Portal:Current events

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War, United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • United States president Donald Trump announces that several NATO allies will buy U.S.-made weapons, including Patriot air defense missile systems to provide to Ukraine. (NPR) (Axios)

Disasters and accidents

• A Mil Mi-8 helicopter carrying five people goes missing after contact with its pilot is lost shortly after refueling in Okhotsk, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. (Aviation Safety Network) (The Kyiv Independent)

Law and crime

• Rapes of Gisèle Pelicot
  • Gisèle Pelicot is awarded the Legion of Honour award, the highest civil order of merit in France, for her courage in testifying in the case about her decades-long sexual abuse. (DW)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • Israeli strikes kill at least 30 people, including six children, at a water collection zone, bringing the official death toll in Gaza to over 58,000. (AP)
• Syrian civil war
  • Southern Syria clashes
    • More than 30 people are killed and 100 others are injured in clashes between local military groups and tribes in Suwayda, Suwayda Governorate, Syria. (Sky News) (The Straits Times)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Islamic State-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces insurgents kill at least 66 people in Territory of Irumu, in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
• Sudanese civil war
  • 48 civilians are killed, houses are razed and property is looted in an attack when Rapid Support Forces fighters storm the village of Um Garfa in North Kordofan, Sudan. (Barron's)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Arizona wildfires
  • Dragon Bravo Fire
    • The Grand Canyon Lodge in Arizona, United States, is destroyed by the Dragon Bravo fire. (AP)
• 2025 Fall River assisted-living fire
  • Nine people are killed and more than 30 others are injured, including five firefighters, in a fire at an assisted living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States. (WPRI-TV)
• 2025 Zeusch Aviation Beechcraft B200 crash
  • A Beechcraft King Air B200 aircraft crashes and catches fire shortly after taking off from London Southend Airport in Southend-on-Sea, England, killing all four people onboard. (NOS) (The Independent)

Law and crime

• 2025 Lexington shootings
  • At least three people, including the perpetrator, are killed, and three others are injured, including a state trooper and one critically, in two spree shootings in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. (NBC News) (BNO News)

Sports

• 2025 FIFA Club World Cup
  • In association football, English club Chelsea F.C. win the Club World Cup, defeating French club Paris Saint-Germain 3–0 in the final. Chelsea winger Cole Palmer is awarded the tournament's Golden Ball. (FIFA)
• 2025 Major League Baseball draft
  • In baseball, the MLB draft is held at the Coca-Cola Roxy in Cumberland, Georgia, U.S., with the Washington Nationals selecting Eli Willits as the first overall pick. At the age of 17, Willits becomes the 3rd youngest player in MLB draft history to be selected first overall. (ESPN)
• 2025 Wimbledon Championships
  • In tennis, Jannik Sinner defeats his rival and defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in the men's singles final 4–6, 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 to win his first Wimbledon title. Sinner is the first Italian player to win a singles title at Wimbledon. (ESPN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukraine infrastructure
    • Russia launches 597 drones and 26 cruise missiles across Ukraine, killing two civilians in Chernivtsi, injuring 20 others, and damaging infrastructure in several cities. (ABC News) (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• List of World Heritage Sites
  • UNESCO adds 26 landmarks to the UNESCO World Heritage list. (UNESCO World Heritage Convention) (Newsweek)

Disasters and accidents

• Three people, including a baby, are killed and twenty people are hospitalized in an apartment fire in Ankara, Turkey. (AP)

International relations

• Foreign relations of New Caledonia, Politics of New Caledonia
  • Representatives of New Caledonia sign an accord with the French government to become the "State of New Caledonia" within the French Republic, subject to a referendum. The new state would immediately gain control of some foreign affairs, and would have the option of gaining further powers, subject to further referenda. (Al Jazeera) (The New York Times)
• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • United States president Donald Trump announces a 30% tariff increase on imported items from Mexico and the European Union to take effect on August 1. (BBC News)

Law and crime

• Five men are lynched after being accused of robbing damaged homes in the M_w 5.7 earthquake in Santa María de Jesús, Guatemala, earlier this week. (Al Jazeera)

Sports

• 2025 Wimbledon Championships
  • In tennis, Iga Świątek defeats Amanda Anisimova in the women's singles final 6–0, 6–0 to win her first Wimbledon title, becoming the first Pole to do so. This is the third major final to have a double bagel scoreline and the first since 1988. (The Independent) (WTA)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • United States president Donald Trump confirms plans to sell weapons to NATO allies to be provided to Ukraine after the Pentagon previously paused weapon shipments. (Axios) (PBS)
• Israeli settler violence
  • Israeli settlers kill two Palestinians near Ramallah in the West Bank. One of the victims, identified as a Palestinian-American, was beaten to death whilst the other victim was shot in the chest. (Reuters)
• Myanmar civil war
  • At least 23 civilians, including four children, are killed and about 30 others are injured, with ten critically injured, in an Air Force strike on a Buddhist monastery in the District of Sagaing, located in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. (ABC News)
• Yemeni civil war
  • At least five children are killed after an explosive device detonates in Al-Hashamah, Taiz Governorate, Yemen. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • Los Choneros gang leader José Adolfo Macías Villamar agrees to a request of Ecuador's National Court for extradition to the United States to face trial for drug trafficking and arms smuggling. (CNN) (Reuters)
• Mexican drug war
  • Ovidio Guzmán López, son of the former drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, pleads guilty to two counts of drug distribution and two counts of participation in a continuing criminal enterprise. He is expected to cooperate with the U.S. government by providing information on criminal networks. (Reuters) (Chicago Tribune)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli airstrikes kill at least 15 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, queuing for nutritional supplements near a medical point in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. They were among at least 82 killed in strikes in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it struck a member Hamas's elite Nukhba forces who took part in the October 7 attacks. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)
  • Palestinian political violence
    • Two Palestinians kill a 20-year-old Israeli settler in a combined shooting and stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Mall in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. (YNet)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kyiv strikes
    • An overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, kills two people, injures 28 others, and causes fires across the capital with multiple districts targeted. 397 drones and 18 missiles are launched in total. (BBC News) (The Kyiv Independent)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • At least 30 bandits, five security officers and one civilian are killed during an insurgent attack on three villages in Faskari, Katsina State, Nigeria. (AP) (Reuters)

International relations

• Armenia–Azerbaijan relations, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev meet in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, for peace talks regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. (Reuters)
• France–United Kingdom relations
  • French president Emmanuel Macron and United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer announce a joint migration deal for the UK to deport illegal migrants to France in exchange for accepting asylum seekers with British family connections. (DW)

Law and crime

• Irish Amateur Swimming Association abuse scandal
  • Former swimming coach George Gibney agrees to be extradited from the United States to Ireland to face trial for indecent assault and rape. (RTÉ)
• The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency arrests four people for conducting cyberattacks as part of an organized crime ring against national retailers Marks & Spencer, Harrods, and Co-op Food. (AP)
• In a case concerning regulations requiring the South African athlete Caster Semenya to decrease her natural testosterone levels to be allowed to participate in the female category, the European Court of Human Rights finds that Switzerland violated her right to a fair hearing, requiring the case to be sent back to Swiss courts. (ECHR) (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Labour in India
  • Sporadic clashes occur in East India between trade unionists and left-wing groups against police and Trinamool Congress supporters during a current general strike opposing the "Special Intensive Revision". (ABP)
• Von der Leyen Commission II
  • European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen survives a vote of confidence at the European Parliament. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • 2025 Jaalle Siyaad military academy bombing
      • Several people are killed and injured in a suicide bombing targeting the 14th October Brigade of the Somali Armed Forces at a military academy in Mogadishu, Somalia. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack. (Reuters) (Hiiraan Online) (Somali Guardian)
    • At least seven Kenyan police officers are injured after an al-Shabaab roadside bomb strikes their patrol truck on a highway east of Mandera in Kenya, near the border with Somalia. (Hiiraan Online)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
    • Attacks on the Eternity C
      • The Eternity C, a Liberian-flagged ship, sinks in the Red Sea after being attacked by the Houthis on Monday. At least four people are killed, seven others are rescued and fourteen are reported missing. A rescue operation is underway. (The Guardian) (NOS)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russian forces launch 728 Geran-2 drones at Ukraine overnight in the largest single drone attack of the war to date. (Newsweek)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces a 50% tariff on most imports into the United States from Brazil starting August 1, in a letter addressed to Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and citing the trial of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. (Reuters)
  • President Trump also announces a new set of tariff rates on imports from Algeria, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka, assigning country-specific duties ranging from 20 to 30% following the expiration of a 90-day negotiation period. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Guatemala earthquakes
  • At least six people die when a M_w 5.7 earthquake strikes Guatemala and causes widespread damage. (ABC News)
• At least thirteen people are killed and nine others are injured after a section of the Gambhira Bridge in Gujarat, India, partially collapses during morning rush hour. (The Times of India) (NDTV)

International relations

• United States and the United Nations
  • The United States issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. (NPR)
• The Syrian minister of foreign affairs Asaad al-Shaibani announces the country's readmission to the Union for the Mediterranean after 13 years of its suspension. (ARK News)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • The Seoul Central District Court issues an arrest warrant for former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol over five key charges related to his short-lived martial law declaration on December 3, 2024, placing him in custody for the first time since March due to concerns of evidence tampering. (Yonhap)
• Censorship in Turkey
  • Turkey partially bans certain contents from X (formerly Twitter)'s AI chatbot Grok amid a criminal probe over insults to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the country's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. (Reuters)