Current events: 2025-06-21

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 21 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 11 people seeking aid assistance. (Al Jazeera)
    • The European Union European External Action Service finds that Israel may have breached its human rights obligations under the terms of the EU-Israel Association agreement governing its ties with the EU. (Al Jazeera)
    • President of Turkey Recep Erdoğan announces the UNRWA will open an office in Turkey's capital, Ankara. (Al Jazeera)
  • Iran–Israel war
    • The death toll from Israel's strikes on Iran rises to more than 430, while 3,056 people have been injured. (Al Jazeera)
    • Iran's health minister Mohammadreza Zafarghandi says Israel has targeted three hospitals during the conflict, killing two health workers and a child, and has targeted six ambulances. (Al Jazeera)
    • Iran's emergency organization head says Israeli strikes have targeted medical and relief facilities, in addition to residential areas across the country. Three relief bases and eight ambulances have been seriously damaged or destroyed. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Santa Catarina hot air balloon crash
  • At least eight people are killed and 13 others are injured in a hot air balloon accident in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, Brazil. (CNN) (DW)
• The death toll from an overnight severe weather outbreak across the United States rises to three, all from a tornado near Enderlin, North Dakota. Significant damage is also reported from Bemidji, Minnesota, which experienced a wind gust of {{cvt|106|mph|km/h}}. (AP)
• Four Airmedic crew members are reported missing after a MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 medical helicopter on a rescue operation crashed yesterday into a wooded area north of Baie-Johan-Beetz near Natashquan on the Côte-Nord in Quebec, Canada. The pilot, the only person that was found so far, was taken to hospital and treated for injuries. (CBC)

International relations

• Pakistan-United States relations
  • Pakistan announces that it will formally nominate U.S. president Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, citing his mediation during the 2025 India-Pakistan conflict. (BBC News)

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