| JUNE 5TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli Air Force jets launch airstrikes on southern Beirut, Lebanon, targeting alleged underground Hezbollah drone manufacturing facilities >A CNN investigation points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to get food >Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of an American-Israeli couple killed and abducted by militants during the October 7 attacks >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 RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >An overnight Russian Shahed drone strike kills five people, including a 1-year-old child, and injures nine others in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine >A Russian drone strike injures 19 people in Kharkiv, including children and a pregnant woman >The Kherson Regional State Administration headquarters in Kherson is completely destroyed in a Russian missile strike. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemns the destruction of the region's administrative centre by Russia, saying it served no "military purpose" MISC >The government of the Ivory Coast declares an outbreak of cholera after confirming seven recent deaths from the disease, and calling on the population to remain vigilant >Chad suspends the issuance of visas to US citizens in response to a new travel ban announced by US president Donald Trump that includes Chad among 12 countries facing entry restrictions >The US Supreme Court blocks a 10-billion dollar lawsuit by the Mexican government against large American firearms manufacturers which it claimed failed to prevent the sale of firearms to drug cartels and other criminal organisations due to a lack of a convincing argument that the companies willingly allow such transactions to happen >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 >Citizens of Burundi vote to elect 100 of the 123 members of the National Assembly >Zia Yusuf announces via X that he is stepping down as the Chairman of Reform UK >Nintendo's Switch 2 video game console is released worldwide |
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| JUNE 6TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >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 due to the strikes, according to the Kyiv City State Administration. At least 407 drones and 45 missiles are launched in total >Widespread power outages are reported in Ternopil after several cruise missiles hit energy infrastructure supplying the city >NATO agrees on its largest rearmament program since the Cold War 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 MISC >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 >MI5 apologizes to the UK High Courts for providing false evidence in regards to agent an who abused their partner >Radar on HMAS Canberra (L02) of the Royal Australian Navy accidentally blocks internet and radio services in New Zealand before the incident is resolved >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 >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 |
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| JUNE 7TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >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 >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 7th attacks, including Shiri Bibas and her two young sons >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 US troops in Afghanistan MISC >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 >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 >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 |
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| UNE 8TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least twelve Palestinians are killed and 29 others are injured by Israeli fire near two aid distribution sites in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. The Israeli military says they fired warning shots at people who had advanced toward its forces and ignored warnings to turn away but claimed they did not see any casualties RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >A Russian air attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine, involving Shahed drones, cruise missiles and glide bombs kills four people and wounds at least 60 others, according to local officials KIVU WAR >Rwanda announces that it will withdraw from the Economic Community of Central African States following a diplomatic row with other members over its military involvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's conflict with M23 rebels MISC >US president Donald Trump orders the deployment of the National Guard to quell anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles, California >Six people are reported missing when a Cessna 414 small aircraft crashes into the ocean off the coast of Point Loma in San Diego, California, United States >Multiple people are injured, including at least two critically and three airlifted to hospital by medical helicopters, when a De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter skydiving aircraft carrying 20 people crashes while taking off from Tullahoma Regional Airport in Tullahoma near Nashville, Tennessee, United States >A derecho and tornado outbreak begins in the eastern United States, with three tornado warnings and 22 severe thunderstorm warnings >Municipal elections are held in Latvia |
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| JUNE 9TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >According to the Gaza Health Ministry, fourteen Palestinians are killed and 150 others are injured by Israeli gunfire at an aid distribution site near Rafah, Gaza. The total death toll from shootings at aid distribution sites increases to 136 with hundreds others wounded >One person is killed and two others are injured in an Israeli airstrike on Mazraat Beit Jinn, Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria. The Israeli military claims the person killed was a Hamas member >The Israeli Navy seizes the June 2025 Gaza Freedom Flotilla's flagship vessel, the United Kingdom-flagged Madleen, and takes its occupants (including environmental activist Greta Thunberg and MEP Rima Hassan) to Israel. The ship was carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza LOS ANGELES RIOTS >US president Donald Trump orders the deployment of roughly 500 Marines to Los Angeles to protect federal buildings amid the ongoing riots in Los Angeles, California >The US state of California sues the Donald Trump administration for deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles MEXICAN DRUG WAR >The US Treasury Department imposes sanctions on Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and his brother Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, El Chapo's sons who are believed to be in Mexico and leading factions of the Sinaloa Cartel MISC >A Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes near Bogotá, Colombia, resulting in over 25 injuries >At least 15 people are killed, mostly students, and 33 others are injured, including seven critically, in a traffic collision when a bus loses control and crashes into the back of a minivan on the East–West Highway near Gerik, Perak, Malaysia >Five people are killed, including an on duty railway police constable, and seven others are injured when passengers get thrown off two overcrowded local trains at the Mumbra railway station near Mumbra in Thane, Maharashtra, India >The Indian Coast Guard rescues 18 crew members from a Singaporean-flagged container ship after it catches fire following an explosion 144 km (89 mi) off the coast of Kerala, India. Search operations are underway for the missing four crew members >A police car and multiple properties are damaged in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, amid disorder which broke out following an alleged sexual assault >A court in Prague, Czechia, sentences a Colombian national to eight years in prison over a 2024 arson attack on public buses and for planning another similar attack >Iran says it would reduce cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency if anti-Iran resolutions are passed by the agency |
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| JUNE 10TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russia launches drone attacks on Kyiv and Odesa, Ukraine. The Odesa attack targets medical facilities and residential buildings, killing two people and injuring thirteen others SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway impose sanctions on Israeli far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, including asset freezes and travel bans, due to their conduct during the Gaza war COLOMBIAN CONFLICT >Seven people are killed, including two police officers, and 36 others are injured in nineteen bombings and shootings by FARC dissidents targeting police posts, municipal buildings and civilians in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Another explosion is also reported in Jamundí LOS ANGELES RIOTS >Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass imposes a curfew to the Downtown Los Angeles area >Amidst protests and riots in Los Angeles, the city of Glendale ends a contract with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house federal immigration detainees MISC >The British government announces it will invest £14.2 billion (US$19 billion) to construct the new Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk, England, to reduce the country's reliance on fossil fuels >The Walt Disney Company closes a deal to acquire NBCUniversal's stake in the streaming service Hulu for $439 million, completing its acquisition of Hulu >Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 11 others are injured, in a shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria >Iran hangs nine members of the Islamic State for a 2018 attack which killed three Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel >The Federal Police of Brazil arrest at least eleven people in an operation aiming to reduce drug trafficking in favelas in Rio de Janeiro >The Supreme Court of Argentina ratifies the sentence of former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to prison and disqualification from holding public office for the crime of fraudulent administration to the detriment of the public administration >The Senate of the Philippines votes 18–5 to return the articles of impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte to the House of Representatives for further deliberation >Over 15,000 people gather in Budapest, Hungary, to protest against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government's "anti-democratic conduct", along with alleged corruption tied to the ruling Fidesz party >The Parliament of Greece expels three lawmakers, including far-right politician Vasilis Stigkas, leader of the political party Spartans, due to their connection with and allegedly serving as proxies for the neo-Nazi criminal organization Golden Dawn |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JUNE 11TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 31 Palestinians are killed by the Israel Defense Forces at an aid distribution site in central Gaza >Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of two hostages killed and abducted by Palestinian militants during the October 7th attacks >The Gaza Health Ministry reports that the official death toll of Palestinians killed in the war since October 2023 has reached 55,000 people, with over 127,000 people wounded >Argentine president Javier Milei is awarded the Genesis Prize during a state visit to Israel for his "unequivocal support for Israel", becoming the first non-Jewish person to receive such recognition. Milei announces that the Argentine embassy in Israel will be moved to Jerusalem in 2026 >The Trump administration calls on countries not to attend a conference for ceasefire and peace in Gaza at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, New York, United States, and warns of potential diplomatic consequences should any measures be taken that are deemed hostile toward Israel RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russia launches drone attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine, damaging buildings and public facilities, killing three people and injuring 60 others BALLYMENA RIOTS >The second consecutive night of disorder in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, sees 17 police officers injured and five people arrested as protests spread to Belfast, Carrickfergus, and Newtownabbey MISC >Australian flag carrier Qantas announces the closure of its Singapore-based, partly owned low-cost airline Jetstar Asia due to rising costs and regional competition >At least eight migrants are found dead and 22 others are missing as the United Nations International Organization for Migration and the Djiboutian government launch a joint rescue operation after migrants were forced off a boat and forced to swim to shore off the coast of Djibouti >Five tourists are killed and 35 others are injured in a bus crash in Gichage, Nyandarua County, Kenya >The military of South Korea shuts down its loudspeakers across the border with North Korea and stops its propaganda messages against the government of North Korea by order of President Lee Jae-myung to ease tensions between the countries >A court in Moscow, Russia, sentences Leonid Volkov, an ally of Alexei Navalny, to 18 years in prison in absentia and fines him 2 million rubles (US$25,000) on criminal charges including justifying terrorism and organizing and financing an extremist group. The same court places Lev Shlosberg, chair of the opposition social-liberal party Yabloko, under house arrest for two months for discrediting the Russian army |
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| JUNE 12TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 103 Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip, including 21 people this morning near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites, according to the Gaza Health Ministry >Eight Palestinian GHF workers are killed and several others are injured after their bus was attacked en route to an aid distribution site in southern Gaza. The GHF claims that Hamas was responsible >Israeli forces kill one person and detain seven people, all Syrians, who they allege are Hamas members in an early-morning raid on the village of Beit Jinn in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria MISC >An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members crashes into a residential area shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport in Gujarat, India. Authorities find one survivor from the plane, and 204 bodies have been recovered from the crash site so far >The death toll in the flooding caused by heavy rainfall and snowfall from a winter storm in Eastern Cape province, South Africa, increases to 57, with several others still missing >The International Atomic Energy Agency finds Iran in breach of its obligations to limit uranium enrichment and provision of information on its nuclear materials >A man in his 60s is arrested on suspicion of the murder of Annie McCarrick, who went missing in Dublin, Ireland, in 1993 >The Internal Security Agency of Poland announce the arrest of a teenager in Olsztyn, Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship, accused with two other men, arrested in April, of planning a far-right terrorist attack >Somalia's federal government calls for the dissolution of the C6+ international coordination framework, saying it is outdated and misrepresents the country’s current political and security progress >Police fire tear gas at demonstrators gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to protest against the Kenya Police and its chief, Eliud Lagat, after blogger Albert Ojwang is confirmed to be killed in custody by the police force, demanding Lagat's resignation |
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| JUNE 13TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Israeli Air Force launches a bombing campaign against Iran targeting nuclear facilities with the main goal of the operation being to destroy Iran's nuclear program. A special state of emergency is declared in Israel by Defence Minister Israel Katz and Israeli airspace is closed to all flights >Israel also launches targeted assassination strikes against senior Iranian government officials, Iranian military leadership and senior nuclear scientists >The Israeli military confirms it has targeted nuclear facilities in Iran with the main goal of the operation being to destroy Iran's nuclear program. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirms Israeli warplanes have targeted Iran's main Natanz Nuclear Facility. It is later confirmed that the underground nuclear reactor at Natanz has been destroyed by a bunker buster >Iranian state media reports that all flights to and from Imam Khomeini International Airport have been suspended until further notice and that several residential buildings in Tehran have collapsed due to missile strikes >Those killed in the Israeli decapitation strikes include commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami, senior nuclear scientist and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Fereydoon Abbasi, and chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Bagheri and Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani >Iran launches over 100 Shahed drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel in retaliation for the strikes >At least 58 people are wounded with two in critical condition in Israel after Iran's retaliatory strikes LOS ANGELES RIOTS >Alex Padilla, the senior United States senator from California, is forcibly removed, pushed face-down to the ground, and handcuffed, after attempting to ask a question at a press conference held by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in LA >US district judge Charles Breyer issues a temporary restraining order directing President Donald Trump to return control of the National Guard to California, saying he violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded his statutory authority. Later, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocks the order KENYAN RIOTS >Kenyan Police constable, PC James Mukhwana, is arrested over the death of blogger Albert Ojwang, which prompted protests and clashes with police this week MISC >The death toll from the crash of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, the previous day rises to 279 as a police source says 38 ground fatalities are confirmed >including two critically, in a traffic collision when an Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus loses control and crashes into the back of a truck at Gottipura Gate in Hoskote, Karnataka, India >Four people are killed and 34 others are injured, including eleven seriously, when a bus carrying Ukrainians crashes on the A81 autoroute in Sarthe, France >North Korean destroyer Kang Kon is successfully launched, having partially sunk during its first launch attempt two weeks prior. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un announces plans for two more 5,000-tonne destroyers to be built next year |
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| JUNE 14TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Iranian state television reports that 60 people were killed in the Israeli attacks the previous day (the 13th) >The death toll from Iran's retaliatory strikes on Israel the previous day (the 13th) rises to 3 dead and 172 injured >Exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran's last Shah, writes in Farsi calling for the Iranian military to abandon the Islamic Republic and accuses Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of forcing Iranians into the war. He also refers to the war as "Khamenei's war and the Islamic Republic's war" >Iran and Israel continue to launch missiles at each other after the surprise Israeli attack the previous day. Israel targeted Iran's Ministry of Defence headquarters while Iran retaliated by launching missiles at Tel Aviv and Haifa >At least six Israelis are killed and over 200 are injured after the latest Iranian barrage on Bat Yam >Elon Musk announces on X (formerly Twitter) that Starlink will provide internet access to citizens in Tehran, after the Iranian government shut down the internet in the country due to the Israeli strikes against the nation >At least 79 Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire across the Gaza Strip, including 15 people near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) site, according to the Gaza Health Ministry NIGERIAN HERDER-FARMER CONFLICT >At least 100 people are killed, including many who were burned to death, hundreds of others are injured, and dozens are still missing, in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Guma, Benue State, Nigeria NORTHERN IRELAND RIOTS >Anti-immigration protestors use fireworks and Molotov cocktails against riot police across Northern Ireland, injuring at least 63 police officers. Police deploy water cannons in return to control the protestors MISC >The death toll from flooding caused by a winter storm in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, earlier this week increases to 86, as police continue to find bodies in the water >At least 19 people are killed in floods and landslides caused by heavy rainfall in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo >Minnesota state senator John Hoffman, state representative and former speaker Melissa Hortman, and their spouses are shot in two targeted spree shootings at their homes in Brooklyn Park and Champlin, Minnesota, United States. Hortman and her husband are killed, while the conditions of the Hoffmans are "grave" |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JUNE 15TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Israeli Air Force targeted Mashhad Shahid Hasheminejad International Airport in eastern Iran, destroying a refueling plane used by the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force >The death toll from the Iranian ballistic missile strike on a residential building in Bat Yam the previous day (the 14th) reached nine people, including three children, and over 200 injuries >According to American officials, US President Donald Trump vetoed Israel's plan to kill Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei >The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that a Syrian civilian woman was killed after a drone strikes her home in rural Tartus, Syria, which the group says was likely an Iranian drone >The Israel Defense Forces confirms that they recovered the body of Israeli hostage Aviv Atzili, who was killed and abducted by Palestinian Islamic Jihad during the October 7th attacks, in Gaza last Wednesday >Between 100,000 and 150,000 protesters march in The Hague, Netherlands, demanding that the Dutch government pressure Israel to halt its military campaign in the Gaza Strip RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russia returns the bodies of 1,200 Ukrainian soldiers who were killed in action as part of a prisoner exchange agreement MISC >Seven people are killed, including an infant, when a Bell 407 aircraft crashes in a forested area in bad weather while en route to the Kedarnath Temple in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, India >At least six people are killed, 25 are swept away and 32 others are injured, including six critically, when a bridge over a river collapses at a popular tourist destination in Kundamala, Pune, Maharashtra, India >A Mw 6.1 earthquake hits Lima, Peru, leaving one person dead and at least five others injured >The 51st G7 summit begins in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada >The MI6 appoints Blaise Metreweli to lead as Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, making her the first female to lead the agency >A series of protests occurred across the United States in all 50 states, the same day as the United States Army military parade in Washington DC |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JUNE 16TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israel strikes buildings in Tehran belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iran's state-owned media company, knocking it temporarily off-air for an hour before later returning >Iran says Israel struck a hospital in Kermanshah in western Iran. Video footage published by local platforms showed bloodstains, indicating casualties from the strike >Israeli jets strike 120 surface-to-surface missile systems in central Iran and 10 command and control centres belonging to IRGC's Quds Force >Israeli drones strike two Iranian Air Force F-14 Tomcats stationed at Imam Khomeini International Airport. Combat footage released by the IDF confirm both were destroyed >The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Iran rises to at least 220 people, including 70 women and children >An Iranian ballistic missile barrage kills eight people and injures 287 others in central Israel >Iran's parliament prepares a bill to exit the international nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty >Israel kills at least 50 Palestinians in Gaza, 23 of them near an aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation NIGERIAN FARMER-HERDER CONFLICT >The death toll from the attack by unknown gunmen in Guma, Benue State, Nigeria, on Saturday increases to over 150, including many who were burned to death MISC >The death toll from severe weather and flash floods in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, rises to at least 77 with more than 100 others still reported missing >Three hikers are killed by a lightning strike on Mittagsspitze mountain in the Central Eastern Alps, Austria >Andorra and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta establish official diplomatic relations >Gary Hoy, a survivor of child sexual abuse at Kincora, resolves a legal action against the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Home Secretary with an undisclosed agreement. The legal action alleged that pedophile housemaster William McGrath was allowed to target children to gather information about the far-right paramilitary organization Tara |
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| JUNE 18TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Twenty-five Iranian ballistic missiles are launched at central Israel, with most being intercepted, but no injuries are reported >Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 30 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip MISC >After 18 months of negotiations, Nippon Steel finalizes its $14.9 billion acquisition of US Steel. The deal allows US Steel to retain its name and headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and gives the US government the ability to veto corporate decisions as needed >The US Supreme Court votes 6–3 to uphold a law proposed by Tennessee to ban hormone replacement therapy for minors, allowing other states to implement similar bans >The US Food and Drug Administration approves Gilead Sciences's new lenacapavir drug, marketed as Yeztugo, for the treatment of HIV after successfully clinical trials show the drug nearly eliminated the infection spread >A court in Córdoba, Argentina, sentences nurse Brenda Agüero to life in prison for the serial murders of five babies and the attempted murder of eight others between March and June 2022, whom she deliberately injected with potassium and insulin >The parliament of Ukraine approves a law to allow multiple citizenship for Ukrainians in an attempt to ease a demographic crisis caused by the Russian invasion >The Czech government survives a vote of no-confidence called by the opposition ANO party after the justice ministry accepted a bitcoin donation and sold them for nearly 1 billion Kč (US$47 million) >The government of New Zealand halts its financial support to the Cook Islands over a partnership agreement signed with China earlier this year. The New Zealand government says it will not reconsider its position until the Cook Islands takes "concrete steps" to repair the relationship >SpaceX Starship 36 explodes when a "major anomaly" occurs during a static fire test |
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| JUNE 19TH SIMCHAT TORAH 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 >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 center located near the hospital >The Israeli Air Force strikes the Arak Nuclear Complex, a heavy-water reactor near Arak, Iran >Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 92 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 16 people waiting for aid assistance near the Netzarim Corridor >A hand grenade is thrown into the courtyard of the residence of the Norwegian ambassador to Israel in Herzliya MISC >A rockslide at Bow Glacier Falls near Banff, Alberta, Canada, kills at least one person and injures or kills several others >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 |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JUNE 20TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi meets with the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, Germany, France and European Union in Geneva for talks >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 >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 >Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 82 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 34 people seeking aid assistance >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 RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian forces launch a large-scale drone strike at Odesa, Ukraine, damaging buildings and public facilities, with one person killed and another 14 injured >North Korea sends thousands of workers to help rebuild Russia's Kursk KIVU WAR >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 27th LOS ANGELES RIOTS >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 MISC >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 >The United Kingdom parliament votes 314–291 to approve the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, allowing terminally ill adults to voluntarily end their lives, moving towards legalizing assisted suicide in England and Wales >The parliament of the Netherlands recognizes the deportation of the Crimean Tatars carried out by the Soviet Union in 1944 as genocide >The Rwandan government arrests opposition figure Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, founder of the United Democratic Forces, for allegedly plotting to incite public unrest |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JUNE 21ST SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 21 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 11 people seeking aid assistance >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 >President of Türkiye Recep Erdoğan announces that UNRWA will open an office in Türkiye's capital, Ankara >The death toll from Israel's strikes on Iran rises to more than 430, while 3,056 people have been injured >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 >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 MISC >At least eight people are killed and 13 others are injured in a hot air balloon accident in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, Brazil >Four Airmedic crew members are reported missing after a MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 medical helicopter on a rescue operation crashed yesterday into a wooded area north of Baie-Johan-Beetz near Natashquan on the Côte-Nord in Quebec, Canada. The pilot, the only person that was found so far, was taken to hospital and treated for injuries >Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko pardons several opposition figures, including opposition leader Siarhei Tsikhanouski, following a deal brokered by US special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg >Pakistan announces that it will formally nominate US president Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, citing his mediation during the India-Pakistan skirmishes earlier this year >Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil is released from prison, after being in custody for three months >The governments of Singapore and Vietnam sign a memorandum to exchange 300 to 1,000 skilled workers between the countries annually |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JUNE 22ND SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >US president Donald Trump announces that the US Air Force has conducted strikes on several nuclear facilities in Iran, including Natanz Nuclear Facility and Fordow Uranium Enrichment Plant >The International Atomic Energy Agency says no increase in off-site radiation levels was detected at the three targeted nuclear sites >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 >The Parliament of Iran votes for the closure of the Strait of Hormuz in response to the US attacks >Iran launches over 40 ballistic missiles at Israel, injuring at least 23 people and destroying apartments and homes >Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of three hostages who were killed and abducted by Palestinian militants during the October 7th attacks. Fifty hostages remain in Gaza, of which 20 are thought to remain alive >The Israel Defense Forces kill at least 51 people and wound 104 others in southern Khan Yunis, central Gaza, and northern Gaza City SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >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 MISC >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 >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 |
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| JUNE 23RD SIMCHAT TORAH 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 >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 >Qatar closes the country's airspace amidst an imminent threat of a Iranian ballistic missile attack on US forces stationed in the country. Multiple explosions are reported over Doha >Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps says it has launched missiles at the US Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and US bases in Iraq. US officials later confirm no Iranian missiles hit the Al Udeid Air Base >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 >US president Donald Trump announces that a ceasefire has been reached between Iran and Israel >Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 43 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 13 people seeking aid assistance >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 called for an arms embargo against Israel and sanctions on individuals obstructing the two-state solution >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 RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >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 >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) WAR IN SOMALIA >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 >Al-Shabaab claimed that its fighters had 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, who launched an armed assault on a military base situated on the outskirts of Baidoa in the Bay-Burajeed area, approximately 10 kilometers east of Baidoa Bay Region, between the town and the Daynuunay Military Garrison >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 MISC >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 >The Indonesian National Narcotics Board announces it arrested 285 people, including 29 women and seven foreigners, and seized 0.68 ton of narcotics in a two-month crackdown operation on narcotrafficking and illegal drug abuse |
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| JUNE 24TH SIMCHAT TORAH 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 >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 >Four people are killed and 22 others are injured in Beersheba, Southern Israel, after an Iranian missile strikes an apartment block >US 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 US claims of a ceasefire >At least 44 Palestinians are killed by Israeli forces who open fire towards people waiting for aid trucks in Gaza RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian forces launch an Iskander missile strike on Dnipro, Ukraine, killing at least 15 people and injuring 279 others. Another two civilians are killed and nine others are injured in Samar, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast as a result of a Russian air attack CABO DELGADO INSURGENCY >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 MISC >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 >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 >Twenty people are injured, including 12 children, after lightning strikes near Lake Murray in the US state of South Carolina >The NATO summit is held in The Hague in the Netherlands >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 >French police detain twelve people after over 145 people report being stabbed with syringes at Fête de la Musique sites across the country |
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| JUNE 25TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >A preliminary assessment by the United States 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 US President Donald Trump >After US President Donald Trump rejects the Defense Intelligence Agency assessment, United States Central Intelligence Agency director John Ratcliffe states that the CIA assesses that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were severely damaged in the airstrikes, likely requiring years to rebuild >Israeli forces kill at least 78 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with at least 14 who were seeking humanitarian aid >Seven Israeli soldiers are killed in Khan Yunis when an IED affixed to their armored vehicle detonates 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 KENYAN RIOTS >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 MISC >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 >Online dating service Bumble announces it will layoff 30% of its global workforce, equal to at least 240 jobs >At least 11 people are killed and 15 others are missing after a landslide in Medellín and Bello, Antioquia Department, Colombia >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 >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 1st |
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| JUNE 26TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli forces kill at least 71 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. At least 14 of those Palestinians are killed in North Gaza >Three Palestinians are killed and many others are injured by Israeli settlers in the village of Kafr Malik near Ramallah in the West Bank RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >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 MEXICAN DRUG WAR >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 US government provide evidence 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 TOGO PROTESTS >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 MISC >The death toll from the flooding caused by a winter storm in the Eastern Cape of South Africa one fortnight earlier increases to 101, with two children still missing >Six people are killed and thousands of others are displaced from their homes amid torrential rain and flash floods in Rongjiang County, Guizhou, China >Three people are killed and dozens of others are missing in a flash flood caused by torrential rain in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India >The bodies of three missing people are recovered after the June 20th crash of an Airmedic MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 in a lake shortly after takeoff from Havre Saint-Pierre Airport in Quebec, Canada >Two people are killed, including a child, and 17 others are injured, including one critically, during torrential storms causing flooding in Paris, France >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 >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 >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 >Armenian authorities arrest the archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan of the Armenian Apostolic Church and accuse him of plotting against the government >The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile releases the first light images from its new 8.4-meter (28 ft) telescope |
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| JUNE 27TH KIVU WAR >Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) sign a peace agreement in Washington, DC, 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 MEXICAN DRUG WAR >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 US TRADE WAR >US president Donald Trump announces the suspension of the trade talks with Canada, also announcing new tariffs on goods crossing the Canada–United States border MISC >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 >Nineteen people are killed and three others are injured when a minibus collides with a truck on a regional road in Ashmoun, Monufia, Egypt >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 >Three people are killed when a Cessna 172 crashes in a residential area in Champhol, Centre-Val de Loire, France >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 >The Supreme Court of the United States rules that all lower court orders on all nationwide injunctions exceeded their authority and should be limited, making it harder for district judges to have the power to entirely block presidential actions. This severely affects lower court cases involving illegal immigrant deportations and birthright citizenship |
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| JUNE 28TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza, including twenty in Tuffah, Gaza City >Three people are killed by Israeli attacks on multiple vehicles in southern Lebanon KHYBER-PAKHTUNKHWA INSURGENCY >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 MISC >The death toll from the landslide in Medellín, Colombia, on Wednesday rises to 22, with eight others still missing >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 >Four people are killed when a Yakovlev Yak-18T aircraft crashes near Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia >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 >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 >Despite the ban by the Hungarian authorities, tens of thousands have gathered for the Budapest Pride march, defying Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's legal threats against the event >The S&P 500 index closes at a record high of 6173.07 points, breaking the record set in February |
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| JUNE 29TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >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 >A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashes while repelling a Russian airstrike, killing the pilot SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >UNICEF reports that at least 66 children have died of malnutrition in Gaza throughout the war due to the Israeli humanitarian aid blockade MISC >At least 11 people are killed and seven others are injured after a gold mine collapses in Houeid, Sudan >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 >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 >An active shooter 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, reportedly killing two people and injuring seven others in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, United States. No arrests have been made, but FBI assets have been deployed >Two children are injured, including one critically, in a shooting outside of the Stonewall Inn historic gay tavern and monument after the NYC Pride March in New York City, New York, United States |
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| JUNE 30TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The death of an 82-year-old woman that was severely injured in the firebombing attack earlier this month at a protest to release Israeli hostages from the October 7 attacks at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, United States, is announced by leaders of the Boulder Jewish Community Center KENYAN RIOTS >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 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 the previous night 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 US TRADE WAR >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 MISC >Thirty-six people are killed and several others are injured in an chemical factory explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in Sangareddy, Telangana, India >Wildfires break out in Turkey resulting in İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport cancelling or diverting all flights >The sheriff's department for Kootenai County, Idaho, United States, confirms that the suspect in the previous day's arson and ambush mass shooting, which killed two firefighters, has been found dead >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 >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 |
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| JULY 1ST SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 39 people are killed and dozens of 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 >Israeli forces kill at least 74 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including 23 who were attempting to get humanitarian aid RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian forces capture the entirety of Luhansk Oblast (Lugansk People's Republic) for the second time since the invasion began MISC >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 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 >A sea rig capsized in the Gulf of Suez, near the Egyptian coast. Of the 31 people on board, 21 were rescued, 4 were killed and 6 are missing >The Constitutional Court of Thailand suspends Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from duty pending a case seeking her dismissal >Türkiye arrests four journalists of the satirical magazine LeMan accused of drawing Muhammad, the sacred prophet in Islam >Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students, pleads guilty to all charges, avoiding the death penalty >A court in Manila rules that Alice Guo, the former mayor of Bamban, Tarlac, Philippines, is a Chinese citizen. The same nullifies her proclamation as mayor back in 2022 >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 >According a study published in The Lancet, the second Trump administration's dismantling of US foreign aid could lead to the preventable deaths of more than 14 million of the world's most vulnerable people, one-third of whom are young children |
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| JULY 2ND RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth orders the indefinite suspension of air defense and weapon shipments to Ukraine, including Patriot interceptors and other missiles and ammunition >A Ukrainian SBU drone attack on a military factory in Izhevsk, Russia, which produced Tor surface-to-air missile systems, kills three people and injures 45 others. A state of emergency is later declared by Head of the Udmurt Republic Aleksandr Brechalov SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian orders the suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency following the brief war between Israel and Iran and the United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites WAR IN SOMALIA >An African Union helicopter deployed as part of the AUSSOM peacekeeping mission in Somalia crashes in Mogadishu, killing three people MISC >Two farmers are killed in a wildfire in Catalonia, Spain, while three people die from heat-related causes in Sardinia, Italy, and a 10-year-old American tourist dies after collapsing from extreme heat in Paris, France. Hundreds more are hospitalized >Australia, India, Japan, and the United States announce a joint initiative to work towards securing minerals necessary for new technologies and reduce reliance on Chinese sources >Four people are killed and fourteen others are wounded in a drive-by mass shooting outside a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, United States >American rapper and music producer Sean Combs is acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering and found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution >Australian airline Qantas is hit by a cyberattack affecting a third-party platform used by its call center, compromising the personal data of up to 6 million customers >Ford recalls more than 200,000 vehicles due to a software defect that can cause the backup camera to fail, raising the risk of crashes >The Minor Planet Center confirms an interstellar object is transiting the Solar System, the third of its kind. The object is likely a comet and could be as large as 12 miles (20 km) in diameter |
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| JULY 3RD SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli airstrikes and shootings kill at least 94 Palestinians in Gaza, including 45 who were attempting to get humanitarian aid HAITAN CRISIS >According to the United Nations, over 90% of the Haitian capital city Port-au-Prince is now under the control of violent gangs MISC >South American trade bloc MERCOSUR and European bloc EFTA sign a free trade agreement, setting up a free trade zone of nearly 300 million people >Russia becomes the first country to formally recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan >The South Korean National Assembly votes 173–3 with three abstentions to approve the nomination of Kim Min-seok as the country's prime minister, despite boycotts from the People Power Party over allegations surrounding his wealth and family >Six people are killed and 29 others are missing when a ferry carrying 65 people capsizes off the coast of Bali, Indonesia >Air traffic controllers in France go on strike to protest understaffing, management culture, and outdated equipment. Hundreds of flights are delayed or cancelled, including at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, which is one of Europe's busiest airports >The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is passed by the United States House of Representatives in a 218–214 vote and is due to be signed into law by President Donald Trump on independence day >The Syrian transitional government unveils the new Emblem of Syria |
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| JULY 4TH MISC >At least 25 people are killed and hundreds are reported missing during a flood in Central Texas, United States >A fire and subsequent explosion at a gas station in Rome, Italy, leaves 45 people injured, including two critically >At least fourteen people are killed when a building collapses in Karachi, Pakistan >Anti-gentrification protests in Mexico City lead to tourist harassment and vandalism in Condesa >United States president Donald Trump signs the One Big Beautiful Bill Act budget bill into law |
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| JULY 5TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli airstrikes kill 24 Palestinians, including ten who were seeking humanitarian aid, and injure dozens others MISC >Four people are killed after an aircraft crashes and burns in the Central Eastern Alps in Wald im Pinzgau, Austria >The Turkish government arrests the mayors of Adıyaman, Adana, and Antalya, who are all part of the opposition Republican People's Party, as part of a bribery investigation |
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| ULY 6TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli airstrikes kill at least 38 Palestinians in Gaza >Israel conducts four drone strikes in Bint Jbeil, Shebaa, and Shaqra, in southern Lebanon over the weekend, killing one person and injuring several others >A Liberian-flagged bulk carrier is attacked by the Houthis in the Red Sea HAITAN CRISIS >The historic Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is destroyed following an arson attack by armed bandit gangs WEST AFRICAN INSURGENCY >Boko Haram insurgents kill nine people and injure four others in an attack on Mallam Fatori in Borno State, Nigeria MISC >The death toll from the flooding in Central Texas, United States, increases to 79, including 28 children, with 41 other people still missing >Five Turkish soldiers are killed by methane gas exposure in a cave in northern Iraq during an operation to search for a fellow soldier's remains >The Yomiuri Shimbun reports that the Japanese Navy will export six used Abukuma-class destroyer escorts to the Armed Forces of the Philippines to strengthen the Philippine Navy due to territorial disputes in the South China Sea >Prosecutors in South Korea request that former president Yoon Suk Yeol be detained amid the ongoing investigation against him for insurrection |
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| JULY 7TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Israeli Air Force strikes three ports and a power plant in Houthi-controlled Yemen in response to recent ballistic missile attacks on Israel >Two people are injured and two other people are missing after a ship is attacked in the Red Sea near Hodeidah, Yemen, by multiple boats and drones for the second consecutive day RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >The Ukrainian Armed Forces launch a long-range drone strike on Krasnodar Krai, Russia, damaging the main oil refinery in Ilsky >Russia launches over 100 drones at areas across Ukraine, killing ten civilians and injuring 38 others WAR IN SOMALIA >Al-Shabaab militants recapture Moqokori, a town in the Hiiraan region of Somalia. The heavy fighting resulted in the deaths of at least 40 Somali National Army and Ma'awisley fighters KENYAN PROTESTS >Eleven people are killed and 29 others are injured in clashes with security forces amid ongoing anti-government protests in Kenya, according to the National Commission on Human Rights NIGERIAN BANDIT CONFLICT >Over 70 vigilante group members are killed and others are missing in a mass shooting ambush by bandits in Plateau State, Nigeria MISC >The death toll from the flooding in Central Texas, United States, increases to 104, including 28 children, with 41 other people still missing. Flash flood warnings are issued for expected additional rainfall >The death toll from the collapse of a multistory building on Friday in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, rises to 27 as rescuers pull 11 more bodies from the rubble as the three-day rescue operation ends. 10 others were injured in the collapse, of which one died in hospital from their injuries >A truck and a commercial vehicle carrying passengers collide along the Zaria-Kano expressway in Kano State, Nigeria, killing 21 and injuring three >Four people are killed and at least 22 others are injured in a fire at a telecommunications building in Cairo, Egypt. National connectivity data is brought down to 62% of ordinary levels, including banking and phone calls. Trading on the Cairo Stock Exchange is halted the following day >Philippine police chief Nicolas Torre announces that 15 police officers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in abducting and killing at least 34 cockfighters across Luzon, Philippines, from 2021 to 2022 >Erin Patterson is found guilty on all charges regarding deaths from Amanita poisoning from a lunch at her home in Leongatha, Australia >Amnesty International says that Saudi Arabia executed a record 345 people last year, many of them over drug offenses >The United States Department of Justice announces that the Epstein client list does not exist and reaffirms that Jeffrey Epstein's death was a suicide >The perpetrator is killed and three people, two police officers and a border guard, are injured in a mass shooting when a man opens fire on law enforcement officers before being fatally shot at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, United States >Kim Min-seok is officially inaugurated as the prime minister of South Korea at the Government Complex in Sejong City, four days after he was approved by the National Assembly >Russian president Vladimir Putin dismisses Minister of Transport Roman Starovoyt, with his deputy Andrey Nikitin replacing him. Hours after his dismissal, Starovoyt is found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot >The Surinamese parliament elects Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as the country's first female president |
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| JULY 8TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Five Israeli soldiers are killed and two others are seriously injured in an ambush in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip >An Israeli airstrike kills at least three people and injures 13 others in an attack on Tripoli, Lebanon KHYBER-PAKHTUNKHWA INSURGENCY >The Pakistan Army says it killed 30 Pakistani Taliban fighters trying to cross the Afghanistan–Pakistan border barrier in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan MISC >German vehicle manufacturer Daimler Truck announces it will cut around 5,000 jobs in the country by 2030 in an effort to save €1 billion following a drop in sales >The European Parliament approve Bulgaria's request to adopt euro, pending approval by the European Council >Paschal Donohoe is re-elected President of the Eurogroup >Ten people are killed and others are injured when a fire and explosion cause eight rooms to collapse at a fireworks factory in Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, India >At least three people are killed, four people are trapped, including a father and his two children, and 85 others are rescued when they are washed away in flash floods in Ruidoso, New Mexico, United States >The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants against Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and Taliban official Abdul Hakim Haqqani over persecution of girls, women and the LGBT community >Two people are killed, including the perpetrator, and six others are injured, including three police officers and three seriously, in a shootout at a house in Calldetenes, Catalonia, Spain >A 9-year-old is killed and two others are injured in a mass stabbing attack by a 16-year-old at a school in Estação, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil >Four people are killed, including two children, when a Cirrus SR22 crashes into a field near Raleigh Executive Jetport in Sanford, North Carolina, United States >In Glendora, Mississippi, 13 cars of a Canadian National freight train derail, including one car spilling benzene, forcing an evacuation of the area >Four people are injured in a hammer attack by a 20-year-old Syrian national on an Intercity Express train while it was between Straubing and Plattling in Bavaria, Germany >Four people are injured in a mass stabbing attack by a man near a shopping mall in Tampere, Finland >A 3,500 years old Caral city which is being named Peñico is discovered in Peru |
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| JULY 9TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Eternity C, a Liberian-flagged ship, sinks in the Red Sea after being attacked by the Houthis on Monday. At least four people are killed, seven others are rescued and fourteen are reported missing. A rescue operation is underway RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russian forces launch 728 Shahed drones at Ukraine overnight in the largest single drone attack of the war to date WAR IN SOMALIA >Several people are killed and injured in a suicide bombing targeting the 14th October Brigade of the Somali Armed Forces at a military academy in Mogadishu, Somalia. al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack >At least seven Kenyan police officers are injured after an al-Shabaab roadside bomb strikes their patrol truck on a highway east of Mandera in Kenya near the border with Somalia US TRADE WAR >US president Donald Trump announces a 50% tariff on most imports into the United States from Brazil in a letter addressed to Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and citing the trial of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. The tariffs take effect starting August 1st >President Trump also announces a new set of tariff rates on imports from Algeria, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka, assigning country-specific duties ranging from 20 to 30% following the expiration of a 90-day negotiation period MISC >At least six people die when a M 5.7 earthquake strikes Guatemala and causes widespread damage >At least thirteen people are killed and nine others are injured after a section of the Gambhira Bridge in Gujarat, India, partially collapses during morning rush hour >The Seoul Central District Court issues an arrest warrant for former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol over five key charges related to his short-lived martial law declaration on December 3, 2024, placing him in custody for the first time since March due to concerns of evidence tampering >Türkiye partially bans certain contents from X (formerly Twitter)'s AI chatbot Grok amid a criminal probe over insults to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the country's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
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| JULY 10TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli airstrikes kill at least 15 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, queuing for nutritional supplements near a medical point in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. They were among at least 82 killed in strikes in Gaza >Two Palestinians kill a 20-year-old Israeli in a combined shooting and stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Mall in the West Bank >The United States issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >An overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, kills two people, injures 16 others and causes fires across the capital with multiple districts targeted. At least 400 drones and 18 missiles are launched in total NIGERIAN BANDIT CONFLICT >At least 30 bandits, five security officers and one civilian are killed during an insurgent attack on villages in Faskari, Katsina State, Nigeria KARABAKH CONFLICT >Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev meet in Abu Dhabi on peace talks MISC >French president Emmanuel Macron and United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer announce a joint migration deal for the UK to deport illegal migrants to France in exchange for accepting asylum seekers with British family connections >Former swimming coach George Gibney agrees to be extradited from the United States to Ireland to face trial for indecent assault and rape >The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency arrests four people for conducting cyberattacks as part of an organized crime ring against national retailers Marks & Spencer, Harrod's, and Co-op Food >Sporadic clashes occur in East India between trade unionists and left-wing groups against police and Trinamool Congress supporters during a current general strike opposing the "Special Intensive Revision" >The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen survives a vote of no confidence at the European Parliament >The Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Asaad al-Shaibani announces the country's readmission to the Union for the Mediterranean after 13 years of its suspension |
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| JULY 11TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >United States president Donald Trump confirms plans to sell weapons to NATO allies to be provided to Ukraine after the Pentagon previously paused weapon shipments MYANMAR CIVIL WAR >At least 23 to 30 civilians, including four children, are killed and about 30 others are injured, with ten critically injured, in an airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in Lin Ta Lu village, Sagaing District, Sagaing Region, Myanmar MISC >In a case concerning regulations requiring the South African athlete Caster Semenya to decrease her natural testosterone levels to be allowed to participate in the female category, the European Court of Human Rights finds that Switzerland violated her right to a fair hearing, requiring the case to be sent back to Swiss courts |
vasipi4946Jul 13, 2:58 AM
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| JULY 12TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >Russia launches 597 drones and 26 cruise missiles across Ukraine, killing two civilians in Chernivtsi, injuring 20 others, and damaging infrastructure in several cities SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli settlers kill two Palestinians near Ramallah in the West Bank. One of the victims, identified as a Palestinian-American, was beaten to death whilst the other victim was shot in the chest ECUADORIAN DRUG WAR >Los Choneros gang leader José Adolfo Macías Villamar agrees to a request of Ecuador's National Court for extradition to the United States to face trial for drug trafficking and arms smuggling MEXICAN DRUG WAR >Ovidio Guzmán López, son of the former drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, pleads guilty to two counts of drug distribution and two counts of participation in a continuing criminal enterprise. He is expected to cooperate with the US government by providing information on criminal networks US TRADE WAR >United States president Donald Trump announces a 30% tariff increase on imported items from Mexico and the European Union to take effect on August 1st MISC >UNESCO lists the rock art gallery at Murujuga National Park in Western Australia as a World Heritage Site |
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vasipi4946 said: Not only that, Neuschwanstein and other German castles have been also recently included. If we count the whole German cultural area as one entity, then no other culture on Earth (not even Italy or China) has more heritage sites listed>UNESCO lists the rock art gallery at Murujuga National Park in Western Australia as a World Heritage Site |
NoboruJul 13, 1:04 PM
| JULY 13TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli strikes kill at least 30 people, including six children, at a water collection zone, bringing the official death toll in Gaza to over 58,000 SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >More than 30 people are killed and 100 others are injured in clashes between local military groups and tribes in Suwayda, Suwayda Governorate, Syria KIVU WAR >Islamic State insurgents kill at least 66 people in the Territory of Irumu, in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo YEMENI CIVIL WAR >At least five children are killed after an explosive device detonates in Al-Hashamah, Taiz Governorate, Yemen MISC >The Grand Canyon Lodge in Arizona, United States, is destroyed by a wildfire >Nine people are killed and more than 30 others are injured, including five firefighters, in a fire at an assisted living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States >Three people, including a baby, are killed and twenty people are hospitalized in an apartment fire in Ankara, Türkiye >A Beechcraft King Air B200 crashes and catches fire shortly after taking off from London Southend Airport in Southend-on-Sea, England >At least three people, including the perpetrator, are killed, and three others are injured, including a state trooper and one critically, in two spree shootings in Lexington, Kentucky, United States >Representatives of New Caledonia sign an accord with the French government to become the "State of New Caledonia" within the French Republic, subject to a referendum. The new state would immediately gain control of some foreign affairs, and would have the option of gaining further powers, subject to further referenda >Five men are lynched after being accused of robbing damaged homes in the M 5.7 earthquake in Santa María de Jesús, Guatemala, earlier this week |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JULY 14TH RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >United States president Donald Trump announces that several NATO allies will buy US-made weapons, including Patriot air defense missile systems to provide to Ukraine SUDANESE CIVIL WAR >48 civilians are killed, houses are razed and property is looted in an attack when Rapid Support Forces fighters storm the village of Um Garfa in North Kordofan, Sudan WAR IN SOMALIA >Al-Shabaab militants captured Tardo Village in the Hiiraan region of Somalia’s Hirshabelle state, which was previously captured by Ma'awisley fighters and the Somali National Army in September 2022 MISC >A Mil Mi-8 helicopter carrying five people goes missing after contact with its pilot is lost shortly after refueling in Okhotsk, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia >Gisèle Pelicot is awarded the Legion of Honour award, the highest civil order of merit in France, for her courage in testifying in the case about her decades-long sexual abuse >24 US states file a joint lawsuit against the US Department of Education in an attempt to reverse freezing of education funding that were not announced ahead of time and with reason |
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| JULY 15TH SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >Israeli warplanes carry out strikes targeting Syrian government forces as they attempt to enter the Druze-majority city of Suwayda in southern Syria. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered the Israeli military to protect the Druze from Syria's government WAR IN SOMALIA >The Puntland interior ministry reports at least five militant casualties in Dhahar, Haylan region following a coordinated campaign as Puntland's defence forces repels an assault backed by the Somali federal government MISC >US president Donald Trump announces a new trade deal with Indonesia, where Indonesia will purchase $15 billion in energy and $4.5 billion in agricultural products, along with 50 Boeing jets. Indonesia will also allow importation of US products without tariffs, while the US will maintain a 19% tariff on all goods coming from Indonesia >A bus plunges into a ravine near Chakri, Pakistan, killing six and injuring 38 >Three people are killed in a raid by the Haitian National Police on drug traffickers, seizing 1,045 kilograms of cocaine on a boat near Tortuga, Nord-Ouest, Haiti |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JULY 16TH SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >The Israeli Air Force bombs the Syrian Defense Ministry headquarters and the presidential palace in Damascus >Israeli forces launch an attack on the Druze city of Suwayda in As-Suwayda Governorate, Syria, after scattered clashes continue in spite of a ceasefire announcement by the Syrian Armed Forces SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 21 Palestinians are killed in a crowd crush at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) site in the Gaza Strip. The GHF attributed the stampede to armed agitators, while Hamas and Palestinian eyewitnesses said that Israeli soldiers sprayed people with pepper gas and opened fire >At least 12 people are killed in Israeli air strikes in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley. The missiles struck a number of military compounds belonging to the armed group Hezbollah, including training camps affiliated to its elite Radwan Force. These were the deadliest strikes since a ceasefire ended a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah MISC >The Bangladesh military clashes with supporters of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina in Gopalganj District, leading to four deaths and many others injured >At least 27 people are killed when unidentified gunmen attack a village in Riyom, Plateau State, Nigeria >One person is killed and 13 others are injured in a lightning strike at an archery range in Jackson Township, New Jersey, United States >A tsunami advisory is issued after a M 7.3 earthquake strikes the southern coast of Alaska, United States >A pick-up truck veers off a road in Pithoragarh, India, and plunges into a 300-meter gorge, killing eight people and injuring five others >The United Kingdom ends its five-year ban on Pakistani airlines from landing in the UK due to significant improvements in aviation safety standards >The Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service arrests dozens of suspected Somalia Islamic State militants, whom it alleges were trained and deployed to conduct operations throughout the country, especially in the Cal Miskaad mountains of the Bari region in Puntland >US president Donald Trump signs into law the HALT Fentanyl Act, reclassifying all fentanyl-related substances, including synthetic drugs, as Schedule I controlled substances >One person is killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting on a street in Taranto, Italy >In Israel the Shas party quits the Netanyahu cabinet due to disagreements over Haredi Jews conscription exemptions, but remains in the governing coalition >The Trump administration announces that it has ordered 2,000 troops from the National Guard to leave Los Angeles after being sent to deal with the protests against the ICE raids |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JULY 17TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Holy Family Church in Gaza City of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem is hit by Israel, with three dead and nine injured WAR IN SOMALIA >At least six people are killed and ten others are injured after a fresh outbreak of clan violence in the Galgaduud region of Somalia >Al-Shabaab militants killed three Kenyan soldiers patrolling a road in eastern Kenya near the Somali border MISC >At least 69 people are killed, 11 are reported missing, and many others are injured in a fire at a shopping mall in Kut, Wasit Governorate, Iraq. The Iraqi government declares three days of mourning and the provincial government files lawsuits against the owners of the mall >At least four people are killed, two others are seriously injured and more than 1,000 others are evacuated after torrential rainfall submerges buildings and causes a landslide in Gyeonggi and South Chungcheong provinces, South Korea >A child is killed and 21 people are injured in a coach crash in Somerset, England >Torrential rains in Punjab, Pakistan, kill at least 63 people >Record-breaking daredevil and skydiver Felix Baumgartner is killed in a paragliding accident in Porto Sant'Elpidio, Italy. A woman on the ground is also injured in the accident >The Ukrainian parliament appoints Yulia Svyrydenko as the new prime minister, succeeding Denys Shmyhal >The Russian State Duma passes new legislation that introduces fines for searching for prohibited material online >Jennifer Geerlings-Simons is sworn in as the first female president of Suriname |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| JULY 18TH SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >Israel and Syria agree to a ceasefire after Israel attacked Syrian forces on Wednesday to defend the Druze SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israel intercepts a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis, who say it was targeting Ben Gurion International Airport MISC >Three people are killed in a stampede during a public celebration in Garut, West Java, Indonesia >At least three people are killed in an explosion at a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department training facility in Monterrey Park, California, United States >Four people are killed and over a dozen are injured in a multiple-vehicle collision on Interstate 35 in San Antonio, Texas, United States >The Seoul Central District Court rejects former president Yoon Suk Yeol's petition to release him due to an unreasonable request more than a week after he was re-arrested on charges related to a failed martial law attempt on December 3rd, 2024 >The governments of El Salvador, the United States, and Venezuela conduct a prisoner swap involving over 200 Venezuelans incarcerated at the Terrorism Confinement Center in exchange for the release of ten Americans from Venezuelan custody >The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil orders former president Jair Bolsonaro to wear an electronic ankle bracelet and places him on nightly house arrest, and forbids him from approaching embassies, foreign ambassadors, and diplomats >The United States government declares the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba a terrorist group after it committed the attack in Pahalgam in April >The Trinidad and Tobago government declares a state of emergency after uncovering a plot by criminal organizations to allegedly target and kill government officials >The United Kingdom announces it will lower the voting age to 16, allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in the upcoming next general election |
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| JULY 19TH SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >Street-to-street fighting in Suwayda, Syria, is reported between local Druze forces and pro-government Bedouin tribesmen >An Agence France-Presse war correspondent reports witnessing armed men looting and setting fire to Druze-owned shops in Suwayda SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 32 Palestinians are killed trying to reach Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution sites WAR IN SOMALIA >The Puntland Maritime Police Force confiscates a Turkish vessel illegally transporting high-grade weaponry, including armoured personnel carriers and crates of weapons, to Mogadishu in Bareeda, Ras Aseir region KIVU WAR >The M23 paramilitary group and the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sign a declaration of principles stating that a full ceasefire and final peace agreement will be signed no later than August 18th, and that it will be aligned with the earlier DR Congo–Rwanda agreement MISC >At least 38 people are killed, eleven are rescued and eight others are reported missing, including children, when a storm causes the tourist boat Wonder Sea to capsize in the Hạ Long Bay in Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam >At least 21 people are killed and 34 others are injured after a bus overturns and crashes in Kavar, Fars province, Iran >At least 30 people are injured, including seven critically, in a vehicle-ramming attack at a night club in Los Angeles, California, United States >At least twelve people are killed in a mass shooting at a pool hall in Playas, Guayas Province, Ecuador >Russia withdraws from its military technical cooperation agreement with Germany |
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| JULY 20TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >At least 85 Palestinians are killed while attempting to access aid across the Gaza Strip MISC >Seventeen people are killed and eleven others are missing in torrential rains in South Korea >Six people, including a pregnant woman, are killed in a fire on the passenger ferry KM Barcelona 5 just before it reaches Sulawesi, Indonesia >Egyptian police kill two suspected militants belonging to the Hasm Movement, an affiliate of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, during a raid on their hideout in Giza. One passerby is also killed >Ecuador extradites José Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of the Los Choneros cartel, to the United States where he faces federal charges related to drug trafficking >Japanese citizens vote for 125 of the 248 members of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the National Diet. The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito lose their majority in the House of Councillors. This marks the first time in the 70-year history of the LDP that it leads a coalition in the Diet without having a majority in either house |
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| JULY 21ST SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >Israeli troops and tanks enter Deir al-Balah in central Gaza for the first time since the start of the war RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR >The United States and Germany agree to send five Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine SYRIAN CIVIL WAR >Hundreds of Bedouin civilians are evacuated from Suwayda, Syria, as part of a ceasefire following clashes that left hundreds dead COLOMBIAN CONFLICT >The National Liberation Army deploys a drone to attack a military convoy in Catatumbo, Colombia, killing three soldiers and injuring eight others MISC >At least 22 people are killed, and more than 90,000 people are displaced as Tropical Storm Wipha hits the Philippines and South Korea >At least 19 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured after a Bangladesh Air Force FT-7BGI training aircraft crashes into a college and school campus in Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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| JULY 22ND SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >The Houthis launch a ballistic missile at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, which is intercepted by Israeli forces WAR IN SOMALIA >At least ten people are killed after Jubaland forces claim they have taken full control of the Beled Hawo District headquarters as well as the entire city, following heavy fighting with the Somali National Army from the Federal Government of Somalia US TRADE WAR >US president Donald Trump announces a trade deal with Japan on Truth Social that would let Japan invest $550 billion into the United States and reduce the tariffs to 15% >President Trump announces a trade agreement with Philippine president Bongbong Marcos that sets a 19% tariff on Philippine exports to the United States, while US goods entering the Philippines will be exempt from tariffs MISC >Flash flooding kills three people and leaves 15 others missing in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan >The Ukrainian parliament adopts a law placing the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office under the Prosecutor General, sparking widespread protests across the country, the largest since the 2022 Russian invasion. Despite calls to veto the law, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signs the law >The Venezuelan attorney general's office opens a formal investigation into Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his government's mistreatment of Venezuelan migrants detained in the United States and sent to the CECOT megaprison, built to hold alleged gang members >A study published in Cell outlines a mouse model which shows a combination therapy involving the two previously approved cancer drugs of Letrozole and Irinotecan that effectively treats Alzheimer’s disease |
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| JULY 23RD COLOMBIAN CONFLICT >A specialized court in Antioquia, Colombia, sentences seven former Chiquita executives to 135 months in prison and fines them COP$13.876 billion (US$3.4 million) for financing the now-defunct AUC paramilitary group HAITAN GANG WAR >Three Haitian National Police officers are killed and one is missing after a gang attack in Liancourt, Artibonite department, Haiti MISC >At least ten firefighters and rescue workers are killed and 14 others are injured in a wildfire in Eskişehir Province, Türkiye >Two people are killed and hundreds of others are evacuated in a fire in Limassol, southern Cyprus. The fire brigade chief says the fire was arson >One person is killed by Tropical Storm Wipha in Nghệ An province, Vietnam >Six Northeastern University students drown and a teacher is injured in a mine collapse in China >A head-on collision between a minibus taxi and a truck kills 17 people and injures several others in Harare Province, Zimbabwe >The Gambia reports its first case of mpox and announces an outbreak >India announces it will resume issuing tourist visas for Chinese citizens, ending a five-year suspension imposed following the 2020 border skirmishes between the two countries >Bryan Kohberger is sentenced to four consecutive life sentences in prison without parole after pleading guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022 >A mass shooting in Maguiresbridge, Northern Ireland, leaves three people dead and another seriously injured >Indonesian National Police arrest 44 people suspected of starting forest fires across the country, which contribute to the Southeast Asian haze |
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| JULY 24TH SIMCHAT TORAH WAR >French president Emmanuel Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state starting September, citing reasons such as to an immediate end to the war and helping the humanitarian crisis >Hungary bans Irish rap trio Kneecap for three years ahead of a music festival, citing a national security threat over their alleged support for Hamas and Hezbollah CAMBODIAN-THAILAND WAR >Cambodian and Thai troops exchange fire near the Prasat Ta Muen Thom site near the border. Fourteen people are killed and 46 more are injured in Thailand CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CIVIL WAR >The International Criminal Court convicts Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona and Alfred Yekatom, leaders of the Anti-balaka militia alliance, of multiple counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentences them to 12 and 15 years in prison respectively for their roles in various massacres against civilians throughout the civil war in the Central African Republic MISC >An Angara Airlines Antonov An-24 operating as Angara Airlines Flight 2311 en route to Tynda crashes into a forested area in Amur Oblast, Russia, killing all 48 occupants, including five children >At least twelve people are killed, several others are missing, and 157 are injured in a explosion at an ammunition depot in Maarrat Misrin, Idlib Governorate, Syria |
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