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- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kryvyi Rih strikes
- A Russian missile strikes a hotel in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, killing two people and injuring seven others. (Reuters)
- Kryvyi Rih strikes
- Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus
- Russia's Federal Security Service says that it killed four Islamic State militants in Dagestan during a counterterrorism operation. (Reuters)
- South Sudanese civil war
- Security forces in South Sudan arrest Puot Kang Chol, a senior member of the the parliamentary opposition, minister of petroleum and mining, and army general, as well as multiple other opposition-aligned military officers. South Sudanese soldiers also surround vice president Riek Machar's house overnight before later withdrawing. (BBC News)
Business and economy
- Second Trump tariffs
- 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- United States president Donald Trump announces a one-month temporary reprieve from tariffs to American automakers after receiving complaints from the Big Three automakers, Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. (NPR)
- 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
Disasters and accidents
- 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season
- Tropical Cyclone Alfred
- Queensland Premier David Crisafulli announces the suspension of public transport services and the closure of 640 schools in South East Queensland, Australia, as Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall early Friday morning local time. (ABC News Australia)
- Tropical Cyclone Alfred
International relations
- Somalia–United States relations
- The U.S. Embassy in Mogadishu warns of imminent attack threats in Somalia, including at Aden Adde International Airport. Embassy personnel movements are suspended. (ABC)
- Somali military officials confirm that the Trump administration has halted all funding for Somalia's Danab Brigade special forces and cut billions in USAID grants to the country. (Hiiraan Online)
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Central Intelligence Agency director John Ratcliffe announces that the United States has suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
- Russia-United States relations
- The United States Department of Defense denies previous media reports that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had ordered a halt to offensive cyber operations and information operations against Russia by U.S. Cyber Command. (The Hill)
Law and crime
- Elder financial abuse
- The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District Court of Vermont indicts and charges 25 Canadians for conspiracy to defraud elderly people in the United States out of US$21 million, and charges five of those 25 with conspiracy to commit money laundering. (NPR)
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