Current events: 2025-07-26

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
  • 2025 Cambodia–Thailand clashes
    • Cambodia's ambassador to the United Nations, Chhea Keo, calls for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire with Thailand. (BBC News)
    • Twelve more deaths are reported in Cambodia while a Royal Thai Army soldier is shot dead on the border as both countries exchange artillery fire. (AP)
    • Around 38,000 civilians in Cambodia and almost 140,000 in Thailand flee their homes as fighting intensifies. (Al Jazeera)
    • Cambodia closes its airspace over the regions in the country where the conflict is being fought. (Phnom Penh Post)
    • Royal Cambodian Army major general Duong Somneang is killed in an artillery strike on the frontline. (Nation Thailand)
    • The Royal Thai Navy engages Cambodian forces in the Gulf of Thailand after they launched attacks on Trat province, Thailand. (Thai PBS World)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Dnipro strikes
    • Russian forces launch an overnight drone and cruise missile attack on Dnipro, Ukraine, killing at least three people and damaging multiple residential buildings. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • At least nine people are killed, including three attackers and a child, and 22 others are injured, including several critically, in a terrorist mass shooting and grenade attack at a courthouse in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. The Jaysh al-Adl militant group claims responsibility for the attack. (Kurdistan 24) (RFERL) (DW)
• Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
  • The United Nations World Food Programme says 90,000 children and women are in need of urgent treatment in Gaza. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 18 people are killed and 48 others are injured when a bus overturns on a highway in the Andes mountains in Junín Department, Peru. (CP24)
• Six people are killed and another is injured in a traffic accident on the Interstate 485 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. (ABC News)

Law and crime

• At least 11 people are injured, including several critically, in a mass stabbing attack at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan, United States. A suspect is in custody. (BNO News) (WPBN)

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