Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
    • At least 31 Palestinians are killed by the Israel Defense Forces at an aid distribution side in central Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • The Gaza Health Ministry reports that the official death toll of Palestinians killed in the war since October 2023 has reached 55,000 people, with over 127,000 people wounded. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • Russia launches drone attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine, damaging buildings and public facilities, killing three people and injuring 60 others. (Ukrainska Pravda)

Arts and culture

• President of Argentina Javier Milei is awarded with the Genesis Prize during a state visit to Israel for his "unequivocal support for Israel", becoming thus the first non-Jewish person to receive such recognition. (Clarín) (Haaretz)

Business and economy

• Qantas announces the closure of its Singapore-based, partly owned low-cost airline Jetstar Asia due to rising costs and regional competition; operations will cease on July 31. (BBC News)

International relations

• North Korea–South Korea relations
  • The military of South Korea shuts down its loudspeakers across the border with North Korea and stops its propaganda messages against the government of North Korea by orders of president Lee Jae-myung, to ease tensions between the countries. (AP)

Law and crime

• Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia
  • A court in Moscow, Russia, sentences Leonid Volkov, a close ally of deceased opposition leader Alexei Navalny, to 18 years in prison in absentia on criminal charges including justifying terrorism, organizing and financing an extremist group, and more. Volkov was also fined 2 million rubles (US$25,000). (AP)
  • The court in Moscow also places Lev Shlosberg, chairman of the opposition social-liberal party Yabloko, under house arrest for two months for allegedly discrediting the Russian army. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
    • Thirty-six Palestinians are killed by Israeli gunfire while trying to obtain aid in Gaza. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kyiv strikes, Odesa strikes
    • Russia launches drone attacks on Kyiv and Odesa, Ukraine. In Odesa, drone attacks hit medical facilities and residential buildings, killing two people and injuring thirteen others. (BBC News)
• Colombian conflict
  • Seven people are killed, including two police officers, and 36 others are injured in nineteen bombings and shootings by FARC dissidents targeting police posts, municipal buildings and civilians in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Another explosion is also reported in Jamundí. (France 24) (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Kenya bus crash
  • Five tourists are killed and 35 others are injured in a bus crash in Gichage, Nyandarua County, Kenya. (Gulf News) (Economic Times)

Business and economy

• Fossil fuel phase-out
  • The British government announces it will invest {{GBP}}14.2 billion (US$19 billion) to construct the new Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk, England, to reduce the country's reliance on fossil fuels. (AP) (Reuters)
• The Walt Disney Company closes a deal to acquire NBCUniversal's stake in the streaming service Hulu for $439 million, completing its acquisition of Hulu. (AP) (Variety)

International relations

• War crimes in the Gaza war, Gaza humanitarian crisis
  • The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway impose sanctions on Israeli far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, including asset freezes and travel bans, due to their conduct during the Gaza war. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Protests against Donald Trump
  • June 2025 Los Angeles protests
    • Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass imposes a curfew to the Downtown Los Angeles area in California, United States, after several days of civil disobedience and public demonstrations against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents abducting locals. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Ballymena riots
  • The second consecutive night of disorder in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, sees 17 police officers injured and five people arrested as protests spread to Belfast, Carrickfergus, and Newtownabbey. (BBC News)
• Graz school shooting
  • Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and several others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria. (BBC News)
• Capital punishment in Iran
  • Iran hangs nine members of the Islamic State for a 2018 attack which killed three Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel. (AP)
• The Federal Police of Brazil arrest at least eleven people in an operation aiming to reduce drug trafficking in favelas in Rio de Janeiro. (AP)
• The Supreme Court of Argentina ratifies the sentence of former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to six years in prison and a lifetime disqualification from holding public office for the crime of fraudulent administration. (La Nación)

Politics and elections

• Impeachment of Sara Duterte
  • The Senate of the Philippines votes 18–5 to return the articles of impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte to the House of Representatives for further deliberation. (Rappler) (Inquirer.net)
• Over 15,000 people gather in Budapest, Hungary, to protest against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government's conduct and alleged corruption relating to the ruling Fidesz party. (AP)
• The Parliament of Greece expels three lawmakers, including far-right politician Vasilis Stigkas, leader of the political party Spartans, due to their connection with and allegedly serving as proxies for the neo-Nazi criminal organization Golden Dawn. (AP)