Current events: 2025-07-07

Wikipedia Current Events · 2025-07-07T20:32:52-0400

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - The Ukrainian Armed Forces launch a long-range drone strike on Krasnodar Krai, Russia, damaging the main oil refinery in Ilsky. (The Kyiv Independent)
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - Russia launches over 100 drones at areas across Ukraine, killing ten civilians and injuring 38 others. (PBS)
Red Sea crisis
- Israeli attacks on Yemen
  - The Israeli Air Force strikes three ports and a power plant in Houthi-controlled Yemen in response to recent ballistic missile attacks on Israel. (ABC News) (Reuters)
Somali Civil War
- 2025 Shabelle offensive
  - Al-Shabaab militants recapture Moqokori, a town in the Hiiraan region of Somalia they lost in September 2022, following a local uprising led by Ma'awisley fighters. The heavy fighting resulted in the deaths of at least 40 Somali National Army and Ma’awisley fighters, who lost control of the town after a suicide bombing and a fierce attack by the militants. (Garowe Online)
2025 Kenyan protests
- Eleven people are killed and 29 others are injured in clashes with security forces amid ongoing anti-government protests in Kenya, according to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. (Sky News) (Reuters)
Two people are injured and two people are missing after for the second consecutive day a ship is attacked in the Red Sea near Hodeida, Yemen by multiple boats and drones. (NOS)

Disasters and accidents

July 2025 Central Texas floods
- The death toll from the flooding in Central Texas, United States, increases to 104, including 28 children, with 41 other people still missing. Flash flood warnings have been issued for expected additional rainfall. (AP)
One person is killed and ten injured after the collapse of a restaurant's roof in Terracina, Province of Latina, Italy. (Ansa)

Law and crime

2021–2022 Luzon sabungero disappearances
- Philippine police chief Nicolas Torre announces that 15 police officers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in abducting and killing at least 34 cockfighters across Luzon, Philippines, from 2021 to 2022. (AP)
2023 Leongatha mushroom murders
- Erin Patterson is found guilty on all charges regarding deaths from Amanita poisoning from a lunch at her home in Leongatha, Australia. (ABC News Australia)
Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
- Amnesty International says that Saudi Arabia executed a record 345 people last year, many of them over drug offenses. (AP)
Three people are killed and nine others are injured in a mass shooting in the Grays Ferry neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. (Metro) (CBS News)

Politics and elections