Current events: 2025-06-27

Wikipedia Current Events · 2025-06-27T20:30:39-0400

Armed conflicts and attacks

Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
- Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) sign a peace agreement in Washington, D.C., which calls for the "disengagement, disarmament, and conditional integration" of armed groups in the DRC, the return of refugees, and respect for territorial integrity. (Yahoo! News)

Disasters and accidents

Nineteen people are killed and three others are injured when a minibus collides with a truck on a regional road in Ashmoun, Monufia, Egypt. (CTV News)
The death toll from nationwide floods over the past 24 hours rises to 36 as at least 18 people are killed, ten others are missing and 58 people are rescued after flash floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains swept away dozens of tourists picnicking along the Swat River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Deccan Herald) (CTV News)
Three people are killed when a Cessna 172 crashes in a residential area in Champhol, Centre-Val de Loire, France. (Ouest-France) (Le Parisien)

International relations

Law and crime

Japanese serial killer and rapist Takahiro Shiraishi is executed for the 2017 murders and dismemberments of nine people in his apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. (CTV News)
The Supreme Court of the United States rules that all lower courts orders on all nationwide injunctions exceeded their authority and should be limited, making it harder for district judges to have the power to entirely block presidential actions. This severely affects lower court cases involving illegal immigrant deportations and birthright citizenship. (USA Today) (NPR)

Science and technology

Privacy & Transparency