Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kryvyi Rih strikes
    • A Russian missile strikes a hotel in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, killing two people and injuring seven others. (Reuters)
• South Sudanese Civil War
  • 2025 Nasir clashes
    • Security forces in South Sudan arrest Puot Kang Chol, a senior member of the the parliamentary opposition, minister of petroleum and mining, and army general, as well as multiple other opposition-aligned military officers. South Sudanese soldiers also surround vice president Riek Machar's house overnight before later withdrawing. (Reuters) (BBC News)
• Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus
  • Russia's Federal Security Service says that it killed four Islamic State militants in Dagestan during a counterterrorism operation. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Second Trump tariffs
  • 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
    • United States president Donald Trump announces a one-month temporary reprieve from tariffs to American automakers after receiving complaints from the Big Three automakers, Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. (NPR)
• 2025 United States federal mass layoffs
  • The United States Department of Veteran Affairs announces it will lay off over 80,000 jobs to comply with the Department of Government Efficiency and the Trump administration's plans. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season
  • Tropical Cyclone Alfred
    • Queensland Premier David Crisafulli announces the suspension of public transport services and the closure of 640 schools in South East Queensland, Australia, as Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall early Friday morning [[UTC+10:00|local time]]. (ABC News Australia)
• Three skiers are suspected to be killed after an avalanche trapped them under more than 30 feet of snow in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska, United States. If the deaths are confirmed, it would be the deadliest U.S. avalanche since an avalanche killed three mountain climbers in Washington's Cascade Range two years ago. (CTV News)

International relations

• Russia-United States relations
  • The United States Department of Defense denies previous media reports that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had ordered a halt to offensive cyber operations and information operations against Russia by U.S. Cyber Command. (The Hill)
• Somalia–United States relations
  • The U.S. Embassy in Mogadishu warns of imminent attack threats in Somalia, including at Aden Adde International Airport. Embassy personnel movements are suspended. (ABC)
  • Somali military officials confirm that the Trump administration has halted all funding for Somalia's Danab Brigade special forces and cut billions in USAID grants to the country. (Hiiraan Online)
• United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • U.S. Central Intelligence Agency director John Ratcliffe announces that the United States has suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• 2025 California wildfires
  • In the U.S., Los Angeles County files a lawsuit against Southern California Edison, the electric utility company servicing most of Southern California, and alleges that the company's power system started the Eaton Fire, seeking to recover costs and damages sustained from the fire that damaged over 9,400 buildings and killed 17 people. (AP)
• Elder financial abuse
  • The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District Court of Vermont indicts and charges 25 Canadians for conspiracy to defraud elderly people in the United States out of US$21 million and charges five of those 25 with conspiracy to commit money laundering. (NPR)
• Mexican drug war
  • Mexican law enforcement announces they have seized 275,000 pills of fentanyl stored in boxes of nopales in Sonora. A man is arrested in connection to the seizure. (AP)