Current events: 2025-06-20

Wikipedia Current Events · Friday at 8:39 PM

Armed conflicts and attacks

Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
  - Rafah aid distribution killings
    - Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 82 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 34 people seeking aid assistance. (Al Jazeera)
  - The United Nations lists Israel on its blacklist of countries committing abuses against children in armed conflict in its annual Children in Armed Conflict report. (Al Jazeera)
- Iran–Israel war
  - 2025 Iran–European nuclear talks
    - Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi meets with the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, Germany, France and European Union in Geneva for talks. (AP News)
  - Hundreds of thousands of people protest against Israel on the streets of Tehran after weekly prayers, chanting slogans in support of Iranian leaders. Protests also took place in Tabriz in northwestern Iran and Shiraz in the south. (Al Jazeera)
  - Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Commission says military strikes on civilian nuclear facilities violate international law in response to Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. (Al Jazeera)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Odesa strikes
  - Russian forces launch a large-scale drone strike at Odesa, Ukraine, damaging buildings and public facilities, with one person killed and another 14 injured. (Ukrainska Pravda)

International relations

France–Niger relations
- The Nigerien government announces it will nationalize the controlling share of the SOMAIR mining company that previously belonged to French multinational nuclear fuel cycle corporation Orano, which is in turn controlled by the French government. (DW) (AP)

Law and crime

The United Kingdom parliament votes 314–291 to approve the Terminally Ill Adults Bill, allowing terminally ill adults to voluntarily end their lives, moving towards legalizing assisted suicide in England and Wales. (DW) (BBC News)

Politics and elections