Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
International relations
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- Gaza war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Rafah offensive
- The Israel Defense Forces retakes control of Rafah prompting thousands of Palestinians to flee the city. (Reuters)
- Rafah offensive
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- A dispute between two groups of miners over access to gold deposits in La Paz Department, Bolivia, escalates into clashes with six people reportedly killed and several others missing. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- A 25% tariff on all automotive imports into the United States enters force. No exemptions are announced despite requests from several major trade partners, including Japan and the United Kingdom. (Reuters)
- Multinational car manufacturer Stellantis announces it will layoff 900 workers across five of its U.S. factories and will pause production at assembly plants in Canada and Mexico in response to the tariffs. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
- Two boats carrying migrants capsize in the early hours of the morning near Lesbos in the Aegean Sea, killing 16 people and leaving one more missing. More than 40 people are rescued by the Hellenic Coast Guard. (AP)
International relations
- Hungary–Israel relations
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lands in Budapest, Hungary, a signatory of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for a state visit in defiance of the international arrest warrant against him for alleged war crimes. (The Jerusalem Post) (AP)
- The Hungarian government announces it will withdraw from the ICC. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2025 Turkish protests
- Turkish National Police detain eleven people for spreading calls for and participating in shopping boycotts in the country as a protest against the arrest of Istanbul mayor and opposition presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu. (DW)
- Canada convoy protests
- The Ontario Court of Justice in Ontario, Canada, convicts Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two leaders of the truck driver protest movement against COVID-19 vaccination in Canada of criminal mischief. (AP)
- Mass shootings in the United States
- Three people, including the perpetrator, are killed and two others are injured in a mass shooting when a 29-year-old man shoots his mother and at passing cars in Sabattus, Maine, United States. (ABC News)
- Seven people are injured in a mass stabbing near Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., United States. A suspect was arrested. (The Independent)
- A 50-year-old Dutch man sets himself on fire inside of his car in a failed car bombing near the National Monument in Dam Square, Amsterdam, Netherlands, causing a small explosion and injuring himself. No bystanders were injured. (NDTV)
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