Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from nationwide floods over the past 24 hours rises to 18 as at least eight people are killed, ten others are missing and 58 people are rescued after flash floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains swept away dozens of tourists picnicking along the Swat River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (CTV News)
• Seven city government personnel are killed and 16 others are injured after a mini dump truck returning from an environmental activity overturns in Silay, Negros Occidental, Philippines. (Xinhua News Agency)

Law and crime

• Japanese serial killer and rapist Takahiro Shiraishi is executed for the 2017 murders and dismemberments of nine people in his apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. (CTV News)
• The Supreme Court rules that all lower courts orders on all nationwide injunctions exceeded their authority and should be limited, making it harder for district judges to entirely block presidential authority or actions. This severely affects court cases involving illegal immigrant deportations and birthright citizenship. (USA Today)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli forces kill at least 71 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. At least 14 of those Palestinians are killed in the North Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli settler violence
    • Three Palestinians are killed and many others are injured by Israeli settlers in the village of Kafr Malik near Ramallah in the West Bank. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 South Africa floods
  • The death toll from the flooding caused by a winter storm in the Eastern Cape of South Africa one fortnight earlier increases to 101, with two children still missing. (AP)
• Six people are killed and thousands of others are displaced from their homes amid torrential rain and flash floods in Rongjiang County, Guizhou, China. (Al Jazeera)
• Three people are killed and dozens of others are missing in a flash flood caused by torrential rain in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India. (AP)
• The bodies of three missing people are recovered after the June 20 crash of an Airmedic MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 in a lake shortly after takeoff from Havre Saint-Pierre Airport in Quebec, Canada. (CTV News)
• Two people are killed, including a child, and 17 others are injured, including one critically, during torrential storms causing flooding in Paris, France. (CTV News)
• A double-decker bus carrying students from Barton Peveril Sixth Form College plunges into a river in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, injuring all 19 passengers, including five who are hospitalized. (AP)

Health and environment

• A United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report says the worldwide recreational use and production of cocaine hit an all-time high in 2023, saying the current surge in cocaine use is primarily due to increased illicit coca bush cultivation in Colombia and updated yield data. (RTE)

Law and crime

• Ecuadorian conflict
  • Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa announces the recapture of José Adolfo Macías Villamar, the leader of the Los Choneros cartel and Ecuador's most wanted criminal, in Manta, Manabí Province, after he disappeared from a prison last year. (DW)
• At least six people are killed and five others are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack when a 35-year-old man drives his car into a group of elementary school students and two teachers crossing a road in Miyun, Beijing, China. (The Epoch Times)

Politics and elections

• Protests against Faure Gnassingbé
  • Clashes take place between protesters and security forces in the Togolese capital Lomé amid calls for Faure Gnassingbé, who has ruled the country since 2005, to step down. Opposition groups accuse Gnassingbé of changing the constitution to remain in office indefinitely. (AP)