Current events: 2025-06-08

Wikipedia Current Events · 2025-06-08T20:11:01-0400

Armed conflicts and attacks

Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
  - At least twelve Palestinians are killed and 29 others are injured by Israeli fire near two aid distribution sites in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. The Israeli military says they fired warning shots at people who had advanced toward its forces and ignored warnings to turn away but claimed they did not see any casualties. (CTV News)
June 2025 Los Angeles protests
- United States president Donald Trump orders the deployment of the National Guard to quell anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

Six people are reported missing when a Cessna 414 small plane crashes into the ocean off the coast of Point Loma in San Diego, California, United States. (NBC News)
Multiple people are injured, including at least two critically and three airlifted to hospital by medical helicopters, when a De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter skydiving aircraft carrying 20 people crashes while taking off from Tullahoma Regional Airport in Tullahoma near Nashville, Tennessee, United States. (BNO News) (CNN)
A derecho and tornado outbreak is occuring in the Eastern United States, with 3 tornado warnings and 22 severe thunderstorm warnings. (Fox News)

Sports

2025 French Open
- In tennis, Spanish Carlos Alcaraz wins his second men's singles title at the French Open and his fifth Grand Slam overall after defeating Italian Jannik Sinner 4–6, 6–7(4–7), 6–4, 7–6(7–3), 7–6(10–2) in the longest-ever French Open final with five hours and twenty-nine minutes. (BBC Sport)