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2025 July 18

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli invasion of Syria
  • Southern Syria clashes
    • Israel and Syria agree to a ceasefire, following a de-escalation of the conflict after Syrian government troops withdrew from Sweida. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Israel intercepts a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis, who say it was targeting Ben Gurion International Airport. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Three people are killed in a stampede during a public celebration in Garut, West Java, Indonesia. (Jakarta Globe)
• At least three people are killed in an explosion at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility in Monterey Park, California, United States. (KABC-TV)
• Four people are killed and over a dozen are injured in a multiple-vehicle collision on Interstate 35 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. (AP)

International relations

• Germany–Russia relations
  • Russia withdraws from its military technical cooperation agreement with Germany. (The Kyiv Independent)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • The Seoul Central District Court rejects former president Yoon Suk Yeol’s petition to release him due to an unreasonable request more than a week after he was re-arrested on charges related to a failed martial law attempt on December 3, 2024. (The Korea Herald)
• March 2025 American deportations of Venezuelans
  • The governments of El Salvador, the United States, and Venezuela conduct a prisoner swap involving over 200 Venezuelans incarcerated at the Terrorism Confinement Center in exchange for the release of ten Americans from Venezuelan custody. (Reuters)
• Political ineligibility of Jair Bolsonaro
  • The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil orders former president Jair Bolsonaro to wear an electronic ankle bracelet and places him on nightly house arrest, and forbids him from approaching embassies, foreign ambassadors, and diplomats. (AP)
• The United States government declares the Pakistani militant group The Resistance Front a terrorist group after it committed an attack in Pahalgam in April. (DW)

Politics and elections

• The Trinidad and Tobago government declares a state of emergency after uncovering a plot by criminal organizations to allegedly target and kill government officials. (AP)