Tuesday,  May 27th, 2025 

The Israeli Navy seizes the June 2025 Gaza Freedom Flotilla‘s flagship vessel, the United Kingdom-flagged Madleen, and takes its occupants (including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and MEP Rima Hassan) to Israel. The ship was carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza. (CNN) 

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. (BBC) 

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. (AP) (Variety) 

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. (Reuters) 

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. (Reuters) 

Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 11 others are injured, in a shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria. (BBC) 

Iran executes nine members of the Islamic State for a 2018 attack which killed three Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps personnel. (AP) 

The Federal Police of Brazil arrest at least eleven people in an operation aiming to reduce drug trafficking in favelas in Rio de Janeiro. (AP) 

Monday,  June 9th, 2025 

U.S. 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 Wall Street Journal) 

The U.S. state of California sues the Donald Trump administration for deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles. (CBS News) 

Amidst protests in Los Angeles, the city of Glendale ends a contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house federal immigration detainees. (The Guardian) 

The Israeli Navy seizes the June 2025 Gaza Freedom Flotilla‘s flagship vessel, the United Kingdom-flagged Madleen, and takes its occupants to Israel. The ship was carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza. (CNN)

The U.S. 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. (AP) 

Two people are killed in a shooting at the Fountains of Bellagio attraction on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The suspect is currently at large. (BNO News) 

Fifteen people are killed and 33 others are injured in a traffic collision when a bus carrying students loses control and crashes into the back of a minivan on the East–West Highway near Gerik, Perak, Malaysia. (France 24) 

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 Express) 

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. (DW) 

A court in Prague, Czech Republic, sentences a Colombian national to eight years in prison over a 2024 arson attack on public buses and for planning another similar attack. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala says the arson attack is part of Russia’s hybrid war against his country. (AP) 

A police car and multiple properties are damaged in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, amid disorder which broke out following an alleged sexual assault. (BBC News) 

At least 15 people are killed, mostly students, and 33 others are injured, including 7 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 in Malaysia. (France 24) 

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. (Al Jazeera) 

Sunday, June 8th, 2025 

U.S. president Donald Trump orders the deployment of the National Guard to quell anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles, California. (CNN) 

Iran says it would reduce cooperation with IAEA if anti-Iran resolution passed by agency. (Times of Israel) 

A derecho and tornado outbreak begins in the eastern United States, with three tornado warnings and 22 severe thunderstorm warnings. (Fox News) 

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. (CTV News) 

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. (KNSD-TV) 

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. (CNN) 

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near Bogotá, Colombia resulting in over 25 injuries. (Boyacá 7 Días) 

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. (BBC News) 

In tennis, Spanish player Carlos Alcaraz wins his second men’s singles title at the French Open and his fifth Grand Slam overall after defeating Italian Jannik Sinner 4–6, 6–7^(4–7), 6–4, 7–6^(7–3), 7–6^(10–2) in the longest-ever French Open final at five hours and 29 minutes. (BBC Sport) 

In association football, Portugal defeats Spain 5–3 on penalties, following a 2–2 draw after extra time, to win its second UEFA Nations League title. Nuno Mendes is named man of the match. (BBC Sport) 

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