- 2 July 2025 –
- Australian airline Qantas is hit by cyberattack affecting a third-party platform used by its call centre, compromising the personal data of up to 6 million customers. (ABC News Australia)
- 1 July 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Luhansk Oblast campaign
- Russian forces capture the entirety of Luhansk Oblast for the second time since the invasion began. (The Times)
- 1 July 2025 –
- An Australian east coast low rapidly intensifies as it makes landfall on the east coast of Australia, affecting millions of people in Sydney and the Central Coast. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- The M1 line of the Warsaw Metro is damaged in an overnight fire in Warsaw, Poland. Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski blames the incident on a power outage. (TVP Info)
- 1 July 2025 – 2025 Thai political crisis
- The Constitutional Court of Thailand suspends Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from duty pending a case seeking her dismissal. (The Washington Post)
- 1 July 2025 –
- Turkey arrests four journalists of a satirical magazine accused of drawing Muhammad, the sacred prophet in Islam. (BBC News)
- 30 June 2025 – Gaza war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
- Israeli forces kill at least 74 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 23 who were attempting to get humanitarian aid. (NPR)
- Al-Baqa internet café strike
- At least 39 people are killed and dozens others injured due to an airstrike on the al-Baqa internet café in Gaza City. Multiple sportspeople and multiple journalists were killed, including Ismail Abu Hatab. (NOS)
- 30 June 2025 – 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett announces that the United States will restart trade talks with Canada after they cancel their digital services tax on American technology firms. (CBC)
- 30 June 2025 – Telangana chemical factory explosion
- Thirty-six people are killed and several others are injured in an chemical factory explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in Sangareddy, Telangana, India. (AP)
- 30 June 2025 –
- Wildfires break out in Turkey resulting in İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport cancelling or diverting all flights. (The Independent)
- 30 June 2025 – Second presidency of Donald Trump
- According to peer-reviewed general medical journal The Lancet, more than 14 million of the world's most vulnerable people, one-third of whom are young children, may die due to the second Trump administration's dismantling of US foreign aid. (AFP)
- 30 June 2025 – International sanctions against Syria, Syria–United States relations
- United States president Donald Trump signs an executive order lifting all American sanctions on Syria that were imposed during the now-overthrown Assad family's regime. (White House)
- 30 June 2025 – 2025 Boulder fire attack
- The death of an 82-year-old woman who was severely injured in the firebombing attack earlier this month is announced by leaders of the Boulder Jewish Community Center. (AP)
- 30 June 2025 – 2025 Kenyan protests
- A civilian vendor shot at close range by police during protests over the death of Albert Ojwang in Nairobi, Kenya, succumbs to his injuries in hospital after being declared brain-dead, bringing the death toll from nationwide protests in Kenya to 20. (CTV News) (DW)
- 30 June 2025 – Murder of Louisa Dunne
- Ryland Headley, a 92-year-old man, is convicted for the 1967 murder of Louisa Dunne, which is believed to be the UK's longest-running cold case ever to be solved. (The Independent)
- 30 June 2025 – Mexican drug war
- Twenty bodies, five of them decapitated, are found either hanging from a bridge or inside a van abandoned beneath, near Culiacán, Sinaloa, amid clashes between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel. (The Guardian)
- 30 June 2025 –
- Police in Baku, Azerbaijan, raid the office of the Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik, alleging its operations in Azerbaijan are via "illegal financing" after its official accreditation was revoked in February. (AP)
- 29 June 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, Kyiv strikes
- Russian forces launch more than 500 drones and missiles at Ukraine, targeting critical infrastructure, and injuring at least 12 people. Ukraine says it is the largest Russian air attack on the country since the start of the war. (AP)
- A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashes while repelling a Russian airstrike, killing the pilot. (Reuters)
- 29 June 2025 – Gaza war
- Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
- UNICEF reports that at least 66 children have died of malnutrition in Gaza throughout the war due to the Israeli humanitarian aid blockade. (Al Jazeera)
- 29 June 2025 – 2025 Vienna Township Cessna 441 crash
- Six people are killed when a Cessna 441 aircraft crashes into the backyard of a house shortly after takeoff from Youngstown–Warren Regional Airport in Howland Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. (WFMJ-TV)
- 29 June 2025 –
- At least 11 people are killed and seven others are injured after a gold mine collapses in Houeid, Sudan. (DW) (Asharq Al-Awsat)
- 29 June 2025 – Mass shootings in the United States
- 2025 Coeur d'Alene shooting
- A mass shooting ambush situation is reported when at least one person opens fire on firefighters and law enforcement responding to a wildfire on Canfield Mountain, believed to have been set by the perpetrator. Three people are killed, including the shooter and seven others injured in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, United States. The FBI is deployed and the shooter is later found dead. (BNO News) (Coeur d'Alene Press) (MSN)
- 29 June 2025 –
- Two teenagers are injured, including one critically, in a shooting outside of the Stonewall Inn historic gay tavern and monument after the 2025 NYC Pride March in New York City, New York, United States. (ABC News)
- 29 June 2025 – 2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests
- Over 140,000 people demonstrate in Belgrade and other major Serbian cities to protest against the Serbian government, call for President Aleksandar Vučić to be removed from power, and for snap elections for his replacement after dozens of students and protestors were arrested by police last night. (DW)
- 29 June 2025 –
- A court in Manila rules that Alice Guo, the former mayor of Bamban, Tarlac is a Chinese citizen. The same nullifies her proclamation as mayor back in 2022. (Rappler)
- 28 June 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza, including 20 in Tuffah, Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Three people are killed by Israeli attacks on multiple vehicles in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- 28 June 2025 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- 2025 Mir Ali attack
- Sixteen soldiers and the perpetrator are killed and 29 others are injured, including six children, when a suicide bomber drives an explosive-laden vehicle into a military convoy in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Hafiz Gul Bahadur faction of the Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility. (Azerbaijani Press Agency)
- 28 June 2025 –
- At least 37 people are killed and 30 others are injured after two buses collide and burst into flames on a highway in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. (AP)
- The death toll from the landslide in Medellín, Colombia, on Wednesday rises to 22, with eight others still missing. (ABC News)
- Four people are killed and several others are injured, including two critically, in a seven-vehicle pileup on the Interstate 20 near Kaufman County, Texas, United States. (KETK-TV)
- Four people are killed when a Yakovlev Yak-18T aircraft crashes near Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia. (Azerbaijani Press Agency)
- 28 June 2025 – 2025 Hungarian Pride ban
- Despite the ban by the Hungarian authorities, tens of thousands gather for the Budapest Pride march, defying Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's legal threats against the event. (BBC News)
- 28 June 2025 – Smoking in France
- The French government issues a decree banning smoking in several public spaces, near schools, and where children gather. However, electronic cigarettes are exempt from the ban. (AP)
- 28 June 2025 –
- The United Kingdom Border Force seizes 2.4 metric tons of cocaine worth £96 million (US$132 million) from a ship from Panama, reportedly one of the country's largest drug busts. (AP)
- 27 June 2025 – Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
- Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) sign a peace agreement in Washington, D.C., United States, which calls for the "disengagement, disarmament, and conditional integration" of armed groups in the DRC, the return of refugees, and respect for territorial integrity. (Yahoo! News)
- 27 June 2025 –
- The S&P 500 index closes at a record high of 6173.07 points, breaking the record set in February. (NPR)
- The death toll from nationwide floods over the past 24 hours rises to 36 as at least 18 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. (Deccan Herald) (CTV News)
- Nineteen people are killed and three others are injured when a minibus collides with a truck on a regional road in Ashmoun, Monufia, Egypt. (CTV News)
- Seven city government personnel are killed while 18 others are injured after a government-owned mini dump truck returning from an environmental activity overturns in Silay, Negros Occidental, Philippines. (Rappler)
- Three people are killed when a Cessna 172 crashes in a residential area in Champhol, Centre-Val de Loire, France. (Ouest-France) (Le Parisien)
- 27 June 2025 – 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- U.S. president Donald Trump announces the suspension of the trade talks with Canada, also announcing new tariffs on goods crossing the Canada–United States border. (BBC News)
- 27 June 2025 –
- 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)
- 27 June 2025 – 2025 NHL entry draft
- In ice hockey, the NHL entry draft is held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, U.S., with the New York Islanders selecting Matthew Schaefer as the first overall pick. (Sportsnet)
- 26 June 2025 – 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 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)
- 26 June 2025 – 2025 South Africa floods
- The death toll from the flooding caused by a winter storm in the Eastern Cape of South Africa two weeks earlier increases to 101, with two children still missing. (AP)
- 26 June 2025 –
- Nine people are killed and thousands of others are displaced from their homes amid torrential rain and flash floods in Rongjiang County, Guizhou, China. (AP News) (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)
- 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. (RTÉ)
- 26 June 2025 – 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)
- 26 June 2025 – Anti–money laundering § United States, War on drugs § Mexico
- The Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores temporarily takes over the management of CIBanco, Intercam Banco, and Vector Casa de Bolsa following allegations of money laundering for drug cartels. (El País)
- 26 June 2025 – 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)
- 25 June 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- Iran–Israel war
- United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
- A preliminary assessment by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency finds that Iran's nuclear program may have only been set back by a few months after the U.S. airstrikes, with the centrifuges required to enrich uranium left largely intact, contradicting previous claims made by U.S. president Donald Trump that the facilities were "obliterated". (AP)
- After U.S. president Donald Trump rejects the DIA assessment as "fake news", U.S. 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)
- 25 June 2025 – 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)
- 25 June 2025 –
- 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 lay off 30% of its global workforce, equal to at least 240 jobs. (AP)
- 25 June 2025 – 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 News)
- 25 June 2025 –
- At least 11 people are killed and 15 others are missing after a landslide in Medellín and Bello, Antioquia Department, Colombia. (AP)
- 25 June 2025 – 2024 Armenian protests
- Armenian authorities arrest the archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan of the Armenian Apostolic Church and accuse him of plotting against the government. (AP)
- 25 June 2025 – 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)
- 25 June 2025 – 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)
- 25 June 2025 – 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)
- 25 June 2025 – 2025 NBA Draft
- In basketball, the NBA Draft is held at the Barclays Center in New York City, U.S., with the Dallas Mavericks selecting Duke player Cooper Flagg as the first overall pick. (CNN)
- 24 June 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- Iran–Israel war
- Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel war
- Israel continues to launch airstrikes on Iran while Iran launches a wave of ballistic missiles at Israel despite the United States claiming a ceasefire had been reached between the warring sides. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
- Nine people are killed in an Israeli airstrike on residential units in Gilan, Iran. The attack also injured 33 people, including 16 women and children, with five requiring hospital treatment. (Al Jazeera)
- Four people are killed and 22 others are injured in Beersheba, Southern Israel, after an Iranian missile strikes an apartment block. (The Times of Israel)
- U.S. president Donald Trump tells reporters at the White House that Israel and Iran "don't know what the fuck they are doing" as both countries continue to launch attacks despite U.S. claims of a ceasefire. (BBC News) (The Independent) (The Guardian)
- Gaza war
- Rafah aid distribution killings
- At least 44 Palestinians are killed by Israeli forces who open fire towards people waiting for aid trucks in Gaza. (AP)
- 24 June 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Dnipro strikes
- Russian forces launch an Iskander missile strike on Dnipro, Ukraine, killing at least 19 people and injuring 300 others. Another two civilians are killed and nine others are injured in Samar, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast as a result of a Russian air attack. (Reuters) (The Kyiv Independent) (Ukrainska Pravda)
- 24 June 2025 – Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
- Human Rights Watch reports that at least 120 children have been abducted by Islamic State-linked Ansar al-Sunna insurgents in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique, this year. The children are used for labor, conscripted as child soldiers, or forced into marriage. (AP)
- 24 June 2025 –
- German finance minister Lars Klingbeil announces that the German government will raise its defense budget from 2.4% to 3.5% of its GDP by 2029, citing a NATO quota for member states to raise defense spending. (AP) (Politico)
- The death toll from a boat accident from a storm on Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States increases to eight as the final missing person is recovered. (NPR)
- Twenty people are injured, including 12 children, after lightning strikes near Lake Murray in the U.S. state of South Carolina. (MSN)
- 24 June 2025 – 2025 The Hague NATO summit
- The NATO summit is held in The Hague in the Netherlands. (Espreso TV)
- 24 June 2025 – 2025 Irapuato shooting
- At least 11 people are killed, including a teenager, and 20 others are injured when gunmen open fire at a party celebrating the Nativity of John the Baptist in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. (Reuters)
- 24 June 2025 –
- Three soldiers are killed and eight others are injured when a soldier opens fire on his colleagues during an altercation over paychecks in Mungazi, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. (CTV News)
- French police detain 12 people after over 145 people report being stabbed with syringes at Fête de la Musique sites across the country. (DW)
- 24 June 2025 – 2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary
- Zohran Mamdani leads the primary to become the Democratic Party nominee for the 2025 New York City mayoral election, defeating former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, with Mamdani having received 43.5% of first-choice votes. He is the presumptive nominee, however the official winner will be declared after the ranked choice tally on July 1. (USA Today)
- 23 June 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- Iran–Israel war
- Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel war
- A United Nations fact-finding mission reports that Israeli strikes on Iran’s state broadcasting agency and killing of Iranian nuclear scientists were likely in violation of international humanitarian law. (Al Jazeera)
- The Israeli military strikes Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, damaging the facility's infrastructure. State TV showed first responders carrying a casualty and searching for survivors under a collapsed building. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- Qatar closes the country's airspace amidst an imminent threat of a Iranian ballistic missile attack on U.S. forces stationed in the country. Multiple explosions are reported over Doha. (AP) (BBC News)
- 2025 Iranian strikes on Al Udeid Air Base
- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps says it has launched missiles at the U.S. Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and U.S. bases in Iraq. U.S. officials later confirm no Iranian missiles hit the Al Udeid Air Base. (France 24)
- The Qatar Foreign Ministry says the Qatari military has intercepted all the missiles launched at the Al Udeid Air Base, and that no injuries are reported. (Al Bawaba) (Axios)
- Iran–Israel war ceasefire
- U.S. president Donald Trump announces that a ceasefire has been reached between Iran and Israel. The ceasefire has not been confirmed by either Iran or Israel. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- Gaza war
- Rafah aid distribution killings
- Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 43 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 13 people seeking aid assistance. (Al Jazeera)
- Spanish foreign minister José Albares calls on the European Council to suspend EU relations with Israel due to Israeli human rights violations in Gaza. He also calls for an arms embargo against Israel and sanctions on individuals obstructing the two-state solution. (Al Jazeera) (YeniSafak)
- 23 June 2025 – Somali Civil War
- 2025 Shabelle offensive
- At least seven Ugandan Armed Forces personnel are confirmed killed by Al Shabaab following a three-day siege on Sabiidd-Anole in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia amid ongoing operations against the militant group. The soldiers were part of the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia, tasked with countering Al-Shabaab. (Garowe Online) (The Defense Post)
- Al-Shabaab claims that its fighters have overrun a military installation, killed several soldiers, and seized weapons and military equipment following fierce fighting erupted on the morning between Somali National Army and Al-Shabaab militants. (Hiiraan Online) (The Eastleigh Voice)
- Child soldiers in Somalia
- The United Nations formally removes Somalia from its annual register of nations that enlist and deploy child soldiers. The country had been included on the register since 2007, owing to consistent reports of child recruitment by Somali Armed Forces and associated militias. (The Eastleigh Voice) (UN)
- 23 June 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte announces that European countries and Canada will send Ukraine a combined aid package of €35 billion (US$40.3 billion). (RBC)
- Kyiv strikes
- Russian forces launch a large-scale drone and missile strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, damaging residential areas, hospitals, and sports infrastructure, killing nine people and injuring at least 33 others. (BBC News)
- 23 June 2025 – Gaza war protests
- The United Kingdom announces it will ban the direct action protest network Palestine Action on anti-terrorism grounds after the group broke into the RAF Brize Norton base and vandalized two planes. (AP)
- 23 June 2025 –
- The Thai Department of Special Investigation seizes 2.4 metric tons of methamphetamine disguised as corn flour packages worth $90.8 million from a tourist boat off the coast of Eastern Thailand and arrests eight men in Rayong province for attempted drug smuggling. (AP)
- The Indonesian National Narcotics Board announces it arrested 285 people, including 29 women and seven foreigners, and seized over 0.68 ton of narcotics in a two-month crackdown operation on narcotrafficking and illegal drug abuse. (AP)
- The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile releases the first light images from its new 8.4-meter (28 ft) telescope. (Scientific American)
- 22 June 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- Iran–Israel war
- Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel war
- United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
- U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the U.S. Air Force has conducted strikes on several nuclear facilities in Iran, including Natanz Nuclear Facility and Fordow Uranium Enrichment Plant. (The Times of Israel)
- The International Atomic Energy Agency says no increase in off-site radiation levels was detected at the three targeted nuclear sites. (Al Jazeera)
- A report by Axios finds that Democrats on the Senate and House Intelligence panels were not given advance notice of the attack, while Republicans were given advance notice. (Axios)
- The Parliament of Iran votes for the closure of the Strait of Hormuz in response to the U.S. attacks. (The Guardian)
- Iran launches over 40 ballistic missiles at Israel, injuring at least 23 people and destroying apartments and homes. (AP)
- Gaza war
- Gaza war hostage crisis
- Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of three hostages who were abducted by Palestinian militants during the October 7 attacks. Fifty hostages remain in Gaza, of which 20 are thought to remain alive. (Reuters)
- The Israel Defense Forces kill at least 51 people and injure 104 others in southern Khan Younis, central Gaza, and northern Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
- 22 June 2025 – Syrian civil war
- Mar Elias Church attack
- At least 23 people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 63 others are injured when at least one alleged Islamic State suicide attacker opens fire and detonates an explosive device inside the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria. (CTV News) (The Washington Post)
- 22 June 2025 – 2025 NBA Finals
- In basketball, the Oklahoma City Thunder win the NBA Finals in 7 games against the Indiana Pacers, winning their first championship in franchise history. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is named NBA Finals MVP. (NPR)
- 21 June 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
- Rafah aid distribution killings
- Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 21 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 11 people seeking aid assistance. (Al Jazeera)
- The European Union European External Action Service finds that Israel may have breached its human rights obligations under the terms of the EU-Israel Association agreement governing its ties with the EU. (Al Jazeera)
- Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces the UNRWA will open an office in Turkey's capital, Ankara. (Al Jazeera)
- Iran–Israel war
- The death toll from Israel's strikes on Iran rises to more than 430, while 3,056 people have been injured. (Al Jazeera)
- Iran's health minister Mohammadreza Zafarghandi says Israel has targeted three hospitals during the conflict, killing two health workers and a child, and has targeted six ambulances. (Al Jazeera)
- Iran's emergency organization head says Israeli strikes have targeted medical and relief facilities, in addition to residential areas across the country. Three relief bases and eight ambulances have been seriously damaged or destroyed. (Al Jazeera)
- 21 June 2025 –
- The Netherlands officially returns 119 sculptures from the Benin Bronzes collection that were looted from the Kingdom of Benin in present-day Edo State, Nigeria, by British colonial forces. (Al Jazeera) (OkayAfrica)
- 21 June 2025 – 2025 Santa Catarina hot air balloon crash
- At least eight people are killed and 13 others are injured in a hot air balloon accident in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, Brazil. (CNN) (DW)
- 21 June 2025 –
- Three people are killed and 81 others are injured after a barrier collapsed in Stade du 5 Juillet in Algeria, in a match between MC Alger and NC Magra. (BBC News)
- Six people are killed and two others are missing after a boat carrying ten people capsizes on Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada, United States. (NBC News)
- 21 June 2025 – Belarus–United States relations, Human rights in Belarus
- Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko pardons several opposition figures, including opposition leader Siarhei Tsikhanouski, following a deal brokered by U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg. (Politico)
- 21 June 2025 – Pakistan–United States relations
- Pakistan announces that it will formally nominate U.S. president Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, citing his mediation during the 2025 India–Pakistan conflict. (BBC News)
- 21 June 2025 –
- Panama declares a state of emergency in Bocas del Toro Province and temporarily suspends some constitutional rights amid a series of anti-government protests opposing a pension law that has left one person dead and injured at least 30 others, including several police officers. (Al Jazeera) (EFE) (Reuters)
- 20 June 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- Iran–Israel war
- 2025 Iran–European nuclear talks
- Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi meets with the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, Germany, France and European Union in Geneva for talks about its nuclear program. (AP)
- Hundreds of thousands of people protest against Israel on the streets of Tehran after weekly prayers, chanting slogans in support of Iranian leaders. Protests also took place in Tabriz in northwestern Iran and Shiraz in the south. (Al Jazeera)
- Saudi Arabia's Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Commission says military strikes on civilian nuclear facilities violate international law in response to Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. (Al Jazeera)
- Gaza war
- Rafah aid distribution killings
- Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 82 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 34 people seeking aid assistance. (Al Jazeera)
- The United Nations relists Israel on its blacklist of countries committing abuses against children in armed conflict in its annual Children in Armed Conflict report. (Al Jazeera)
- 20 June 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Odesa strikes
- Russian forces launch a large-scale drone strike at Odesa, Ukraine, damaging buildings and public facilities, with one person killed and another 14 injured. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- 20 June 2025 –
- Four people are missing after a Kawasaki medical helicopter on a rescue operation crashes north of Baie-Johan-Beetz near Natashquan on the Côte-Nord in Quebec, Canada. The pilot is found and taken to hospital. (CBC)
- 20 June 2025 – France–Niger relations
- The Nigerien government announces it will nationalize the controlling share of the SOMAIR mining company that previously belonged to French multinational nuclear fuel cycle corporation Orano, which is in turn controlled by the French government. (DW) (AP)
- 20 June 2025 – Singapore–Vietnam relations
- The governments of Singapore and Vietnam sign a memorandum to exchange 300 to 1,000 skilled workers between the countries annually. (VnExpress)
- 20 June 2025 – Detention of Mahmoud Khalil
- Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil is released from prison, after being in custody for three months. (NBC News)
- 20 June 2025 –
- The United Kingdom parliament votes to approve a bill allowing terminally ill adults to voluntarily end their lives, moving towards legalizing assisted suicide in England and Wales. (DW) (BBC News)
- 20 June 2025 – Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
- The parliament of the Netherlands recognizes the deportation of the Crimean Tatars carried out by the Soviet Union in 1944 as genocide. (Kyiv Independent)
- 19 June 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- Iran–Israel war
- Airstrikes during the Iran–Israel war
- The death toll from Israel's strikes on Iran rises to more than 240, including 70 women and children. To date, at least 24 people have been killed by Iranian strikes on Israel. (Al Jazeera)
- Iran strikes four sites in central and southern Israel. The Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, is hit by an Iranian ballistic missile, injuring at least 240 people. Iran says it was targeting a military site, striking an Israeli military and intelligence centre located near the hospital. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
- The Israeli Air Force strikes the Arak Nuclear Complex, a heavy-water reactor near Arak, Iran. (The Times of Israel)
- Gaza war
- Rafah aid distribution killings
- Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 92 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 16 people waiting for aid assistance near the Netzarim Corridor. (Al Jazeera)
- 19 June 2025 – Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
- M23 campaign
- After three days of dialogue, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda sign a provisional peace treaty and are set to begin negotiations for a draft peace treaty on June 27. (Al Jazeera)
- 19 June 2025 –
- A rockslide at Bow Glacier Falls near Banff, Alberta, Canada, kills at least two people. Three other hikers sustained injuries. (CFCN-DT)
- 19 June 2025 – Israel–Norway relations
- A hand grenade is thrown into the courtyard of the residence of the Norwegian ambassador to Israel in Herzliya. (Reuters)
- 19 June 2025 –
- The Finnish Parliament votes 155–18 to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty, which bans the use of anti-personnel mines, citing the threat Russia poses to its national security. (Reuters) (Helsingin Sanomat)
- 19 June 2025 – June 2025 Los Angeles protests
- A federal appeals court rules that President of the United States Donald Trump is allowed to keep the National Guard under federal control in California, pending further litigation. (BBC News)
- 19 June 2025 –
- The Rwandan government arrests opposition figure Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, founder of the United Democratic Forces, for allegedly plotting to incite public unrest. (AP) (RFI)
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