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2025 June 17

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • Israel kills at least 59 Palestinians in Gaza after Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get humanitarian aid from trucks. At least 14 other people are also killed in separate Israeli gunfire and airstrikes elsewhere in the exclave. (Reuters)
    • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • An Israeli soldier from the Golani Brigade is killed and three others are seriously injured in the southern Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
  • Iran–Israel war
    • Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel War
      • Israel says it has killed Major General Ali Shadmani, the most senior military commander in Iran who was appointed to his post four days ago. (The New York Times)
    • U.S. president Donald Trump calls for the unconditional surrender of Iran amid its war with Israel. Iran rejects the ultimatum. (BBC News) (The Guardian)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kyiv strikes
    • Russian forces launch a total of 440 drones and 32 missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine, damaging buildings and public facilities, killing 28 people and wounding dozens more. (BBC News)
  • Russia’s Ministry of Defence says its air defence units have intercepted and destroyed 147 Ukrainian drones overnight. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Twenty-four people are evacuated after two oil tankers collide near the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf of Oman. (NOS)

Law and crime

• Puntland–Yemen relations
  • Seven Yemeni fishermen who were detained for nearly two months after entering Puntland waters without authorization from Puntland’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources are released. The fishermen were apprehended by the Puntland Maritime Police Force after their vessel was intercepted by the coastguard in the Ras Aseir region of Puntland. (The Eastleigh Voice) (Hiiraan Online)

Sports

• 2025 Stanley Cup Finals
  • In ice hockey, the Florida Panthers defeat the Edmonton Oilers in six games in a rematch of last year’s finals, repeating as Stanley Cup champions. (Miami Herald)

2025 June 16

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • Iran–Israel war (list of airstrikes)
      • The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Iran rises to at least 220 people, including 70 women and children. (Al Jazeera)
      • Israel strikes buildings in Tehran belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iran’s state-owned media company, knocking it temporarily off-air for an hour before later returning. Three employees are killed and several others are injured. (Al Jazeera) (Al-Monitor) (The Wall Street Journal)
      • Iran says Israel struck a hospital in Kermanshah in western Iran. Video footage published by local platforms showed bloodstains, indicating casualties from the strike. (Al Jazeera)
      • Israeli jets strike 120 surface-to-surface missile systems in central Iran and ten command and control centres belonging to the IRGC’s Quds Force. (AP)
      • Israeli drones strike two Iranian Air Force F-14 Tomcats stationed at Imam Khomeini International Airport. Combat footage released by the IDF confirm both were destroyed. (The Times of Israel)
      • An Iranian ballistic missile barrage kills eight people and injures 287 others in central Israel. (The Times of Israel) (Reuters)
      • Iran’s parliament prepares a bill to exit the international nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. (Reuters)
      • Israel announces it has taken “full aerial operational control” of the airspace over Tehran and western Iran after destroying much of the country’s air defence network giving the Israeli Air Force near complete air supremacy over Iranian forces. (BBC News)
    • Democratic senator Tim Kaine of Virginia introduces legislation to prevent U.S. president Donald Trump from using military force against Iran without Congress’s authorization. (Reuters) (US Congress)
  • Gaza war
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • Israel kills at least 50 Palestinians in Gaza, including 23 near an aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. (Reuters)
• Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • The death toll from the attack by unknown gunmen in Guma, Benue State, Nigeria, on Saturday increases to over 150, including many who were burned to death. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from severe weather and flash floods in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, rises to at least 77 with more than 100 others still reported missing. (AP)

International relations

• Foreign relations of Andorra
  • Andorra and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta establish official diplomatic relations. (Diari d’Andorra)

Law and crime

• Kincora Boys’ Home scandal
  • Gary Hoy, a survivor of child sexual abuse at Kincora, resolves a legal action against the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Home Secretary with an undisclosed agreement. The legal action alleged that paedophile housemaster William McGrath was allowed to target children to gather information about the far-right paramilitary organization Tara. (RTÉ).
• Thai police raid a house in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, and arrest 13 foreigners, mostly Australians and British people, for running a fraudulent electronic trading platform that has stolen over AU$1.9 million (US$1.2 million). (AP)

2025 June 15

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • Iran–Israel war (list of airstrikes)
      • The Israeli Air Force says it has targeted Mashhad Shahid Hasheminejad International Airport in eastern Iran, destroying a refueling plane used by the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force. (BBC News)
      • An Iranian ballistic missile strike on a residential building kills nine people, including three children, and injures over 200 others in Bat Yam, Israel. (The Times of Israel)
      • According to American officials, U.S. president Donald Trump vetoed a plan by Israel to assassinate the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Reuters)
      • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that a Syrian civilian woman was killed after a drone strikes her home in rural Tartus Governorate, Syria, which the group says was likely an Iranian drone. (The Times of Israel)
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza war hostage crisis
      • The Israel Defense Forces confirms that they recovered the body of Israeli hostage Aviv Atzili, who was abducted by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad during the October 7 attacks, in Gaza last Wednesday. (Haaretz)
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 41 Palestinians across Gaza. (RTÉ News)
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • At least eight people are killed and dozens of others are injured in a shooting near an aid distribution site near Rafah, Gaza. Witnesses attribute the shooting to Israeli forces. (NPR)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia returns the bodies of 1,200 Ukrainian soldiers who were killed in action as part of a prisoner exchange agreement with Ukraine. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Callao earthquake
  • A Mw 6.1 earthquake hits Lima, Peru, killing one person and injuring at least five others. (Agencia EFE)
• Seven people are killed, including an infant, when a Bell 407 aircraft crashes in a forested area in bad weather while en route to the Kedarnath Temple in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, India. (The Free Press Journal)
• At least six people are killed, 25 are swept away, and 32 others are injured, including six critically, when a bridge over a river collapses at a popular tourist destination in Kundamala, Pune, Maharashtra, India. (Al Arabiya) (CTV News)
• Three hikers are killed by a lightning strike on Mittagsspitze mountain in the Central Eastern Alps, Austria. (Reuters)

International relations

• Gaza war protests
  • Between 100,000 and 150,000 protesters march in The Hague, Netherlands, demanding that the Dutch government pressure Israel to halt its military campaign in the Gaza Strip. (AP)
• The 51st G7 summit begins in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. (France24)

Politics and elections

• The MI6 appoints Blaise Metreweli to lead as Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, making her the first woman to lead the agency. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans
  • In endurance racing, the AF Corse Ferrari team wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the third consecutive year, with drivers Phil Hanson, Robert Kubica, and Yifei Ye. (AP)
• 2025 Queen’s Club Championships
  • In tennis, German player Tatjana Maria defeats American player Amanda Anisimova 6–3, 6–4, in the Queen’s Club Championships women’s singles final to become the event’s first female winner since Russia’s Olga Morozova in 1973. At 37 years old, Maria also becomes the oldest winner of a WTA 500 event. (NDTV)
• 2025 U.S. Open
  • In golf, JJ Spaun wins the 2025 U.S. Open with a score of one-under-par to win his first major title. (ESPN) (PGA)

2025 June 14

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • Iran–Israel war (list of airstrikes)
      • Iran and Israel continue to launch missiles and drones at each other after the preemptive strike on Iran yesterday. Israel targeted Iran’s Ministry of Defence headquarters while Iran retaliated by launching missiles at Tel Aviv and Haifa. (AP)
      • At least 13 Israelis are killed and over 200 others are injured in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on Bat Yam. (The Times of Israel)
• Gaza war
  • Rafah aid distribution killings
    • At least 79 Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire across the Gaza Strip, including 15 people near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) site, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. (Al Jazeera)
• Herder-farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • At least 100 people are killed, including many who were burned to death, hundreds of others are injured, and dozens are still missing, in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Guma, Benue State, Nigeria. (Star Tribune) (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 South Africa floods
  • The death toll from flooding caused by a winter storm in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, earlier this week increases to 86, as police continue to find bodies in the water. (AP) (TV360 Nigeria)
• At least 19 people are killed in floods and landslides caused by heavy rainfall in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP) (Niagara Falls Review)
• At least six people are killed and two others are missing in flash floods in Ohio County, West Virginia, United States. (WVPB)

Law and crime

• 2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators
  • Minnesota state senator John Hoffman, state representative and former speaker Melissa Hortman, and their spouses are shot in two targeted spree shootings at their homes in Brooklyn Park and Champlin, Minnesota, United States. Hortman and her husband are killed, while the conditions of the Hoffmans are “grave”. (ABC News) (BNO News) (KMSP-TV)

Politics and elections

• Protests against Donald Trump
  • Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump
    • A series of protests occur across the United States in all 50 states, the same day as the United States Army military parade in Washington DC. (Politico) (The New York Times)
• 2025 Northern Ireland riots
  • Anti-immigration protestors use fireworks and Molotov cocktails against riot police across Northern Ireland, injuring at least 63 police officers. Police deploy water cannons in return to control the protestors. (Reuters) (DW)

Science and technology

• Internet censorship in Iran
  • Elon Musk announces on X (formerly Twitter) that Starlink will provide internet access to citizens in Tehran, Iran after the Iranian government shut down the internet in the country due to Israeli strikes against the nation. (The Times of Israel)

2025 June 13

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • Iran–Israel war
      • The Israeli Air Force launches a bombing campaign against Iran targeting nuclear facilities with the main goal of the operation being to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. A special state of emergency is declared in Israel by Defence Minister Israel Katz and Israeli airspace is closed to all flights. Iranian state television reports that 60 people were killed in the attacks, while Israel claims only three people died and dozens got injured. (BBC News)
      • Israel also launches targeted assassination strikes against senior Iranian government officials, Iranian military leadership and senior nuclear scientists. (Reuters)
      • The Israeli military confirms it has targeted nuclear facilities in Iran with the main goal of the operation being to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirms Israeli warplanes have targeted Iran’s main Natanz Nuclear Facility. It is later confirmed that the underground nuclear reactor at Natanz has been destroyed by a bunker buster. (The Jerusalem Post) (BBC News)
      • Iranian state media reports that all flights to and from Imam Khomeini International Airport have been suspended until further notice and that several residential buildings in Tehran have collapsed due to missile strikes. (The Times of Israel)
      • Israeli decapitation strikes kill commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami, senior nuclear scientist and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Fereydoon Abbasi, and chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Bagheri and Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani. (The Times of Israel) (BBC News)
      • Exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s last Shah, writes in Farsi calling for the Iranian military to abandon the Islamic Republic and accuses Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of forcing Iranians into the war. He also refers to the war as “Khamenei’s war and the Islamic Republic’s war”. (Jerusalem Post)
    • June 2025 Iranian strikes on Israel
      • Iran launches over 100 Shahed drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel in retaliation for the strikes. (The Times of Israel) (Reuters)
      • At least three people are killed and 172 others injured in Israel after Iran’s retaliatory strikes. (The Jerusalem Post)

Disasters and accidents

• Air India Flight 171
  • The death toll from the crash of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, yesterday rises to 279 as a police source says 38 ground fatalities are confirmed. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• Five people are killed, including two children, and 16 others are injured, including two critically, in a traffic collision when an Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus loses control and crashes into the back of a truck at Gottipura Gate in Hoskote, Karnataka, India. (India Today) (Deshsewak)
• Four people are killed and 34 others are injured, including 11 seriously, when a bus carrying Ukrainians crashes on the A81 autoroute in Sarthe, France. (Midi Libre)

Law and crime

• Protests against Donald Trump
  • June 2025 Los Angeles protests
    • U.S. district judge Charles Breyer issues a temporary restraining order directing President Donald Trump to return control of the National Guard to California, saying he violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded his statutory authority. Later, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocks the order. (AP) (The Hill)
• Kenya Finance Bill protests
  • Kenyan police constable James Mukhwana is arrested over the death of blogger Albert Ojwang, which prompted protests and clashes with police this week. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• North Korean destroyer Kang Kon is successfully launched, having partially sunk during its first launch attempt two weeks prior. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un announces plans for two more 5,000-tonne destroyers to be built next year. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
• In South Korea, five-term National Assembly lawmaker Kim Byung-kee is elected as floor leader of the Democratic Party, replacing acting party leader Park Chan-dae. (The Korea Herald)

2025 June 12

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Rafah aid distribution killings
    • At least 103 Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip, including 21 people this morning near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. (Reuters)
    • Eight Palestinian GHF workers are killed and several others are injured after their bus was attacked en route to an aid distribution site in southern Gaza. The GHF says that Hamas was responsible. (The New York Times) (Reuters)
• Israeli invasion of Syria
  • Israeli forces kill one person and detain seven people, all Syrians, whom they allege are Hamas members in an early-morning raid on the village of Beit Jinn in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria. (AP)

Arts and culture

• Dutch-Israeli writer Yael van der Wouden wins the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel The Safekeep, which was also shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. British physician and writer Rachel Clarke wins the sister prize, the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, for her book about palliative care, The Story of a Heart. (AP) (The Bookseller)

Disasters and accidents

• Air India Flight 171
  • An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members crashes into a residential area shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport in Gujarat, India. Authorities find one survivor from the plane, and 204 bodies have been recovered from the crash site so far. (CNA) (Fox News)
• 2025 South Africa floods
  • The death toll in the flooding caused by heavy rainfall and snowfall from a winter storm in Eastern Cape, South Africa, increases to 57, with several others still missing. (ABC News)

International relations

• Nuclear program of Iran
  • The International Atomic Energy Agency finds Iran in breach of its obligations to limit uranium enrichment and provision of information on its nuclear materials. (BBC News) (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• Disappearance of Annie McCarrick
  • A man in his 60s is arrested on suspicion of the murder of Annie McCarrick, who went missing in Dublin, Ireland, in 1993. (RTÉ)
• The Internal Security Agency of Poland announce the arrest of a teenager in Olsztyn, Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship, accused with two other men, arrested in April, of planning a far-right terrorist attack. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Constitutional crisis in Somalia
  • Somalia’s federal government calls for the dissolution of the C6+ international coordination framework, saying it is outdated and misrepresents the country’s current political and security progress. (Garowe Online) (ChimpReports) (Hiiraan Online)
• June 2025 Los Angeles protests
  • United States senator Alex Padilla of California is forcibly removed, pushed face-down to the ground, and handcuffed after attempting to ask Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem a question at a press conference in Los Angeles. (AP)
• Death of Albert Ojwang
  • Police fire tear gas at demonstrators gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to protest against the police and its chief, Eliud Lagat, after blogger Albert Ojwang is confirmed to be killed in custody by the police force, demanding Lagat’s resignation. (DW)

2025 June 11

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Rafah aid distribution killings
    • At least 31 Palestinians are killed by the Israel Defense Forces at an aid distribution site in central Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of two hostages abducted by Palestinian militants during the October 7 attacks. (Haaretz) (BBC News)
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • The Gaza Health Ministry reports that the official death toll of Palestinians killed in the war since October 2023 has reached 55,000 people, with over 127,000 people wounded. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • Russia launches drone attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine, damaging buildings and public facilities, killing three people and injuring 60 others. (Ukrainska Pravda)

Arts and culture

• Argentine president Javier Milei is awarded the Genesis Prize during a state visit to Israel for his support for Israel, becoming the first non-Jewish person to receive such recognition. (Clarín) (Haaretz)

Business and economy

• Australian flag carrier Qantas announces the closure of its Singapore-based, partly owned low-cost airline Jetstar Asia due to rising costs and regional competition. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • At least eight migrants are found dead and 22 others are missing as the United Nations International Organization for Migration and the Djiboutian government launch a joint rescue operation after migrants were forced off a boat and forced to swim to shore off the coast of Djibouti. (AP)
• At least 49 people are killed, including four schoolchildren, in flooding caused by heavy rainfall and snowfall in a winter storm in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. (DW) (BBC News)

International relations

• Gaza war
  • 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza
    • The Trump administration calls on countries not to attend a conference for ceasefire and peace in Gaza at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, New York, United States, and warns of potential diplomatic consequences should any measures be taken that are deemed hostile toward Israel. (Reuters)
• Argentina–Israel relations
  • Argentine president Javier Milei announces that the Argentine embassy in Israel will be moved to Jerusalem in 2026. (YNet)
• North Korea–South Korea relations
  • The military of South Korea shuts down its loudspeakers across the border with North Korea and stops its propaganda messages against the government of North Korea by order of President Lee Jae-myung to ease tensions between the countries. (AP)

Law and crime

• Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia
  • A court in Moscow, Russia, sentences Leonid Volkov, an ally of Alexei Navalny, to 18 years in prison in absentia and fines him 2 million rubles (US$25,000) on criminal charges including justifying terrorism and organizing and financing an extremist group. (AP)
  • The same court places Lev Shlosberg, chair of the opposition social-liberal party Yabloko, under house arrest for two months for discrediting the Russian army. (Reuters)

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