Current events: 2025-07-29

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russian forces launch drone strikes and cruise missile strikes across Ukraine, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens more, including 16 inmates killed in an airstrike on a prison in Zaporizhzhia. (BBC News)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • Wazalendo militia Human Rights Defense Forces and M23 rebels clash on a hill near Kazinga, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). (Radio Okapi)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Famine in Sudan
    • According to the Sudan Doctors Network, thirteen children have died from malnutrition in a displacement camp in the Darfur region of Sudan. (AP)
• Ituri conflict
  • Zaïre-FPAC militants attack Sanduku 1, Djugu Territory, DRC, killing two civilians. (Radio Okapi)
• Red Sea crisis
  • The Houthis launch a ballistic missile targeting Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, which was intercepted by Israeli forces. (The Times of Israel)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 18 people making the Kanwar Yatra pilgrimage are killed in a bus accident in Deoghar, Jharkand, India. (DW) (NDTV)
• The death toll from the flooding in Hebei and Beijing, China, increases to 34, with eight others missing. (NPR)

International relations

• 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza, International recognition of Palestine
  • Maltese prime minister Robert Abela announces that Malta will recognize the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly session in September. (TVM)
  • United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer declares that the UK will formally recognize the State of Palestine should a ceasefire not be achieved by September. (The Telegraph)
• Israel–Netherlands relations
  • The Netherlands bans far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich from the country and calls on the European Union to support a ceasefire in Gaza. (AP)

Law and crime

• Lebanon convicts and sentences six people who are accused of killing a United Nations peacekeeper in Beirut in 2023. (AP)
• The Internal Security Agency of Poland detains 32 people, including a Pole, a Colombian, Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, who are suspected of coordinating with Russia to engage in sabotage. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Four people are killed and over 500 others are arrested in protests in Luanda, Angola, against the government's increase in fuel prices. (DW)

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