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2025 July 20

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 85 Palestinians are killed while attempting to access aid across the Gaza Strip. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Seventeen people are killed and eleven others are missing in torrential rains in South Korea. (AP News)
• Six people, including a pregnant woman, are killed in a fire on the passenger ferry KM Barcelona 5 just before it reaches Sulawesi, Indonesia. (AP) (Hindustan Times)

Law and crime

• Terrorism in Egypt
  • Egyptian police kill two suspected militants belonging to the Hasm Movement, an affiliate of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, during a raid on their hideout in Giza. One passerby is also killed. (Al-Ahram)
• Ecuador extradites José Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of the Los Choneros cartel, to the United States where he faces federal charges related to drug trafficking. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election
  • Japanese citizens vote for 125 of the 248 members of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the National Diet. (NHK)
  • The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito lose their majority in the House of Councillors. This marks the first time in the 70-year history of the LDP that it leads a coalition in the Diet without having a majority in either house. (NHK)