- 17 June 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kyiv strikes
- Russia launches a total of 440 drones and 32 missiles on Kyiv, Ukraine, damaging buildings and public facilities, killing 15 people and wounding dozens more. (BBC)
- 16 June 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- 2025 Iran–Israel War, Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel War
- 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. (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 10 command and control centres belonging to 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)
- Gaza war
- Rafah aid distribution killings
- Israel kills at least 50 Palestinians in Gaza, 23 of them near an aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. (Reuters)
- 16 June 2025 – 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)
- 16 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 16 June 2025 – Foreign relations of Andorra
- Andorra and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta establish official diplomatic relations. (Diari d'Andorra)
- 16 June 2025 – 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).
- 15 June 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- 2025 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)
- 15 June 2025 – 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. (Reuters)
- 15 June 2025 –
- 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)
- A Mw 6.1 earthquake hits Lima, Peru, leaving one person dead and at least five others injured. (Agencia EFE)
- 15 June 2025 – 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)
- 15 June 2025 –
- The 51st G7 summit begins in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. (France24)
- 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)
- 15 June 2025 – 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)
- 15 June 2025 – 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)
- 15 June 2025 – 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)
- 14 June 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- 2025 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)
- 14 June 2025 – 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)
- 14 June 2025 – 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)
- 14 June 2025 – 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)
- 14 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 14 June 2025 – 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)
- 14 June 2025 – 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)
- 14 June 2025 – 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)
- 14 June 2025 – 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)
- 13 June 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- 2025 Iran–Israel War
- June 2025 Israeli strikes on Iran
- 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)
- 13 June 2025 – 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)
- 13 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 13 June 2025 – 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)
- 13 June 2025 – 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)
- 13 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 12 June 2025 – Gaza war
- Rafah aid distribution incidents
- 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)
- 12 June 2025 – 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)
- 12 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 12 June 2025 – 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)
- 12 June 2025 – 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)
- 12 June 2025 – 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)
- 12 June 2025 – 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)
- 12 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 12 June 2025 – 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)
- 12 June 2025 – 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)
- 12 June 2025 – 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)
- 11 June 2025 – Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
- 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)
- 11 June 2025 – 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)
- 11 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 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)
- 11 June 2025 – 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)
- 11 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 11 June 2025 – 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)
- 11 June 2025 – Argentina–Israel relations
- Argentine president Javier Milei announces that the Argentine embassy in Israel will be moved to Jerusalem in 2026. (YNet)
- 11 June 2025 – 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)
- 11 June 2025 – 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)
- 10 June 2025 – Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
- Thirty-six Palestinians are killed by Israeli gunfire while trying to obtain aid in Gaza. (AP)
- 10 June 2025 – 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)
- 10 June 2025 – 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)
- 10 June 2025 – 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)
- 10 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 10 June 2025 – 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)
- 10 June 2025 – 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)
- 10 June 2025 – 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)
- 10 June 2025 – 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)
- 10 June 2025 – 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)
- 10 June 2025 – 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)
- 10 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 10 June 2025 – 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)
- 10 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 9 June 2025 – 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)
- 9 June 2025 – 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)
- 9 June 2025 – 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)
- 9 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 9 June 2025 – 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)
- 9 June 2025 – 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)
- 9 June 2025 – 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)
- 9 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 8 June 2025 – 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)
- 8 June 2025 – 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)
- 8 June 2025 – 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)
- 8 June 2025 – 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)
- 8 June 2025 – 2025 Cundinamarca earthquake
- A Mw 6.3 earthquake strikes near Bogotá, Colombia, resulting in over 25 injuries. (Boyacá 7 Días)
- 8 June 2025 – 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)
- 8 June 2025 –
- A derecho and tornado outbreak begins in the eastern United States, with three tornado warnings and 22 severe thunderstorm warnings. (Fox News)
- 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)
- 8 June 2025 – 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)
- 8 June 2025 – 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)
- 7 June 2025 – 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)
- 7 June 2025 – 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)
- 7 June 2025 – 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)
- 7 June 2025 – 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)
- 7 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 7 June 2025 – 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)
- 6 June 2025 – 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)
- 6 June 2025 – 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)
- 6 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 5 June 2025 – 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)
- 5 June 2025 – 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)
- 5 June 2025 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Israeli Air Force jets launch airstrikes on southern Beirut, Lebanon, targeting alleged underground Hezbollah drone manufacturing facilities. (Türkiye Today) (Al-Monitor)
- 5 June 2025 – 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)
- 5 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 5 June 2025 – 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)
- 5 June 2025 – 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)
- 5 June 2025 – 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)
- 5 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 5 June 2025 – 2025 Burundian parliamentary election
- Citizens of Burundi vote to elect 100 of the 123 members of the National Assembly. (BBC News) (DW)
- 5 June 2025 –
- Zia Yusuf announces via X that he is stepping down as the Chairman of Reform UK. (BBC News) (The Telegraph)
- Nintendo's Switch 2 video game console is released in most regions. (BBC News) (The Verge)
- 5 June 2025 – 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)
- 4 June 2025 – 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)
- 4 June 2025 – 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)
- 4 June 2025 – 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)
- 4 June 2025 – 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)
- 4 June 2025 – 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)
- 4 June 2025 – 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)
- 4 June 2025 – 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)
- 4 June 2025 –
- 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)
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