Portal:Current events/2025 June 5

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • An overnight Russian Shahed drone strike kills five people, including a child, and injures nine others in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. (AP)
    • A Russian drone strike injures nineteen people in Kharkiv, including children and a pregnant woman. (AP)
  • Kherson strikes
    • The Kherson Regional State Administration headquarters is destroyed in a Russian missile strike. (Ukrinform)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of an American-Israeli couple abducted by militants during the October 7 attacks. (NBC News)
  • Rafah aid distribution killings
    • A CNN investigation points to the Israel Defense Forces opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to get humanitarian aid in Rafah, Gaza. (CNN)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Israeli Air Force jets launch airstrikes on southern Beirut, Lebanon, targeting alleged underground Hezbollah drone manufacturing facilities. (Türkiye Today) (Al-Monitor)

Disasters and accidents

• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling, Sudanese refugee crisis
  • The Freedom Flotilla, a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, Irish actor Liam Cunningham, and French European Parliament member Rima Hassan, rescue four Sudanese civil war refugees from a dinghy near Libya. (The Times of Israel) (The Print)

Health and environment

• The government of the Ivory Coast declares an outbreak of cholera after confirming seven recent deaths from the disease, and calls on the population to remain vigilant. (AP)

International relations

• Chad–United States relations
  • Chad suspends the issuance of visas to U.S. citizens in response to a new travel ban announced by U.S. president Donald Trump, that includes Chad among twelve countries facing entry restrictions. (BBC News)
• Mexico–United States relations, Gun law in the United States
  • The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously blocks a 10-billion dollar lawsuit by the Mexican government against large American firearms manufacturers alleging their failure to prevent firearms sales to drug cartels and other criminal organisations due to a lack of evidence that the companies allow such transactions. (Al Jazeera) (AP) (Politico)
• United States and the International Criminal Court
  • The United States imposes sanctions on 4 ICC judges in retaliation over the war tribunal's issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a past decision to open a case into alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Two members of the Ta' Maksar gang are convicted as accessories to murder for supplying the explosive that killed the Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017. (Times of Malta)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Burundian parliamentary election
  • Citizens of Burundi vote to elect 100 of the 123 members of the National Assembly. (BBC News) (DW)
• Zia Yusuf announces via X that he is stepping down as the Chairman of Reform UK. (BBC News) (The Telegraph)

Science and technology

• Nintendo's Switch 2 video game console is released in most regions. (BBC News) (The Verge)

Sports

• 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification
  • 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)
    • In association football, Uzbekistan and Jordan qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time, with Uzbekistan securing a top-two finish in Group A and Jordan advancing from Group B following Iraq's loss to secure their places in the 2026 tournament. (Reuters)