Armed conflicts and attacks

• Terrorism in Greece
  • A woman is killed in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki after a bomb she was carrying exploded in her hands. The bomb was intended to be placed outside a nearby bank. Several storefronts and vehicles are damaged by the explosion. (AP News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Australian federal election
  • Australians vote to elect the 150 members of the House of Representatives and 40 members of the Senate to form the Parliament of Australia. (CNN) (Bloomberg)
  • The Australian Labour Party under current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is projected to win a second term. (ABC News Australia).
  • Opposition Leader and Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton is projected to lose his seat of Dickson. (ABC News Australia)
• 2025 South Korean presidential election
  • Former Labor Minister Kim Moon Soo wins the presidential nomination of South Korea’s main conservative party People Power. (AP News)
• 2025 Singaporean general election
  • Singaporeans vote to elect the 97 members of the Parliament of Singapore across 33 constituencies in the 19th general election since 1948. (CNA) (The Straits Times)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Humanitarian aid during the Gaza war
    • Gaza Freedom Flotilla incident
      • A Gaza-bound activist humanitarian aid ship, part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, catches fire and issues an SOS after what its organizers alleged was an Israeli drone attack off the coast of Malta in international waters. (CNN)

Arts and culture

• Rust is released theatrically in the United States, three and a half years after a fatal on-set shooting accident occurred involving members of the cast and crew, including cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, director Joel Souza, and lead actor Alec Baldwin. (The New York Times)

Business and economy

• Tariffs in the second Trump administration
  • China–United States trade war
    • The Trump administration terminates the de minimis tariff exemption for some imports shipped directly to consumers. Online shops such as Shein and Temu adjust prices, while Temu also announces a shipping pause to the United States. (The New York Times) (BBC)

Disasters and accidents

• Seven people, including six foreign nationals, are killed and at least sixteen others are injured, some severely, when a truck and a van collide and catch fire on U.S. Route 20 near Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, United States. (NBC News) (ABC News)

Health and environment

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 216 children have died this flu season in the United States, making it the deadliest since the 2009 swine flu pandemic 15 years ago. (CNN)

Law and crime

• Immigration policy of the second Donald Trump administration
  • The United States Department of Defense designates a second area on the Mexico–United States border, attached to the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso, Texas, as a military zone to enforce immigration laws. (AP News)
• Gang war in Haiti, Haiti–United States relations
  • The United States Department of State designates the Viv Ansanm coalition and the Gran Grif gang as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. (NBC News)

Politics and elections

• Freedom of the press in the United States
  • US President Donald Trump signs an executive order calling for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop directly funding NPR and PBS, and for government agencies to stop indirectly funding these public broadcasters. (CNN)
• The German Constitution protection office designates the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a right-wing extremist organization. The AfD came second in the 2025 German federal election after winning 20.8% of the vote for a record 152 seats in the Bundestag. (BBC News)