Current events: 2025-06-15

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • June 2025 Israeli strikes on Iran, June 2025 Iranian strikes on Israel
      • The Israeli Air Force says it has targeted Mashhad Shahid Hasheminejad International Airport in eastern Iran, destroying a refueling plane used by the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force. (BBC News)
      • An Iranian ballistic missile strike on a residential building kills nine people, including three children, and injures over 200 others in Bat Yam, Israel. (The Times of Israel)
      • According to American officials, U.S. President Donald Trump vetoed Israel's plan to kill Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Reuters)
      • Rights group report that a Syrian civilian woman was killed after a drone strikes her home in rural Tartus, Syria, which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says was likely an Iranian drone. (The Times of Israel)
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza war hostage crisis
      • Israeli forces in Gaza recover the body of Israeli hostage Aviv Atzili, who was killed and abducted by Palestinian Islamic Jihad during the October 7 attacks. (Haaretz)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia hands over the bodies of 1,200 Ukrainian soldiers who were killed in action as part of a prisoner exchange agreement. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Seven people are killed, including an infant, when a Bell 407 aircraft crashes in a forested area in bad weather while en route to the Kedarnath Temple in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, India. (The Free Press Journal)
• At least six people are killed, twenty-five are swept away and thirty-two others are injured, including six critically, when a bridge over a river collapses at a popular tourist destination in Kundamala, Pune, Maharashtra, India. (Al Arabiya) (CTV News)
• A {{M|w|6.1}} earthquake hits Lima, Peru, leaving one person dead and at least five others injured. (Agencia EFE)

International relations

• Gaza war protests
  • Between 100,000 and 150,000 protesters march in The Hague, Netherlands, demanding that the Dutch government pressure Israel to halt its military campaign in the Gaza Strip. (AP)

Sports

• 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans
  • In endurance racing, the AF Corse Ferrari team wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the third consecutive year, with drivers Phil Hanson, Robert Kubica, and Yifei Ye. (AP)

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