Current events: 2025-07-06

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli airstrikes kill at least 38 Palestinians in Gaza. (AP)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Boko Haram insurgents kill nine people and injure four others in an attack on Mallam Fatori in Borno State, Nigeria. (AP)
• Israeli–Lebanese conflict
  • Israel conducts four drone strikes in Bint Jbeil, Shebaa, and Shaqra, in southern Lebanon over the weekend, killing one person and wounding several others. (Al Jazeera)
• Red Sea crisis
  • A Liberian-flagged bulk carrier is attacked by the Houthis in the Red Sea. (NOS) (ABC News)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2025 Central Texas floods
  • The death toll from the flooding in Central Texas, United States, increases to 79, including 28 children, with 41 other people still missing. (AP)
• Five Turkish soldiers are killed by methane gas exposure in a cave in northern Iraq during an operation to search for a fellow soldier's remains. (AP)

International relations

• Japan–Philippines relations
  • The Yomiuri Shimbun reports that the Japanese Navy will export six used Abukuma-class destroyer escorts to the Armed Forces of the Philippines to strengthen the Philippine Navy due to territorial disputes in the South China Sea. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • Prosecutors in South Korea request that former president Yoon Suk Yeol be detained amid the ongoing investigation against him for insurrection. (Reuters)

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