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- The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile releases the first light images (example shown) from its new 8.4-metre (28 ft) telescope.
- In basketball, the Oklahoma City Thunder defeat the Indiana Pacers to win the NBA Finals.
- An attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus, Syria, kills at least 25 people.
- The United States conducts military strikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran.
- In rugby union, the Crusaders defeat the Chiefs to win the Super Rugby Pacific final.
July 1, 2025 (Tuesday)
Disasters and accidents
- A bomb cyclone makes landfall on the east coast of Australia, affecting millions of people in Sydney and the Central Coast. Sustained wind speeds of 60km/h+ and gusts of 125km/h+ are recorded. Shelter-in-place orders are given to residents along the affected coastal areas. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 30, 2025 (Monday)
Business and economy
- 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett announces that the United States will restart trade talks with Canada after they have scrapped their digital services tax on American technology firms. (CBC)
Disasters and accidents
- Twelve people are killed and 34 others are injured in an explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in Sangareddy, Telangana, India. (AP) (The Economic Times)
- Wildfires break out in Turkey resulting in İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport cancelling or diverting all flights. (The Independent)
International relations
- International sanctions against Syria, Syria–United States relations
- United States president Donald Trump signs an executive order lifting all American sanctions on Syria that were imposed during the now overthrown Assad family's regime. (White House)
Law and crime
- Mass shootings in the United States
- 2025 Coeur d'Alene shooting
- The sheriff's department for Kootenai County, Idaho, United States, confirms that the suspect in the previous day's arson and ambush mass shooting, which killed 2 firefighters, has been found dead. (MSN)
- 2025 Coeur d'Alene shooting
- 2025 Boulder fire attack
- The death of an 82-year-old woman that was severely injured in the firebombing attack earlier this month at a protest to release Israeli hostages from the October 7 attacks at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, United States, is announced by leaders of the Boulder Jewish Community Center. (AP)
- 2025 Kenyan protests
- A civilian vendor shot at close range by police during protests over the death of Albert Ojwang in Nairobi, Kenya, succumbs to his injuries in hospital after being declared brain-dead, bringing the death toll from nationwide protests in Kenya to 20. (CTV News) (DW)
- Murder of Louisa Dunne
- Ryland Headley, a 92-year-old man, is convicted for the 1967 murder of Louisa Dunne, which is believed to be the UK's longest-running cold case ever to be solved. (The Independent)
- Police in Baku, Azerbaijan, raid the office of the Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik, alleging its operations in Azerbaijan are via "illegal financing" after its official accreditation was revoked in February. (AP)
June 29, 2025 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, Kyiv strikes
- Russian forces launch more than 500 drones and missiles at Ukraine, targeting critical infrastructure, and injuring at least 12 people. Ukraine says it is the largest Russian air attack on the country since the start of the war. (AP)
- A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashes while repelling a Russian airstrike, killing the pilot. (Reuters)
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, Kyiv strikes
- Gaza war
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
- UNICEF reports that at least 66 children have died of malnutrition in Gaza throughout the war due to the Israeli humanitarian aid blockade. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Vienna Township Cessna 441 crash
- Six people are killed when a Cessna 441 aircraft crashes into the backyard of a house shortly after takeoff from Youngstown–Warren Regional Airport in Howland Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. (WFMJ-TV)
- At least 11 people are killed and seven others are injured after a gold mine collapses in Houeid, Sudan. (DW) (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Law and crime
- Mass shootings in the United States
- 2025 Coeur d'Alene shooting
- An active shooter mass shooting ambush situation is reported when at least one person opens fire on firefighters and law enforcement responding to a wildfire on Canfield Mountain believed to have been set by the perpetrator, reportedly killing two people and injuring seven others in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, United States. No arrests have been made, but Federal Bureau of Investigation assets have been deployed. (BNO News) (Coeur d'Alene Press)
- 2025 Coeur d'Alene shooting
- Two teenagers are injured, including one critically, in a shooting outside of the Stonewall Inn historic gay tavern and monument after the 2025 NYC Pride March in New York City, New York, United States. (ABC News)
Politics and elections
- 2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests
- Over 140,000 people demonstrate in Belgrade and other major Serbian cities to protest against the Serbian government, call for President Aleksandar Vučić to be removed from power, and for snap elections for his replacement after dozens of students and protestors were arrested by police last night. (DW)
June 28, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza, including 20 in Tuffah, Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- 2025 Mir Ali attack
- Sixteen soldiers and the perpetrator are killed and 29 others are injured, including six children, when a suicide bomber drives an explosive-laden vehicle into a military convoy in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Hafiz Gul Bahadur faction of the Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility. (Azerbaijani Press Agency)
- 2025 Mir Ali attack
- Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Three people are killed by Israeli attacks on multiple vehicles in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 37 people are killed and 30 others are injured after two buses collide and burst into flames on a highway in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. (AP)
- The death toll from the landslide in Medellín, Colombia, on Wednesday rises to 22, with eight others still missing. (ABC News)
- Four people are killed and several others are injured, including two critically, in a seven-vehicle pileup on the Interstate 20 near Kaufman County, Texas, United States. (KETK-TV)
- Four people are killed when a Yakovlev Yak-18T aircraft crashes near Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia. (Azerbaijani Press Agency)
Law and crime
- 2025 Hungarian Pride ban
- Despite the ban by the Hungarian authorities, tens of thousands gather for the Budapest Pride march, defying Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's legal threats against the event. (BBC News)
- Smoking in France
- The French government issues a decree banning smoking in several public spaces, near schools, and where children gather. However, electronic cigarettes are exempt from the ban. (AP)
- The United Kingdom Border Force seizes 2.4 metric tons of cocaine worth £96 million (US$132 million) from a ship from Panama, reportedly one of the country's largest drug busts. (AP)
June 27, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
- Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) sign a peace agreement in Washington, D.C., United States, which calls for the "disengagement, disarmament, and conditional integration" of armed groups in the DRC, the return of refugees, and respect for territorial integrity. (Yahoo! News)
Business and economy
- The S&P 500 index closes at a record high of 6173.07 points, breaking the record set in February. (NPR)
Disasters and accidents
- The death toll from nationwide floods over the past 24 hours rises to 36 as at least 18 people are killed, ten others are missing and 58 people are rescued after flash floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains swept away dozens of tourists picnicking along the Swat River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Deccan Herald) (CTV News)
- Nineteen people are killed and three others are injured when a minibus collides with a truck on a regional road in Ashmoun, Monufia, Egypt. (CTV News)
- Seven city government personnel are killed while 18 others are injured after a government-owned mini dump truck returning from an environmental activity overturns in Silay, Negros Occidental, Philippines. (Rappler)
- Three people are killed when a Cessna 172 crashes in a residential area in Champhol, Centre-Val de Loire, France. (Ouest-France) (Le Parisien)
International relations
- 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- U.S. president Donald Trump announces the suspension of the trade talks with Canada, also announcing new tariffs on goods crossing the Canada–United States border. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Serial killer and rapist Takahiro Shiraishi is executed for the 2017 murders and dismemberments of nine people in his apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. (CTV News)
Sports
- 2025 NHL entry draft
- In ice hockey, the NHL entry draft is held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, U.S., with the New York Islanders selecting Matthew Schaefer as the first overall pick. (Sportsnet)
June 26, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Gaza war
- Israeli forces kill at least 71 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. At least 14 of those Palestinians are killed in North Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli settler violence
- Three Palestinians are killed and many others are injured by Israeli settlers in the village of Kafr Malik near Ramallah in the West Bank. (BBC News)
- Gaza war
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 South Africa floods
- The death toll from the flooding caused by a winter storm in the Eastern Cape of South Africa two weeks earlier increases to 101, with two children still missing. (AP)
- Six people are killed and thousands of others are displaced from their homes amid torrential rain and flash floods in Rongjiang County, Guizhou, China. (Al Jazeera)
- Three people are killed and dozens of others are missing in a flash flood caused by torrential rain in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India. (AP)
- The bodies of three missing people are recovered after the June 20 crash of an Airmedic MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 in a lake shortly after takeoff from Havre Saint-Pierre Airport in Quebec, Canada. (CTV News)
- Two people are killed, including a child, and 17 others are injured, including one critically, during torrential storms causing flooding in Paris, France. (CTV News)
- A double-decker bus carrying students from Barton Peveril Sixth Form College plunges into a river in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, injuring all 19 passengers, including five who are hospitalized. (AP)
Health and environment
- A United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report says the worldwide recreational use and production of cocaine hit an all-time high in 2023, saying the current surge in cocaine use is primarily due to increased illicit coca bush cultivation in Colombia and updated yield data. (RTE)
Law and crime
- Ecuadorian conflict
- Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa announces the recapture of José Adolfo Macías Villamar, the leader of the Los Choneros cartel and Ecuador's most wanted criminal, in Manta, Manabí Province, after he disappeared from a prison last year. (DW)
- Anti–money laundering § United States, War on drugs § Mexico
- The Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores temporarily takes over the management of CIBanco, Intercam Banco, and Vector Casa de Bolsa following allegations of money laundering for drug cartels. (El País)
Politics and elections
- Protests against Faure Gnassingbé
- Clashes take place between protesters and security forces in the Togolese capital Lomé amid calls for Faure Gnassingbé, who has ruled the country since 2005, to step down. Opposition groups accuse Gnassingbé of changing the constitution to remain in office indefinitely. (AP)
June 25, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Middle Eastern crisis
- Iran–Israel war
- United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
- A preliminary assessment by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency finds that Iran's nuclear program may have only been set back by a few months after the U.S. airstrikes, with the centrifuges required to enrich uranium left largely intact, contradicting previous claims made by U.S. president Donald Trump that the facilities were "obliterated". (AP)
- After U.S. president Donald Trump rejects the DIA assessment as "fake news", U.S. Central Intelligence Agency director John Ratcliffe says that the CIA assesses that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were severely damaged in the airstrikes, likely requiring years to rebuild. (BBC News)
- United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
- Gaza war
- Israeli forces kill at least 78 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with at least 14 who were seeking humanitarian aid. (Al Jazeera)
- Seven Israeli soldiers are killed in Khan Yunis when an explosive device affixed to their armored vehicle detonates. (AP)
- Iran–Israel war
- Nigerian bandit conflict
- At least 17 soldiers are killed when groups of bandits attack three Army bases in Kaduna and Niger States in Nigeria. The Army and Air Force reports they have launched counteroffensives against the bandit gangs. (DW)
Business and economy
- The first train from North Korea arrives at the Yaroslavsky railway station in Moscow, Russia, after a five-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (TASS)
- Online dating service Bumble announces it will lay off 30% of its global workforce, equal to at least 240 jobs. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025 Bangui school stampede
- Twenty-nine people are killed and 280 others are injured after an explosion causes a stampede at a high school in Bangui, Central African Republic. President Faustin-Archange Touadéra declares three days of national mourning. (BBC News)
- At least 11 people are killed and 15 others are missing after a landslide in Medellín and Bello, Antioquia Department, Colombia. (AP)
Law and crime
- 2024 Armenian protests
- Armenian authorities arrest the archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan of the Armenian Apostolic Church and accuse him of plotting against the government. (AP)
- 2025 Kenyan protests
- At least 16 people are killed and over 400 others are injured, including demonstrators, police officers and journalists, when police clash with protestors during nationwide anti-government protests across Kenya. (CTV News)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Council of Europe's Human Rights Office sign an accord to establish a special tribunal for crimes in Ukraine. (France 24)
- Anti–money laundering § United States, War on drugs § Mexico
- Mexican banks CIBanco, Intercam Banco, and Vector Casa de Bolsa—the latter owned by Alfonso Romo, former Chief of Staff to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador—are sanctioned by the United States government over alleged money laundering for drug cartels. Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum requests that the U.S. government provide evidence. (MSN) (Al Jazeera) (Forbes)
Sports
- 2025 NBA Draft
- In basketball, the NBA Draft is held at the Barclays Center in New York City, U.S., with the Dallas Mavericks selecting Duke player Cooper Flagg as the first overall pick. (CNN)
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