The edition of
Sunday 6 July 2025
12 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Magic Seas is attacked by the Houthis with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in the Red Sea forcing the crew to abandon ship, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operation.
Israel conducts four drone strikes in Bint Jbeil, Shebaa, and Shaqra, in southern Lebanon over the weekend, killing one person and injuring several others.
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 38 Palestinians in Gaza.
Boko Haram insurgents kill nine people and injure four others in an attack on Mallam Fatori in Borno State, Nigeria.
The historic Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is destroyed following an arson attack by armed gangs.
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.
Politics
The Surinamese parliament elects Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as the country's first female president.
The Law
Prosecutors in South Korea request that former president Yoon Suk Yeol be detained amid the ongoing investigation against him for insurrection.
Environment
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.
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.
Sport
In association football, the defending champions Mexico win a record-extending 10th Gold Cup title after defeating the United States 2–1 in the final at the NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, United States. Edson Álvarez is named the tournament's best player.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 6 July 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.