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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

• 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 24 Palestinians, including ten who were seeking humanitarian aid, and injure dozens of others. (AP)

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)
• A bus and a trailer collide head-on in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, killing six and injuring 18. (Geo News)
• Two minibuses collide head-on Bani Salama, Egypt killing nine and injuring 11. (The New Arab)
• A minivan collided with a locomotive in Mpika, Zambia killing nine. (Zambia Monitor)

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)

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)
• 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)

2025 July 03

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • Israeli airstrikes and shootings kill at least 94 Palestinians in Gaza, including 45 who were attempting to get humanitarian aid. (AP)
• Gang war in Haiti
  • According to the United Nations, over 90% of the Haitian capital city Port-au-Prince is now under the control of violent gangs. (NPR)

Business and economy

• South American trade bloc MERCOSUR and European bloc EFTA sign a free trade agreement, setting up a free trade zone of nearly 300 million people. (DW) (Buenos Aires Herald)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Russia relations, Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
  • Russia becomes the first country to formally recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Four people are injured in a hammer attack by a 20-year-old Syrian national on an Intercity Express train while it was between Straubing and Plattling in Bavaria, Germany. (Euronews)
• Four people are injured in a mass stabbing attack by a man near a shopping mall in Tampere, Finland. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Cabinet of Lee Jae Myung
  • The South Korean National Assembly votes 173–3 with three abstentions to approve the nomination of Kim Min-seok as the country’s prime minister, despite boycotts from the People Power Party over allegations surrounding his wealth and family. (Yonhap)
• Air traffic controllers in France go on strike to protest understaffing, management culture, and outdated equipment. Hundreds of flights are delayed or cancelled, including at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, which is one of Europe’s busiest airports. (DW) (Bloomberg News)
• The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is passed by the United States House of Representatives in a 218–214 vote and is signed into law by President Donald Trump the following day. (BBC News)
• The Syrian transitional government unveils the new emblem of Syria, featuring a gold-coloured eagle, facing to its right, with three five-pointed stars arranged in an arc above its head. (SANA)
• Christophe Mirmand is appointed the new minister of state of Monaco and will succeed acting Isabelle Berro-Amadeï on 21 July. (Le Monde)

Science and technology

• The 3.500 years old Caral city of Peñico is discovered in Peru. (BBC)

2025 July 02

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth orders the indefinite suspension of air defense and weapon shipments to Ukraine, including Patriot interceptors and other missiles and ammunition. (The New Voice of Ukraine)

Arts and culture

• Succession of the 14th Dalai Lama
  • The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso confirms that after his death there will be a reincarnated successor. Chinese officials reject this statement and announce that the next Dalai Lama will have to be born in China and his appointment will have to be approved by the government. (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

• Somali Civil War
  • At least five Ugandan soldiers are killed and some others are injured when a military Mi-24 helicopter part of the African Union peacekeeping mission crashes near Aden Adde airport in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital. The helicopter carrying eight people had been arriving from an airfield in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia. (AP)
• 2025 European heatwaves
  • Two farmers are killed in a wildfire in Catalonia, Spain, while three people die from heat-related causes in Sardinia, Italy, and a 10-year-old American tourist dies after collapsing from extreme heat in Paris, France. Hundreds of others are hospitalized. (BBC News)
• Six people are killed and 29 others are missing when a ferry carrying 65 people capsizes off the coast of Bali, Indonesia. (The New York Times) (AP)

International relations

• Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
  • Australia, India, Japan, and the United States announce a joint initiative to work towards securing minerals necessary for new technologies and reduce reliance on Chinese sources. (DW) (The Guardian)
• Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian orders the suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency following the Iran–Israel war and the United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2025 Chicago shooting
  • Four people are killed and fourteen others are wounded in a drive-by shooting outside a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, United States. (WBBM-TV)
• Trial of Sean Combs
  • American rapper and music producer Sean Combs is acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering and found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. (Reuters)
• Australian airline Qantas is hit by a cyberattack affecting a third-party platform used by its call centre, compromising the personal data of up to 6 million customers. (ABC News Australia)

Science and technology

• 3I/ATLAS
  • The Minor Planet Center confirms an interstellar object is transiting the Solar System on a hyperbolic trajectory, the third of its kind to be officially confirmed. The object is likely a comet and could be as large as 12 miles (20 km) in diameter. (Minor Planet Center) (Earth Sky)
• Ford recalls more than 200,000 vehicles due to a software defect that can cause the backup camera to fail, raising the risk of crashes. (AP)

2025 July 01

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Luhansk Oblast campaign
    • Head of the Luhansk People’s Republic Leonid Pasechnik says that Russian forces have captured the entirety of the Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. (AP)
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Ukrainian SBU drone attack on a military factory in Izhevsk, Russia, which produced Tor surface-to-air missile systems, kills three people and injures 45 others. A state of emergency is later declared by Head of the Udmurt Republic Aleksandr Brechalov. (BBC News)
• Mali War
  • Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin claims responsibility for attacks on several Mali Armed Forces positions near Senegal in Mali. The Malian army spokesperson said 80 attackers were neutralized while there were no details on casualties among soldiers. (CTV News)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • A boy and some insurgents are killed and nine others are injured when dozens of militants armed with guns and rockets storm a police station and set fire to two banks before fleeing in Mastung District, Balochistan, Pakistan. The Balochistan Liberation Army is suspected to be behind the attacks. (CTV News)

Disasters and accidents

• Eight people are killed and five others are injured, including three critically, in an explosion at a fireworks factory in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India. (India Today) (Deccan Herald)
• A sea rig capsizes in the Gulf of Suez off the coast of Jabal al-Zeit, Egypt. Of the 30 personnel on board, 23 are rescued, four others are killed, and three others are still missing. (MarineTraffic) (Reuters)
• An Australian east coast low rapidly intensifies as it makes landfall on the east coast of Australia, affecting millions of people in Sydney and the Central Coast. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• The Warsaw Metro’s M1 line is damaged in an overnight fire in Warsaw, Poland. Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski blames the incident on a power outage. (TVP Info)

International relations

• China–Philippines relations
  • The Chinese government sanctions former Philippine Senate majority leader Francis Tolentino, barring him from entering China, citing his conduct on China-related issues. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 Thai political crisis
  • The Constitutional Court of Thailand suspends Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from duty pending a case seeking her dismissal. (The Washington Post)
• Turkey arrests four journalists of the satirical magazine LeMan accused of drawing the Islamic prophet Muhammad. (BBC News)
• One person is killed and two others are injured in a mass stabbing attack when a 21-year-old man stabs employees at a company in Mellrichstadt, Bavaria, Germany. (Euronews)

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