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2025 July 24

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2025 Cambodia–Thailand clashes
  • Cambodian and Thai troops exchange fire near the Prasat Ta Muen Thom site near the border. Fourteen people are killed and 46 others are injured in Thailand. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Angara Airlines Flight 2311
  • An Angara Airlines Antonov An-24 operating as Angara Airlines Flight 2311 en route to Tynda crashes into a forested area in Amur Oblast, Russia, killing all 48 occupants, including five children. (The Guardian) (Reuters)
• At least 12 people are killed, several others are missing, and 157 are injured in an explosion at an ammunition depot in Maarrat Misrin, Idlib Governorate, Syria. (Xinhua News Agency) (AP)

International relations

• International recognition of Palestine
  • French president Emmanuel Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state starting September, citing reasons such as an immediate end to the war and helping the humanitarian crisis. (France 24) (AP)
• Norway–Russia relations, Violations of non-combatant airspaces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Norway reports that Russia has violated its airspace over Finnmark for the second time this year. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Central African Republic Civil War
  • The International Criminal Court convicts Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona and Alfred Yekatom, leaders of the Anti-balaka militia alliance, of multiple counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentences them to 12 and 15 years in prison respectively for their roles in various massacres against civilians throughout the civil war in the Central African Republic. (AP)
• Hungary–Israel relations, Hungary–United Kingdom relations
  • Hungary bans Irish rap trio Kneecap for three years ahead of a music festival, citing a national security threat over their alleged support for Hamas and Hezbollah. (The Times of Israel)

2025 July 23

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 European and Mediterranean wildfires
  • At least ten firefighters and rescue workers are killed and 14 others are injured in a wildfire in Eskişehir Province, Turkey. (CTV News)
  • Two people are killed and hundreds of others are evacuated in a fire in Limassol, Cyprus. The fire brigade chief says the fire was arson. (Greek Reporter) (Cyprus Mail)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • One person is killed by Tropical Storm Wipha in Nghệ An province, Vietnam. (AP)
• Six Northeastern University students are killed and one teacher is injured after the collapse of protective grates over a flotation cell at the Wunugetushan gold mine near Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia, China. (Reuters) (South China Morning Post)

Health and environment

• 2023–2025 mpox epidemic
  • The Gambia reports its first case of mpox and announces an outbreak. (Hurriyet Daily News)

International relations

• China–India relations
  • India announces it will resume issuing tourist visas for Chinese citizens, ending a five-year suspension imposed following the 2020 border skirmishes between the two countries. (The Straits Times)

Law and crime

• 2022 University of Idaho murders
  • Bryan Kohberger is sentenced to four consecutive life sentences in prison without parole after pleading guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022. (The New York Times)
• Colombian conflict
  • A specialized court in Antioquia, Colombia, sentences seven former Chiquita executives to 135 months in prison and fines them COP$13.876 billion (US$3.4 million) for financing the now-defunct AUC paramilitary group. (Infobae)
• A mass shooting in Maguiresbridge, Northern Ireland, leaves three people dead and another seriously injured. (BBC News)
• Indonesian National Police arrest 44 people suspected of starting forest fires across the country, which contribute to the Southeast Asian haze. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Politics of the Northern Mariana Islands
  • Governor Arnold Palacios dies in office in neighboring Guam due to a medical condition. (Marianas Variety)
  • Lt. Governor David Apatang succeeds Palacios as Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands. Dennis C. Mendiola becomes Lieutenant Governor. (Marianas Variety) (RNZ)

2025 July 22

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Constitutional crisis in Somalia
  • Jubaland crisis
    • At least ten people are killed after Jubaland forces claim they have taken full control of the Beled Hawo District headquarters as well as the entire city, following heavy fighting with the Somali National Army from the Federal Government of Somalia. (Garowe Online)
• Gang war in Haiti
  • Three Haitian National Police officers are killed and one is missing after a gang attack in Liancourt, Artibonite department, Haiti. (AP) (The Haitian Times)
• Red Sea crisis
  • The Houthis launch a ballistic missile at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, which is intercepted by Israeli forces. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pakistan floods
  • Flash flooding kills three people and leaves 15 others missing in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. (AP)
• A head-on collision between a minibus taxi and a truck kills 17 people and injures several others in Harare Province, Zimbabwe. (AP)

International relations

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • Japan–United States relations
    • U.S. president Donald Trump announces a trade deal with Japan on Truth Social that would let Japan invest $550 billion into the United States and reduce the tariffs to 15%. (CNBC)
  • Philippines–United States relations
    • President Trump announces a trade agreement with Philippine president Bongbong Marcos that sets a 19% tariff on Philippine exports to the United States, while U.S. goods entering the Philippines will be exempt from tariffs. (CNN) (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Ukrainian protests, Corruption in Ukraine
  • The Ukrainian parliament adopts a law placing the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office under the Prosecutor General, sparking widespread protests across the country, the largest since the 2022 Russian invasion. Despite calls to veto the law, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signs the law. (The New York Times) (The Kyiv Independent)

2025 July 21

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Colombian conflict
  • Catatumbo campaign
    • The National Liberation Army deploys a drone to attack a military convoy in Catatumbo, Colombia, killing three soldiers and injuring eight others. (AP)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli troops and tanks enter Deir al-Balah in central Gaza for the first time since the start of the war. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The United States and Germany agree to send five Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Syrian civil war
  • Southern Syria clashes
    • Hundreds of Bedouin civilians are evacuated from Suwayda, Syria, as part of a ceasefire following clashes that left hundreds dead. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Dhaka fighter jet crash
  • At least 31 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured after a Bangladesh Air Force FT-7BGI training aircraft crashes into a college and school campus in Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AlJazeera)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least 22 people are killed and more than 90,000 people are displaced as Tropical Storm Wipha hits the Philippines and South Korea. (Gulf News)

International relations

• El Salvador–Venezuela relations
  • The Venezuelan attorney general’s office opens a formal investigation into Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his government’s alleged mistreatment of Venezuelan migrants detained in the United States and sent to the CECOT megaprison, built to hold alleged gang members. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Christophe Mirmand is sworn in as the new minister of state of Monaco, succeeding acting minister of state Isabelle Berro-Amadeï. (L’Observateur de Monaco)
• Jagdeep Dhankhar resigns as the Vice President of India citing health reasons. (NDTV)

Sports

• The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee announces a ban on transgender women competing in women’s sports in compliance with an executive order issued earlier this year. (NPR)

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)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • The Somali National Army and African Union forces, primarily Ugandan troops, abruptly withdraw from the towns of Sabiid and Anole, after al-Shabaab militant group recaptures these locations, which are situated approximately 40 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region. (The Soufan Center)

Disasters and accidents

• Seventeen people are killed and 11 others are missing in torrential rains in South Korea. (AP)
• 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, marking the first time in LDP’s 70-year history that it leads a coalition in the Diet without a majority in either house. (NHK)

2025 July 19

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Southern Syria clashes
    • Street-to-street fighting in Suwayda, Syria, is reported between local Druze forces and pro-government Bedouin tribesmen. (i24)
    • An Agence France-Presse war correspondent reports witnessing armed men looting and setting fire to Druze-owned shops in Suwayda. (BBC News)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 32 Palestinians are killed trying to reach Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution sites. (AP)
• M23 campaign
  • The M23 paramilitary group and the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sign a declaration of principles stating that a full ceasefire and final peace agreement will be signed no later than August 18, and that it will be aligned with the earlier DR Congo–Rwanda agreement. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• Sinking of the Wonder Sea
  • At least 38 people are killed, 11 are rescued and eight others are reported missing, including children, when a storm causes the tourist boat Wonder Sea to capsize in the Hạ Long Bay in Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam. (News18)
• At least 21 people are killed and 34 others are injured after a bus overturns and crashes in Kavar, Fars province, Iran. (The New Arab)
• Eight people are killed and six others are injured when a truck collides with two passenger vans in Aurora, Isabela province, Philippines. (Xinhua) (Manila Bulletin)

Law and crime

• At least 30 people are injured, including seven critically, in a vehicle-ramming attack at a night club in Los Angeles, California, United States. (AP) (Los Angeles Fire Department)
• Turkish involvement in the Somali civil war
  • The Puntland Maritime Police Force confiscates a Turkish vessel illegally transporting high-grade weaponry, including armoured personnel carriers and crates of weapons, to Mogadishu in Bareeda, Ras Aseir region. (Idil News) (Marine Insight)
• At least 12 people are killed in a mass shooting at a pool hall in Playas, Guayas Province, Ecuador. (Diario Extra)

Sports

• In boxing, Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk defeats British challenger Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium in London, England, via a fifth-round knockout to become a two-time undisputed heavyweight champion. (BBC Sport)

2025 July 18

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 41 Palestinians, ten of which were seeking Humanitarian aid are killed by artillery shelling and gunfire. (The Hindu) (Al Jazeera)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Nine people are killed while at least 15 others are abducted in an attack by gunmen in Talata Mafara,Zamfara State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 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)
• Five people are killed in Pedda Amberpet, India, after a car rammed into the back of a lorry. (The Hindu)
• Six illegal miners are killed and four others injured after a hoist system malfunctioned in a mine in Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe. (Zimeye)
• At least 15 are injured after a three storey structure collapsed in Bandra, India. (The Indian Express)

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)

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