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- Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign
- 2025 Bukavu offensive
- Mass looting and sporadic gunfire is reported in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, as M23 rebels advance into the city. Mobs loot several facilities, including a World Food Programme depot. (BBC News)
- The Congolese military withdraws from Bukavu heading south towards Tanganyika Province. (AP)
- 2025 Bukavu offensive
- Ituri conflict
- General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Chief of the Ugandan military, claiming to act with the authority of his father, President Yoweri Museveni, threatens to invade the Democratic Republic of the Congo and take control of Bunia, capital of Ituri Province, unless local forces surrender their weapons within 24 hours. Kainerugaba alleges that the Hema people are being killed. (Reuters)
- M23 campaign
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
- Hamas releases three Israeli hostages in exchange for the Israeli government releasing 369 Palestinian prisoners, most without criminal charges or convictions, as part of the first stage of the 2025 ceasefire. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
- 2025 Munich car attack
- A 37-year-old woman and her two-year-old child die as the result of injuries sustained in a vehicle-ramming attack in Munich, Germany, on Thursdays. (Stern)
- 2025 Villach stabbing attack
- A 14-year-old boy is killed and five other people are injured in a mass stabbing in Villach, Carinthia, Austria. A 23-year-old Syrian national is arrested. (AP)
Business and economy
- Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Minister of Foreign Affairs Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner calls on Western sporting firms such as the National Basketball Association, Formula One and Arsenal F.C. to cut sponsorship deals with Rwanda amid the conflict in Kivu. (ESPN)
Disasters and accidents
- A crowd crush kills at least 16 people and injures ten others at New Delhi railway station in New Delhi, India. (Hindustan Times)
International relations
- Russia–United States relations
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speak by telephone about the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Gaza war, the sanctions against Russia, and removing restrictions on each country's diplomatic missions. They also discuss preparations for a high-level summit in Saudi Arabia. This is the first time the U.S. and Russia had contact at the foreign minister level in almost two years. (Financial Times)
- South Africa–United States relations
- Hundreds of White South Africans hold a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, in support of U.S. President Donald Trump's claims that the South African government is discriminating against the country's white minority. (AP)
Law and crime
- The Lebanese Armed Forces arrest over 25 people on suspicion of attacking a UNIFIL convoy and United Nations peacekeepers near Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2025 African Union Commission Chairperson election
- Government leaders of the member states of the African Union elect Djiboutian foreign affairs minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf as the organization's Chairperson, succeeding Chadian Moussa Faki. (AP) (Reuters)
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