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June 29, 2025 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

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)

June 28, 2025 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Gaza war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  - Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza, including twenty in Tuffah, Gaza City. (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)
Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Three people are killed by Israeli attacks on multiple vehicles in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

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

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)
2025 Hungarian Pride ban
- Despite the ban by the Hungarian authorities, tens of thousands have gathered for the Budapest Pride march, defying Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's legal threats against the event. (BBC)

June 27, 2025 (Friday)

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)
The Supreme Court of the United States rules that all lower court orders on all nationwide injunctions exceeded their authority and should be limited, making it harder for district judges to have the power to entirely block presidential actions. This severely affects lower court cases involving illegal immigrant deportations and birthright citizenship. (USA Today) (NPR)

June 26, 2025 (Thursday)

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)
Six people are killed and thousands of others are displaced from their homes amid torrential rain and flash floods in Rongjiang County, Guizhou, China. (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. (RTE)

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)

June 25, 2025 (Wednesday)

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)

June 24, 2025 (Tuesday)

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)

June 23, 2025 (Monday)

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)

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