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2025 July 10

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli airstrikes kill at least 15 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, queuing for nutritional supplements near a medical point in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. They were among at least 82 killed in strikes in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it struck a member Hamas’s elite Nukhba forces who took part in the October 7 attacks. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)
  • Palestinian political violence
    • Two Palestinians kill a 20-year-old Israeli settler in a combined shooting and stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Mall in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. (YNet)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kyiv strikes
    • An overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, kills two people, injures 28 others, and causes fires across the capital with multiple districts targeted. 397 drones and 18 missiles are launched in total. (BBC News) (The Kyiv Independent)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • At least 30 bandits, five security officers and one civilian are killed during an insurgent attack on three villages in Faskari, Katsina State, Nigeria. (AP) (Reuters)

International relations

• Armenia–Azerbaijan relations, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev meet in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, for peace talks regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. (Reuters)
• France–United Kingdom relations
  • French president Emmanuel Macron and United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer announce a joint migration deal for the UK to deport illegal migrants to France in exchange for accepting asylum seekers with British family connections. (DW)

Law and crime

• Irish Amateur Swimming Association abuse scandal
  • Former swimming coach George Gibney agrees to be extradited from the United States to Ireland to face trial for indecent assault and rape. (RTÉ)
• The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency arrests four people for conducting cyberattacks as part of an organized crime ring against national retailers Marks & Spencer, Harrods, and Co-op Food. (AP)
• In a case concerning regulations requiring the South African athlete Caster Semenya to decrease her natural testosterone levels to be allowed to participate in the female category, the European Court of Human Rights finds that Switzerland violated her right to a fair hearing, requiring the case to be sent back to Swiss courts. (ECHR) (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Labour in India
  • Sporadic clashes occur in East India between trade unionists and left-wing groups against police and Trinamool Congress supporters during a current general strike opposing the “Special Intensive Revision”. (ABP)
• Von der Leyen Commission II
  • European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen survives a vote of confidence at the European Parliament. (CNN)

2025 July 09

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • 2025 Jaalle Siyaad military academy bombing
      • Several people are killed and injured in a suicide bombing targeting the 14th October Brigade of the Somali Armed Forces at a military academy in Mogadishu, Somalia. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack. (Reuters) (Hiiraan Online) (Somali Guardian)
    • At least seven Kenyan police officers are injured after an al-Shabaab roadside bomb strikes their patrol truck on a highway east of Mandera in Kenya, near the border with Somalia. (Hiiraan Online)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
    • Attacks on the Eternity C
      • The Eternity C, a Liberian-flagged ship, sinks in the Red Sea after being attacked by the Houthis on Monday. At least four people are killed, seven others are rescued and fourteen are reported missing. A rescue operation is underway. (The Guardian) (NOS)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russian forces launch 728 Geran-2 drones at Ukraine overnight in the largest single drone attack of the war to date. (Newsweek)
• Colombian conflict
  • A donkey packed with explosives blasts near a military outpost in Las Cruces sector, Valdivia, Antioquia Department, killing one soldier and injuring two. Authorities blamed the ELN of being behind the attack. (Radio Caracol)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces a 50% tariff on most imports into the United States from Brazil starting August 1, in a letter addressed to Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and citing the trial of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. (Reuters)
  • President Trump also announces a new set of tariff rates on imports from Algeria, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka, assigning country-specific duties ranging from 20 to 30% following the expiration of a 90-day negotiation period. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Guatemala earthquakes
  • At least six people die when a Mw 5.7 earthquake strikes Guatemala and causes widespread damage. (ABC News)
• At least thirteen people are killed and nine others are injured after a section of the Gambhira Bridge in Gujarat, India, partially collapses during morning rush hour. (The Times of India) (NDTV)

International relations

• United States and the United Nations
  • The United States issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. (NPR)
• The Syrian minister of foreign affairs Asaad al-Shaibani announces the country’s readmission to the Union for the Mediterranean after 13 years of its suspension. (ARK News)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • The Seoul Central District Court issues an arrest warrant for former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol over five key charges related to his short-lived martial law declaration on December 3, 2024, placing him in custody for the first time since March due to concerns of evidence tampering. (Yonhap)
• Censorship in Turkey
  • Turkey partially bans certain contents from X (formerly Twitter)’s AI chatbot Grok amid a criminal probe over insults to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the country’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. (Reuters)

2025 July 08

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • Five Israeli soldiers are killed and two others are seriously injured in an ambush in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. (The New York Times) (The Washington Post)
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict
    • An Israeli airstrike kills at least three people and injures 13 others in an attack on Tripoli, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• German economic crisis
  • German vehicle manufacturer Daimler Truck announces it will cut around 5,000 jobs in the country by 2030 in an effort to save €1 billion following a drop in sales. (DW)
• Bulgaria and the euro
  • The European Parliament and the European Council approve Bulgaria’s request to adopt the euro, which will replace the lev as Bulgaria’s official currency on 1 January 2026. (Euronews) (European Council)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2025 Southern New Mexico floods
  • At least three people are killed, four people are trapped, including a father and his two children, and 85 others are rescued when they are washed away in flash floods in Ruidoso, New Mexico, United States. (AP) (LBC)
• Ten people are killed and some others are injured when a fire and explosion cause eight rooms to collapse at a fireworks factory in Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, India. (The Star)

Law and crime

• Treatment of women by the Taliban
  • The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants against Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and Taliban official Abdul Hakim Haqqani over alleged persecution of girls, women and the LGBTQ+ community. (AP)
• Two people are killed, including the perpetrator, and six others are injured, including three police officers and three seriously, in a shootout at a house in Calldetenes, Catalonia, Spain. (Ara)
• A 9-year-old is killed and two others are injured in a mass stabbing attack by a 16-year-old at a school in Estação, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. (CTV News)

2025 July 07

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
      • Attacks on the Eternity C
        • At least four people are killed, two people are injured and two other people are missing after the Eternity C, a Liberian flagged ship, is attacked in the Red Sea near Hodeida, Yemen, by multiple Houthi boats and drones. The ship later sinks. (NOS) (NOS)
    • Israeli attacks on Yemen
      • The Israeli Air Force strikes three ports and a power plant in Houthi-controlled Yemen in response to recent ballistic missile attacks on Israel. (ABC News) (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Ukrainian Armed Forces launch a long-range drone strike on Krasnodar Krai, Russia, damaging the main oil refinery in Ilsky. (The Kyiv Independent)
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russia launches over 100 drones at areas across Ukraine, killing ten civilians and injuring 38 others. (PBS)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab militants recapture Moqokori, a town in the Hiiraan region of Somalia. The heavy fighting resulted in the deaths of at least 40 Somali National Army and Ma’awisley fighters. (Garowe Online)
• 2025 Kenyan protests
  • Eleven people are killed and 29 others are injured in clashes with security forces amid ongoing anti-government protests in Kenya, according to the National Commission on Human Rights. (Sky News) (Reuters)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Over 70 vigilante group members are killed and others are missing in an ambush by bandits in two villages in Kanam and Wase, Plateau State, Nigeria. Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) denied the initial account and reported eight deaths and several missing. (Daily Post) (Vanguard News) (The Punch)

Business and economy

• Paschal Donohoe is re-elected President of the Eurogroup. (RTE.ie)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2025 Central Texas floods
  • The death toll from the flooding in Central Texas, United States, increases to 104, including 28 children, with 41 other people still missing. Flash flood warnings are issued for expected additional rainfall. (AP)
• Ramses Exchange fire
  • Four people are killed and at least 22 others are injured in a fire at the Ramses Exchange building in Cairo, Egypt. National connectivity data is brought down to 62% of ordinary levels, including banking and phone calls. Trading on the Cairo Stock Exchange is halted the following day. (NOS) (CNN)
• Four people are killed, including two children, when a Cirrus SR22 crashes into a field near Raleigh Executive Jetport in Sanford, North Carolina, United States. (WTVD-TV)

Law and crime

• 2021–2022 Luzon sabungero disappearances
  • Philippine police chief Nicolas Torre announces that 15 police officers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in abducting and killing at least 34 cockfighters across Luzon, Philippines, from 2021 to 2022. (AP)
• 2023 Leongatha mushroom murders
  • Erin Patterson is found guilty on all charges regarding deaths from Amanita poisoning from a lunch at her home in Leongatha, Australia. (ABC News Australia)
• Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
  • Amnesty International says that Saudi Arabia executed a record 345 people last year, many of them over drug offenses. (AP)
• Death of Jeffrey Epstein
  • The United States Department of Justice announces that the alleged “Epstein client list” does not exist, in contradiction of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s claims of possessing it, and reaffirms that Jeffrey Epstein’s death was suicide. (AP)
• The perpetrator is killed and three people, two police officers and a border guard, are injured in a mass shooting when a man opens fire on law enforcement officers before being fatally shot at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, United States. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Cabinet of Lee Jae Myung
  • Kim Min-seok is officially inaugurated as the prime minister of South Korea at the Government Complex in Sejong City, four days after he was approved by the National Assembly. (The Korea Herald)
• Russian president Vladimir Putin dismisses Minister of Transport Roman Starovoyt, with his deputy Andrey Nikitin replacing him. Hours after his dismissal, Starovoyt is found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot. (ABC News Australia)

2025 July 06

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli airstrikes kill at least 38 Palestinians in Gaza. (AP)
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict
    • Israel conducts four drone strikes in Bint Jbeil, Shebaa, and Shaqra, in southern Lebanon over the weekend, killing one person and injuring several others. (Al Jazeera)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Magic Seas is attacked by the Houthis with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in the Red Sea forcing the crew to abandon ship, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operation. (NOS) (ABC News Australia)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Boko Haram insurgents kill nine people and injure four others in an attack on Mallam Fatori in Borno State, Nigeria. (AP)
• Gang war in Haiti
  • The historic Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is destroyed following an arson attack by armed gangs. (Le Quotidien 509)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Karachi building collapse
  • The death toll from the collapse of a multistory building on Friday in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, rises to 27 as rescuers pull 11 more bodies from the rubble as the three-day rescue operation ends. 10 others were injured in the collapse, of which one died in hospital from their injuries. (CTV News)
• A truck and a commercial vehicle carrying passengers collide along the Zaria-Kano expressway in Kano State, Nigeria, killing 21 and injuring three. (AP)
• Five Turkish soldiers are killed by methane gas exposure in a cave in northern Iraq during an operation to search for a fellow soldier’s remains. (AP)

International relations

• Japan–Philippines relations
  • The Yomiuri Shimbun reports that the Japanese Navy will export six used Abukuma-class destroyer escorts to the Armed Forces of the Philippines to strengthen the Philippine Navy due to territorial disputes in the South China Sea. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • Prosecutors in South Korea request that former president Yoon Suk Yeol be detained amid the ongoing investigation against him for insurrection. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup
  • In association football, the defending champions Mexico win a record-extending 10th Gold Cup title after defeating the United States 2–1 in the final at the NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, United States. Edson Álvarez is named the tournament’s best player. (France 24)

Politics and elections

• The Surinamese parliament elects Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as the country’s first female president. (CNN) (France 24)

2025 July 05

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • Israeli airstrikes kill 78 Palestinians, including ten who were seeking humanitarian aid, and injure dozens of others. (AP) (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• The first Legoland in China opens in Shanghai. (AP News)
• Black Sabbath’s final concert, Back to the Beginning, takes place at Villa Park in Birmingham. The event raises £140m for local charities. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• In Glendora, Mississippi, 13 cars of a Canadian National freight train derail, including one car spilling benzene, forcing an evacuation of the area. (Press-Register)
• Two minibuses collide head-on in Egypt, killing nine and injuring 11. (The New Arab)
• A minivan collided with a locomotive in Mpika, Zambia killing nine. (Zambia Monitor)
• A light propeller aircraft originating from Germany, crashes near Wald im Pinzgau, Austria, killing all four people on board. (AP News)
• Four people are killed after an abandoned open cast coal mine collapsed in Ramgarh district, India. (The Times Of India)
• A boat, capable of carrying forty passengers, sank in conditions of strong winds in Dongjiang Lake, China. Of the 29 people on board, 27 were rescued and two died. (AA)

International relations

• India–United States relations
  • X briefly withholds access to multiple Reuters accounts in India, citing a legal request under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• The Turkish government arrests the mayors of Adıyaman, Adana, and Antalya, who are all part of the opposition Republican People’s Party, as part of a bribery investigation. (AP)

Law and Crime

• Officers conducting a welfare check on a woman at the request of her grandmother found four people shot to death in an apartment in Talladega County, Alabama leased by the woman’s boyfriend. (ABC News)
• Two people, including a juvenile, were killed and five others, including two other juveniles, were injured in a shooting in Downtown Indianapolis. (Fox59)
• Palestine Action
  • Police arrest 29 people following a Central London protest in support of Palestine Action on its first day as a proscribed terrorist group. (BBC News)
• A gynaecologist from Bonneville, France is sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by a court in Haute-Savoie for the rape of nine patients. (France 24)

2025 July 04

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
    • The Pakistan Army says it killed 30 Pakistani Taliban fighters trying to cross the Afghanistan–Pakistan border barrier in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2025 Central Texas floods
  • At least 51 people are killed, including 15 children, with 27 more children missing, during a flood in Central Texas, United States. (BBC News) (CNN)
• 2025 Karachi building collapse
  • At least 16 people are killed when a building collapses in Karachi, Pakistan. (AP) (France 24)
• A fire and subsequent explosion at a gas station in Rome, Italy, leaves 45 people injured, including two critically. (Roma Today)

Law and crime

• Anti-gentrification protests in Mexico City, Mexico, lead to tourist harassment and vandalism in Condesa. (AP)

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