The edition of
Thursday 5 June 2025
17 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously blocks a 10-billion dollar lawsuit by the Mexican government against large American firearms manufacturers alleging their failure to prevent firearms sales to drug cartels and other criminal organisations due to a lack of evidence that the companies allow such transactions.
Israeli Air Force jets launch airstrikes on southern Beirut, Lebanon, targeting alleged underground Hezbollah drone manufacturing facilities.
An overnight Russian Shahed drone strike kills five people, including a child, and injures nine others in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.
A CNN investigation points to the Israel Defense Forces opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to get humanitarian aid in Rafah, Gaza.
Chad suspends the issuance of visas to U.S. citizens in response to a new travel ban announced by U.S. president Donald Trump, that includes Chad among twelve countries facing entry restrictions.
A Russian drone strike injures nineteen people in Kharkiv, including children and a pregnant woman.
Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of an American-Israeli couple abducted by militants during the October 7 attacks.
The United States imposes sanctions on 4 ICC judges in retaliation over the war tribunal's issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a past decision to open a case into alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Politics
Citizens of Burundi vote to elect 100 of the 123 members of the National Assembly.
The Law
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.
Science
Nintendo's Switch 2 video game console is released in most regions.
The government of the Ivory Coast declares an outbreak of cholera after confirming seven recent deaths from the disease, and calls on the population to remain vigilant.
Environment
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.
Sport
In association football, Uzbekistan and Jordan qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time, with Uzbekistan securing a top-two finish in Group A and Jordan advancing from Group B following Iraq's loss to secure their places in the 2026 tournament.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 5 June 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.