The edition of
Wednesday 23 July 2025
12 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
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.
Politics
Lt. Governor David Apatang succeeds Palacios as Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands. Dennis C. Mendiola becomes Lieutenant Governor.
Governor Arnold Palacios dies in office in neighboring Guam due to a medical condition.
The Law
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 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.
Indonesian National Police arrest 44 people suspected of starting forest fires across the country, which contribute to the Southeast Asian haze.
A mass shooting in Maguiresbridge, Northern Ireland, leaves three people dead and another seriously injured.
Science
The Gambia reports its first case of mpox and announces an outbreak.
Environment
Six Northeastern University students are killed and one teacher is injured after the collapse of protective grates over a flotation cell at the Wunugetushan gold mine near Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia, China.
Two people are killed and hundreds of others are evacuated in a fire in Limassol, Cyprus. The fire brigade chief says the fire was arson.
At least ten firefighters and rescue workers are killed and 14 others are injured in a wildfire in Eskişehir Province, Turkey.
One person is killed by Tropical Storm Wipha in Nghệ An province, Vietnam.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 23 July 2025, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.