Current events: 2025-06-13

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • June 2025 Israeli strikes on Iran
      • The Israeli Air Force launches a bombing campaign against Iran targeting nuclear facilities with the main goal of the operation being to destroy Iran's nuclear program. A special state of emergency is declared in Israel by Defence Minister Israel Katz and Israeli airspace is closed to all flights. (BBC News)
      • Israel also launches targeted assassination strikes against senior Iranian government officials, Iranian military leadership and senior nuclear scientists. (Reuters)
      • The Israeli military confirms it has targeted nuclear facilities in Iran with the main goal of the operation being to destroy Iran's nuclear program. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirms Israeli warplanes have targeted Iran's main Natanz Nuclear Facility. It is later confirmed that the underground nuclear reactor at Natanz has been destroyed by a bunker buster. (The Jerusalem Post) (BBC News)
      • Iranian state media reports that all flights to and from Imam Khomeini International Airport have been suspended until further notice and that several residential buildings in Tehran have collapsed due to missile strikes. (The Times of Israel)
      • Those killed in the Israeli decapitation strikes include commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami, senior nuclear scientist and former head of Atomic Energy Organization Fereydoon Abbasi, and chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Bagheri and Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani. (The Times of Israel) (BBC News)
    • June 2025 Iranian strikes against Israel
      • Iran launches over 100 Shahed drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel in retaliation for the strikes. (The Times of Israel) (Reuters)
      • At least 58 people are wounded with two in critical condition in Israel after Iran's retaliatory strikes. (Jerusalem Post) Disasters and accidents
• Four people are killed and 34 others are injured, including eleven seriously, when a bus carrying Ukrainians crashes on the A81 autoroute in Sarthe, France. (Midi Libre)
• Four people are killed, including two children, and sixteen others are injured in a traffic collision when a Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus loses control and crashes into the back of a truck at Gottipura Gate in Hoskote, Karnataka, India. (Deshsewak)

Law and crime

• Protests against Donald Trump
  • June 2025 Los Angeles protests
    • U.S. district judge Charles Breyer issues a temporary restraining order directing President Donald Trump to return control of the National Guard to California, saying he violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded his statutory authority. Later, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocks the order. (AP) (The Hill)
• Kenya Finance Bill protests
  • Kenyan Police constable, PC James Mukhwana, is arrested over the death of blogger Albert Ojwang. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)

Politics and elections

• North Korean destroyer Kang Kon is successfully launched, having partially sunk during its first launch attempt two weeks prior. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un announces plans for two more 5,000-tonne destroyers to be built next year. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)

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