Portal:Current events/June 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Rafah aid distribution incidents
      • At least 31 Palestinians are killed and 170 others are injured while thousands of people went to receive aid from an American-funded humanitarian aid distribution centre in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Israel strongly denies its responsibility and releases drone footage showing armed, masked men firing at civilians attempting to collect humanitarian aid. (AP) (BBC News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Operation Spider's Web
    • Ukraine says at least 40 Russian warplanes, including several strategic bombers were destroyed or damaged by drone attacks on four air bases in Russia. (BBC News)
  • Russia launches the largest drone attack on Ukraine since the start of the war, comprising 472 drones and seven ballistic missiles. (AP)
  • Twelve Ukrainian servicemembers are killed and 60 more are injured in a Russian missile strike on a training camp in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine, Mykhailo Drapatyi, submits a resignation request following the incident. (Ukrainian Pravda) (RBC-Ukraine)
• Terrorism in Russia
  • 2025 Russia bridge collapses
    • A support on a bridge explodes and collapses in Kursk Oblast, Russia, causing a freight train to derail, killing a worker and injuring two others, including the driver. The incident is being probed as an act of terrorism. (BBC News) (Reuters) (RFE-RL)
• Violent incidents in reaction to the Gaza war
  • 2025 Boulder fire attack
    • Seven people are injured, including the perpetrator and one critically, in a firebombing attack when a man attacks protestors demanding the release of Israeli captives who remain in Gaza at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, United States. FBI director Kash Patel claims it was a "targeted terror attack". (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
• Mali War
  • Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin militants seize a Malian Armed Forces base near the border with Burkina Faso, killing more than 30 Malian troops, while also launching an attack on Timbuktu Airport where Wagner Group forces are stationed. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Twelve people are killed and several others are injured in a fire at a drug rehabilitation center in San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, Mexico. The cause is still under investigation. (Barron's) (Infobae)

Law and crime

• 2025 UEFA Champions League final, 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
  • 2025 Paris Saint-Germain celebration riots
    • Fireworks and flares are fired in Paris, France, after Paris Saint-Germain FC's Champions League title win. Two people are killed, a police officer is in a coma, 201 others are injured, four stores are looted and hundreds are arrested in clashes with riot police for violence and looting. (CTV News) (BBC News) (Le Monde)
• Non-cooperation movement
  • A court in Bangladesh indicts former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home affairs minister Asaduzzaman Khan on mass murder charges in relation to the deaths of protesters that ousted Hasina in 2024. The government of Bangladesh informs India of the arrest warrant and asks for Hasina's repatriation, following her escape to India. (Financial Express)
• Three people are killed and 34 others are injured in a suspected arson attack at a hospital in Hamburg, Germany. A suspect is arrested. (AP)
• A ban on the sale of disposable vapes enters force in the United Kingdom. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Polish presidential election
  • Poles vote in the second round to choose their president. Right-wing populist President of the Institute of National Remembrance Karol Nawrocki wins 50.89% of popular vote over pro-European incumbent Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski. (The Guardian) (TVN24) (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Mexican judicial elections
  • Nationwide elections are held to elect over 2,700 members of the Mexican judiciary branch in the first ever judicial election in the country's history. (Reuters)
• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • Independent presidential candidate Hwang Kyo-ahn resigns from his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election and declares his support for People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo. (The Chosun Ilbo)

Sports

• 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup
  • Cruz Azul defeat the Vancouver Whitecaps 5–0 in the final of the CONCACAF Champions Cup at the Olympic University Stadium in Mexico City. (USA Today), (France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab militants reportedly seize control of Hawadley village in the Middle Shabelle region of Hirshabelle State following the withdrawal of Burundian forces under the AUSSOM from the strategic military base. (Kaab TV) (FTL Somalia)
• War against the Islamic State
  • American military intervention in Somalia
    • New America, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, reports that U.S. airstrikes in Somalia targeting Al-Shabaab and Islamic State militants resulted in up to 174 fatalities, including an estimated six to 30 civilian casualties, in 2025. (Garowe Online) (New America)
• Mexican drug war
  • Five police officers are killed after an ambush in a highway in the border municipality of Frontera Comalapa. Hours later, an attacker was arrested and authorities confirmed that the attack was a retaliation for the recent arrest of Aler Baldomero Samayoa Recinos, also known as “Chicharra,” leader of Los Huistas, a Guatemalan criminal group that established ties with both the Sinaloa Cartel and the CJNG. (Revista Proceso)
• Cambodia says it will seek a ruling from the United Nations's International Court of Justice over border disputes with Thailand, which triggered a fatal military clash last week. (AP)

Business and economy

• North Macedonia–United States relations
  • North Macedonia announces that it will remove import taxes on U.S. goods to seek a reciprocal measure from the United States, as Foreign Minister Timčo Mucunski says that the country is negotiating a free trade agreement with the U.S. (AP)
• Procurement in the European Union
  • The European Commission passes a measure to limit Chinese medical device supply bids on public contracts, alleging unfair access for EU companies to China's tenders. The measures are the first under the International Procurement Instrument. (Reuters)
• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • United States Midwest aluminum premiums rise by 164% after demand for aluminum in the physical market increased due to US president Donald Trump's plan to increase tariffs on imported steel and aluminum from 25% to 50%. (Reuters)
• The Damascus Securities Exchange reopens in Syria after six months of closure following the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. (Al Arabiya)
• The Philippine Department of Transportation orders AirAsia to halt the sale of airline tickets in the country, citing alleged overpricing after reports revealed that fares on the airline's website significantly exceeded government-approved price ceilings. (Bloomberg)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Nigeria floods
  • 2025 Mokwa flood
    • The death toll from the flooding caused by torrential rain in Mokwa, Nigeria, increases to over 200. (DW)

International relations

• Iran–United States relations
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the recent U.S. proposal for a deal on Iran's nuclear program does not allow any uranium enrichment by Iran, despite previous media reports to the contrary. (France24)

Politics and elections

• Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia and Ukraine hold further negotiations in Istanbul, Turkey, resulting in an agreement for a prisoner of war exchange. Officials confirm that all sick and severely wounded prisoners of war, along with those younger than 25, will be exchanged. Russia and Ukraine also exchanged ceasefire proposals during the negotiations. (BBC News)
• A Swedish commission recommends that international adoptions be stopped after an investigation found a series of abuses and fraud dating back decades. The commission was formed in 2021 following a report by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter detailing Sweden's problematic international adoption system. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Three Israeli soldiers from the Givati Brigade are killed by an IED explosion in Jabalia, North Gaza Governorate, during clashes with Hamas militants. (The Times of Israel)
  • Rafah aid distribution incidents
    • At least 27 Palestinians are killed by Israeli forces near an aid distribution centre in Rafah, Gaza. (AP) (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2025 Crimean Bridge explosion
    • The Crimean Bridge is temporarily closed and subsequently reopened by Russian authorities after several underwater C-4 explosives planted under the bridge detonated. The Security Service of Ukraine claims responsibility, saying its agents planted 1.1 tonnes of TNT equivalent at a support section of the bridge. (BBC News)
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Four people are killed and 25 others are injured after Russian forces launch an MLRS rocket barrage at the centre of Sumy, Ukraine. (AP)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Two people, including a suicide bomber, are killed near a Roman Catholic shrine in Kampala, Uganda, on Uganda Martyrs' Day. Police attribute the bombing to Allied Democratic Forces rebels. (Reuters)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Five aid workers are killed in an attack on a 15-vehicle convoy delivering food to families in the Darfur region, Sudan. The Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces blame each other for the attack. (DW)

Arts and culture

• CJ Opiaza is officially crowned as Miss Grand International 2024 following Rachel Gupta's resignation and termination from the title. (ABS-CBN News)

Disasters and accidents

• A bus crash kills eleven people and injures 17 others in Hualahuises, Nuevo León, Mexico. (Reuters)
• Cessna Citation I is reported missing after takeoff from Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, Venezuela. On June 4, authorities reported finding remains of the aircraft including documents from inside the aircraft. It was revealed that 5 people were onboard instead of the previously reported 3. All onboard are presumed dead. (Notiprensa Digital)

International relations

• Brazil–United States relations
  • Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says that he will defend Supreme Court chief Alexandre de Moraes from potential U.S. sanctions, which U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened over the ongoing trial of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. (Reuters)
• 2025 United Nations Security Council election
  • Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia are elected as non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Fall of the Assad regime
  • A court in Stuttgart, Germany, sentences a Syrian man to life in prison under universal jurisdiction for leading a Hezbollah-backed group and committing alleged war crimes against Sunni Muslims in Busra al-Sham, Syria, during the Syrian civil war. (DW)
• Killing of Nahel Merzouk
  • A French police officer goes on trial after being charged with killing 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk on June 27, 2023, whose death sparked the riots across France and other French territories. (Reuters)
• LGBTQ rights in Hungary
  • Police in Hungary deny the request for permission to hold the Budapest Pride event, citing the recent ban by the Hungarian government. (AP)
• MI5 domestic abuse scandal
  • MI5 apologizes to the UK High Courts for providing false evidence in regards to an agent who abused their partner. (The Independent) (BBC News)
• Two hundred and sixteen prisoners escape from a prison in the Malir District, Pakistan. During the escape, which was a result of panic caused by an earthquake, one prisoner is killed and two prison officers are injured. A search operation is ongoing and 80 prisoners have been recaptured. (BBC News)
• Nineteen prisoners, including eleven members of the armed group West Papua National Liberation Army, escape from a prison in Nabire, Central Papua, Indonesia. Three prison staff were critically injured. A search around the city is ongoing. (Tempo)

Politics and elections

• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • Citizens of South Korea vote in a snap election to elect their president between five candidates. The election is held 60 days after Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted by the Constitutional Court of Korea six months after the failed declaration of martial law. (Financial Times)
  • Lee Jae-Myung of the Democratic Party is elected the 14th president of South Korea. (Yonhap News Agency) (NPR)
• Schoof cabinet
  • The Party for Freedom withdraws from the current Dutch cabinet after failing to come to an agreement with coalition partners over amending the Netherlands's asylum rules. (NLTimes)
  • Prime Minister Dick Schoof announces his resignation. (The Guardian)
• 2025 Mongolian protests
  • Mongolian prime minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigns after weeks of protests. (The Guardian)

Sports

• 2025 IPL Season
  • Royal Challengers Bengaluru win their maiden IPL finale in 18 years against the Punjab Kings. (Hindustan Times)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
  • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
    • Puntland's elite security forces kills over 35 ISIS militants, including several foreign fighters, in a major military operation conducted in the mountainous rural areas in the Bari region of Puntland. The troops also destroy weapons caches and military equipment used by the group. (Shabelle Media) (AllAfrica)
• Gaza war
  • United States support for Israel in the Gaza war
    • The United States vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, with the remaining fourteen other members voting in favor. (Reuters)
• Israeli invasion of Syria
  • Israel launches airstrikes against Syria in retaliation for the alleged firing of two projectiles at Israel yesterday. Israeli defense minister Israel Katz says that Israel holds Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa "directly responsible" for the attacks. (Arab News)

Disasters and incidents

• 2025 Bengaluru stampede
  • Eleven people are killed and 50 others are injured in a stampede at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. (Anadolu Agency)

International relations

• Immigration policy of the second Donald Trump administration
  • U.S. president Donald Trump signs a proclamation banning entry into the United States for nationals of 12 countries deemed "very high-risk" due to terrorist activity, hostile governments, and high visa overstay rates, while imposing additional restrictions on visitors from several others. Exemptions apply for select categories, including athletes and diplomats. Trump cited the recent firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado, as reason for the ban. (CNN) (NPR)

Politics and elections

• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • Lee Jae-myung is inaugurated as President of South Korea at the National Assembly Building in Yeouido, Seoul, one day after winning the presidential election. (Reuters)
• Vietnamese two-child policy
  • Vietnam formally ends the two-child policy in effect since 2009 amid record-low total fertility rates of 1.91 per woman in 2024, causing declining birth rate and a shrinking workforce. (NPR) (AFP via VnExpress)
• U.S. president Donald Trump issues an order banning new visas for foreign nationals enrolling at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, citing national security concerns and alleging the institution's lack of cooperation in disclosing foreign student misconduct. The directive also allows for possible visa revocations of currently enrolled international students. (ABS-CBN News)

Science and technology

• Chile signs an agreement with Google to build the first submarine fiber-optic cable connecting between South America and Australia. Google invested at least $300 million while the Chilean government will invest $25 million. (DW) (AP)

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)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kyiv strikes
    • An overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, kills three people, injures 49 others and causes fires across the capital with multiple districts targeted. At least 2,000 homes lose power, according to the Kyiv City State Administration. At least 407 drones and 45 missiles are launched in total. (Reuters) (AP)
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Widespread power outages are reported in Ternopil after several cruise missiles hit energy infrastructure supplying the city. (Ukrinform)

Law and crime

• Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
  • Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to the United States, two months after being mistakenly deported to El Salvador and spending time at the CECOT prison. He now faces criminal charges in Tennessee for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants. (ABC News)

Science and technology

• Radar on the Fleet Flagship of the Royal Australian Navy HMAS Canberra (L02) accidentally blocks wireless internet and radio services in New Zealand before the incident is resolved. (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Israeli forces in Gaza recover the body of Nattapong Pinta, a Thai national abducted by the Mujahideen Brigades during the October 7 attacks. (BBC News)
  • Israeli airstrikes kill 55 people in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
  • Israel announces that it killed Asaad Abu Sharia, leader of the Mujahideen Brigades which was responsible for the abductions of several hostages during the October 7 attacks, including Shiri Bibas and her two young sons. (The Times of Israel)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • A Russian air attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine, involving Shahed drones, cruise missiles and glide bombs kills four people and wounds at least 60 others, according to local officials. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Decommunization
  • Kyrgyzstan takes down a 23-meter-tall statue of the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, thought to be the tallest statue of Lenin in Central Asia. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Attempted assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay
  • Colombian senator and pre-candidate in the 2026 presidential election Miguel Uribe Turbay is shot during a campaign event in Bogotá, leaving him in serious condition. Police arrest a 15-year-old suspect at the scene. (Infobae) (NBC News)

Politics and elections

• Afghan prime minister Hasan Akhund announces that no Afghan refugees who left the country after the fall of Kabul in 2021 will be prosecuted if they return to Afghanistan. (Arab News)
• Municipal elections are held in Latvia. Preliminary results indicate the far-right populist party Latvia First leading with 18.2% of the votes, followed by the centre-left Progressives with 16.64% and the conservative National Alliance with 14.13% of the votes. (Euractiv)

Sports

• 2025 French Open
  • In tennis, American player Coco Gauff defeats Belarusian player Aryna Sabalenka 6⁵–7⁷, 6–2, 6–4 in the women's singles final to win her first French Open title. (ESPN) (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
    • At least 12 Palestinians are killed and 29 others are injured by Israeli fire near two aid distribution sites in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military says they fired warning shots at people who had advanced toward its forces and ignored warnings to turn away but claimed they did not see any casualties. (CTV News)
• Israeli invasion of Syria
  • One person is killed and two others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on Mazraat Beit Jinn, Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria. The Israeli military claims the person killed was a Hamas member. (Al Jazeera)
• June 2025 Los Angeles protests
  • U.S. president Donald Trump orders the deployment of the National Guard to quell anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles, California. (CNN)

Arts and culture

• 78th Tony Awards
  • The 78th Tony Awards take place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, United States, with South Korean musical Maybe Happy Ending winning the most awards (six), including Best Musical. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Cundinamarca earthquake
  • A M_w 6.3 earthquake strikes near Bogotá, Colombia, resulting in over 25 injuries. (Boyacá 7 Días)
• 2025 San Diego Cessna 414 crash
  • All six occupants are killed after a Cessna 414 crashed into the ocean off the coast of Point Loma after takeoff from San Diego International Airport in San Diego, California, United States. (CBS News)
• A derecho and tornado outbreak begins in the eastern United States, with three tornado warnings and 22 severe thunderstorm warnings. (Fox News)

International relations

• Rwanda announces its withdrawal from the Economic Community of Central African States following a diplomatic row with other members over its military involvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's conflict with M23 rebels. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2025 French Open
  • In tennis, Spanish player Carlos Alcaraz wins his second men's singles title at the French Open and his fifth Grand Slam overall after defeating Italian Jannik Sinner 4–6, 6–7^(4–7), 6–4, 7–6^(7–3), 7–6^(10–2) in the longest-ever French Open final at five hours and 29 minutes. (BBC Sport)
• 2025 UEFA Nations League final
  • In association football, Portugal defeats Spain 5–3 on penalties, following a 2–2 draw after extra time, to win its second UEFA Nations League title. Nuno Mendes is named man of the match. (BBC Sport)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
    • According to the Gaza Health Ministry, fourteen Palestinians are killed and 150 others are injured by Israeli gunfire at an aid distribution site near Rafah, Gaza. The total death toll from shootings at aid distribution sites increases to 136 with hundreds others wounded. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
• Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
  • A convoy of 300 buses and cars departs from Tunis, Tunisia to Gaza to spotlight Israel's blockade on humanitarian aid. The group, organized independently, includes 7,000 lawyers, medical professionals and activists from North Africa. (Euronews) (The Jerusalem Post)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Gerik bus crash
  • Fifteen people are killed and 33 others are injured in a traffic collision when a bus carrying students loses control and crashes into the back of a minivan on the East–West Highway near Gerik, Perak, Malaysia. (France 24)
• Five people are killed, including an on duty railway police constable, and seven others are injured when passengers get thrown off two overcrowded local trains at the Mumbra railway station near Mumbra in Thane, Maharashtra, India. (The Indian Express)
• The Indian Coast Guard rescues 18 crew members from a Singaporean-flagged container ship after it catches fire following an explosion 144 km (89 mi) off the coast of Kerala, India. Search operations are underway for the missing four crew members. (DW)

International relations

• Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
  • The Israeli Navy seizes the June 2025 Gaza Freedom Flotilla's flagship vessel, the United Kingdom-flagged Madleen, and takes its occupants (including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and MEP Rima Hassan) to Israel. The humanitarian aid the ship was carrying en route to Gaza will still be sent into Gaza. (The Times of Israel)(CNN) (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• Protests against Donald Trump
  • June 2025 Los Angeles protests
    • U.S. president Donald Trump orders the deployment of roughly 500 Marines to Los Angeles to protect federal buildings amid the ongoing riots in Los Angeles, California. (The Wall Street Journal)
    • The U.S. state of California sues the Donald Trump administration for deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles. (CBS News)
    • The city of Glendale ends a contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house federal immigration detainees. (The Guardian)
• 2025 Ballymena riots
  • Two police cars and multiple properties are damaged in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, with 15 police officers being injured and one rioter arrested amid riots which broke out after two Romanian teenagers were charged for the attempted rape of a teenage girl. (BBC News)
• A court in Prague, Czech Republic, sentences a Colombian national to eight years in prison over a 2024 arson attack on public buses and for planning another similar attack. Czech prime minister Petr Fiala says the arson attack is part of Russia's hybrid war against his country. (AP)
• The U.S. Treasury Department imposes sanctions on Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and his brother Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, El Chapo's sons who are believed to be in Mexico and leading factions of the Sinaloa Cartel. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
    • Thirty-six Palestinians are killed by Israeli gunfire while trying to obtain aid in Gaza. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kyiv strikes, Odesa strikes
    • Russia launches drone attacks on Kyiv and Odesa, Ukraine. In Odesa, drone attacks hit medical facilities and residential buildings, killing two people and injuring thirteen others. (BBC News)
• Colombian conflict
  • Seven people are killed, including two police officers, and 36 others are injured in nineteen bombings and shootings by FARC dissidents targeting police posts, municipal buildings and civilians in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Another explosion is also reported in Jamundí. (France 24) (DW)

Business and economy

• Fossil fuel phase-out
  • The British government announces it will invest £14.2 billion (US$19 billion) to construct the new Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk, England, to reduce the country's reliance on fossil fuels. (AP) (Reuters)
• The Walt Disney Company closes a deal to acquire NBCUniversal's stake in the streaming service Hulu for $439 million, completing its acquisition of Hulu. (AP) (Variety)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Kenya bus crash
  • Five tourists are killed and 35 others are injured in a bus crash in Gichage, Nyandarua County, Kenya. (Gulf News) (Economic Times)

International relations

• War crimes in the Gaza war, Gaza humanitarian crisis
  • The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway impose sanctions on Israeli far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, including asset freezes and travel bans, due to their conduct during the Gaza war. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Protests against Donald Trump
  • June 2025 Los Angeles protests
    • Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass imposes a curfew to the Downtown Los Angeles area in California, United States, after several days of civil disobedience and public demonstrations against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents detaining locals. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Ballymena riots
  • The second consecutive night of disorder in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, sees 17 police officers injured and five people arrested as protests spread to Belfast, Carrickfergus, and Newtownabbey. (BBC News)
• Graz school shooting
  • Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and several others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria. (BBC News)
• Capital punishment in Iran
  • Iran hangs nine members of the Islamic State for a 2018 attack which killed three Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel. (AP)
• The Federal Police of Brazil arrest at least eleven people in an operation aiming to reduce drug trafficking in favelas in Rio de Janeiro. (AP)
• The Supreme Court of Argentina ratifies the sentence of former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to six years in prison and a lifetime disqualification from holding public office for the crime of fraudulent administration. (La Nación)

Politics and elections

• Impeachment of Sara Duterte
  • The Senate of the Philippines votes 18–5 to return the articles of impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte to the House of Representatives for further deliberation. (Rappler) (Inquirer.net)
• Over 15,000 people gather in Budapest, Hungary, to protest against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government's conduct and alleged corruption relating to the ruling Fidesz party. (AP)
• The Parliament of Greece expels three lawmakers, including far-right politician Vasilis Stigkas, leader of the political party Spartans, due to their connection with and allegedly serving as proxies for the neo-Nazi criminal organization Golden Dawn. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Rafah aid distribution killings
    • At least 31 Palestinians are killed by the Israel Defense Forces at an aid distribution site in central Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of two hostages abducted by Palestinian militants during the October 7 attacks. (Haaretz) (BBC News)
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • The Gaza Health Ministry reports that the official death toll of Palestinians killed in the war since October 2023 has reached 55,000 people, with over 127,000 people wounded. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • Russia launches drone attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine, damaging buildings and public facilities, killing three people and injuring 60 others. (Ukrainska Pravda)

Arts and culture

• Argentine president Javier Milei is awarded the Genesis Prize during a state visit to Israel for his support for Israel, becoming the first non-Jewish person to receive such recognition. (Clarín) (Haaretz)

Business and economy

• Australian flag carrier Qantas announces the closure of its Singapore-based, partly owned low-cost airline Jetstar Asia due to rising costs and regional competition. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • At least eight migrants are found dead and 22 others are missing as the United Nations International Organization for Migration and the Djiboutian government launch a joint rescue operation after migrants were forced off a boat and forced to swim to shore off the coast of Djibouti. (AP)
• At least 49 people are killed, including four schoolchildren, in flooding caused by heavy rainfall and snowfall in a winter storm in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. (DW) (BBC News)

International relations

• Gaza war
  • 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza
    • The Trump administration calls on countries not to attend a conference for ceasefire and peace in Gaza at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, New York, United States, and warns of potential diplomatic consequences should any measures be taken that are deemed hostile toward Israel. (Reuters)
• Argentina–Israel relations
  • Argentine president Javier Milei announces that the Argentine embassy in Israel will be moved to Jerusalem in 2026. (YNet)
• North Korea–South Korea relations
  • The military of South Korea shuts down its loudspeakers across the border with North Korea and stops its propaganda messages against the government of North Korea by order of President Lee Jae-myung to ease tensions between the countries. (AP)

Law and crime

• Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia
  • A court in Moscow, Russia, sentences Leonid Volkov, an ally of Alexei Navalny, to 18 years in prison in absentia and fines him 2 million rubles (US$25,000) on criminal charges including justifying terrorism and organizing and financing an extremist group. (AP)
  • The same court places Lev Shlosberg, chair of the opposition social-liberal party Yabloko, under house arrest for two months for discrediting the Russian army. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Rafah aid distribution killings
    • At least 103 Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip, including 21 people this morning near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. (Reuters)
    • Eight Palestinian GHF workers are killed and several others are injured after their bus was attacked en route to an aid distribution site in southern Gaza. The GHF says that Hamas was responsible. (The New York Times) (Reuters)
• Israeli invasion of Syria
  • Israeli forces kill one person and detain seven people, all Syrians, whom they allege are Hamas members in an early-morning raid on the village of Beit Jinn in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Dutch-Israeli writer Yael van der Wouden wins the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel The Safekeep, which was also shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. British physician and writer Rachel Clarke wins the sister prize, the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, for her book about palliative care, The Story of a Heart. (AP) (The Bookseller)

Disasters and accidents

• Air India Flight 171
  • An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members crashes into a residential area shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport in Gujarat, India. Authorities find one survivor from the plane, and 204 bodies have been recovered from the crash site so far. (CNA) (Fox News)
• 2025 South Africa floods
  • The death toll in the flooding caused by heavy rainfall and snowfall from a winter storm in Eastern Cape, South Africa, increases to 57, with several others still missing. (ABC News)

International relations

• Nuclear program of Iran
  • The International Atomic Energy Agency finds Iran in breach of its obligations to limit uranium enrichment and provision of information on its nuclear materials. (BBC News) (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• Disappearance of Annie McCarrick
  • A man in his 60s is arrested on suspicion of the murder of Annie McCarrick, who went missing in Dublin, Ireland, in 1993. (RTÉ)
• The Internal Security Agency of Poland announce the arrest of a teenager in Olsztyn, Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship, accused with two other men, arrested in April, of planning a far-right terrorist attack. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Constitutional crisis in Somalia
  • Somalia's federal government calls for the dissolution of the C6+ international coordination framework, saying it is outdated and misrepresents the country’s current political and security progress. (Garowe Online) (ChimpReports) (Hiiraan Online)
• June 2025 Los Angeles protests
  • United States senator Alex Padilla of California is forcibly removed, pushed face-down to the ground, and handcuffed after attempting to ask Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem a question at a press conference in Los Angeles. (AP)
• Death of Albert Ojwang
  • Police fire tear gas at demonstrators gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to protest against the police and its chief, Eliud Lagat, after blogger Albert Ojwang is confirmed to be killed in custody by the police force, demanding Lagat's resignation. (DW)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • Iran–Israel war
      • The Israeli Air Force launches a bombing campaign against Iran targeting nuclear facilities with the main goal of the operation being to destroy Iran's nuclear program. A special state of emergency is declared in Israel by Defence Minister Israel Katz and Israeli airspace is closed to all flights. Iranian state television reports that 60 people were killed in the attacks, while Israel claims only three people died and dozens got injured. (BBC News)
      • Israel also launches targeted assassination strikes against senior Iranian government officials, Iranian military leadership and senior nuclear scientists. (Reuters)
      • The Israeli military confirms it has targeted nuclear facilities in Iran with the main goal of the operation being to destroy Iran's nuclear program. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirms Israeli warplanes have targeted Iran's main Natanz Nuclear Facility. It is later confirmed that the underground nuclear reactor at Natanz has been destroyed by a bunker buster. (The Jerusalem Post) (BBC News)
      • Iranian state media reports that all flights to and from Imam Khomeini International Airport have been suspended until further notice and that several residential buildings in Tehran have collapsed due to missile strikes. (The Times of Israel)
      • Israeli decapitation strikes kill commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami, senior nuclear scientist and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Fereydoon Abbasi, and chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Bagheri and Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani. (The Times of Israel) (BBC News)
      • Exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran's last Shah, writes in Farsi calling for the Iranian military to abandon the Islamic Republic and accuses Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of forcing Iranians into the war. He also refers to the war as "Khamenei's war and the Islamic Republic's war". (Jerusalem Post)
    • June 2025 Iranian strikes on Israel
      • Iran launches over 100 Shahed drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel in retaliation for the strikes. (The Times of Israel) (Reuters)
      • At least three people are killed and 172 others injured in Israel after Iran's retaliatory strikes. (The Jerusalem Post)

Disasters and accidents

• Air India Flight 171
  • The death toll from the crash of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, yesterday rises to 279 as a police source says 38 ground fatalities are confirmed. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• Five people are killed, including two children, and 16 others are injured, including two critically, in a traffic collision when an Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus loses control and crashes into the back of a truck at Gottipura Gate in Hoskote, Karnataka, India. (India Today) (Deshsewak)
• Four people are killed and 34 others are injured, including 11 seriously, when a bus carrying Ukrainians crashes on the A81 autoroute in Sarthe, France. (Midi Libre)

Law and crime

• Protests against Donald Trump
  • June 2025 Los Angeles protests
    • U.S. district judge Charles Breyer issues a temporary restraining order directing President Donald Trump to return control of the National Guard to California, saying he violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded his statutory authority. Later, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocks the order. (AP) (The Hill)
• Kenya Finance Bill protests
  • Kenyan police constable James Mukhwana is arrested over the death of blogger Albert Ojwang, which prompted protests and clashes with police this week. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• North Korean destroyer Kang Kon is successfully launched, having partially sunk during its first launch attempt two weeks prior. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un announces plans for two more 5,000-tonne destroyers to be built next year. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
• In South Korea, five-term National Assembly lawmaker Kim Byung-kee is elected as floor leader of the Democratic Party, replacing acting party leader Park Chan-dae. (The Korea Herald)

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)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • Iran–Israel war (list of airstrikes)
      • The Israeli Air Force says it has targeted Mashhad Shahid Hasheminejad International Airport in eastern Iran, destroying a refueling plane used by the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force. (BBC News)
      • An Iranian ballistic missile strike on a residential building kills nine people, including three children, and injures over 200 others in Bat Yam, Israel. (The Times of Israel)
      • According to American officials, U.S. president Donald Trump vetoed a plan by Israel to assassinate the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Reuters)
      • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that a Syrian civilian woman was killed after a drone strikes her home in rural Tartus Governorate, Syria, which the group says was likely an Iranian drone. (The Times of Israel)
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza war hostage crisis
      • The Israel Defense Forces confirms that they recovered the body of Israeli hostage Aviv Atzili, who was abducted by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad during the October 7 attacks, in Gaza last Wednesday. (Haaretz)
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 41 Palestinians across Gaza. (RTÉ News)
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • At least eight people are killed and dozens of others are injured in a shooting near an aid distribution site near Rafah, Gaza. Witnesses attribute the shooting to Israeli forces. (NPR)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia returns the bodies of 1,200 Ukrainian soldiers who were killed in action as part of a prisoner exchange agreement with Ukraine. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Callao earthquake
  • A M_w 6.1 earthquake hits Lima, Peru, killing one person and injuring at least five others. (Agencia EFE)
• Seven people are killed, including an infant, when a Bell 407 aircraft crashes in a forested area in bad weather while en route to the Kedarnath Temple in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, India. (The Free Press Journal)
• At least six people are killed, 25 are swept away, and 32 others are injured, including six critically, when a bridge over a river collapses at a popular tourist destination in Kundamala, Pune, Maharashtra, India. (Al Arabiya) (CTV News)
• Three hikers are killed by a lightning strike on Mittagsspitze mountain in the Central Eastern Alps, Austria. (Reuters)

International relations

• Gaza war protests
  • Between 100,000 and 150,000 protesters march in The Hague, Netherlands, demanding that the Dutch government pressure Israel to halt its military campaign in the Gaza Strip. (AP)
• The 51st G7 summit begins in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. (France24)

Politics and elections

• The MI6 appoints Blaise Metreweli to lead as Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, making her the first woman to lead the agency. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans
  • In endurance racing, the AF Corse Ferrari team wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the third consecutive year, with drivers Phil Hanson, Robert Kubica, and Yifei Ye. (AP)
• 2025 Queen's Club Championships
  • In tennis, German player Tatjana Maria defeats American player Amanda Anisimova 6–3, 6–4, in the Queen's Club Championships women's singles final to become the event's first female winner since Russia's Olga Morozova in 1973. At 37 years old, Maria also becomes the oldest winner of a WTA 500 event. (NDTV)
• 2025 U.S. Open
  • In golf, JJ Spaun wins the 2025 U.S. Open with a score of one-under-par to win his first major title. (ESPN) (PGA)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • Iran–Israel war (list of airstrikes)
      • The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Iran rises to at least 220 people, including 70 women and children. (Al Jazeera)
      • Israel strikes buildings in Tehran belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iran's state-owned media company, knocking it temporarily off-air for an hour before later returning. Three employees are killed and several others are injured. (Al Jazeera) (Al-Monitor) (The Wall Street Journal)
      • Iran says Israel struck a hospital in Kermanshah in western Iran. Video footage published by local platforms showed bloodstains, indicating casualties from the strike. (Al Jazeera)
      • Israeli jets strike 120 surface-to-surface missile systems in central Iran and ten command and control centres belonging to the IRGC's Quds Force. (AP)
      • Israeli drones strike two Iranian Air Force F-14 Tomcats stationed at Imam Khomeini International Airport. Combat footage released by the IDF confirm both were destroyed. (The Times of Israel)
      • An Iranian ballistic missile barrage kills eight people and injures 287 others in central Israel. (The Times of Israel) (Reuters)
      • Iran's parliament prepares a bill to exit the international nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. (Reuters)
      • Israel announces it has taken "full aerial operational control" of the airspace over Tehran and western Iran after destroying much of the country's air defence network giving the Israeli Air Force near complete air supremacy over Iranian forces. (BBC News)
    • Democratic senator Tim Kaine of Virginia introduces legislation to prevent U.S. president Donald Trump from using military force against Iran without Congress's authorization. (Reuters) (US Congress)
  • Gaza war
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • Israel kills at least 50 Palestinians in Gaza, including 23 near an aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. (Reuters)
• Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • The death toll from the attack by unknown gunmen in Guma, Benue State, Nigeria, on Saturday increases to over 150, including many who were burned to death. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from severe weather and flash floods in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, rises to at least 77 with more than 100 others still reported missing. (AP)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Andorra
  • Andorra and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta establish official diplomatic relations. (Diari d'Andorra)

Law and crime

• Kincora Boys' Home scandal
  • Gary Hoy, a survivor of child sexual abuse at Kincora, resolves a legal action against the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Home Secretary with an undisclosed agreement. The legal action alleged that paedophile housemaster William McGrath was allowed to target children to gather information about the far-right paramilitary organization Tara. (RTÉ).
• Thai police raid a house in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, and arrest 13 foreigners, mostly Australians and British people, for running a fraudulent electronic trading platform that has stolen over AU$1.9 million (US$1.2 million). (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • Israel kills at least 59 Palestinians in Gaza after Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get humanitarian aid from trucks. At least 14 other people are also killed in separate Israeli gunfire and airstrikes elsewhere in the exclave. (Reuters)
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • An Israeli soldier from the Golani Brigade is killed and three others are seriously injured in the southern Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
  • Iran–Israel war
    • Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel War
      • Israel says it has killed Major General Ali Shadmani, the most senior military commander in Iran who was appointed to his post four days ago. (The New York Times)
    • U.S. president Donald Trump calls for the unconditional surrender of Iran amid its war with Israel. Iran rejects the ultimatum. (BBC News) (The Guardian)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kyiv strikes
    • Russian forces launch a total of 440 drones and 32 missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine, damaging buildings and public facilities, killing 28 people and wounding dozens more. (BBC News)
  • Russia's Ministry of Defence says its air defence units have intercepted and destroyed 147 Ukrainian drones overnight. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Twenty-four people are evacuated after two oil tankers collide near the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf of Oman. (NOS)

Law and crime

• Puntland–Yemen relations
  • Seven Yemeni fishermen who were detained for nearly two months after entering Puntland waters without authorization from Puntland’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources are released. The fishermen were apprehended by the Puntland Maritime Police Force after their vessel was intercepted by the coastguard in the Ras Aseir region of Puntland. (The Eastleigh Voice) (Hiiraan Online)

Sports

• 2025 Stanley Cup Finals
  • In ice hockey, the Florida Panthers defeat the Edmonton Oilers in six games in a rematch of last year's finals, repeating as Stanley Cup champions. (Miami Herald)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Iran–Israel war
    • Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel war
      • Twenty-five Iranian ballistic missiles are launched at central Israel, with most being intercepted and no injuries reported. (YNet)
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 30 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel
  • After 18 months of negotiations, Nippon Steel finalizes its $14.9 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel. The deal allows U.S. Steel to retain its name and headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and gives the U.S. government the ability to veto corporate decisions as needed. (DW) (Business Wire)

Health and environment

• LGBTQ rights in the United States
  • United States v. Skrmetti
    • The U.S. Supreme Court votes 6–3 to uphold a law proposed by Tennessee to ban gender-affirming care for minors, allowing other states to implement similar bans. (NPR) (BBC News)
• Management of HIV/AIDS
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves Gilead Sciences's new lenacapavir drug, marketed as Yeztugo, for the treatment of HIV after successful clinical trials show the drug nearly eliminated the infection spread. (NBC News) (AP)

Law and crime

• Córdoba Neonatal Hospital baby serial murders
  • A court in Córdoba, Argentina, sentences nurse Brenda Agüero to life in prison for the serial murders of five babies and the attempted murder of eight others between March and June 2022, whom she deliberately injected with potassium and insulin. (Página 12)

Politics and elections

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • North Korean involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • North Korea sends thousands of workers to help rebuild Russia's Kursk. (BBC News)
  • The parliament of Ukraine approves a law to allow multiple citizenship for Ukrainians in an attempt to ease a demographic crisis caused by the Russian invasion. (Reuters)
• The Czech government survives a vote of no-confidence called by the opposition ANO party after the justice ministry accepted a bitcoin donation and sold them for nearly 1 billion Kč (US$47 million). (AP)
• The government of New Zealand halts its financial support to the Cook Islands over a partnership agreement signed with China earlier this year. (RNZ)

Science and technology

• Starship flight test 10
  • SpaceX Starship 36 explodes when a "major anomaly" occurs during a static fire test. (KRIV-TV via Yahoo! News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Iran–Israel war
    • Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel war
      • The death toll from Israel's strikes on Iran rises to more than 240, including 70 women and children. To date, at least 24 people have been killed by Iranian strikes on Israel. (Al Jazeera)
      • Iran strikes four sites in central and southern Israel. The Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, is hit by an Iranian ballistic missile, injuring at least 240 people. Iran says it was targeting a military site, striking an Israeli military and intelligence centre located near the hospital. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
      • The Israeli Air Force strikes the Arak Nuclear Complex, a heavy-water reactor near Arak, Iran. (The Times of Israel)
  • Gaza war
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 92 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 16 people waiting for aid assistance near the Netzarim Corridor. (Al Jazeera)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • After three days of dialogue, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda sign a provisional peace treaty and are set to begin negotiations for a draft peace treaty on June 27. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• A rockslide at Bow Glacier Falls near Banff, Alberta, Canada, kills at least two people. Three other hikers sustained injuries. (CFCN-DT)

International relations

• Israel–Norway relations
  • A hand grenade is thrown into the courtyard of the residence of the Norwegian ambassador to Israel in Herzliya. (Reuters)
• The Finnish Parliament votes 155–18 to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty, which bans the use of anti-personnel mines, citing the threat Russia poses to its national security. (Reuters) (Helsingin Sanomat)

Law and crime

• June 2025 Los Angeles protests
  • A federal appeals court rules that President of the United States Donald Trump is allowed to keep the National Guard under federal control in California, pending further litigation. (BBC News)
• The Rwandan government arrests opposition figure Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, founder of the United Democratic Forces, for allegedly plotting to incite public unrest. (AP) (RFI)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Iran–Israel war
    • 2025 Iran–European nuclear talks
      • Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi meets with the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, Germany, France and European Union in Geneva for talks about its nuclear program. (AP)
    • Hundreds of thousands of people protest against Israel on the streets of Tehran after weekly prayers, chanting slogans in support of Iranian leaders. Protests also took place in Tabriz in northwestern Iran and Shiraz in the south. (Al Jazeera)
    • Saudi Arabia's Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Commission says military strikes on civilian nuclear facilities violate international law in response to Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. (Al Jazeera)
  • Gaza war
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 82 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 34 people seeking aid assistance. (Al Jazeera)
    • The United Nations relists Israel on its blacklist of countries committing abuses against children in armed conflict in its annual Children in Armed Conflict report. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Odesa strikes
    • Russian forces launch a large-scale drone strike at Odesa, Ukraine, damaging buildings and public facilities, with one person killed and another 14 injured. (Ukrainska Pravda)

Disasters and accidents

• Four people are missing after a Kawasaki medical helicopter on a rescue operation crashes north of Baie-Johan-Beetz near Natashquan on the Côte-Nord in Quebec, Canada. The pilot is found and taken to hospital. (CBC)

International relations

• France–Niger relations
  • The Nigerien government announces it will nationalize the controlling share of the SOMAIR mining company that previously belonged to French multinational nuclear fuel cycle corporation Orano, which is in turn controlled by the French government. (DW) (AP)
• Singapore–Vietnam relations
  • The governments of Singapore and Vietnam sign a memorandum to exchange 300 to 1,000 skilled workers between the countries annually. (VnExpress)

Law and crime

• Detention of Mahmoud Khalil
  • Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil is released from prison, after being in custody for three months. (NBC News)
• The United Kingdom parliament votes to approve a bill allowing terminally ill adults to voluntarily end their lives, moving towards legalizing assisted suicide in England and Wales. (DW) (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
  • The parliament of the Netherlands recognizes the deportation of the Crimean Tatars carried out by the Soviet Union in 1944 as genocide. (Kyiv Independent)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 21 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 11 people seeking aid assistance. (Al Jazeera)
    • The European Union European External Action Service finds that Israel may have breached its human rights obligations under the terms of the EU-Israel Association agreement governing its ties with the EU. (Al Jazeera)
    • Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces the UNRWA will open an office in Turkey's capital, Ankara. (Al Jazeera)
  • Iran–Israel war
    • The death toll from Israel's strikes on Iran rises to more than 430, while 3,056 people have been injured. (Al Jazeera)
    • Iran's health minister Mohammadreza Zafarghandi says Israel has targeted three hospitals during the conflict, killing two health workers and a child, and has targeted six ambulances. (Al Jazeera)
    • Iran's emergency organization head says Israeli strikes have targeted medical and relief facilities, in addition to residential areas across the country. Three relief bases and eight ambulances have been seriously damaged or destroyed. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• The Netherlands officially returns 119 sculptures from the Benin Bronzes collection that were looted from the Kingdom of Benin in present-day Edo State, Nigeria, by British colonial forces. (Al Jazeera) (OkayAfrica)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Santa Catarina hot air balloon crash
  • At least eight people are killed and 13 others are injured in a hot air balloon accident in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, Brazil. (CNN) (DW)
• Three people are killed and 81 others are injured after a barrier collapsed in Stade du 5 Juillet in Algeria, in a match between MC Alger and NC Magra. (BBC News)
• Six people are killed and two others are missing after a boat carrying ten people capsizes on Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada, United States. (NBC News)

International relations

• Belarus–United States relations, Human rights in Belarus
  • Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko pardons several opposition figures, including opposition leader Siarhei Tsikhanouski, following a deal brokered by U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg. (Politico)
• Pakistan–United States relations
  • Pakistan announces that it will formally nominate U.S. president Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, citing his mediation during the 2025 India–Pakistan conflict. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• Panama declares a state of emergency in Bocas del Toro Province and temporarily suspends some constitutional rights amid a series of anti-government protests opposing a pension law that has left one person dead and injured at least 30 others, including several police officers. (Al Jazeera) (EFE) (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Iran–Israel war
    • Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel war
      • United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
        • U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the U.S. Air Force has conducted strikes on several nuclear facilities in Iran, including Natanz Nuclear Facility and Fordow Uranium Enrichment Plant. (The Times of Israel)
        • The International Atomic Energy Agency says no increase in off-site radiation levels was detected at the three targeted nuclear sites. (Al Jazeera)
        • A report by Axios finds that Democrats on the Senate and House Intelligence panels were not given advance notice of the attack, while Republicans were given advance notice. (Axios)
        • The Parliament of Iran votes for the closure of the Strait of Hormuz in response to the U.S. attacks. (The Guardian)
        • Iran launches over 40 ballistic missiles at Israel, injuring at least 23 people and destroying apartments and homes. (AP)
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza war hostage crisis
      • Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of three hostages who were abducted by Palestinian militants during the October 7 attacks. Fifty hostages remain in Gaza, of which 20 are thought to remain alive. (Reuters)
    • The Israel Defense Forces kill at least 51 people and injure 104 others in southern Khan Younis, central Gaza, and northern Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
• Syrian civil war
  • Mar Elias Church attack
    • At least 23 people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 63 others are injured when at least one alleged Islamic State suicide attacker opens fire and detonates an explosive device inside the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria. (CTV News) (The Washington Post)

Sports

• 2025 NBA Finals
  • In basketball, the Oklahoma City Thunder win the NBA Finals in 7 games against the Indiana Pacers, winning their first championship in franchise history. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is named NBA Finals MVP. (NPR)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Iran–Israel war
    • Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel war
      • A United Nations fact-finding mission reports that Israeli strikes on Iran’s state broadcasting agency and killing of Iranian nuclear scientists were likely in violation of international humanitarian law. (Al Jazeera)
      • The Israeli military strikes Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, damaging the facility's infrastructure. State TV showed first responders carrying a casualty and searching for survivors under a collapsed building. (BBC News) (Reuters)
      • Qatar closes the country's airspace amidst an imminent threat of a Iranian ballistic missile attack on U.S. forces stationed in the country. Multiple explosions are reported over Doha. (AP) (BBC News)
    • 2025 Iranian strikes on Al Udeid Air Base
      • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps says it has launched missiles at the U.S. Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and U.S. bases in Iraq. U.S. officials later confirm no Iranian missiles hit the Al Udeid Air Base. (France 24)
      • The Qatar Foreign Ministry says the Qatari military has intercepted all the missiles launched at the Al Udeid Air Base, and that no injuries are reported. (Al Bawaba) (Axios)
    • Iran–Israel war ceasefire
      • U.S. president Donald Trump announces that a ceasefire has been reached between Iran and Israel. The ceasefire has not been confirmed by either Iran or Israel. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
  • Gaza war
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 43 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 13 people seeking aid assistance. (Al Jazeera)
    • Spanish foreign minister José Albares calls on the European Council to suspend EU relations with Israel due to Israeli human rights violations in Gaza. He also calls for an arms embargo against Israel and sanctions on individuals obstructing the two-state solution. (Al Jazeera) (YeniSafak)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • At least seven Ugandan Armed Forces personnel are confirmed killed by Al Shabaab following a three-day siege on Sabiidd-Anole in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia amid ongoing operations against the militant group. The soldiers were part of the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia, tasked with countering Al-Shabaab. (Garowe Online) (The Defense Post)
    • Al-Shabaab claims that its fighters have overrun a military installation, killed several soldiers, and seized weapons and military equipment following fierce fighting erupted on the morning between Somali National Army and Al-Shabaab militants. (Hiiraan Online) (The Eastleigh Voice)
  • Child soldiers in Somalia
    • The United Nations formally removes Somalia from its annual register of nations that enlist and deploy child soldiers. The country had been included on the register since 2007, owing to consistent reports of child recruitment by Somali Armed Forces and associated militias. (The Eastleigh Voice) (UN)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte announces that European countries and Canada will send Ukraine a combined aid package of €35 billion (US$40.3 billion). (RBC)
  • Kyiv strikes
    • Russian forces launch a large-scale drone and missile strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, damaging residential areas, hospitals, and sports infrastructure, killing nine people and injuring at least 33 others. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Gaza war protests
  • The United Kingdom announces it will ban the direct action protest network Palestine Action on anti-terrorism grounds after the group broke into the RAF Brize Norton base and vandalized two planes. (AP)
• The Thai Department of Special Investigation seizes 2.4 metric tons of methamphetamine disguised as corn flour packages worth $90.8 million from a tourist boat off the coast of Eastern Thailand and arrests eight men in Rayong province for attempted drug smuggling. (AP)
• The Indonesian National Narcotics Board announces it arrested 285 people, including 29 women and seven foreigners, and seized over 0.68 ton of narcotics in a two-month crackdown operation on narcotrafficking and illegal drug abuse. (AP)

Science and technology

• The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile releases the first light images from its new 8.4-meter (28 ft) telescope. (Scientific American)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Iran–Israel war
    • Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel war
      • Israel continues to launch airstrikes on Iran while Iran launches a wave of ballistic missiles at Israel despite the United States claiming a ceasefire had been reached between the warring sides. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
      • Nine people are killed in an Israeli airstrike on residential units in Gilan, Iran. The attack also injured 33 people, including 16 women and children, with five requiring hospital treatment. (Al Jazeera)
      • Four people are killed and 22 others are injured in Beersheba, Southern Israel, after an Iranian missile strikes an apartment block. (The Times of Israel)
      • U.S. president Donald Trump tells reporters at the White House that Israel and Iran "don't know what the fuck they are doing" as both countries continue to launch attacks despite U.S. claims of a ceasefire. (BBC News) (The Independent) (The Guardian)
  • Gaza war
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • At least 44 Palestinians are killed by Israeli forces who open fire towards people waiting for aid trucks in Gaza. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Dnipro strikes
    • Russian forces launch an Iskander missile strike on Dnipro, Ukraine, killing at least 19 people and injuring 300 others. Another two civilians are killed and nine others are injured in Samar, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast as a result of a Russian air attack. (Reuters) (The Kyiv Independent) (Ukrainska Pravda)
• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
  • Human Rights Watch reports that at least 120 children have been abducted by Islamic State-linked Ansar al-Sunna insurgents in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique, this year. The children are used for labor, conscripted as child soldiers, or forced into marriage. (AP)

Business and economy

• German finance minister Lars Klingbeil announces that the German government will raise its defense budget from 2.4% to 3.5% of its GDP by 2029, citing a NATO quota for member states to raise defense spending. (AP) (Politico)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from a boat accident from a storm on Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States increases to eight as the final missing person is recovered. (NPR)
• Twenty people are injured, including 12 children, after lightning strikes near Lake Murray in the U.S. state of South Carolina. (MSN)

International relations

• 2025 The Hague NATO summit
  • The NATO summit is held in The Hague in the Netherlands. (Espreso TV)

Law and crime

• 2025 Irapuato shooting
  • At least 11 people are killed, including a teenager, and 20 others are injured when gunmen open fire at a party celebrating the Nativity of John the Baptist in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. (Reuters)
• Three soldiers are killed and eight others are injured when a soldier opens fire on his colleagues during an altercation over paychecks in Mungazi, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. (CTV News)
• French police detain 12 people after over 145 people report being stabbed with syringes at Fête de la Musique sites across the country. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary
  • Zohran Mamdani leads the primary to become the Democratic Party nominee for the 2025 New York City mayoral election, defeating former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, with Mamdani having received 43.5% of first-choice votes. He is the presumptive nominee, however the official winner will be declared after the ranked choice tally on July 1. (USA Today)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Iran–Israel war
    • United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
      • A preliminary assessment by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency finds that Iran's nuclear program may have only been set back by a few months after the U.S. airstrikes, with the centrifuges required to enrich uranium left largely intact, contradicting previous claims made by U.S. president Donald Trump that the facilities were "obliterated". (AP)
      • After U.S. president Donald Trump rejects the DIA assessment as "fake news", U.S. Central Intelligence Agency director John Ratcliffe says that the CIA assesses that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were severely damaged in the airstrikes, likely requiring years to rebuild. (BBC News)
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli forces kill at least 78 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with at least 14 who were seeking humanitarian aid. (Al Jazeera)
    • Seven Israeli soldiers are killed in Khan Yunis when an explosive device affixed to their armored vehicle detonates. (AP)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • At least 17 soldiers are killed when groups of bandits attack three Army bases in Kaduna and Niger States in Nigeria. The Army and Air Force reports they have launched counteroffensives against the bandit gangs. (DW)

Business and economy

• The first train from North Korea arrives at the Yaroslavsky railway station in Moscow, Russia, after a five-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (TASS)
• Online dating service Bumble announces it will lay off 30% of its global workforce, equal to at least 240 jobs. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Bangui school stampede
  • Twenty-nine people are killed and 280 others are injured after an explosion causes a stampede at a high school in Bangui, Central African Republic. President Faustin-Archange Touadéra declares three days of national mourning. (BBC News)
• At least 11 people are killed and 15 others are missing after a landslide in Medellín and Bello, Antioquia Department, Colombia. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2024 Armenian protests
  • Armenian authorities arrest the archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan of the Armenian Apostolic Church and accuse him of plotting against the government. (AP)
• 2025 Kenyan protests
  • At least 16 people are killed and over 400 others are injured, including demonstrators, police officers and journalists, when police clash with protestors during nationwide anti-government protests across Kenya. (CTV News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Council of Europe's Human Rights Office sign an accord to establish a special tribunal for crimes in Ukraine. (France 24)
• Anti–money laundering § United States, War on drugs § Mexico
  • Mexican banks CIBanco, Intercam Banco, and Vector Casa de Bolsa—the latter owned by Alfonso Romo, former Chief of Staff to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador—are sanctioned by the United States government over alleged money laundering for drug cartels. Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum requests that the U.S. government provide evidence. (MSN) (Al Jazeera) (Forbes)

Sports

• 2025 NBA Draft
  • In basketball, the NBA Draft is held at the Barclays Center in New York City, U.S., with the Dallas Mavericks selecting Duke player Cooper Flagg as the first overall pick. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli forces kill at least 71 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. At least 14 of those Palestinians are killed in North Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli settler violence
    • Three Palestinians are killed and many others are injured by Israeli settlers in the village of Kafr Malik near Ramallah in the West Bank. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 South Africa floods
  • The death toll from the flooding caused by a winter storm in the Eastern Cape of South Africa two weeks earlier increases to 101, with two children still missing. (AP)
• Nine people are killed and thousands of others are displaced from their homes amid torrential rain and flash floods in Rongjiang County, Guizhou, China. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
• Three people are killed and dozens of others are missing in a flash flood caused by torrential rain in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India. (AP)
• The bodies of three missing people are recovered after the June 20 crash of an Airmedic MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 in a lake shortly after takeoff from Havre Saint-Pierre Airport in Quebec, Canada. (CTV News)
• Two people are killed, including a child, and 17 others are injured, including one critically, during torrential storms causing flooding in Paris, France. (CTV News)
• A double-decker bus carrying students from Barton Peveril Sixth Form College plunges into a river in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, injuring all 19 passengers, including five who are hospitalized. (AP)

Health and environment

• A United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report says the worldwide recreational use and production of cocaine hit an all-time high in 2023, saying the current surge in cocaine use is primarily due to increased illicit coca bush cultivation in Colombia and updated yield data. (RTÉ)

Law and crime

• Ecuadorian conflict
  • Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa announces the recapture of José Adolfo Macías Villamar, the leader of the Los Choneros cartel and Ecuador's most wanted criminal, in Manta, Manabí Province, after he disappeared from a prison last year. (DW)
• Anti–money laundering § United States, War on drugs § Mexico
  • The Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores temporarily takes over the management of CIBanco, Intercam Banco, and Vector Casa de Bolsa following allegations of money laundering for drug cartels. (El País)

Politics and elections

• Protests against Faure Gnassingbé
  • Clashes take place between protesters and security forces in the Togolese capital Lomé amid calls for Faure Gnassingbé, who has ruled the country since 2005, to step down. Opposition groups accuse Gnassingbé of changing the constitution to remain in office indefinitely. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
  • Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) sign a peace agreement in Washington, D.C., United States, which calls for the "disengagement, disarmament, and conditional integration" of armed groups in the DRC, the return of refugees, and respect for territorial integrity. (Yahoo! News)

Business and economy

• The S&P 500 index closes at a record high of 6173.07 points, breaking the record set in February. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from nationwide floods over the past 24 hours rises to 36 as at least 18 people are killed, ten others are missing and 58 people are rescued after flash floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains swept away dozens of tourists picnicking along the Swat River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Deccan Herald) (CTV News)
• Nineteen people are killed and three others are injured when a minibus collides with a truck on a regional road in Ashmoun, Monufia, Egypt. (CTV News)
• Seven city government personnel are killed while 18 others are injured after a government-owned mini dump truck returning from an environmental activity overturns in Silay, Negros Occidental, Philippines. (Rappler)
• Three people are killed when a Cessna 172 crashes in a residential area in Champhol, Centre-Val de Loire, France. (Ouest-France) (Le Parisien)

International relations

• 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces the suspension of the trade talks with Canada, also announcing new tariffs on goods crossing the Canada–United States border. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Serial killer and rapist Takahiro Shiraishi is executed for the 2017 murders and dismemberments of nine people in his apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. (CTV News)

Sports

• 2025 NHL entry draft
  • In ice hockey, the NHL entry draft is held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, U.S., with the New York Islanders selecting Matthew Schaefer as the first overall pick. (Sportsnet)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza, including 20 in Tuffah, Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Three people are killed by Israeli attacks on multiple vehicles in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2025 Mir Ali attack
    • Sixteen soldiers and the perpetrator are killed and 29 others are injured, including six children, when a suicide bomber drives an explosive-laden vehicle into a military convoy in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Hafiz Gul Bahadur faction of the Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility. (Azerbaijani Press Agency)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 37 people are killed and 30 others are injured after two buses collide and burst into flames on a highway in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. (AP)
• The death toll from the landslide in Medellín, Colombia, on Wednesday rises to 22, with eight others still missing. (ABC News)
• Four people are killed and several others are injured, including two critically, in a seven-vehicle pileup on the Interstate 20 near Kaufman County, Texas, United States. (KETK-TV)
• Four people are killed when a Yakovlev Yak-18T aircraft crashes near Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia. (Azerbaijani Press Agency)

Law and crime

• 2025 Hungarian Pride ban
  • Despite the ban by the Hungarian authorities, tens of thousands gather for the Budapest Pride march, defying Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's legal threats against the event. (BBC News)
• Smoking in France
  • The French government issues a decree banning smoking in several public spaces, near schools, and where children gather. However, electronic cigarettes are exempt from the ban. (AP)
• The United Kingdom Border Force seizes 2.4 metric tons of cocaine worth £96 million (US$132 million) from a ship from Panama, reportedly one of the country's largest drug busts. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, Kyiv strikes
    • Russian forces launch more than 500 drones and missiles at Ukraine, targeting critical infrastructure, and injuring at least 12 people. Ukraine says it is the largest Russian air attack on the country since the start of the war. (AP)
    • A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashes while repelling a Russian airstrike, killing the pilot. (Reuters)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
    • UNICEF reports that at least 66 children have died of malnutrition in Gaza throughout the war due to the Israeli humanitarian aid blockade. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Vienna Township Cessna 441 crash
  • Six people are killed when a Cessna 441 aircraft crashes into the backyard of a house shortly after takeoff from Youngstown–Warren Regional Airport in Howland Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. (WFMJ-TV)
• At least 11 people are killed and seven others are injured after a gold mine collapses in Houeid, Sudan. (DW) (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 Coeur d'Alene shooting
    • A mass shooting ambush situation is reported when at least one person opens fire on firefighters and law enforcement responding to a wildfire on Canfield Mountain, believed to have been set by the perpetrator. Three people are killed, including the shooter, and seven others injured in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States. The FBI is deployed and the shooter is later found dead. (BNO News) (Coeur d'Alene Press) (MSN)
• Two teenagers are injured, including one critically, in a shooting outside of the Stonewall Inn historic gay tavern and monument after the 2025 NYC Pride March in New York City, New York, United States. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests
  • Over 140,000 people demonstrate in Belgrade and other major Serbian cities to protest against the Serbian government, call for President Aleksandar Vučić to be removed from power, and for snap elections for his replacement after dozens of students and protestors were arrested by police last night. (DW)

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)