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2025 July 28

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • Congolese government–aligned Wazalendo militias, including Resisting Congolese Patriots and the Alliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo, clash with M23 rebels in Shoa and Shamarambo villages, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The villages are captured by the M23. (Radio Okapi) (Radio Okapi)
    • Wazalendo militia Collective of Movements for Change clashes with M23 rebels in the villages of Mashango and Mudugudu, Rutshuru Territory. (Radio Okapi)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli attacks kill more than 80 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
    • The Houthis release a video showing ten crewmembers of the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C, which the group attacked and sunk earlier this month, in captivity. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • U.S. president Donald Trump issues a new 12-day ultimatum to Russia to end the war in Ukraine. (BBC News)
• Constitutional crisis in Somalia
  • Jubaland crisis
    • Clashes occur in Dolow, Somalia, between Jubaland forces and the Somali National Army. (Garowe Online)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Operation Mahadev
    • The Indian military announces they have killed three militants behind the Pahalgam Attack in the Dachigam area of Jammu and Kashmir. Jazeera)
• The Pakistani Counter Terrorism Department kills three suspected militants accused of orchestrating an attack in Karachi last year. (AP)

Arts and culture

• The Polisario Front formally condemns the recent filming of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film The Odyssey in Moroccan-occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara. (Forbes)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 30 people are killed and several others are missing due to heavy rain and flooding in Hebei and Beijing, China. (AP)
• Three people are killed and hundreds of others are evacuated during floods across nine counties in northeastern Romania. (AP) (Reuters)

International relations

• 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza
  • A peace conference opens in New York City, United States, aimed at reviving the two-state solution and renewing diplomatic efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 New York City shooting
  • Five people are killed, including an NYPD officer and the perpetrator, and five others are injured, including four with non-gunshot injuries, in a mass shooting at the 345 Park Avenue skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City, United States. (CNN) (BNO News)
• Grand Sierra Resort shooting
  • Three people are killed and eight others are injured, including the perpetrator and an officer that sustained non-gunshot injuries, in a mass shooting at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, United States. (Reno Gazette-Journal) (KRNV-DT)
• Or Tor Kor Market shooting
  • Six people are killed, including the perpetrator, and two others are injured in a mass shooting at Or Tor Kor Market in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters) (Thairath)
• Two people are killed and two others are injured, including the perpetrator, in a mass stabbing on business premises on Long Lane in Southwark, London, United Kingdom. (Sky News)
• A court in Bogotá, Colombia, convicts former president Álvaro Uribe of witness tampering and bribery. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Flood control projects controversy in the Philippines (2024–2025)
  • In his State of the Nation Address, Philippine president Bongbong Marcos orders a nationwide audit of flood control projects across the country, alongside a crackdown on corruption on these projects, in response to widespread damage caused by recent flooding resulting from Tropical Storm Wipha and the monsoon season. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

2025 July 27

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 73 Palestinians are killed while seeking humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip. (Sky News)
  • Gaza Strip famine
    • The Israeli Air Force begins humanitarian aid drops over the Gaza Strip amid growing international pressure to allow food into the Palestinian enclave. (BBC News)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab seizes control of the central Somalia town of Mahaas in the Hiiraan region following a ground offensive. The attack began with multiple suicide bombings just outside the town, followed by heavy gunfire, prompting the army and local Ma’awisley militias to withdraw. (The Somali Digest) (AP)
• 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
  • Cambodia and Thailand agree to negotiate a ceasefire following mediation efforts by United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio the previous day. However, both sides accuse the other of violating the ceasefire. (AP)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Komanda town massacre
    • Allied Democratic Forces militants attack the city of Komanda, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 43 people, including 20 during a vigil in a Catholic church. (Radio Okapi)
• New People’s Army rebellion
  • Seven New People’s Army guerrillas are killed in a military operation in Uson, Masbate, Philippines, as Philippine troops pursue remaining insurgents. (AP)
• Ecuadorian Drug War
  • Seventeen people are killed and 14 others are injured after gunmen open fire on a bar in El Empalme, Ecuador. The shooting is believed to be linked to a conflict between local drug cartels for control of drug trafficking routes. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Baden-Württemberg train derailment
  • At least three people are killed, including a railway employee and the driver, and around 50 others are injured, including 25 seriously, when a Deutsche Bahn Regional-Express train carrying 100 people derails in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (ARD)
• Twenty-five people are killed, 26 others are rescued, and 49 are reported missing when a large wooden boat capsizes in Niger State, Nigeria. (CJNI-FM) (Reuters)
• At least six people are killed and 27 others are injured in a stampede when a high-voltage electric wire falls on a path at the Mansa Devi Temple in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. (AP) (The Independent via Yahoo! News Canada)

International relations

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • United States–European Union relations
    • U.S. president Donald Trump and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announce a trade deal that would set a reciprocal 15% tariff on all exports and promise to boost European Union investment into the U.S. by $600 billion. The EU also promises to purchase $750 billion in American energy products over an unspecified period of time. (BBC News)
• North Korea–Russia relations
  • Russian airline Nordwind launches the first commercial flight from Moscow to Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Iran
  • Iran executes two members of the exiled terrorist group Mojahedin-e-Khalq on charges of carrying out attacks on residential, education, and government buildings. (AP)
• Three people are killed and ten others are injured in a mass shooting in Turks and Caicos, whose authorities are deeming it the first mass shooting in recent history, due to an increase in violence spilled over from the gang war in Haiti. (AP) (CBS News)

Sports

• UEFA Women’s Euro 2025
  • In association football, England defeats Spain 3–1 on penalties in the UEFA Women’s Euro final to win their second major football championship and successfully defending their title. Spain’s Aitana Bonmatí is named the tournament’s best player. (Reuters)

2025 July 26

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
  • 2025 Cambodia–Thailand clashes
    • Cambodia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Chhea Keo, calls for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire with Thailand. (BBC News)
    • Twelve more deaths are reported in Cambodia while a Thai soldier is shot dead on the border as both countries exchange artillery fire. (AP)
    • Around 38,000 civilians in Cambodia and almost 140,000 in Thailand flee their homes as fighting intensifies. (Al Jazeera)
    • Cambodia closes its airspace over the regions in the country where the conflict is being fought. (Phnom Penh Post)
    • Royal Cambodian Army major general Duong Somneang is killed in an artillery strike on the frontline. (Nation Thailand)
    • The Royal Thai Navy engages Cambodian forces in the Gulf of Thailand after they launched attacks on Trat province, Thailand. (Thai PBS World)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Dnipro strikes
    • Russian forces launch an overnight drone and cruise missile attack on Dnipro, Ukraine, killing at least three people and damaging multiple residential buildings. (Reuters)
• Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
  • At least nine people are killed, including three attackers and a child, and 22 others are injured, including several critically, in a terrorist mass shooting and grenade attack at a courthouse in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Sunni jihadist separatist militant group Jaysh al-Adl claims responsibility for the attack. (Kurdistan 24) (RFERL) (DW)
• Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
  • The United Nations World Food Programme says 90,000 children and women are in need of urgent treatment in Gaza. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 18 people are killed and 48 others are injured when a bus overturns on a highway in the Andes Mountains in Junín Department, Peru. (CP24)

Law and crime

• 2025 Traverse City stabbing attack
  • At least eleven people are injured, several critically, in a mass stabbing attack at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan, United States. A suspect is in custody. (BNO News) (WPBN-TV)

Sports

• 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations
  • In association football, the Nigerian women’s team wins a record-extending 12th Africa Cup of Nations title after defeating the host nation Morocco 3–2 in the final. Nigerian forward Rasheedat Ajibade is named the tournament’s best player. (The Guardian)

2025 July 25

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab targets two military bases operated by AUSSOM and the Somali Armed Forces near the Somali capital Mogadishu using a bomb-laden attack. (Garowe Online)
  • Jubaland crisis
    • Following the capture of Beled Hawo by Jubaland forces, Somali federal troops are deployed to reinforce federal government presence in Gedo. (Garowe Online)
• War against the Islamic State
  • Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
    • In a joint military operation, Puntland Counter-Terrorism forces and US SOF capture the financial and foreign recruitment chief of ISIS-Somalia, Abdiweli Mohamed Aw Yusuf “Abdiweli Walalac,” and two others. The operation took place in the Laag area of rural Xumbeys in the Bari region of Puntland. (Garowe Online)
  • US intervention in the Syrian civil war
    • U.S. Central Command kills senior Islamic State leader Diaa Zoubaa Musleh Al-Hardani along with his two sons in a strike on Al-Bab, Aleppo Governorate, Syria. (Al Arabiya)
• 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
  • 2025 Cambodia–Thailand clashes
    • The Royal Thai Armed Forces’s Border Defense Command declares martial law in eight districts of the provinces of Chanthaburi and Trat on their border with Cambodia, citing “Cambodia’s use of force to enter Thai territory”. (NDTV)
    • The Royal Thai Air Force launches airstrikes on targets inside Cambodia, including areas near the Preah Vihear Temple and Prasat Ta Muen Thom. (Nation Thailand) (The Star)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • Wazalendo fighters launch an offensive to take the town of Luke, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo, which the March 23 Movement had taken the previous day. (Radio Okapi)
    • The Alliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo of the Wazalendo resist an attack on their positions by the M23 in the area of Showa, Masisi Territory. Residents of Luke, Showa, and Bukombo flee to escape the fighting. (Radio Okapi)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Pokrovsk offensive, Kupiansk offensive
    • Russian forces enter the city of Pokrovsk for the first time since the invasion began, and enter the city of Kupiansk for the first time since 2024. (ISW)
• Ituri conflict
  • Two Mai-Mai militias continue to fight over the control of agricultural roads in Babila-Babombi chiefdom, Mambasa Territory, DRC. Residents of several villages flee to escape the fighting. (Radio Okapi)

Disasters and accidents

• Piplodi school roof collapse
  • A school collapse caused by continuous rainfall in Piplodi, Jhalawar District, India, kills at least seven students, seriously injures 28 others, including eight critically, and traps over 32 under debris. (The Indian Express)
• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • A boat carrying Egyptian migrants and Sudanese crewmen en route to Europe capsizes off the coast of Tobruk, Cyrenaica, Libya, killing at least 15 people, injuring 10 others and leaving some missing. (AP)
• A gas explosion at a ten-story apartment building in Saratov, Saratov Oblast, Russia kills at least six people, including a child, injures seven others and destroys or damages over 30 apartments. (Anadolu Agency) (Novaya Gazeta)

International relations

• India–Maldives relations
  • Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announces India will lend a US$565 million credit line to the Maldives, gift their armed forces several heavy fighting vehicles, and launch formal talks for a free-trade agreement. (AP)
• Palau–United States relations
  • The traditional chiefs of Palau and the National Congress reject a proposal by the United States to host asylum seekers and strongly advise President Surangel Whipps Jr. to also reject it. (Island Times)

Law and crime

• The trial of former Congolese president and senator for life Joseph Kabila for his crimes in connection with the M23 Movement and the Congo River Alliance begins. The armed forces auditor general charges Kabila with treason, participation in an insurrectional movement, crimes against the peace and security of humanity, intentional homicide, rape, torture, deportation, and condoning crimes. (Radio Okapi)
• The government of Hong Kong places a HK$200,000 (US$25,500) bounty on 19 members of the overseas pro-democracy organization Hong Kong Parliament. (DW)

Politics and elections

• Impeachment of Sara Duterte
  • The Supreme Court of the Philippines rules that the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte, filed by the lower house of Congress in February, is unconstitutional. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Online Safety Act 2023
  • Thousands of websites, such as Facebook and YouTube, begin implementing age verification to block “adult content” for British viewers under the age of 18, according to Ofcom. (BBC News) (The Guardian)

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)

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