Portal:Current events/2023 June 25
June 25, 2023 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war
- Northwestern Syria clashes
- Nine people are killed and 30 others are injured by Russian airstrikes on a market in Jisr ash-Shughur, Idlib Governorate, Syria. (AP)
- Northwestern Syria clashes
- Spillover of the Somali Civil War, Terrorism in Kenya
- Five people are killed, some by decapitation, by al-Shabaab jihadists across two villages in Lamu County, Kenya. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
Disasters and accidents
- Twelve people are killed and seven others are injured in a head-on collision between two buses in Digapahandi, Odisha, India. (Times of India)
- Five people are killed and 34 others are injured in a crash between a government vehicle and a bus in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. (NDTV)
- One person is killed and nine others are injured in a roller coaster accident at the Gröna Lund amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden. (Reuters)
- One person is killed after a tornado strikes Martin County, Indiana, United States. (NBC News)
Law and crime
- Ecuadorian security crisis
- Eight people are killed and others are injured in a shootout outside a nightclub in La Concordia, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador. (AFP via The Punch)
- Two people are shot dead "due to a feud between criminal elements" in Nahf, Northern Israel. (Times of Israel)
Politics and elections
- June 2023 Greek legislative election
- Greeks head to the polls for the second time this year to elect the 300 members of the Hellenic Parliament. (AP)
- New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis regains an absolute majority of 158 seats and is expected to be sworn in as Prime Minister for a second term after previously handing his premiership to Ioannis Sarmas last month. (BBC News)
- 2023 Guatemalan general election
- Guatemalans head to the polls to elect officials in the presidential, congressional, Central American Parliament, and other local elections. Presidential candidates Sandra Torres and Bernardo Arévalo will face a run-off vote on 20 August. (AFP via Manila Standard) (The Guardian)