Current events: 2025-06-24

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Iran–Israel war
    • Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel war
      • Israel continues to launch airstrikes on Iran while Iran launches a wave of ballistic missiles at Israel despite the United States claiming a ceasefire had been reached between the warring sides. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
      • Nine people are killed in an Israeli airstrike on residential units in Gilan, Iran. The attack also injured 33 people, including 16 women and children, with five requiring hospital treatment. (Al Jazeera)
      • Four people are killed and 22 are injured in Beersheba, Southern Israel, after an Iranian missile strikes an apartment block. (The Times of Israel)
      • U.S. president Donald Trump tells reporters at the White House that Israel and Iran "don't know what the fuck they are doing" as both countries continue to launch attacks despite U.S. claims of a ceasefire. (BBC News) (The Independent)
  • Gaza war
    • Rafah aid distribution killings
      • At least 25 Palestinians are killed by Israeli forces who open fire towards people waiting for aid trucks in Gaza. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Dnipro strikes
    • Russian forces launch an Iskander missile strike on Dnipro, Ukraine, killing at least 16 people and wounding 279 others. Another nine people are injured in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast as a result of a Russian attack on the city of Samar. (The Kyiv Independent) (Ukrainska Pravda)
• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
  • Human Rights Watch reports that at least 120 children have been abducted by Islamic State-linked Ansar al-Sunna insurgents in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique, this year. The children are used for labor, conscripted as child soldiers, or forced into marriage. (AP)

Business and economy

• German finance minister Lars Klingbeil announces that the German government will raise its defense budget from 2.4% to 3.5% of its GDP by 2029, citing a NATO quota for member states to raise defense spending. (AP) (Politico)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from the boat accident from a storm on Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States increases to eight as the final missing person is recovered. (NPR)

Law and crime

• Three soldiers are killed and eight others are injured when a soldier opens fire on his colleagues during an altercation over paychecks in Mungazi, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. (CTV News)
• French police detain twelve people after over 145 people report being stabbed with syringes at Fête de la Musique sites across the country. (DW)

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