 1967 murder of Louisa Dunne, which is believed to be the UK's longest-running cold case ever to be solved. (The Independent)
• Mexican drug war
  • Twenty bodies, five of them decapitated, are found either hanging from a bridge or inside a van abandoned beneath, near Culiacán, Sinaloa, amid clashes between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel. (The Guardian)
• Police in Baku, Azerbaijan, raid the office of the Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik, alleging its operations in Azerbaijan are via "illegal financing" after its official accreditation was revoked in February. (AP)