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Father’s Day 2025 

According to American officials, U.S. President Donald Trump vetoed Israel’s plan to kill Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Reuters) 

Elon Musk announces on X (formerly Twitter) that Starlink will provide internet access to citizens in Tehran, Iran after the Iranian government shut down the internet in the country due to Israeli strikes against the nation. (The Times of Israel) 

A series of protests occur across the United States in all 50 states, the same day as the United States Army military parade in Washington DC. (Politico) 

The Israeli Air Force says it has targeted Mashhad Shahid Hasheminejad International Airport in eastern Iran, destroying a refueling plane used by the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force. (BBC News) 

An Iranian ballistic missile strike on a residential building kills 7, including 2 children, and injures over 200 in Bat Yam, Israel. (The Times of Israel) 

Israeli forces in Gaza recover the body of Israeli hostage Aviv Atzili, who was killed and abducted by Islamic Jihad during the October 7 attacks. (Haaretz) 

Seven people are killed, including an infant, when a Bell 407 aircraft crashes in a forested area in bad weather while en route to the Kedarnath Temple in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, India. (The Free Press Journal) 

At least six people are killed, twenty-five are swept away and thirty-two others are injured, including six critically, when a bridge over a river collapses at a popular tourist destination in Kundamala, Pune, Maharashtra, India.  (CTV News) 

A M_w 6.1 earthquake hits Lima, Peru, leaving one person dead and at least five others injured. (Agencia EFE) 

Between 100,000 and 150,000 protesters march in The Hague, Netherlands, demanding that the Dutch government pressure Israel to halt its military campaign in the Gaza Strip. (AP) 

In endurance racing, the AF Corse Ferrari team wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the third consecutive year, with drivers Phil Hanson, Robert Kubica, and Yifei Ye. (AP) 

Iran and Israel continue to launch missiles and drones at each other after the preemptive strike on Iran yesterday. Israel targeted Iran’s Ministry of Defence headquarters while Iran retaliated by launching missiles at Tel Aviv and Haifa. (AP) 

At least 79 Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire across the Gaza Strip, including 15 people near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) site, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. (Al Jazeera) 

At least eleven Israelis are killed and over 200 others are injured in the latest Iranian ballistic missile attack on Bat Yam. (The Times of Israel) 

above posted sunday 06.15.2025 7pm

Saturday, June 14th, 2025 

At least 79 Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire across the Gaza Strip, including 15 people near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) site, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. (Al Jazeera) 

At least 100 people are killed, including many who were burned to death, hundreds of others are injured, and dozens are still missing, in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Guma, Benue State, Nigeria. (Star Tribune) (AP) 

The death toll from flooding caused by a winter storm in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, earlier this week increases to 86, as police continue to find bodies in the water. (AP) 

At least 19 people are killed in floods and landslides caused by heavy rainfall in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Niagara Falls Review) 

A fire breaks out late Friday night at a residential building in Dubai‘s Marina area, prompting evacuations. The fire is successfully contained. (Gulf News) 

Minnesota state senator John Hoffman, state representative and former speaker Melissa Hortman, and their spouses are shot in two targeted spree shootings at their homes in Brooklyn Park and Champlin, Minnesota, United States. Hortman and her husband are killed, while the conditions of the Hoffmans are “grave”. (ABC News) 

Anti-immigration protestors use fireworks and Molotov cocktails against riot police across Northern Ireland, injuring at least 63 police officers. Police deploy water cannons in return to control the protestors. (Reuters) 

Friday,  June 13th, 2025 

An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members crashes into a residential area shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport in Gujarat, India. Authorities find one survivor from the plane, and 204 bodies have been recovered from the crash site so far. (Fox News) 

The death toll from the crash of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, yesterday rises to 279 as a police source says 38 ground fatalities are confirmed. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) 

The Israeli military confirms it has targeted nuclear facilities in Iran with the main goal of the operation being to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirms Israeli warplanes have targeted Iran’s main Natanz Nuclear Facility. It is later confirmed that the underground nuclear reactor at Natanz has been destroyed by a bunker buster. (The Jerusalem Post) (BBC News) 

The Israeli Air Force launches a bombing campaign against Iran targeting nuclear facilities with the main goal of the operation being to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. A special state of emergency is declared in Israel by Defence Minister Israel Katz and Israeli airspace is closed to all flights. Iranian state television reports that 60 people were killed in the attacks, while Israel claims only three people died and dozens got injured. (BBC News) 

Israel also launches targeted assassination strikes against senior Iranian government officials, Iranian military leadership and senior nuclear scientists. (Reuters) 

Iranian state media reports that all flights to and from Imam Khomeini International Airport have been suspended until further notice and that several residential buildings in Tehran have collapsed due to missile strikes. (The Times of Israel) 

Israel also launches targeted assassination strikes against senior Iranian government officials, Iranian military leadership and senior nuclear scientists. (Reuters) 

Those killed in the Israeli decapitation strikes include commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami, senior nuclear scientist and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Fereydoon Abbasi, and chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Bagheri and Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani. (The Times of Israel) (BBC News) 

Those killed in the Israeli strikes include commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami, Senior nuclear scientist and former head of Atomic Energy Organization Fereydoon Abbasi, and chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Bagheri. (BBC News) (

Exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s last Shah, writes in Farsi calling for the Iranian military to abandon the Islamic Republic and accuses Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of forcing Iranians into the war. He also refers to the war as “Khamenei’s war and the Islamic Republic’s war”. (Jerusalem Post) 

The death toll from Israeli missile strikes on Tehran rises to 78 with at least 329 others injured. (Anadolu Agency) 

At least three people are killed and 172 others injured in Israel after Iran’s retaliatory strikes. (The Jerusalem Post) 

Iran launches over 100 Shahed drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel in retaliation for the strikes. (Reuters) 

Five people are killed, including two children, and sixteen others are injured, including two critically, in a traffic collision when an Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus loses control and crashes into the back of a truck at Gottipura Gate in Hoskote, Karnataka, India. (India Today) (Deshsewak) 

Four people are killed and 34 others are injured, including eleven seriously, when a bus carrying Ukrainians crashes on the A81 autoroute in Sarthe, France. (Midi Libre) 

U.S. district judge Charles Breyer issues a temporary restraining order directing President Donald Trump to return control of the National Guard to California, saying he violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded his statutory authority. Later, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocks the order. (AP) 

Kenyan police constable James Mukhwana is arrested over the death of blogger Albert Ojwang, which prompted protests and clashes with police this week. (BBC News) 

North Korean destroyer Kang Kon is successfully launched, having partially sunk during its first launch attempt two weeks prior. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un announces plans for two more 5,000-tonne destroyers to be built next year.  (BBC News) 

In South Korea, five-term National Assembly lawmaker Kim Byung-kee is elected as floor leader of Democratic Party, replacing acting party leader Park Chan-dae. (The Korea Herald) 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un steps on the relaunched destroyer Kang Kon after it partially sunk two weeks prior, announcing plans for two more 5,000-tonne destroyers next year. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) 

Thursday, June 12th, 2025 

At least 103 Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip, including 21 people this morning near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. (Reuters) 

Eight Palestinian GHF workers are killed and several others are injured after their bus was attacked en route to an aid distribution site in southern Gaza. The GHF claims that Hamas was responsible. (The New York Times) (Reuters) 

Israeli forces kill one person and detain seven people, all Syrians, who they allege are Hamas members in an early-morning raid on the village of Beit Jinn in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria. (AP) 

Dutch-Israeli writer Yael van der Wouden wins the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel The Safekeep, which was also shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. British physician and writer Rachel Clarke wins the sister prize, the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, for her book about palliative care, The Story of a Heart. (AP) (The Bookseller) 

The death toll in the flooding caused by heavy rainfall and snowfall from a winter storm in Eastern Cape province, South Africa, increases to 57, with several others still missing. (ABC News) 

The International Atomic Energy Agency finds Iran in breach of its obligations to limit uranium enrichment and provision of information on its nuclear materials. (BBC) (The Guardian) 

A man in his 60s is arrested on suspicion of the murder of Annie McCarrick, who went missing in Dublin, Ireland, in 1993. (RTÉ) 

The Internal Security Agency of Poland announce the arrest of a teenager in Olsztyn, Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship, accused with two other men, arrested in April, of planning a far-right terrorist attack. (AP) 

Somalia‘s federal government calls for the dissolution of the C6+ international coordination framework, saying it is outdated and misrepresents the country’s current political and security progress. (Garowe Online) (ChimpReports) (Hiiraan Online) 

Police fire tear gas at demonstrators gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to protest against the Kenya Police and its chief, Eliud Lagat, after blogger Albert Ojwang is confirmed to be killed in custody by the police force, demanding Lagat’s resignation. (DW) 

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Above posted 06.14.2025