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Kara Young
- At the Tony Awards, Purpose (Best Featured Actress winner Kara Young pictured) wins the Best Play and Maybe Happy Ending wins the Best Musical.
- Prime Minister of Mongolia Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigns after weeks of protests.
- In the Netherlands, an early election is called after the Schoof cabinet collapses as the PVV abandons the governing coalition.
- Lee Jae-myung is elected as president of South Korea.
- In cricket, the Indian Premier League concludes with Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeating Punjab Kings.
June 10, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kyiv strikes, Odesa strikes
- Russia launches drone attacks on Kyiv and Odesa. The Odesa drone attack hits medical facilities and residential buildings, killing one and injuring four. (BBC)
- Kyiv strikes, Odesa strikes
International relations
- War crimes in the Gaza war, Gaza humanitarian crisis (2023–present)
- The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries will impose sanctions on Israeli 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
- 2025 Graz school shooting
- Several people are killed and injured in a shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria. (BBC)
- Capital punishment in Iran
- Iran executes nine members of Islamic State for a 2018 attack which killed three Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps personnel. (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
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 ship was carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza. (CNN) (The Guardian)
Law and crime
- 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)
- A police car and multiple properties are damaged in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, amid disorder which broke out following an alleged sexual assault. (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. (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 twelve 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 Tennessee DHC-6 Twin Otter crash
- Multiple people are injured, including at least two critically when a DHC-6 skydiving aircraft carrying 20 people crashes while taking off from Tullahoma Regional Airport in Tennessee, United States. (BNO News) (CNN)
- 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)
June 7, 2025 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Gaza war hostage crisis
- Israeli forces in Gaza recover the body of Nattapong Pinta, a Thai national abducted by the Mujahideen Brigades during the October 7 attacks. (BBC News)
- Israeli airstrikes kill 55 people in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
- Israel announces that it killed Asaad Abu Sharia, leader of the Mujahideen Brigades which was responsible for the abductions of several hostages during the October 7 attacks, including Shiri Bibas and her two young sons. (The Times of Israel)
- Gaza war hostage crisis
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
- A Russian air attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine, involving Shahed drones, cruise missiles and glide bombs kills four people and wounds at least 60 others, according to local officials. (Reuters)
- Kharkiv strikes
Arts and culture
- Decommunization
- Kyrgyzstan takes down a 23-meter-tall statue of the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, thought to be the tallest statue of Lenin in Central Asia. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Attempted assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay
- Colombian senator and pre-candidate in the 2026 presidential election Miguel Uribe Turbay is shot during a campaign event in Bogotá, leaving him in serious condition. Police arrest a 15-year-old suspect at the scene. (Infobae) (NBC News)
Politics and elections
- Afghan prime minister Hasan Akhund announces that no Afghan refugees who left the country after the fall of Kabul in 2021 will be prosecuted if they return to Afghanistan. (Arab News)
- Municipal elections are held in Latvia. Preliminary results indicate the far-right populist party Latvia First leading with 18.2% of the votes, followed by the centre-left Progressives with 16.64% and the conservative National Alliance with 14.13% of the votes. (Euractiv)
Sports
- 2025 French Open
- In tennis, American player Coco Gauff defeats Belarusian player Aryna Sabalenka 65–77, 6–2, 6–4 in the women's singles final to win her first French Open title. (ESPN) (The Guardian)
June 6, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kyiv strikes
- An overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, kills three people, injures 49 others and causes fires across the capital with multiple districts targeted. At least 2,000 homes lose power, according to the Kyiv City State Administration. At least 407 drones and 45 missiles are launched in total. (Reuters) (AP)
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Widespread power outages are reported in Ternopil after several cruise missiles hit energy infrastructure supplying the city. (Ukrinform)
- Kyiv strikes
Law and crime
- Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
- Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to the United States, two months after being mistakenly deported to El Salvador and spending time at the CECOT prison. He now faces criminal charges in Tennessee for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants. (ABC News)
Science and technology
- Radar on the Fleet Flagship of the Royal Australian Navy HMAS Canberra (L02) accidentally blocks wireless internet and radio services in New Zealand before the incident is resolved. (The Guardian)
June 5, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- An overnight Russian Shahed drone strike kills five people, including a child, and injures nine others in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. (AP)
- A Russian drone strike injures nineteen people in Kharkiv, including children and a pregnant woman. (AP)
- Kherson strikes
- The Kherson Regional State Administration headquarters is destroyed in a Russian missile strike. (Ukrinform)
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Gaza war
- Gaza war hostage crisis
- Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of an American-Israeli couple abducted by militants during the October 7 attacks. (NBC News)
- Rafah aid distribution killings
- A CNN investigation points to the Israel Defense Forces opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to get humanitarian aid in Rafah, Gaza. (CNN)
- Gaza war hostage crisis
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Israeli Air Force jets launch airstrikes on southern Beirut, Lebanon, targeting alleged underground Hezbollah drone manufacturing facilities. (Türkiye Today) (Al-Monitor)
Disasters and accidents
- Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling, Sudanese refugee crisis
- The Freedom Flotilla, a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, Irish actor Liam Cunningham, and French European Parliament member Rima Hassan, rescue four Sudanese civil war refugees from a dinghy near Libya. (The Times of Israel) (The Print)
Health and environment
- The government of the Ivory Coast declares an outbreak of cholera after confirming seven recent deaths from the disease, and calls on the population to remain vigilant. (AP)
International relations
- Chad–United States relations
- Chad suspends the issuance of visas to U.S. citizens in response to a new travel ban announced by U.S. president Donald Trump, that includes Chad among twelve countries facing entry restrictions. (BBC News)
- Mexico–United States relations, Gun law in the United States
- The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously blocks a 10-billion dollar lawsuit by the Mexican government against large American firearms manufacturers alleging their failure to prevent firearms sales to drug cartels and other criminal organisations due to a lack of evidence that the companies allow such transactions. (Al Jazeera) (AP) (Politico)
- United States and the International Criminal Court
- The United States imposes sanctions on 4 ICC judges in retaliation over the war tribunal's issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a past decision to open a case into alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Two members of the Ta' Maksar gang are convicted as accessories to murder for supplying the explosive that killed the Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017. (Times of Malta)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Burundian parliamentary election
- Citizens of Burundi vote to elect 100 of the 123 members of the National Assembly. (BBC News) (DW)
- Zia Yusuf announces via X that he is stepping down as the Chairman of Reform UK. (BBC News) (The Telegraph)
Science and technology
- Nintendo's Switch 2 video game console is released in most regions. (BBC News) (The Verge)
Sports
- 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification
- 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)
- In association football, Uzbekistan and Jordan qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time, with Uzbekistan securing a top-two finish in Group A and Jordan advancing from Group B following Iraq's loss to secure their places in the 2026 tournament. (Reuters)
- 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)
June 4, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- Puntland's elite security forces kills over 35 ISIS militants, including several foreign fighters, in a major military operation conducted in the mountainous rural areas in the Bari region of Puntland. The troops also destroy weapons caches and military equipment used by the group. (Shabelle Media) (AllAfrica)
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- Gaza war
- United States support for Israel in the Gaza war
- The United States vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, with the remaining fourteen other members voting in favor. (Reuters)
- United States support for Israel in the Gaza war
- Israeli invasion of Syria
- Israel launches airstrikes against Syria in retaliation for the alleged firing of two projectiles at Israel yesterday. Israeli defense minister Israel Katz says that Israel holds Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa "directly responsible" for the attacks. (Arab News)
Disasters and incidents
- 2025 Bengaluru stampede
- Eleven people are killed and 50 others are injured in a stampede at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. (Anadolu Agency)
International relations
- Immigration policy of the second Donald Trump administration
- U.S. president Donald Trump signs a proclamation banning entry into the United States for nationals of 12 countries deemed "very high-risk" due to terrorist activity, hostile governments, and high visa overstay rates, while imposing additional restrictions on visitors from several others. Exemptions apply for select categories, including athletes and diplomats. Trump cited the recent firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado, as reason for the ban. (CNN) (NPR)
Politics and elections
- 2025 South Korean presidential election
- Lee Jae-myung is inaugurated as President of South Korea at the National Assembly Building in Yeouido, Seoul, one day after winning the presidential election. (Reuters)
- Vietnamese two-child policy
- Vietnam formally ends the two-child policy in effect since 2009 amid record-low total fertility rates of 1.91 per woman in 2024, causing declining birth rate and a shrinking workforce. (NPR) (AFP via VnExpress)
- U.S. president Donald Trump issues an order banning new visas for foreign nationals enrolling at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, citing national security concerns and alleging the institution's lack of cooperation in disclosing foreign student misconduct. The directive also allows for possible visa revocations of currently enrolled international students. (ABS-CBN News)
Science and technology
- Chile signs an agreement with Google to build the first submarine fiber-optic cable connecting between South America and Australia. Google invested at least $300 million while the Chilean government will invest $25 million. (DW) (AP)
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