Current events: 2025-06-05

[Wikipedia Current Events]

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 1-year-old child, and injures nine others in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. (AP)
    • A Russian drone strike injures 19 people in Kharkiv, including children and a pregnant woman. (AP)
  • Kherson strikes
    • The Kherson Regional State Administration headquarters in Kherson is completely destroyed in a Russian missile strike. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemns the destruction of the region's administrative centre by Russia, saying it served no "military purpose". (Ukrinform)
• Gaza war
  • Rafah aid distribution killings
    • A CNN investigation points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to get food in Rafah, Gaza. (CNN)
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of an American-Israeli couple killed and abducted by Israeli and other militants during the October 7 attacks. (NBC News)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Israeli Air Force jets launch airstrikes on southern Beirut, Lebanon, targeting alleged underground Hezbollah drone manufacturing facilities. (Turkiye 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 calling 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 12 countries facing entry restrictions. (BBC News)
• Mexico–United States relations, Gun law in the United States
  • The U.S. Supreme Court blocks a 10-billion dollar lawsuit by the Mexican government against large American firearms manufacturers which it claimed failed to prevent the sale of firearms to drug cartels and other criminal organisations due to a lack of a convincing argument that the companies willingly allow such transactions to happen. (Al Jazeera) (AP) (Politico)

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) (The Telegraph)

Science and technology

• Nintendo's Switch 2 video game console is released worldwide. (BBC News) (The Verge)

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