The edition of
Saturday 28 June 2025
10 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
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.
Israeli forces kill at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza, including 20 in Tuffah, Gaza City.
The Law
Despite the ban by the Hungarian authorities, tens of thousands gather for the Budapest Pride march, defying Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's legal threats against the event.
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.
Environment
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.
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.
The death toll from the landslide in Medellín, Colombia, on Wednesday rises to 22, with eight others still missing.
Four people are killed when a Yakovlev Yak-18T aircraft crashes near Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 28 June 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.