Portal:Current events/2025 July 28

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • Congolese government–aligned Wazalendo militias, including Resisting Congolese Patriots and the Alliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo, clash with M23 rebels in Shoa and Shamarambo villages, Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The villages are captured by the M23. (Radio Okapi) (Radio Okapi)
    • Wazalendo militia Collective of Movements for Change clashes with M23 rebels in the villages of Mashango and Mudugudu, Rutshuru Territory. (Radio Okapi)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli attacks kill more than 80 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
    • The Houthis release a video showing ten crewmembers of the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C, which the group attacked and sunk earlier this month, in captivity. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • U.S. president Donald Trump issues a new 12-day ultimatum to Russia to end the war in Ukraine. (BBC News)
• Constitutional crisis in Somalia
  • Jubaland crisis
    • Clashes occur in Dolow, Somalia, between Jubaland forces and the Somali National Army. (Garowe Online)
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • The Indian military announces they have killed three militants in the Dachigam area of Jammu and Kashmir. (AP)
• The Pakistani Counter Terrorism Department kills three suspected militants accused of orchestrating an attack in Karachi last year. (AP)

Arts and culture

• The Polisario Front formally condemns the recent filming of Christopher Nolan's upcoming film The Odyssey in Moroccan-occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara. (Forbes)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 30 people are killed and several others are missing due to heavy rain and flooding in Hebei and Beijing, China. (AP)
• Three people are killed and hundreds of others are evacuated during floods across nine counties in northeastern Romania. (AP) (Reuters)

International relations

• 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza
  • A peace conference opens in New York City, United States, aimed at reviving the two-state solution and renewing diplomatic efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2025 New York City shooting
  • Five people are killed, including an NYPD officer and the perpetrator, and five others are injured, including four with non-gunshot injuries, in a mass shooting at the 345 Park Avenue skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City, United States. (CNN) (BNO News)
• Grand Sierra Resort shooting
  • Three people are killed and eight others are injured, including the perpetrator and an officer that sustained non-gunshot injuries, in a mass shooting at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, United States. (Reno Gazette-Journal) (KRNV-DT)
• Or Tor Kor Market shooting
  • Six people are killed, including the perpetrator, and two others are injured in a mass shooting at Or Tor Kor Market in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters) (Thairath)
• Two people are killed and two others are injured, including the perpetrator, in a mass stabbing on business premises on Long Lane in Southwark, London, United Kingdom. (Sky News)
• A court in Bogotá, Colombia, convicts former president Álvaro Uribe of witness tampering and bribery. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 State of the Nation Address
  • Philippine president Bongbong Marcos orders a nationwide audit of flood control projects across the country, alongside a crackdown on corruption on these projects, in response to widespread damage caused by recent flooding resulting from Tropical Storm Wipha and the monsoon season. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)