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Explosions in Tehran
- Israel launches multiple airstrikes (aftermath pictured) against Iran's nuclear program and senior military leadership.
- Air India Flight 171 crashes in Ahmedabad killing more than 260 people.
- The Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson dies at the age of 82.
- A shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria, leaves eleven people dead.
- At the Tony Awards, Purpose wins the Best Play and Maybe Happy Ending wins the Best Musical.
June 14, 2025 (Saturday)
June 13, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Middle Eastern crisis
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- June 2025 Israeli strikes on Iran
- 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. (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)
- Those killed in the Israeli decapitation strikes include 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)
- 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 70 people are wounded and two killed in Israel after Iran's retaliatory strikes. (The Jerusalem Post)
- June 2025 Israeli strikes on Iran
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
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 sixteen 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 eleven 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)
- June 2025 Los Angeles protests
- Kenya Finance Bill protests
- Kenyan Police constable, PC 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)
June 12, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Rafah aid distribution incidents
- 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 claims that Hamas was responsible. (The New York Times) (Reuters)
- Rafah aid distribution incidents
- Israeli invasion of Syria
- Israeli forces kill one person and detain seven people, all Syrians, who 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)
- The death toll in the flooding caused by heavy rainfall and snowfall from a winter storm in Eastern Cape province, 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
- 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
- Alex Padilla, the senior United States senator from California, is forcibly removed, pushed face-down to the ground, and handcuffed, after attempting to ask a question at a press conference held by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in LA(AP)
- Police fire tear gas at demonstrators gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to protest against the Kenya 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)
June 11, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
- 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)
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
- 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)
- Kharkiv strikes
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)
- 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza
- 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)
June 10, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
- Thirty-six Palestinians are killed by Israeli gunfire while trying to obtain aid in Gaza. (AP)
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kyiv strikes, Odesa strikes
- Russia launches drone attacks on Kyiv and Odesa, Ukraine. In Odesa, drone attacks hit medical facilities and residential buildings, killing two people and injuring thirteen others. (BBC News)
- Kyiv strikes, Odesa strikes
- Colombian conflict
- Seven people are killed, including two police officers, and 36 others are injured in nineteen bombings and shootings by FARC dissidents targeting police posts, municipal buildings and civilians in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Another explosion is also reported in Jamundí. (France 24) (DW)
Business and economy
- Fossil fuel phase-out
- The British government announces it will invest £14.2 billion (US$19 billion) to construct the new Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk, England, to reduce the country's reliance on fossil fuels. (AP) (Reuters)
- The Walt Disney Company closes a deal to acquire NBCUniversal's stake in the streaming service Hulu for $439 million, completing its acquisition of Hulu. (AP) (Variety)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Kenya bus crash
- Five tourists are killed and 35 others are injured in a bus crash in Gichage, Nyandarua County, Kenya. (Gulf News) (Economic Times)
International relations
- War crimes in the Gaza war, Gaza humanitarian crisis
- The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway impose sanctions on Israeli far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, including asset freezes and travel bans, due to their conduct during the Gaza war. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Protests against Donald Trump
- June 2025 Los Angeles protests
- Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass imposes a curfew to the Downtown Los Angeles area in California, United States, after several days of civil disobedience and public demonstrations against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents detaining locals. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- June 2025 Los Angeles protests
- 2025 Ballymena riots
- The second consecutive night of disorder in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, sees 17 police officers injured and five people arrested as protests spread to Belfast, Carrickfergus, and Newtownabbey. (BBC News)
- Graz school shooting
- Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and several others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria. (BBC News)
- Capital punishment in Iran
- Iran hangs nine members of the Islamic State for a 2018 attack which killed three Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel. (AP)
- The Federal Police of Brazil arrest at least eleven people in an operation aiming to reduce drug trafficking in favelas in Rio de Janeiro. (AP)
- The Supreme Court of Argentina ratifies the sentence of former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to six years in prison and a lifetime disqualification from holding public office for the crime of fraudulent administration. (La Nación)
Politics and elections
- Impeachment of Sara Duterte
- The Senate of the Philippines votes 18–5 to return the articles of impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte to the House of Representatives for further deliberation. (Rappler) (Inquirer.net)
- Over 15,000 people gather in Budapest, Hungary, to protest against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government's conduct and alleged corruption relating to the ruling Fidesz party. (AP)
- The Parliament of Greece expels three lawmakers, including far-right politician Vasilis Stigkas, leader of the political party Spartans, due to their connection with and allegedly serving as proxies for the neo-Nazi criminal organization Golden Dawn. (AP)
June 9, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
- According to the Gaza Health Ministry, fourteen Palestinians are killed and 150 others are injured by Israeli gunfire at an aid distribution site near Rafah, Gaza. The total death toll from shootings at aid distribution sites increases to 136 with hundreds others wounded. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
- A convoy of 300 buses and cars departs from Tunis, Tunisia to Gaza to spotlight Israel's blockade on humanitarian aid. The group, organized independently, includes 7,000 lawyers, medical professionals and activists from North Africa. (Euronews) (The Jerusalem Post)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Gerik bus crash
- Fifteen people are killed and 33 others are injured in a traffic collision when a bus carrying students loses control and crashes into the back of a minivan on the East–West Highway near Gerik, Perak, Malaysia. (France 24)
- Five people are killed, including an on duty railway police constable, and seven others are injured when passengers get thrown off two overcrowded local trains at the Mumbra railway station near Mumbra in Thane, Maharashtra, India. (The Indian Express)
- The Indian Coast Guard rescues 18 crew members from a Singaporean-flagged container ship after it catches fire following an explosion 144 km (89 mi) off the coast of Kerala, India. Search operations are underway for the missing four crew members. (DW)
International relations
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
- The Israeli Navy seizes the June 2025 Gaza Freedom Flotilla's flagship vessel, the United Kingdom-flagged Madleen, and takes its occupants (including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and MEP Rima Hassan) to Israel. The humanitarian aid the ship was carrying en route to Gaza will still be sent into Gaza. (The Times of Israel)(CNN) (The Guardian)
Law and crime
- Protests against Donald Trump
- June 2025 Los Angeles protests
- U.S. president Donald Trump orders the deployment of roughly 500 Marines to Los Angeles to protect federal buildings amid the ongoing riots in Los Angeles, California. (The Wall Street Journal)
- The U.S. state of California sues the Donald Trump administration for deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles. (CBS News)
- The city of Glendale ends a contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house federal immigration detainees. (The Guardian)
- June 2025 Los Angeles protests
- 2025 Ballymena riots
- Two police cars and multiple properties are damaged in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, with 15 police officers being injured and one rioter arrested amid riots which broke out after two Romanian teenagers were charged for the attempted rape of a teenage girl. (BBC News)
- A court in Prague, Czech Republic, sentences a Colombian national to eight years in prison over a 2024 arson attack on public buses and for planning another similar attack. Czech prime minister Petr Fiala says the arson attack is part of Russia's hybrid war against his country. (AP)
- The U.S. Treasury Department imposes sanctions on Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and his brother Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, El Chapo's sons who are believed to be in Mexico and leading factions of the Sinaloa Cartel. (AP)
June 8, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
- At least 12 Palestinians are killed and 29 others are injured by Israeli fire near two aid distribution sites in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military says they fired warning shots at people who had advanced toward its forces and ignored warnings to turn away but claimed they did not see any casualties. (CTV News)
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
- Israeli invasion of Syria
- One person is killed and two others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on Mazraat Beit Jinn, Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria. The Israeli military claims the person killed was a Hamas member. (Al Jazeera)
- June 2025 Los Angeles protests
- U.S. president Donald Trump orders the deployment of the National Guard to quell anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles, California. (CNN)
Arts and culture
- 78th Tony Awards
- The 78th Tony Awards take place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, United States, with South Korean musical Maybe Happy Ending winning the most awards (six), including Best Musical. (The Guardian)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Cundinamarca earthquake
- A Mw 6.3 earthquake strikes near Bogotá, Colombia, resulting in over 25 injuries. (Boyacá 7 Días)
- 2025 San Diego Cessna 414 crash
- All six occupants are killed after a Cessna 414 crashed into the ocean off the coast of Point Loma after takeoff from San Diego International Airport in San Diego, California, United States. (CBS News)
- A derecho and tornado outbreak begins in the eastern United States, with three tornado warnings and 22 severe thunderstorm warnings. (Fox News)
International relations
- Rwanda announces its withdrawal from the Economic Community of Central African States following a diplomatic row with other members over its military involvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's conflict with M23 rebels. (BBC News)
Sports
- 2025 French Open
- In tennis, Spanish player Carlos Alcaraz wins his second men's singles title at the French Open and his fifth Grand Slam overall after defeating Italian Jannik Sinner 4–6, 6–7(4–7), 6–4, 7–6(7–3), 7–6(10–2) in the longest-ever French Open final at five hours and 29 minutes. (BBC Sport)
- 2025 UEFA Nations League final
- In association football, Portugal defeats Spain 5–3 on penalties, following a 2–2 draw after extra time, to win its second UEFA Nations League title. Nuno Mendes is named man of the match. (BBC Sport)
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