Current events: 2025-07-27

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict
  • 2025 Cambodia–Thailand clashes
    • Cambodia and Thailand agree to negotiate a ceasefire following mediation efforts by United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio the previous day. (AP)
• Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  • Gaza Strip famine
    • The Israeli Air Force begins humanitarian aid drops over the Gaza Strip amid growing international pressure to allow food into the Palestinian enclave. (BBC News)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab seizes control of the central Somalia town of Mahaas in the Hiiraan region following a ground offensive. The attack began with multiple suicide bombings just outside the town, followed by heavy gunfire, prompting the army and local Ma'awisley militias to withdraw. (The Somali Digest) (AP)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Allied Democratic Forces militants attack the city of Komanda, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 43 people, including 20 during a vigil in a Catholic church. (Radio Okapi)
• New People's Army rebellion
  • Seven New People's Army guerrillas are killed in a military operation in Uson, Masbate, Philippines, as Philippine troops pursue remaining insurgents. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Twenty-five people are killed, 26 others are rescued and around 49 are reported missing when a large wooden boat capsizes in Niger State, Nigeria. (CityNews) (Reuters)
• At least six people are killed and 27 others are injured in a stampede when a high-voltage electric wire falls on a path at the Mansa Devi Temple in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. (AP) (The Independent)
• At least three people are killed, including a railway employee and the driver, and around 50 others are injured, including 25 seriously, when a Deutsche Bahn Regional-Express train carrying 100 people derails in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (Bild)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Iran
  • Iran executes two members of the exiled opposition group MEK on charges of carrying out attacks on residential, education, and government buildings. (AP)

Sports

• UEFA Women's Euro 2025
  • In association football, England defeats Spain 3–1 on penalties in the final of the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 to give the England women's team its second major football championship, also successfully defending their title. (Reuters)

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