Portal:Current events/2025 July 7

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Houthi attacks on commercial vessels
      • Attacks on the Eternity C
        • At least four people are killed, two people are injured and two other people are missing after the Eternity C, a Liberian flagged ship, is attacked in the Red Sea near Hodeida, Yemen, by multiple Houthi boats and drones. The ship later sinks. (NOS) (NOS)
    • Israeli attacks on Yemen
      • The Israeli Air Force strikes three ports and a power plant in Houthi-controlled Yemen in response to recent ballistic missile attacks on Israel. (ABC News) (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Ukrainian Armed Forces launch a long-range drone strike on Krasnodar Krai, Russia, damaging the main oil refinery in Ilsky. (The Kyiv Independent)
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Russia launches over 100 drones at areas across Ukraine, killing ten civilians and injuring 38 others. (PBS)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • Al-Shabaab militants recapture Moqokori, a town in the Hiiraan region of Somalia. The heavy fighting resulted in the deaths of at least 40 Somali National Army and Ma'awisley fighters. (Garowe Online)
• 2025 Kenyan protests
  • Eleven people are killed and 29 others are injured in clashes with security forces amid ongoing anti-government protests in Kenya, according to the National Commission on Human Rights. (Sky News) (Reuters)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Over 70 vigilante group members are killed and others are missing in an ambush by bandits in two villages in Kanam and Wase, Plateau State, Nigeria. Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) denied the initial account and reported eight deaths and several missing. (Daily Post) (Vanguard News) (The Punch)

Business and economy

• Paschal Donohoe is re-elected President of the Eurogroup. (RTE.ie)

Disasters and accidents

• July 2025 Central Texas floods
  • The death toll from the flooding in Central Texas, United States, increases to 104, including 28 children, with 41 other people still missing. Flash flood warnings are issued for expected additional rainfall. (AP)
• Ramses Exchange fire
  • Four people are killed and at least 22 others are injured in a fire at the Ramses Exchange building in Cairo, Egypt. National connectivity data is brought down to 62% of ordinary levels, including banking and phone calls. Trading on the Cairo Stock Exchange is halted the following day. (NOS) (CNN)
• Four people are killed, including two children, when a Cirrus SR22 crashes into a field near Raleigh Executive Jetport in Sanford, North Carolina, United States. (WTVD-TV)

Law and crime

• 2021–2022 Luzon sabungero disappearances
  • Philippine police chief Nicolas Torre announces that 15 police officers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in abducting and killing at least 34 cockfighters across Luzon, Philippines, from 2021 to 2022. (AP)
• 2023 Leongatha mushroom murders
  • Erin Patterson is found guilty on all charges regarding deaths from Amanita poisoning from a lunch at her home in Leongatha, Australia. (ABC News Australia)
• Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
  • Amnesty International says that Saudi Arabia executed a record 345 people last year, many of them over drug offenses. (AP)
• Death of Jeffrey Epstein
  • The United States Department of Justice announces that the alleged "Epstein client list" does not exist, in contradiction of Attorney General Pam Bondi's claims of possessing it, and reaffirms that Jeffrey Epstein's death was suicide. (AP)
• The perpetrator is killed and three people, two police officers and a border guard, are injured in a mass shooting when a man opens fire on law enforcement officers before being fatally shot at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, United States. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Cabinet of Lee Jae Myung
  • Kim Min-seok is officially inaugurated as the prime minister of South Korea at the Government Complex in Sejong City, four days after he was approved by the National Assembly. (The Korea Herald)
• Russian president Vladimir Putin dismisses Minister of Transport Roman Starovoyt, with his deputy Andrey Nikitin replacing him. Hours after his dismissal, Starovoyt is found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot. (ABC News Australia)