Current events: 2025-07-28

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign (2022–present)
    • Congolese government-aligned Wazalendo militias, including Resisting Congolese Patriots and the Alliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo, clash with March 23 Movement (M23) rebels in Shoa and Shamarambo villages, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Radio Okapi)
    • Wazalendo militia Collective of Movements for Change clashes with M23 rebels in the villages of Mashango and Mudugudu, Rutshuru Territory. (Radio Okapi)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli attacks kill more than 80 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
    • The Houthis release a video showing ten crewmembers of the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C, which the group attacked and sunk earlier this month, in captivity. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • U.S. President Donald Trump issues a new 12-day ultimatum to Russia to end the war in Ukraine. (BBC News)
• Somali Civil War
  • Jubaland crisis
    • Clashes occur in Dolow between Jubaland forces and the Somali National Army. (Garowe Online)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • The Indian military announces they have killed three militants in the Dachigam area of Jammu and Kashmir. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 30 people are killed and several others are missing due to heavy rain and flooding in Hebei and Beijing, China. (AP)
• Three people are killed and hundreds of others are evacuated during floods across nine counties in northeastern Romania. (AP) (Reuters)
• Two children are killed and six others are injured, including three critically, when their sailboat capsizes after being struck by a barge in Biscayne Bay, Miami Beach, Florida, United States. (NBC News)

International relations

• 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza
  • A peace conference opens in New York City, New York, United States, aimed at reviving the two-state solution and renewing diplomatic efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Grand Sierra Resort shooting
  • Three people are killed and eight others are injured, including the perpetrator and an officer that sustained non-gunshot injuries, in a mass shooting at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, United States. (Reno Gazette-Journal) (KRNV)
• Or Tor Kor Market shooting
  • Six people are killed, including the perpetrator, and two others are injured in a mass shooting at Or Tor Kor Market in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters) (Thairath)
• 2025 New York City shooting
  • At least two people are killed, a NYPD officer and the perpetrator, and five others are injured in a mass shooting at the 345 Park Avenue skyscraper in Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. (NBC News) (BNO News)
• Two people are killed and two others are injured, including the perpetrator, in a mass stabbing on business premises on Long Lane in Southwark, London, United Kingdom. (Sky News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 State of the Nation Address
  • Philippine president Bongbong Marcos orders a nationwide audit of flood control projects across the country, alongside a crackdown on corruption on these projects, in response to widespread damage caused by recent flooding resulting from Tropical Storm Wipha and the monsoon season. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

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