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Lee Jae-myung
- Lee Jae-myung (pictured) is elected as president of South Korea.
- Prime Minister of Mongolia Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigns after weeks of protests.
- In cricket, the Indian Premier League concludes with Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeating Punjab Kings.
- Karol Nawrocki is elected as president of Poland.
- Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat is sworn in as episcopal co-prince of Andorra.
June 8, 2025 (Sunday)
June 7, 2025 (Saturday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Gaza war hostage crisis
- Israeli forces in Gaza recover the body of a Thai national abducted by the Mujahideen Brigades during the October 7 attacks while Israeli airstrikes kill 55 people. (BBC News) (Reuters)
- Israel announce that it killed Asaad Abu Sharia, leader of Mujahideen Brigades which was responsible for the abductions and eventual murders of several hostages during the October 7 attacks, including Shiri Bibas and her two young sons. (The Times of Israel)
- Gaza war hostage crisis
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The Ukrainian Air Force shoots down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet in the Kursk Oblast, Russia. (Reuters)
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Arts and culture
- Kyrgyzstan takes down a 23-meter-tall statue of the revolutionary Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin which was thought to be the tallest in Central Asia. (BBC News)
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Law and crime
- Colombian senator and pre-candidate in the 2026 presidential election Miguel Uribe Turbay is shot during a campaign event in Bogotá, leaving him in serious condition. (Infobae) (NBC News)
Politics and elections
- Afghan prime minister Hasan Akhund announces that no Afghan refugees who left the country after the fall of Kabul in 2021 will be prosecuted if they return to Afghanistan. (Arab News)
Sports
- 2025 French Open
- In tennis, American player Coco Gauff defeats Belarusian player Aryna Sabalenka 65–77, 6–2, 6–4 in the women's singles final to win her first French Open title. (ESPN) (The Guardian)
June 6, 2025 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kyiv strikes
- An overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, kills three people, injures 49 others and causes fires across the capital with multiple districts targeted. At least 2,000 homes lose power, according to the Kyiv City State Administration. At least 407 drones and 45 missiles are launched in total. (Reuters) (AP)
- Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
- Widespread power outages are reported in Ternopil after several cruise missiles hit energy infrastructure supplying the city. (Ukrinform)
- Kyiv strikes
Law and crime
- Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
- Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to the United States, two months after being mistakenly deported to El Salvador and spending time at the CECOT prison. He now faces criminal charges in Tennessee for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants. (ABC News)
Science and technology
- Radar on the Fleet Flagship of the Royal Australian Navy HMAS Canberra (L02) accidentally blocks wireless internet and radio services in New Zealand before the incident is resolved. (The Guardian)
June 5, 2025 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Gaza war hostage crisis
- Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of an American-Israeli couple abducted by militants during the October 7 attacks. (NBC News)
- Rafah aid distribution killings
- A CNN investigation points to the Israel Defense Forces opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to get humanitarian aid in Rafah, Gaza. (CNN)
- Gaza war hostage crisis
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- An overnight Russian Shahed drone strike kills five people, including a child, and injures nine others in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. (AP)
- A Russian drone strike injures nineteen people in Kharkiv, including children and a pregnant woman. (AP)
- Kherson strikes
- The Kherson Regional State Administration headquarters is destroyed in a Russian missile strike. (Ukrinform)
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Israeli Air Force jets launch airstrikes on southern Beirut, Lebanon, targeting alleged underground Hezbollah drone manufacturing facilities. (Türkiye Today) (Al-Monitor)
Disasters and accidents
- Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling, Sudanese refugee crisis
- The Freedom Flotilla, a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, Irish actor Liam Cunningham, and French European Parliament member Rima Hassan, rescue four Sudanese civil war refugees from a dinghy near Libya. (The Times of Israel) (The Print)
Health and environment
- The government of the Ivory Coast declares an outbreak of cholera after confirming seven recent deaths from the disease, and calls on the population to remain vigilant. (AP)
International relations
- Chad–United States relations
- Chad suspends the issuance of visas to U.S. citizens in response to a new travel ban announced by U.S. president Donald Trump, that includes Chad among twelve countries facing entry restrictions. (BBC News)
- Mexico–United States relations, Gun law in the United States
- The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously blocks a 10-billion dollar lawsuit by the Mexican government against large American firearms manufacturers alleging their failure to prevent firearms sales to drug cartels and other criminal organisations due to a lack of evidence that the companies allow such transactions. (Al Jazeera) (AP) (Politico)
- United States and the International Criminal Court
- The United States imposes sanctions on 4 ICC judges in retaliation over the war tribunal's issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a past decision to open a case into alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Two members of the Ta' Maksar gang are convicted as accessories to murder for supplying the explosive that killed the Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017. (Times of Malta)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Burundian parliamentary election
- Citizens of Burundi vote to elect 100 of the 123 members of the National Assembly. (BBC News) (DW)
- Zia Yusuf announces via X that he is stepping down as the Chairman of Reform UK. (BBC News) (The Telegraph)
Science and technology
- Nintendo's Switch 2 video game console is released in most regions. (BBC News) (The Verge)
Sports
- 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification
- 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)
- In association football, Uzbekistan and Jordan qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time, with Uzbekistan securing a top-two finish in Group A and Jordan advancing from Group B following Iraq's loss to secure their places in the 2026 tournament. (Reuters)
- 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)
June 4, 2025 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- Puntland's elite security forces kills over 35 ISIS militants, including several foreign fighters, in a major military operation conducted in the mountainous rural areas in the Bari region of Puntland. The troops also destroy weapons caches and military equipment used by the group. (Shabelle Media) (AllAfrica)
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- Israeli invasion of Syria
- Israel launches airstrikes against Syria in retaliation for the alleged firing of two projectiles at Israel yesterday. Israeli defense minister Israel Katz says that Israel holds Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa "directly responsible" for the attacks. (Arab News)
- Gaza war
- United States support for Israel in the Gaza war
- The United States vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, with the remaining fourteen other members voting in favor. (Reuters)
- United States support for Israel in the Gaza war
Disasters and incidents
- 2025 Bengaluru stampede
- Eleven people are killed and 50 others are injured in a stampede at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. (Anadolu Agency)
International relations
- Immigration policy of the second Donald Trump administration
- U.S. president Donald Trump signs a proclamation banning entry into the United States for nationals of 12 countries deemed "very high-risk" due to terrorist activity, hostile governments, and high visa overstay rates, while imposing additional restrictions on visitors from several others. Exemptions apply for select categories, including athletes and diplomats. Trump cited the recent firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado, as reason for the ban. (CNN) (NPR)
Politics and elections
- 2025 South Korean presidential election
- Lee Jae-myung is inaugurated as President of South Korea at the National Assembly Building in Yeouido, Seoul, one day after winning the presidential election. (Reuters)
- Vietnamese two-child policy
- Vietnam formally ends the two-child policy in effect since 2009 amid record-low total fertility rates of 1.91 per woman in 2024, causing declining birth rate and a shrinking workforce. (NPR) (AFP via VnExpress)
- U.S. president Donald Trump issues an order banning new visas for foreign nationals enrolling at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, citing national security concerns and alleging the institution's lack of cooperation in disclosing foreign student misconduct. The directive also allows for possible visa revocations of currently enrolled international students. (ABS-CBN News)
Science and technology
- Chile signs an agreement with Google to build the first submarine fiber-optic cable connecting between South America and Australia. Google invested at least $300 million while the Chilean government will invest $25 million. (DW) (AP)
June 3, 2025 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Three Israeli soldiers from the Givati Brigade are killed by an IED explosion in Jabalia, North Gaza Governorate, during clashes with Hamas militants. (The Times of Israel)
- Rafah aid distribution incidents
- At least 27 Palestinians are killed by Israeli forces near an aid distribution centre in Rafah, Gaza. (AP) (Reuters)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2025 Crimean Bridge explosion
- The Crimean Bridge is temporarily closed and subsequently reopened by Russian authorities after several underwater C-4 explosives planted under the bridge detonated. The Security Service of Ukraine claims responsibility, saying its agents planted 1.1 tonnes of TNT equivalent at a support section of the bridge. (BBC News)
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Four people are killed and 25 others are injured after Russian forces launch an MLRS rocket barrage at the centre of Sumy, Ukraine. (AP)
- 2025 Crimean Bridge explosion
- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
- Two people, including a suicide bomber, are killed near a Roman Catholic shrine in Kampala, Uganda, on Uganda Martyrs' Day. Police attribute the bombing to Allied Democratic Forces rebels. (Reuters)
- Sudanese civil war
- Five aid workers are killed in an attack on a 15-vehicle convoy delivering food to families in the Darfur region, Sudan. The Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces blame each other for the attack. (DW)
Arts and culture
- CJ Opiaza is officially crowned as Miss Grand International 2024 following Rachel Gupta's resignation and termination from the title. (ABS-CBN News)
Disasters and accidents
- A bus crash kills eleven people and injures 17 others in Hualahuises, Nuevo León, Mexico. (Reuters)
International relations
- Brazil–United States relations
- Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says that he will defend Supreme Court chief Alexandre de Moraes from potential U.S. sanctions, which U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened over the ongoing trial of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. (Reuters)
- 2025 United Nations Security Council election
- Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia are elected as non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Fall of the Assad regime
- A court in Stuttgart, Germany, sentences a Syrian man to life in prison under universal jurisdiction for leading a Hezbollah-backed group and committing alleged war crimes against Sunni Muslims in Busra al-Sham, Syria, during the Syrian civil war. (DW)
- Killing of Nahel Merzouk
- A French police officer goes on trial after being charged with killing 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk on June 27, 2023, whose death sparked the riots across France and other French territories. (Reuters)
- LGBTQ rights in Hungary
- Police in Hungary deny the request for permission to hold the Budapest Pride event, citing the recent ban by the Hungarian government. (AP)
- MI5 domestic abuse scandal
- MI5 apologizes to the UK High Courts for providing false evidence in regards to agent an who abused their partner. (The Independent) (BBC)
- Two hundred and sixteen prisoners escape from a prison in the Malir District, Pakistan. During the escape, which was a result of panic caused by an earthquake, one prisoner is killed and two prison officers are injured. A search operation is ongoing and 80 prisoners have been recaptured. (BBC News)
- Nineteen prisoners, including eleven members of the armed group West Papua National Liberation Army, escape from a prison in Nabire, Central Papua, Indonesia. Three prison staff were critically injured. A search around the city is ongoing. (Tempo)
Politics and elections
- 2025 Mongolian protests
- Mongolian prime minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigns after weeks of protests. (The Guardian)
- 2025 South Korean presidential election
- Citizens of South Korea vote in a snap election to elect their president between five candidates. The election is held 60 days after Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted by the Constitutional Court of Korea six months after the failed declaration of martial law. (Financial Times)
- Lee Jae-Myung of the Democratic Party is elected the 14th president of South Korea. (Yonhap News Agency) (NPR)
- Schoof cabinet
- The Party for Freedom withdraws from the current Dutch cabinet after failing to come to an agreement with coalition partners over amending the Netherlands's asylum rules. (NLTimes)
- Prime Minister Dick Schoof announces his resignation. (The Guardian)
Sports
- 2025 IPL Season
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru win their maiden IPL finale in 18 years against the Punjab Kings. (Hindustan Times)
June 2, 2025 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Somali Civil War
- 2025 Shabelle offensive
- Al-Shabaab militants reportedly seize control of Hawadley village in the Middle Shabelle region of Hirshabelle State following the withdrawal of Burundian forces under the AUSSOM from the strategic military base. (Kaab TV) (FTL Somalia)
- 2025 Shabelle offensive
- War against the Islamic State
- American military intervention in Somalia
- New America, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, reports that U.S. airstrikes in Somalia targeting Al-Shabaab and Islamic State militants resulted in up to 174 fatalities, including an estimated six to 30 civilian casualties, in 2025. (Garowe Online) (New America)
- American military intervention in Somalia
- Mexican drug war
- Five police officers are killed after an ambush in a highway in the border municipality of Frontera Comalapa. Hours later, an attacker was arrested and authorities confirmed that the attack was a retaliation for the recent arrest of Aler Baldomero Samayoa Recinos, also known as “Chicharra,” leader of Los Huistas, a Guatemalan criminal group that established ties with both the Sinaloa Cartel and the CJNG. (Revista Proceso)
- Cambodia says it will seek a ruling from the United Nations's International Court of Justice over border disputes with Thailand, which triggered a fatal military clash last week. (AP)
Business and economy
- North Macedonia–United States relations
- North Macedonia announces that it will remove import taxes on U.S. goods to seek a reciprocal measure from the United States, as Foreign Minister Timčo Mucunski says that the country is negotiating a free trade agreement with the U.S. (AP)
- Procurement in the European Union
- The European Commission passes a measure to limit Chinese medical device supply bids on public contracts, alleging unfair access for EU companies to China's tenders. The measures are the first under the International Procurement Instrument. (Reuters)
- Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- United States Midwest aluminum premiums rise by 164% after demand for aluminum in the physical market increased due to US president Donald Trump's plan to increase tariffs on imported steel and aluminum from 25% to 50%. (Reuters)
- The Damascus Securities Exchange reopens in Syria after six months of closure following the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. (Al Arabiya)
- The Philippine Department of Transportation orders AirAsia to halt the sale of airline tickets in the country, citing alleged overpricing after reports revealed that fares on the airline's website significantly exceeded government-approved price ceilings. (Bloomberg)
Disasters and accidents
International relations
- Iran–United States relations
- U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the recent U.S. proposal for a deal on Iran's nuclear program does not allow any uranium enrichment by Iran, despite previous media reports to the contrary. (France24)
Politics and elections
- Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia and Ukraine hold further negotiations in Istanbul, Turkey, resulting in an agreement for a prisoner of war exchange. Officials confirm that all sick and severely wounded prisoners of war, along with those younger than 25, will be exchanged. Russia and Ukraine also exchanged ceasefire proposals during the negotiations. (BBC News)
- A Swedish commission recommends that international adoptions be stopped after an investigation found a series of abuses and fraud dating back decades. The commission was formed in 2021 following a report by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter detailing Sweden's problematic international adoption system. (AP)
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