Portal:Current events/2025 July 20

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 85 Palestinians are killed while attempting to access aid across the Gaza Strip. (AP)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • The Somali National Army and African Union forces, primarily Ugandan troops, abruptly withdraw from the towns of Sabiid and Anole, after al-Shabaab militant group recaptures these locations, which are situated approximately 40 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region. (The Soufan Center)

Disasters and accidents

• Seventeen people are killed and 11 others are missing in torrential rains in South Korea. (AP)
• Six people, including a pregnant woman, are killed in a fire on the passenger ferry KM Barcelona 5 just before it reaches Sulawesi, Indonesia. (AP) (Hindustan Times)

Law and crime

• Terrorism in Egypt
  • Egyptian police kill two suspected militants belonging to the Hasm Movement, an affiliate of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, during a raid on their hideout in Giza. One passerby is also killed. (Al-Ahram)
• Ecuador extradites José Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of the Los Choneros cartel, to the United States where he faces federal charges related to drug trafficking. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election
  • Japanese citizens vote for 125 of the 248 members of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the National Diet. (NHK)
  • The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito lose their majority in the House of Councillors, marking the first time in LDP's 70-year history that it leads a coalition in the Diet without a majority in either house. (NHK)