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- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kyiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian forces launch drones and cruise missiles on Kyiv, Ukraine, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 145 others. At least one tower block completely collapses. (BBC News) (AP) (Interfax-Ukraine)
- Kyiv strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Myanmar civil war
- The military junta of Myanmar formally ends the country's four-year-long state of emergency and declares a December 2025 election for the country's new head of government and legislative members. (AP)
Arts and culture
- Canonisation of John Henry Newman
- Pope Leo XIV declares Saint John Henry Newman, a 19th-century Anglican convert who became a prominent English Catholic theologian, as a Doctor of the Church. (AP) (Vatican News)
Disasters and environment
- The death toll from the flooding in Beijing, China, increases to over 70 as the government discovers 31 elderly people who were trapped in a nursing home in Miyun district. (AP)
Health and environment
- U.S. president Donald Trump signs an executive order restoring the Presidential Fitness Test in all public schools in the United States. (AP) (USA Today)
International relations
- Israel–Slovenia relations, Arms embargoes on Israel since 2023
- The Slovenian government announces a complete ban on the import, export, and transit of arms and military equipment to and from Israel. (Arab News)
- South Korea–United States relations
- South Korea and the United States reach a trade agreement which places a 15% tariff on U.S. imports from South Korea. South Korea also promises to invest US$350 billion into American biotech, semiconductors, and shipbuilding over an unspecified time. (Yonhap) (CBS News)
Law and crime
- A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan, sentences opposition leader Omar Ayub and over 200 supporters of ousted prime minister Imran Khan to over ten years in prison each for their participation in the 2023 protests. (AP)
- Conor McGregor loses his appeal against a civil court in the Republic of Ireland, finding that he raped Nikita Hand. (RTÉ)
- Islamic terrorist Osama Krayem is found guilty at Stockholm District Court, Sweden, of involvement in a war crime in which Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh was burned alive inside a cage in Raqqa by the Islamic State on 3 January, 2015. (BBC News)
Science and technology
- Italy and Vatican City agree to transform a {{cvt|430|hectare|acre|abbr=on}} field in Rome to a solar farm that will power the Vatican, with the goal of turning it into the first carbon-neutral state. (AP) (Bluefield Daily Telegraph)
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