Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli forces kill at least 51 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. At least 14 Palestinians were killed in the North Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli settler violence
    • Three Palestinians are killed and many others injured by Israeli settlers in the village of Kafr Malik near Ramallah in the West Bank. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Bangui school stampede
  • Twenty-nine people are killed and 280 others are injured after an explosion causes a stampede at a high school in Bangui, Central African Republic. President Faustin-Archange Touadéra declares three days of national mourning. (BBC)
• 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 seventeen others are injured, including one critically, during torrential storms that caused flooding in Paris, France. (CTV News)
• 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)
• 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)
• The death toll from the flooding caused by a winter storm in the Eastern Cape of South Africa two weeks ago increases to 101, with two children still missing. (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 that José Adolfo Macías Villamar, the leader of the Los Choneros cartel and Ecuador's most wanted criminal, has been recaptured in Manta, Manabí Province, after he disappeared from a prison last year. (DW)

Politics and elections

• Protests against Faure Gnassingbé
  • Clashes take place between protesters and security forces in the Togolese capital Lomé amid calls for president 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)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Iran–Israel war
    • United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
      • A preliminary assessment by the US Defense Intelligence Agency finds that Iran's nuclear program may have only been set back by a few months after the US airstrikes, with the centrifuges required to enrich uranium left largely intact, contradicting previous claims made by US President Donald Trump that the facilities were "obliterated". (AP)
      • After US President Donald Trump rejects the DIA assessment as "fake news", US Central Intelligence Agency director John Ratcliffe says that the CIA assesses that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were severely damaged in the airstrikes, likely requiring years to rebuild. (BBC News)
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli forces kill at least 78 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with at least 14 who were seeking humanitarian aid. (Al Jazeera)
    • Seven Israeli soldiers are killed in Khan Yunis when an explosive device affixed to their armored vehicle detonates. (AP)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • At least 17 soldiers are killed when groups of bandits attack three Army bases in Kaduna and Niger States in Nigeria. The Army and Air Force reports they have launched counteroffensives against the bandit gangs. (DW)

Business and economy

• The first train from North Korea arrives at the Yaroslavsky railway station in Moscow, Russia, after a five-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (TASS)
• Online dating service Bumble announces it will layoff 30% of its global workforce, equal to at least 240 jobs. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• At least eleven people are killed and fifteen others are missing after a landslide in Medellín and Bello, Antioquia Department, Colombia. (AP)

Law and crime

• 2024 Armenian protests
  • Armenian authorities arrest an archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan of the Armenian Apostolic Church and accuse him of plotting against the government. (AP)
• 2025 Kenyan protests
  • At least 16 people are killed and over 400 others are injured, including demonstrators, police officers and journalists, when police clash with protestors during nationwide anti-government protests across Kenya. (CTV News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Council of Europe's Human Rights Office sign an accord to establish a special tribunal for crimes in Ukraine. (France 24)
• Anti–money laundering § United States, War on drugs § Mexico
  • Mexican banks CIBanco, Intercam Banco, and Vector Casa de Bolsa—the latter owned by Alfonso Romo, former Chief of Staff to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador—are sanctioned by the United States government over alleged money laundering for drug cartels. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum requests that the U.S. government provide evidence. (MSN) (Al Jazeera) (Forbes)

Sports

• 2025 NBA Draft
  • In basketball, the NBA Draft is held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, with the Dallas Mavericks selecting Duke player Cooper Flagg as the first overall pick. (CNN)