Portal:Current events/2025 June 28
June 28, 2025 (Saturday)
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 the Gaza Strip
- Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Three people are killed by Israeli attacks on multiple vehicles in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- Gaza war
- 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)
- 2025 Mir Ali attack
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)