Armed conflicts and attacks

• Red Sea Crisis
  • Israel intercepts a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis, who say it was targeting Ben Gurion International Airport. (Reuters)
• Southern Syria clashes (July 2025–present)
  • Israel and Syria agree to a ceasefire, after Israel attacked Syrian forces on Wednesday to defend the Syrian Druze. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Three people are killed in a stampede during a public celebration in Garut, West Java, Indonesia. (Jakarta Globe)
• At least three people are killed in an explosion at a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department training facility in Monterrey Park, California, United States. (ABC7)
• Four people are killed and over a dozen are injured in a multiple-vehicle collision on Interstate 35 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. (AP)

Law and crime

• March 2025 American deportations of Venezuelans
  • The governments of El Salvador, the United States, and Venezuela conduct a prisoner swap involving over 200 Venezuelans incarcerated at the Terrorism Confinement Center in exchange for the release of 10 Americans from Venezuelan custody. (Reuters)
• Political ineligibility of Jair Bolsonaro
  • The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil orders former president Jair Bolsonaro to wear an electronic ankle bracelet and places him on nightly house arrest, and forbids him from approaching embassies, foreign ambassadors, and diplomats. (AP)
• The United States government declares the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba a terrorist group after it committed the attack in Pahalgam in April. (DW)

Politics and elections

• The Trinidad and Tobago government declares a state of emergency after uncovering plot by criminal organizations to allegedly target and kill government officials. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Three people are killed and nine others are injured when Israel strikes the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, the only Catholic church in Gaza. (BBC News)
• Somali Civil War
  • At least six people are killed and ten others are injured after a fresh outbreak of clan violence in the Galgaduud region of Somalia. (Hiiraan Online)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Kut shopping mall fire
  • At least 69 people are killed, 11 are reported missing, and 43 others are injured in a fire at a shopping mall in Kut, Wasit Governorate, Iraq. The Iraqi government declares three days of mourning and the provincial government files lawsuits against the owners of the mall. (Reuters) (CNN) (NDTV)
• At least four people are killed, two others are seriously injured and more than 1,000 others are evacuated after torrential rainfall submerges buildings and causes a landslide in Gyeonggi and South Chungcheong provinces, South Korea. (Reuters) (The Korea Herald)
• A child is killed and 21 people are injured when a coach bus crashes in Somerset, England. (BBC News)
• Record-breaking daredevil and skydiver Felix Baumgartner dies in a paragliding accident in Porto Sant'Elpidio, Italy. A woman on the ground is also injured in the accident. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• The Ukrainian parliament appoints Yulia Svyrydenko as the new prime minister, succeeding Denys Shmyhal. (Reuters)
• The United Kingdom announces it will lower the voting age to 16, allowing 16-and-17-year-olds to vote in the upcoming next general election. (NPR)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
      • At least 21 Palestinians are killed in a crowd crush at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) site in the Gaza Strip. The GHF attributed the stampede to armed agitators, while Hamas and Palestinian eyewitnesses said that Israeli soldiers sprayed people with pepper gas and opened fire. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
  • Israeli invasion of Syria, Southern Syria clashes
    • The Israeli Air Force bombs the Syrian Defense Ministry headquarters and the presidential palace in Damascus. (Al Jazeera) (The Times of Israel)
    • Israeli forces launch an attack on the Druze city of Suwayda in As-Suwayda Governorate, Syria, after scattered clashes continue in spite of the ceasefire announcement by the Syrian Armed Forces. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
• Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • The Bangladesh military clashes with supporters of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina in Gopalganj District, leading to four deaths and many others injured. (AP)
• Herder-farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • At least 27 people are killed when unidentified gunmen attack a village in Riyom, Plateau State, Nigeria. (BBC News) (AP)
• Spillover of the Somali civil war
  • Al-Shabaab militants claim to have killed three Kenyan soldiers patrolling a road in the east of the country near the Somali border. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pakistan floods
  • Torrential rains in Punjab, Pakistan, kill at least 63 people. (BBC News)
• One person is killed and thirteen others are injured in a lightning strike at an archery range in Jackson Township, New Jersey, United States. (BNO News)
• A tsunami advisory is issued after a M 7.3 earthquake strikes the southern coast of Alaska, United States. (WAGA-TV)

International relations

• Pakistan–United Kingdom relations
  • The United Kingdom ends its five-year ban on Pakistani airlines from landing in the UK due to significant improvements in aviation safety standards. (DW) (Dawn)

Law and crime

• Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
  • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
    • The Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service detains dozens of suspected Somalian Islamic State militants, whom it alleges were trained and deployed to conduct operations throughout the country, especially in the Cal Miskaad mountains of the Bari region in Puntland. (Reuters)
• Opioid epidemic in the United States, Anti-fentanyl legislation in the United States
  • U.S. president Donald Trump signs into law the HALT Fentanyl Act, reclassifying all fentanyl-related substances, including synthetic drugs, as Schedule I controlled substances. (The Hill)
• Internet censorship in Russia
  • The Russian State Duma passes new legislation that introduces fines for searching for prohibited material online. (The Washington Post)
• One person is killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting on a street in Taranto, Italy. (Rai News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Surinamese general election
  • Jennifer Geerlings-Simons is sworn in as the first female president of Suriname. (RFI)
• Cabinet of Benjamin Netanyahu
  • The Shas party quits the Netanyahu cabinet due to disagreements over Haredi Jews conscription exemptions from military service in Israel, but remains in the governing coalition. (Al Jazeera)