Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 2025 Gaza City offensive
- Ten Palestinians, including three people who were seeking humanitarian aid, are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip ahead of peace talks in Egypt, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks since Friday up to 104. (Al Jazeera)
- 2025 Gaza City offensive
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Syrian civil war
- SDF–Syrian Transitional Government clashes
- Clashes erupt between Syrian government troops and Kurdish militias affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces in Sheikh Maqsood, Aleppo. (Alarabiya English)
- SDF–Syrian Transitional Government clashes
- Myanmar civil war
- More than 40 people are killed, including children, and about 80 others are injured in a strike on a festival and an anti-junta protest in Chaung-U, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. (ABC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 tornado season
- 2025 Enderlin tornado
- The U.S. National Weather Service upgrades the rating of the tornado near Enderlin, North Dakota, on June 20 this year, to EF5, the most recent tornado to attain the highest rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale. (CNN)
- 2025 Enderlin tornado
- Three people are killed after an 80-year-old residential structure collapses in Veraval, Gir Somnath district, India. (The Indian Express)
- A migrant boat carrying at least ten Chinese nationals capsized on the Danube river in the area of Bačka Palanka, Vojvodina, Serbia, while en route to Croatia. One person was killed and nine others were rescued. (ABC News)
International relations
- Gaza war
- Donald Trump’s September 2025 Gaza Strip proposal
- Indirect talks between Hamas and Israel begin in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to negotiate field conditions for the release of the remaining hostages in return for an undetermined number of Palestinian prisoners. (BBC News)
- Donald Trump’s September 2025 Gaza Strip proposal
- Australia–Papua New Guinea relations
- Australia and Papua New Guinea sign a defense treaty, formally granting Australia access to Papuan military facilities and requiring mutual defense in case of aggression. (BBC News) (AP)
- New Zealand–Samoa relations
- New Zealand announces that it has paid a NZ$6 million compensation to Samoa over the sinking of the HMNZS Manawanui off the coast of Upolu in October 2024. (RNZ)
Law and crime
- 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
- United States federal judge Karin Immergut temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops from California and Texas to Portland, Oregon, saying there is no evidence that the city requires any federal military intervention. (BBC News)
- Mexican drug war, Mexico–United States relations
- The United States Treasury issues sanctions against various Mexican companies, including those in the pharmaceutical, real estate, chemical, and cleaning sectors, and eight people who manage them for allegedly supplying drug precursors to the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. (AP)
- At least 14 soldiers are killed and five others are injured in a shootout after a suspected “love triangle” dispute in South Sudan. (CBS News)
- A man opens fire inside an appeals courts in Tirana, Albania, killing the presiding judge and injuring two others in the courtroom. Police later arrest the suspect. (AP)
- A person opens fire inside the Iberville Parish Courthouse in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States, killing a deputy and injuring another, before being fatally shot. (KATC) (BNO News)
- The International Criminal Court convicts Janjaweed commander Ali Kushayb of war crimes in Darfur, Sudan, including rape, murder, and persecution. Kushayb is the first militia leader to be convicted for these war crimes. His sentence will be determined in a later hearing. (Reuters)
- A group of human rights organizations in Myanmar file a joint lawsuit against Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor for allegedly sharing customer data with the Tatmadaw after the 2021 coup d’état and in the civil war. (Al Jazeera) (The Straits Times)
Politics and elections
- A teachers’ strike in Alberta begins, making 51,000 teachers off-work and affects more than 700,000 students. Thousands rally across Alberta to support educators (CBC) (Global News) (The Globe and Mail)
- 2024–2025 French political crisis
- First Lecornu government
- French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns after 27 days of being in office. With only 14 hours between the appointment of ministers and his resignation, Lecornu becomes the shortest-serving Prime Minister in French history. (BFMTV) (Libération)
- First Lecornu government
- 2025 Malagasy protests
- Youth-led protests against President Andry Rajoelina resume across Madagascar, with clashes with riot police taking place in multiple cities, including the capital Antananarivo. (Reuters)
- President Andry Rajoelina appoints Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo, a Madagascar Armed Forces general, as the new prime minister of Madagascar. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi are jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries relating to peripheral immune tolerance. (CNN)