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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • 2025 Uvira offensive
      • TheCongolese military launches an attack againstM23-aligned rebels around the town ofMinembwe inSouth Kivu in an effort to recapture it, and claims to have killed four rebel commanders in a drone strike.(Critical Threats Project)
• Syrian civil war
  • Israeli invasion of Syria
    • TheIsraeli Air Force strikes targets throughoutSouthern Syria asIsrael begins amilitary operation to "demilitarize" the southern Syrian governorates ofDaraa,Suwayda andQuneitra. Syrianstate media reportsairstrikes nearDamascus. At least two people are reportedly killed.(ABC News)(The Times of India)
• 2020s European re-armament
  • TheUnited Kingdom announces an increase inmilitary spending to 2.5% of itsGDP by2027, and 3% by 2034 at the latest. The move comes just beforeUK Prime MinisterKeir Starmer is to meet withU.S. PresidentDonald Trump on Thursday inWashington, D.C.(The New York Times)
• Casamance conflict
  • TheSenegalesegovernment and theMovement of Democratic Forces of Casamance reach an agreement to end their 40-year conflict at talks mediated byBissau-GuineanPresidentUmaro Sissoco Embalo.(The Defense Post)
• Central African Republic Civil War
  • Nine people are killed and hundreds of homes areburned down in3R rebel attacks inBamingui-Bangoran,Central African Republic.(AP)

Business and economy

• Americanfabrics andhandicraft supplies retail chainJo-Ann Stores files its secondbankruptcy claim and announces it will close all 800 stores in the 49states, withliquidation sales beginning immediately.(NPR)
• Iraq agrees to reopen theoil pipeline betweenIraqi Kurdistan andTurkey after a conversation betweenU.S. Secretary of StateMarco Rubio andIraqi Prime MinisterMohammed Shia' Al Sudani, having been closed for two years due to a dispute between Iraq and Turkey.(Anadolu Agency)(The Arab Weekly)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Chile blackout
  • A nationwidepower outage occurs inChile, impacting most of the country's population and causing the temporary stoppage of several significant industries.(Reuters)
• 2025 Queensland floods
  • At least twelve people are killed by amelioidosis outbreak caused by standing waters from persistentflooding inQueensland,Australia.(7News)
• 2025 Sudanese Air Force Antonov An-26 crash
  • ASudanese military plane crashes shortly after takeoff fromWadi Seidna Air Base on the outskirts of the capitalKhartoum, killing at least 46 people and injuring several others.(BBC News)
• Four workers are killed and six others are injured when anelevated highway under construction collapses inCheonan,South Chungcheong Province,South Korea.(AP)
• Amagnitude 5.9earthquake hits near theDominican Republic andPuerto Rico, with no damage reported.(ABC News)

International relations

• Rwanda–United Kingdom relations,Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
  • TheUK government suspends financial aid and imposes economic sanctions on several high-rankingRwandan officials over the country's military support forM23 rebels in theDemocratic Republic of the Congo.(Reuters)
• Ukraine–United States relations
  • Ukrainian Justice MinisterOlha Stefanishyna announces thatUkraine has reached a deal with theUnited States on mineral resources.(Kyiv Independent)

Law and crime

• 2025 Thiruvananthapuram mass murder
  • A man brutally beat ( five people, including his brother, girlfriend, to death with a hammer inThiruvananthapuram,Kerala, South India.gulfnewsEconomic Times
• Environmental issues in Brazil
  • TheBrazilianPublic Prosecutor's Office files a lawsuit againstmining corporationVale S.A. and the state ofPará for massmetal poisoning that has affected theXikrinindigenous people, whoseIndigenous Territory is located in the state.(News-Press NOW)
• TheIndonesianAttorney General’s Office arrests three executives of state-owned oil and gas companyPertamina on charges of corruption and fraud regarding gasoline quality that cost the government more than $11 billionUSD.(The Straits Times)(The Jakarta Globe)

Politics and elections

• Second presidency of Donald Trump
  • Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
    • U.S. District Judge for theWestern Washington District CourtJamal Whitehead temporarily blocksPresidentDonald Trump'sexecutive order to suspend theRefugee Admissions Program, ruling that President Trump cannot nullify the law passed byCongress, following alawsuit against theTrump administration by theInternational Refugee Assistance Project.(AP)