Portal:Current events/2014 June 25
June 25, 2014 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2014 Northern Iraq offensive
- The Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki calls for national unity as a Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant reaches Yathrib 87 kilometres (54 miles) north of Baghdad. (Washington Post)
- Post-coup unrest in Egypt:
- Homemade bombs explode in four metro stations and a court house in Greater Cairo, injuring eight people. (Reuters)
- Nigerian police say that 21 people have been killed in an explosion at a crowded Banex Plaza shopping center in Abuja's Wuse 2 district. (Voice of America)
Business and economy
- South African platinum miners return to work after a five month strike ends. (Reuters)
Disasters
- Four people are killed in a train accident in Bihar, India. (The Times of India)
International relations
- The People's Republic of China sends its first minister-level official to Taiwan to build ties with the self-governing island amid trade suspicions. (AP via Wichita Eagle) (BBC News)
- The United States has added several LeT-affiliated organizations including Jama'at-ud-Dawa to its list of foreign terror organisations.(IANS via Biharprabha)
- Algeria–Egypt relations:
- Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi makes his first official visit abroad to Algeria where security was top of the agenda. (Voice of America)
- Algeria agreed to ship five cargoes of liquefied natural gas to Egypt before the end of the year. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Both houses of the Romanian parliament widely adopt a joint statement urging Romania's president Traian Băsescu to resign, following corruption scandals involving his arrested brother's graft case and one of his sons-in-law's implication in a criminal investigation. (Europeonline-magazine)