Portal:Current events/2025 July 5

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • Israeli airstrikes kill 78 Palestinians, including ten who were seeking humanitarian aid, and injure dozens of others. (AP) (Al Jazeera)

Business and economy

• The first Legoland in China opens in Shanghai. (AP News)
• Black Sabbath's final concert, Back to the Beginning, takes place at Villa Park in Birmingham. The event raises £140m for local charities. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• In Glendora, Mississippi, 13 cars of a Canadian National freight train derail, including one car spilling benzene, forcing an evacuation of the area. (Press-Register)
• Two minibuses collide head-on in Egypt, killing nine and injuring 11. (The New Arab)
• A minivan collided with a locomotive in Mpika, Zambia killing nine. (Zambia Monitor)
• A light propeller aircraft originating from Germany, crashes near Wald im Pinzgau, Austria, killing all four people on board. (AP News)
• Four people are killed after an abandoned open cast coal mine collapsed in Ramgarh district, India. (The Times Of India)
• A boat, capable of carrying forty passengers, sank in conditions of strong winds in Dongjiang Lake, China. Of the 29 people on board, 27 were rescued and two died. (AA)

International relations

• India–United States relations
  • X briefly withholds access to multiple Reuters accounts in India, citing a legal request under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• The Turkish government arrests the mayors of Adıyaman, Adana, and Antalya, who are all part of the opposition Republican People's Party, as part of a bribery investigation. (AP)

Law and Crime

• Officers conducting a welfare check on a woman at the request of her grandmother found four people shot to death in an apartment in Talladega County, Alabama leased by the woman's boyfriend. (ABC News)
• Two people, including a juvenile, were killed and five others, including two other juveniles, were injured in a shooting in Downtown Indianapolis. (Fox59)
• Palestine Action
  • Police arrest 29 people following a Central London protest in support of Palestine Action on its first day as a proscribed terrorist group. (BBC News)
• A gynaecologist from Bonneville, France is sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by a court in Haute-Savoie for the rape of nine patients. (France 24)