Current events: 2025-07-20

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 85 Palestinians are killed while attempting to access aid across the Gaza Strip. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed, including a pregnant woman, 284 are rescued and others are reported missing in a fire on the KM Barcelona 5 just before it reached the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. (AP) (Hindustan Times)
• 17 people are killed and 11 are missing in heavy rains in South Korea. (AP News)

Law and crime

• Terrorism in Egypt
  • Egyptian police kill two suspected militants belonging to the Hasm Movement, an affiliate of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, during a raid on their hideout in Giza. One passerby is also killed. (Al-Ahram)
• Ecuador extradites José Adolfo Macías Villamar to the United States, where he faces federal charges related to drug trafficking. (AP

Politics and elections

• 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election
  • Japanese citizens vote for 125 of the 248 members of the House of Councillors, the upper house of Japan's National Diet. (NHK)
  • The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito lose their majority in the House of Councillors. This marks the first time in the 70-year history of the LDP that it leads a coalition in the Diet without having a majority in either house. (NHK)

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