Current events: 2025-06-10

Wikipedia Current Events · Tuesday at 8:19 PM

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kyiv strikes, Odesa strikes
  - Russia launches drone attacks on Kyiv and Odesa, Ukraine. The Odesa attack targets medical facilities and residential buildings, killing two people and injuring thirteen others. (BBC)
Colombian conflict
- Seven people are killed, including two police officers, and 36 others are injured in nineteen bombings and shootings by FARC dissidents targeting police posts, municipal buildings and civilians in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Another explosion is also reported in Jamundí. (France 24) (DW)

Business and economy

Fossil fuel phase-out
- The British government announces it will invest {{GBP}}14.2 billion (US$19 billion) to construct the new Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk, England, to reduce the country's reliance on fossil fuels. (AP) (Reuters)
The Walt Disney Company closes a deal to acquire NBCUniversal's stake in the streaming service Hulu for $439 million, completing its acquisition of Hulu. (AP) (Variety)

International relations

Law and crime

2025 Graz school shooting
- Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 11 others are injured, in a shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria. (BBC)
Capital punishment in Iran
- Iran executes nine members of the Islamic State for a 2018 attack which killed three Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps personnel. (AP)
The Federal Police of Brazil arrest at least eleven people in an operation aiming to reduce drug trafficking in favelas in Rio de Janeiro. (AP)
The Supreme Court of Argentina ratifies the sentence of the former president of the country Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to prison and disqualification from holding public office for the crime of fraudulent administration to the detriment of the public administration. (La Nación)

Politics and elections

Over 15,000 people gather in Budapest, Hungary, to protest against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government's "anti-democratic conduct", along with alleged corruption tied to the ruling Fidesz party. (AP)
The Parliament of Greece expels three lawmakers, including far-right politician Vasilis Stigkas, leader of the political party Spartans, due to their connection with and allegedly serving as proxies for the neo-Nazi criminal organization Golden Dawn. (AP)