Current events: 2025-06-01

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Rafah aid distribution massacres
      • At least 31 Palestinians are killed and 170 others are allegedly injured by Israeli gunfire and tank shelling while thousands of people went to receive aid from a United States-funded humanitarian aid distribution centre in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestine. (AP) (BBC News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Operation Spider's Web
    • Ukraine says at least 40 Russian warplanes, including several strategic bombers were destroyed or damaged by drone attacks on four air bases in Russia. (BBC News)
  • Russia launches the largest drone attack on Ukraine since the start of the war, comprising 472 drones and 7 ballistic missiles. (AP News)
  • Twelve Ukrainian servicemen are killed and 60 more are injured in a Russian missile strike on a training camp in a undisclosed location in Ukraine. The commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine, Mykhailo Drapatyi, submits a resignation request following the incident. (Ukrainian Pravda)
• 2025 Russia bridge collapses
  • A support on a bridge explodes and collapses in Kursk Oblast, Russia, causing a freight train to derail, killing a worker and injuring two others, including the driver. The previous day, another bridge exploded causing it to fall onto a passenger train, killing 7 people and injuring 70 others. Both incidents are being probed as acts of terrorism. (BBC News) (Reuters) (RFERL)
• Terrorism in the United States
  • 2025 Pearl Street Mall attack
    • Several protestors demanding the release of hostages from Hamas are injured, including a child, in an arson attack at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, United States. FBI director Kash Patel calls it a "targeted terror attack". (Hindustan Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Twelve people are killed and several others are injured in a fire at a drug rehabilitation center in San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, Mexico. The cause is still under investigation. (Barron's) (Infobae)

Law and crime

• 2025 UEFA Champions League final, 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
  • Fireworks and flares are fired in Paris, France, after Paris Saint-Germain FC's Champions league title win. Two people are killed, a police officer is in a coma, 201 others are injured, four stores are looted and hundreds are arrested in clashes with riot police, violence and looting. (CTV News) (BBC News) (Le Monde)
• A ban on the sale of disposable vapes enters force in the United Kingdom. (BBC News)
• Non-cooperation movement (2024)
  • A court in Bangladesh indicts former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on mass murder charges, related to the deaths of protesters that ousted Hasina in 2024. The government of Bangladesh informs India of the arrest warrant and asks for Hasina's repatriation, following her escape to that country. (Financial Express)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Polish presidential election
  • Poles vote in the second round to choose their president between right-wing populist President of the Institute of National Remembrance Karol Nawrocki and pro-European incumbent Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski. (The Guardian)
• 2025 Mexican judicial elections
  • Nationwide elections are held to elect over 2,700 members of the Mexican judiciary branch in the first ever judicial election in the country's history. (Reuters)
• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • Independent presidential candidate Hwang Kyo-ahn resigns from his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election and declare his support for People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo. (The Chosun Ilbo)
  • The Seoul Central District Court approves the arrest warrant of a women with her last name Park suspected of voting twice, including once by a proxy for her husband, on the first day of early voting on May 29. (Yonhap)

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