Current events: 2025-06-09

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Armed conflicts and attacks

Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
  - According to the Gaza Health Ministry, fourteen Palestinians are killed and 150 others are injured by Israeli gunfire at an aid distribution site near Rafah, Gaza. The total death toll from shootings at aid distribution sites increases to 136 with hundreds others wounded. (AP) (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

At least 15 people are killed, mostly students, and 33 others are injured, including seven critically, in a traffic collision when a bus loses control and crashes into the back of a minivan on the East–West Highway near Gerik, Perak, Malaysia. (France 24)
Five people are killed, including an on duty railway police constable, and seven others are injured when passengers get thrown off two overcrowded local trains at the Mumbra railway station near Mumbra in Thane, Maharashtra, India. (Indian Express) (Indian Express)
2025 San Diego Cessna 414 crash
- All six occupants are confirmed to have been killed after a Cessna 414 crashed into the ocean off the coast of Point Loma shortly after takeoff from San Diego International Airport in San Diego, California, United States. (CBS News)
The Indian Coast Guard rescues 18 crew members from a Singaporean-flagged container ship after it catches fire following an explosion {{convert|144|km|mi|abbr=on}} off the coast of Kerala, India. Search operations are underway for the missing four crew members. (DW)

International relations

Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
- The Israeli Navy seizes the June 2025 Gaza Freedom Flotilla's flagship vessel, the United Kingdom-flagged Madleen, and takes its occupants (including environmental activist Greta Thunberg and MEP Rima Hassan) to Israel. The ship was carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza. (CNN) (The Guardian)

Law and crime

A court in Prague, Czech Republic, sentences a Colombian national to eight years in prison over a 2024 arson attack on public buses and for planning another similar attack. (AP)
The U.S. Treasury Department imposes sanctions on Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and his brother {{ill|Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar|es}}, El Chapo's sons who are believed to be in Mexico and leading factions of the Sinaloa Cartel. (AP)
June 2025 Los Angeles protests
- U.S. president Donald Trump orders the deployment of roughly 500 Marines to Los Angeles to protect federal buildings amid the ongoing riots in Los Angeles, California. (Wall Street Journal)
- The U.S. state of California sues the Donald Trump administration for deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles. (CBS News)
A police car and multiple properties are damaged in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, amid disorder which broke out following an alleged sexual assault. (BBC News)

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